LOL! Destiny is making fun on the people who is patiently waiting since May(!) to get their Batis lens. For a couple of hours BHphoto changed the expected availability date to 2099! (Spotted at Reddit).
Fun aside there is some small good news to report. Early preorders from BHphoto and Adorama shipped last week according to multiple SAR readers. And there is one single lens in Stock now at [shoplink 40770 ebay]eBay US[/shoplink]. and at [shoplink 40769 ebay]eBay Germany[/shoplink].
Diglloyd tested the 85mm Batis and writes:
It’s really wonderful to have such quality in a small and light kit. The design choice of f/1.8 is absolutely fine (I would even have preferred f/2, just to nudge up the quality slightly and nudge down the size). Particularly for this type of shooting, I’ll take f/1.8 any day over the bulk and weight of f/1.4.
Batis store links:
Zeiss Batis 85mm f/1.8 lens in US at Adorama, Bhphoto. In Eu at Amazon DE, WexUK. In Asia at Digitalrev.
Zeiss Batis 25mm f/2.0 lens at Adorama, Bhphoto. In EU at Amazon DE, WexUK. In Asia at Digitalrev.
11 Responses
Well done DigLloyd, slowly but surely you are figuring this stuff out! Good to see you are willing to loose a few subscribers in the process, looking at you Anton. LOL.
What’s to say it’s a mistake? Perhaps Zeiss are having production issues…LOL!
Well, this sure is a non-story.
True. Just another reason for an affiliate link.
No, 2099 is the release date for the A6000 follow-up model.
No that is the a99 v2. :'(
Well, the one at eBay Germany is gone now. I’m still short a Batis 25/2 though… ;D
Thanks a lot for sharing!!
They mixed this up with the A99 II release. ha
just my luck. happens every tiem i order. perhaps my great great grand children can enjoy it.
lol in stock in China, again! All hail the almighty Taobao!
Well mine finally shipped (ordered on 4/29), so I will finally get to see what the fuss is all about…LOL!