Zeiss News

[Huck Finn]

Latest from Zeiss: ZI sales brisk, lens tests, 400 lpm, & more . . .

Click on Camera Lens News 24 here:
www.zeiss.de/C12567A8003B58B9/?Open

 

[Bertram2]

Should be helpful for all those,who had no clear imagination what kinda quality comes from Zeiss. ;-)

bertram

 

[Ken F.]

Latest from Zeiss: ZI sales brisk, lens tests, 400 lpm, & more . . .

Click on camera Lens News 24 here:
www.zeiss.de/C12567A8003B58B9/?Open

It's all good news, I'm very pleased with my new 28 f2:8!

Cheers,
kf

 

[JohnL]

This is truly impressive, but then, as they themselves mention :"Let's just say that this test is relevant to everyday photography the same way the top speed of a Formula 1 race car relates to everyday personal transportation". There is no film in regular use that comes close to that resolution -- 400 lp/mm is the equivalent of about 550MP on a digital FF (i.e. 24x35mm) sensor!

 

[leafy]

This is truly impressive, but then, as they themselves mention :"Let's just say that this test is relevant to everyday photography the same way the top speed of a Formula 1 race car relates to everyday personal transportation". There is no film in regular use that comes close to that resolution -- 400 lp/mm is the equivalent of about 550MP on a digital FF (i.e. 24x35mm) sensor!

It is a pity that Tech Pan is no longer available 🙁

 

[FrankS]

Which lens was capable of this?

 

[back alley]

the 25mm lens.

 

[Socke]

Which lens was capable of this?

The ZM Biogon 25

 

[rover]

If I were to get just one ZM lens, this is the one that I have wished for.

25/35/50, looks like a great trio to me.

 

[back alley]

my concern with the 25 is the need for a separate finder.
i'm thinking the 28/35/50...

 

[schaubild]

Zeiss officially confirmed that the Gigabit film reaches the 400lp resolution. They use it for lens tests.
If this is reproducable (and necessary) outside of a laboratory is another question.


http://www.zeiss.com/c12567a8003b58b9/contents-frame/098729cea9ef2428c1257118005d1d20

 

[FrankS]

Would the entire viewfinder (outside of the 28 framelines) approximate the 25mm lens?

 

[sockeyed]

FrankS - probably. I looked through both a ZI (black paint!) and the Zeiss 25/28 finder this weekend thank to Tom Abrahammson. There is space around the 28mm framelines in the camera's VF that probably come close to a 25mm. Looking through the 25/28 finder, one realizes that the two fields-of-view are really not that far apart.

The finder is gorgeous, by the way, but expensive. The black paint ZI...yummy!

 

[John]

Bravo Zeiss !!! 🙂
I hope Frank Granovski sees this. Cameraquest has had them all along. 🙂

 

[rover]

I personally don't find an external VF that big of a hassle with a wide lens as my composition tends to get looser the wider I go.

 

[back alley]

it's not a great hassle and i used them with the p before. it just seems odd that with a modern metered camera to have a vf on top of it.
plus, the zeiss one costs about what the cv 25 lens costs...

 

[Kyle]

Would the entire viewfinder (outside of the 28 framelines) approximate the 25mm lens?

The Zeiss Ikon blog by ZeissFan mentions that he uses the ZM 25/2.8 using the entire VF for framing.

 

[yossarian]

Too bad Zeiss doesn't package and sell that film...