What's coming on Dec 21?

First day of Winter? The longest night? Zeiss's birthday?

A new partnership? A new camera? Zeiss is buying out Leica? Buying out Cosina?

Now I won't be able to function until Dec 21st; and I know my life will be changed forever. :)
 
Holy Cow does that get my blood stirring....

Not that I will have money for whatever they do create, but hey, what's one more thing to lust after, in the grand scheme of things? :D

Hm...SLR photographers. Well, that's clearly not a Zeiss Ikon rangefinder.

Digital Back? Well, that's simply not a new dimension, it's been done. But perhaps they can do it better?

Perhaps the very words of the little blurb are a hint...."New Dimension" for "Millions."
....perhaps Zeiss has entered into an agreement with Canon or Nikon? I mean, Contax was never really owned by "millions" of people, so it would be a touch foolish to say that about a new Contax.

This is exiting news indeed! I for one am hoping that at the very least Zeiss will pull it through this make or break age.

I still wonder why Zeiss, Schneider, Rodenstock, Leica and Hasselblad couldn't have seen the future for what it is, and joined together and pooled resources to come out with a comprehensive line that would be world-class and world-competitive.

Perhaps this will be the beginning of such a venture? I mean Hassy's in trouble, Leica's in trouble, and all those companies are competing against each other in an era of diminishing returns...maybe they've seen the light.

By golly that's exiting.
 
jaap said:
A universall back wich you can couple with diffrent brands SLR's with different adaptors ?
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maybe yet little further - a digital film cassette you can load to any slr out there. that would surprise milions of users.

...there were such trials in the past, but none was successful so far.
 
If they come with a digital back it would be easier to blow in new futere for the beautifull Contax slr line. And with that, the Ziess MM mount (CONTAX) lens line up. So that could be logical.
 
But a digital back for which camera? They no longer have their own SLR, and they wouldn't introduce a back for an out-of-production model. Rather, it must sureyl be a range of SLR lenses. As Cosina produce lenses for Nikon, wouldn't surprise me if Zeiss were to do the same.
 
I would say that Zeiss does a much better job of building anticipation toward the announcement of a product than Canon and Nikon - where so-called accidental leaks of information spoil most of the fun.
 
oh god I hope they come out with a lens I can shove in front of my canon slr's.....

and I wsh leica would do that too.....
 
"Millions of SLR photographers will discover a new dimension in photography..."

...sounds like CZ lenses in SLR mounts to me.

Wouldn't be all that tough to manage, either. If they brought out just Canon EOS and Nikon mounts, they'd cover the vast majority of DSLR users willing to pay Zeiss prices for lenses.
 
"The Distagon T* 2.8/15 ZM is scheduled for start of deliveries in October 2005 and the Sonnar T* 2/85 ZM is supposed to follow at the end of 2005."

Pulled from Zeiss's website. Hm....I dont think this is it though.

"However, the contract between Carl Zeiss and Kyocera concerning the exclusive use of the CONTAX brand name by Kyocera still exists. Since this existing contract is supposed to be in effect for several more years, Carl Zeiss cannot give any statements on future development, at present."

Also this little tidbit, but I still hope they end up making other slr mount lenses...
 
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Avotius said:
oh god I hope they come out with a lens I can shove in front of my canon slr's.....and I wsh leica would do that too.....
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They already do - you just need to buy the adapters.

"New dimension", hmmm....I still think something in the ZI line is most likely. The RF camera allows continuous view even at the time (4th dimension) of exposure which no SLR can offer (without a pellicle mirror.) When you consider Leica's anticipated introduction of the digital M in (Photokina?) 2006, this Wednesday for the digital ZI's announcement wouldn't be that surprising.

Or they may simply mean the 15mm Distagon (with floating elements) opens up a "new dimension" for millions of photogs who haven't used such a super wideangle. Yeah I know this would be an anticlimax...
 
We won't know until the 21'st. I am thinking really big things here. A full camera line? A buyout? Or, a real curve ball that will blow all of us away.

Bill
 
All the new lenses in original Contax mount? :angel: Though to be honest, EOS would be nice too.

William
 
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