The video on top shows you the official Zeiss Touit lens presentation. But marketing aside…how good are the lens in real testings made by “independent” reviewers? The Spanish website DSLRmagazine (google translation here) is the first website that had the pleasure to test the lenses. And the results are nothing less than stellar! They write that “The optical performance is the highest level we ever tested. You could say that at the moment are “state of the art” optics for CSC.“
Well done Zeiss…well done!
Zeiss preorder links:
12mm f/2.8 at BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and Uniquephoto (Click here). In Europe at FotoMundus.
32mm f/1.8 at BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and Uniquephoto (Click here). In Europe at FotoMundus.
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Not correct. In DSLR magazine you can read that performance of these lenses are:
“al nivel de los propios de Fujifilm para la montura X”
A correct translation is: Performance of these lenses are the same than Fujifilm lenses for X system. Also clearly states that Zeiss lens in Sony RX1 camera is better.
Yea, looking at the pictures and zooming in, there is no difference. The Fuji lenses do actually look sharper.
The difference is small, but Fuji look (contrast and colour) is somewhat better for my taste. Also DSLR magazine says construction quality of Touit lenses is worse than Fuji´s (by wire focus and problems with dust adherence on the plastic material covering the lens).
But, they DO say the following:
“El rendimiento óptico es del más alto nivel que hemos podido encontrar en Labo DSLRMZ hasta la fecha”
Which translates as “the optical performance is the highest we’ve tested at DSLRMZ Labs so far”.
Also:
“Se podría decir que en este momento son “el estado del arte” en ópticas para CSC.”
Which translates as “We could say they are state of the art in lenses for CSC”.
So, what admin says is mostly right. But, you are right, they also say that the optical quality is very close to Fuji’s own lenses and close to the RX1, but the caveat is that the RX1 is a fixed lens camera, so it is a “special case”.
Personally, i don’t think I would pay the extra premium to have the blue badge, given that native fuji lenses are very good performers themselves. Sony? that is a different boat, they desperately need some high quality primes to make justice to the system.
A side comment. These things look huge to me.
madmax: perfect translation and interpretation of meaning. Right on spot. Thank you. Editor at DSLR Magazine