Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Zeiss Camera Lens News #23 out. As you may have or may not have known, I've got a 'love jones' for Carl Zeiss optics. The latest hoopla is their development of manual focus SLR lenses for the venerable Nikon F-Mount, as well as a production of a M-42 Mount ZS Lenses.

CLN: Canon users would love to be able to use Zeiss lenses, too!

Müller: …and they keep telling us day-in day-out. So along with the ZF line, we are also introducing "ZS" lenses. Carl Zeiss ZS lenses come with the same optics as the ZF line; only the mount is different. ZS has the M-42 screw mount, the one that used to be called the "Universal SLR mount." We don't think the M-42 screw mount is going to take the market by storm, but it has a unique advantage: there are M-42 adapters available for any SLR bayonet mounts, including Canon EOS and FD. So you can adapt a ZS lens onto any 35 mm SLRs (and many other applications as well) if you crave the optical characteristics of this lens line and are willing to get along without the convenience functions of recent lenses.

The getting 'along without the convience functions of recent lenses' that Herr Mueller is talking about is stop down metering with EOS cameras. Oh well..I wonder how much my brother would sell me his D100 for??

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