Sunday, February 28, 2010

Is that an indication on new focal lengths?


Someone observed that on the Lens Range picture from Zeiss, there are some odd FL's that do not exist in the current Zeiss lens lineup.
Is that an indication that there will be new lenses with those focal lengths?
or... how about other (Zeiss licensed?) lenses with those 35mm equivalent focal lengths?
I guess we are still waiting to see some Zeiss lenses for Sony's mirrorless.

Thanks Ulrich for the information and picture. Following instruction to see the picture is due to Ulrich:
Go to "Carl Zeiss Camera Lenses"
click on "SLR-Lenses"
click on "Camera Mount"
Click on the picture
Find "Carl Zeiss Mount Prime Lenses/Focal Plane Overview"
Look at:

Update:
It is noted by our other readers that these are the Zeiss cinematography lens focal lengths.
Therefore, it is not an indication on any future lenses.
Sorry for bringing the hope up.

Still thank you for your emails. Keep them coming at tips@zeissrumors.com
Posted by Alan
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4 comments:

  1. Looking at the image you linked to, it's totally obvious that these are not Zeiss SLR lenses because the 28mm and 85mm focal lengths are missing.

    The Zeiss Master Prime Lenses are for cinematography.

    http://www.zeiss.com/cine

    Click on Master Prime Lenses, then click on Lens Range.
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  2. master primes are for cinematography

    just note the widescreen format, this is not 3:2
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  3. But, it seems that these lenses will be available for Canon's EOS mount. See:

    http://blog.abelcine.com/2010/02/18/zeiss-compact-primes-in-eos-mount/

    If you look at

    http://www.zeiss.com/c125756900453232/Contents-Frame/042839dea0e28e5fc125756f003e6703

    it seems these lenses protrude pretty far into the camera, perhaps jamming the reflex mirror.
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  4. Master Primes are in a completely different league from Compact Primes. Compact Primes are entry level optics for about $4000 per lens. Master Primes run about $20,000 per lens and were developed with Arriflex, to their specific needs. Master Primes are only PL mount, so they will fit any cine, or video camera with a PL mount. They cover a Super35mm(S35) frame, which is 18.7 x 24.89mm.

    Master Primes are a fast T/1.3, are highly corrected optically and mechnically corrected so that there is no breathing. The ergonomics are standard to the film industry, including gears for iris and focus. They also have the LDS, Lens Data System, another film industry standard. LDS can tell the Assistant the focus, DOF and T/stop. LDS also talks to the camera, so that if there are any in camera iris/shutter ramps, they can be performed more easily since the camera knows the lens focal length and settings.

    The CP.2 lenses are great and the interchangeable mounts are genius. This will go a long way to make folks like me happy to use a 7D and get great looking results.

    The Compact Primes are basically modified Zeiss 35mm still camera lenses. But to make them cine friendly, new lens barrels were designed and the optics were corrected to reduce/remove lens breathing. The front diameters have been enlarged so that the lens barrels have a longer throw and to make the focusing throw even.

    Compact Primes cover the larger 35mm still format, 24x36mm. Most people rent equipment, because all this stuff is too damn expensive to own.

    Cheers,

    -Mark S. NYC
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