Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sounds like they actually use a Distagon design! On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Henning Wulff <hjwulff at gmail.com> wrote: > Tom Abrahamsson just got back from Japan and a visit to the Cosina > factory, where he saw, among other things, the Zeiss 35/1.4 ZM. It was > still in pre production, so the performance might not have been what will > be, but he said the lens is very large; half way between a Noctilux and a > Summilux FLE. That makes it decidedly uninteresting for me, no matter what > the performance. Hopefully this can also be addressed before production > begins, since otherwise that makes it decidedly uninteresting for me, no > matter what the performance. > > Henning > > > > On 2014-09-05, at 1:48 PM, Paul Roark <roark.paul at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > http://leicarumors.com/2014/09/04/a-new-zeiss-distagon-351-4-zm-lens-leica-m-mount-to-be-announced-for-photokina.aspx/ > > > > > > If true, this is interesting. I hope they have designed this one to be > > compatible with both the Leica M and Sony a7r. I'll be more interested > in > > putting money into an optic that can serve both bodies than just one. > > > > Paul > > www.PaulRoark.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto // https://www.facebook.com/Transformations.CosplayPortraits