On Monday/Tuesday Zeiss is going to announce a new series of lenses named “Loxia”. These are lenses designed for Sony E-mount Full Frame mirrorless system. The first two lenses will be the 35mm f/2.0 and 50mm f/2.0 lenses. Both manual focusing and both with physical aperture ring (and available electronic control).
As far as I heard these lenses are not bounded to the sole Sony FE system. If Fuji or someone else is going to launch a Full Frame mirrorless system camera Zeiss can offer those lenses in that mount too!
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Great. Considering all the lenses missing from the FE lineup, Zeiss gives us a second 35mm and standard prime.
Hopefully Photokina will bring more useful announcements.
Exactly. I’m not entirely sure what’s going on here. We already have the Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* and the Sony FE 35mm F2.8 ZA Carl Zeiss Sonnar T*. So Zeiss are competing with themselves?
Plus since the Touits were somewhat less than stellar and presumably sold so badly that Zeiss did a buy two get one free deal. Agree totally with AndyB – one of the more pointless Photokina announcements as far as I’m concerned.?
Do the people at Zeiss actually talk to each other? or have they decided that there isn’t enough profit in badging up Sony lenses?
I can also not see the point of the two lenses, so I’m keeping my 35mm.f.2.8 and 55mm.f.1.8 plus my 70-200mm.f.4 zoom all with autofocus