Wednesday, September 30, 2009

New ZF Distagon 35mm f/1.4 coming?




Thanks to Tony pointing us to the right place to look.

Apparently, someone over at FM spotted a new ZF Distagon 35mm f/1.4 for SLR with floating element is in hands of a famous Leica reviewer Erwin Putts


Take a look - http://www.imx.nl/photo/leica/camera/page155/m9part2.html

In Erwin Putts' M9 review part 2 - 7th paragraph, he lists lenses used to compare the M9 and D3x:

Lenses used are the Summilux-M 1.4/35mm asph and a very new redesigend Zeiss Distagon 1.4/35 with floating element.

Doesn't sound like a typo to me.
Will there be a new faster ZM with floating element too?
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2 comments:

  1. Doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense. The 2/35 is one of the best performers in the line already; vendors often run out of it because of its popularity. Unless they are planning on a higher-end ZF II line that incorporates special and/or aspherical elements as well as a chip and this is the first of the line, don't bet on it.
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  2. well, they just announced ZF.2 with CPUs, so it's certainly possible that the ZF.2 35mm would be an f/1.4 version.
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