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According to this press release (the weight and a few other specs seem to be missing from the DPR presentation):

http://www.zeiss.com/de/press/releases.nsf/
4E1756D4AF56756EC125779000246827/$File/PI_0141-2010-ENG.rtf

(please splice the two ends together - the DPR-server mixes it up otherwise)

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Documensony
'Spontaneity is enabled by rigorous practice'
 
What a refreshing press release. Up front statements that the lens is better one stop off maximum aperture, and that it has one stop fall-off at the edges. Imagine that, treating readers as intelligent folk who understand the laws of optics and appreciate the economic tradeoffs involved...
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Lester
 
Bernie Ess said:
...A woman is sitting at the bar of a dimly-lit cafe. Lost in thoughts, she doesn’t notice the glass of wine the bartender places before her. From a distance, a photographer tries to capture her mood. He brings her face, which is leaning toward her phone, into focus. Everything around her becomes a blur, and the lights in the background coalesce into a wild “dance” of diffuse shapes....
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Oh, Zeiss, how picturesque your refrain,
such phrases appeal to the artist in me.
Bringing sweet prose into this dull domain,
such temptation, I now count every penny...

Oh, cruel Zeiss, I am now your slave!
Surely, there must be some way,
to scrimp and to beg and to save?
I have to obtain that delicious bokeh...

What's that I hear you cry in pain?
It fits only Canon or Nikon!
Sadly my desperate quest is in vain,
as for these cameras, I have none!

So, Zeiss, your siren call does fail;
your advertising spiel now looks bland.
You have lost another certain sale
fallen through fingers like sand....

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2010 : My new year's resolution - to be a year of poetry!
 
Bernie Ess said:
Zeiss has announced a new fast version of the 35mm zA/ ZF etc. lens. Contax/ Zeiss once had a 35mm/1,4, this is the new version...
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How do you focus these lenses on Canon/Nikon DLSRs? You get a focus confirmation signal on the camera?

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Duarte Bruno
 
aardvark7 said:
2010 : My new year's resolution - to be a year of poetry!
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I thought at first that you might have taken the wrong approach to Art by doing photography, but then I checked your galleries and I came to the conclusion that it's not only your poetry that delivers...

Cheers!
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Duarte Bruno
 
duartix said:
Bernie Ess said:
Zeiss has announced a new fast version of the 35mm zA/ ZF etc. lens. Contax/ Zeiss once had a 35mm/1,4, this is the new version...
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How do you focus these lenses on Canon/Nikon DLSRs? You get a focus confirmation signal on the camera?
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The Nikon D1, D2, D3, and D700 series all have "electronic rangefinder", the viewfinder has a ►•◄ display, to show you too near, too far, or right on.

Pretty much every other Nikon or Canon model has at least a focus confirmation dot. And, as Mr. O'Net pointed out, Canon makes a nice coarse "biting" manual focus EF-S screen. You can also get old-fashioned split-image screens for either Nikon or Canon models from places like Katz Eye Optics.

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Rahon Klavanian 1912-2008.

Armenian genocide survivor, amazing cook, scrabble master, and loving grandmother. You will be missed.

Ciao! Joseph

http://www.swissarmyfork.com
 
lester11 said:
What a refreshing press release. Up front statements that the lens is better one stop off maximum aperture, and that it has one stop fall-off at the edges. Imagine that, treating readers as intelligent folk who understand the laws of optics and appreciate the economic tradeoffs involved...
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It's a German tradition. Leica also used to have fairly realistic and sometimes even down right conservative statements about their own lenses, although unfortunately the hyperbolic American style has crept into their materials more and more during the last decade or so.
 
Bernie Ess said:
Zeiss has announced a new fast version of the 35mm zA/ ZF etc. lens. Contax/ Zeiss once had a 35mm/1,4, this is the new version...
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Actually, they have a ZE (Canon EOS) and ZF.2 (Nikon F with a chip) version. No ZK (Pentax) or ZS (Sigma ;) ) yet.

Cosina doesn't do ZA (Sony) lenses, at all. That's up to whoever Sony has building them. The way a Sony Zeiss 85mm f1.4 ZA looks nothing like a Cosina Zeiss 85mm f1.4 ZF.2 or ZE.

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Rahon Klavanian 1912-2008.

Armenian genocide survivor, amazing cook, scrabble master, and loving grandmother. You will be missed.

Ciao! Joseph

http://www.swissarmyfork.com
 
SLove said:
lester11 said:
What a refreshing press release. Up front statements that the lens is better one stop off maximum aperture, and that it has one stop fall-off at the edges. Imagine that, treating readers as intelligent folk who understand the laws of optics and appreciate the economic tradeoffs involved...
Click to expand...
It's a German tradition. Leica also used to have fairly realistic and sometimes even down right conservative statements about their own lenses, although unfortunately the hyperbolic American style has crept into their materials more and more during the last decade or so.
Click to expand...
Personally, I blame the French.

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Rahon Klavanian 1912-2008.

Armenian genocide survivor, amazing cook, scrabble master, and loving grandmother. You will be missed.

Ciao! Joseph

http://www.swissarmyfork.com
 
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