New ZM lens in 2013

[bensyverson]

They said it was coming in 2013, not that they were announcing it at Photokina... Perhaps they slipped it into the press release so they could get some customer feedback. Hopefully they're listening!

 

[italy74]

Yes, Bensy, here's the related article >> http://blogs.zeiss.com/photo/en/?p=2745#more-2745 << yet if it's out for sale in 2013 Photokina would be the (implicit) best showcase to announce it to the world... I mean, if not here and now when else? I don't think they would have put such news in the "photokina" article if they didn't mean to reveal it.

 

[slava]

If you read the Blogs comment than you will notice that "one highspeed ZM lens will be released in 2013." and "Not yet. Please have patience with us and stay tuned." So I think(hope) it will be annouced this Photokina.

 

[k__43]

25/2 would be great .. a f/1.4 would be too big (just look at the new CV 21mm)


dual range biogon 18-25 or 21-28 would be fun 🙂

 

[steveyork]

Someone on the leica forum had an update after speaking with the zeiss booth at photokina. The announcement will be later in the year or just after new year, but not now (so he was told). His feeling (after speaking with the booth) is that the new lens will be a fast 35 focal length, but no one expressly told him so. Take this for what it's worth -- all second and third hand info.

 

[sleepyhead]

A Zeiss 35/1.4 with performance not too far off from the 35mm Summilux Asph, nicer bokeh than the CV 35/1.4, and price under, say, 1400 GBP would interest me.

 

[sector99]

http://blog.mingthein.com/2012/07/19/zf28distagon/

Ming Thein's gushing review of the ZF.2 28 F/2 tells us the winner of the "New ZM 2013 lens" sweepstakes.

It's a 28 F/2.

Here's the clue:

http://interventional.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/thein-zf-2-28-f2-quote.png

 

[bwcolor]

Actually, they gave us the teaser and then will design the lens after reading this thread.

 

[flip]

Someone on the leica forum had an update after speaking with the zeiss booth at photokina. The announcement will be later in the year or just after new year, but not now (so he was told). His feeling (after speaking with the booth) is that the new lens will be a fast 35 focal length, but no one expressly told him so. Take this for what it's worth -- all second and third hand info.

Perhaps a 35/1.0 Gigantolux. 😀 We'd all line up...

 

[Sunti]

May be it won't be a lens. They may surprise us with a digital FF Ikon 😛

 

[italy74]

Sunday and still no news... Today or never...

 

[bensyverson]

Actually, they gave us the teaser and then will design the lens after reading this thread.

Yes, exactly. So we won't hear anything more for maybe 6 months.

 

[russelljtdyer]

just clarifying the absurd and obvious

just clarifying the absurd and obvious

Zeiss' announcement for Photokina 2012, regarding a new ZM lens, was just an announcement that they intend to make an announcement one day, presumedly before the next Photokina in two years, about a new Zeiss ZM lens that will be in production and for sale some time, probably months after that future announcement?

I think the Zeiss people spent too much with the Leica people at Photokina. But, unlike the Leica gang, I suspect that whenever this mysterious lens from Zeiss arrives, most of us won't be disappointed.

 

[regular]

I would like to see a bi-elmar type of lens, but smaller and slightly faster than the original tri-elmar. Such as a 35/50mm lens, with f/2.8 aperture.

 

[Roger Hicks]

May be it won't be a lens. They may surprise us with a digital FF Ikon 😛

No. I asked. But it's going to be fast. My impression (they were very cagey) tends towards a 35/1.4. Or there might be a 28/1.4. It's also going to be expensive, because it's almost certainly going to be Zeiss Zeiss, like the 85/2 and 15/2.8, rather than Cosina Zeiss.

Cheers,

R.

 

[fotomeow]

I will ad, ad nauseum, that I would also like a fast 35/1.4 or a 28/2 "Zeiss Zeiss", not "Cosina-Zeiss" (well put, RH).
But I need compact lenses, and Zeiss isnt as effective as Leica in making fast lenses with a reasonably compact size in their wider primes.
The Zeiss are optically sharp and contrasty, but are a bit dry in terms of character to me.
My CV 28/1.9 Asph is smaller than the slower Zeiss 28/2.8 that I traded it in for. What I am getting it as that I hope for a fast wide Zeiss,
but not the size of a CV 35/1.2.

I would also presume that the Zeiss announcement of a new ZM is related to delayed design and/or production issues, since Photokina is obviously the best place to advertise and create a buzz.

 

[flip]

I would like to see a bi-elmar type of lens, but smaller and slightly faster than the original tri-elmar. Such as a 35/50mm lens, with f/2.8 aperture.

A 25 / 40; that would be swell.

 

[santela]

No. I asked. But it's going to be fast. My impression (they were very cagey) tends towards a 35/1.4. Or there might be a 28/1.4. It's also going to be expensive, because it's almost certainly going to be Zeiss Zeiss, like the 85/2 and 15/2.8, rather than Cosina Zeiss.

Cheers,

R.

Oh no...

Cosina Zeiss was doing well for me... A 35/1.4 Cosina Zeiss would be perfect... but if it's Zeiss Zeiss, that means Leica price! I can't justify more than $2000 for a lens like that...

Besides, what's wrong with Cosina Zeiss? Most of them are on par with the Leica ones, for a fraction of the price!

 

[Brian Legge]

That'd kill it for me too. I could almost justify stretching for a 35mm/1.4 in Cosina Zeiss price range but significantly higher would knock me out. I'd stick with a CV 35mm 1.4 at that point. :\

 

[fuwen]

Cosina Zeiss should be good enough for me. My recent purchase of the ZM 25/2.8, the focusing is silky smooth like that of 15/2.8 and 85/2, a great improvements over my early ZMs 28/2.8, 35/2, 50/2. My early ZM 21/2.8 is quite good though, but the latest ZM 25 is still the best.