Avotius
Some guy
Sorry, you lost me in the first sentence...
Me too....
shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
^ They're not even generally available yet. I think you'll have to wait until they're at least on sale for a review.
I said these newer Zeiss lenses, ZF, ZK, ZS, not the *new* ZE.
Turtle
Veteran
Gosh, Rockwell has it right, I mean that nasty Cosina company also produces those horrid ZM lenses that are built like milk cartons and produce such crappy images. They are nothing like Zeiss lenses and much more akin to a plastic Vivitar from 1990. Whilst I have not used the Zeiss SLR lenses they are made by the same people. I have also heard reviews by people like Roger H who thought the build rather good on the Hasselblad fit new line of Zeiss lenses and the same goes for the Nikon ones. Ken makes a good point. Metal focus barrels went out in the 70s, apart from hasselblad, Rollei, Leica and...... you know, the crappy companies known for poor build quality.
Turtle
Veteran
Oh, if the lenses are optically wonderful, they would make great landscape lenses on the new Eos 5D II. 21.1 MP though Zeiss glass with good DOF markings on the barrel and nice weighted focus. Probably much easier to handle such a lens than an AF model IMO.