Zeiss announced some wonderful (and damn expensive) new Cine lenses you can use on your E-Mount camera. The lenses will be shipped in August 2012. The recommended retail price for the Compact Prime CP.2 35/T1.5 Super Speed is €3,700 or US$4,900 (excluding VAT)*. The recommended retail price for the Compact Prime CP.2 50/T1.5 Super Speed and Compact Prime CP.2 85/T1.5 Super Speed is €3,300 or US$4,500 (excluding VAT)*. The Compact Zoom CZ.2 70-200/T2.9 will start shipping in the fourth quarter of 2012 at a recommended retail price of €14,900 or US$19,900 (excluding VAT)*. Press release at Dpreview.
The zoom is really monstrously! On [shoplink 12143 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] you can find many CP.2 lenses. And here below you can see an example video shot on the Sony F3:
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I will take one of each. Boy, if I wasn’t saving my money for the 99 I might ,… nah out of my league. But it is a good sign of zeiss’s commitment to Sony cameras.
These lenses made for professional video market, the fact that you can mount PL lenses on E bayonet doesn’t mean that every company releasing PL mount lens shows commitment to Sony. 🙂
Damn it looks sexy!
You can swap the mount if you want 😉
Where do I put my business card for the raffle of these lenses? =D
Seriously Ziess has no place for amateurs or normal people who want quality pictures.. I will wait for a cheap E-mount lens !!
What do you expect, these are cinelenses and as such they are rather inexpensive.
And people complain about the lack of lenses for E-Mount 😉
They should include a free Sony nex3 with each lens
“They should include a free Sony nex3 with each lens” as lens caps.
Where is the new CZ A-mount lens? 🙁
+1 I’m tired of repeating this! Zeiss 35mm 1.4 and 50mm 1.2 primes would not only keep existing pros interested in Alpha but probobaly lure a few of the undecided over too!! Please Sony listen to what we need!
I wonder if there will be cine zeiss for a-mount. Good news though.
Same place, where FF cameras are.
while I must agree with in this, I also suspected (and sadly believed it) that Sony has got his hand full fulfilling every order on NEX system as well as the lenses production. Why? Because even up until now, some of us still could not get our hands on SEL50 let alone a decent priced NEX5N/7 on the market, which should tell us that there is still short of products around.
I don;t think right now Sony has capability to release/even expand new lenses or camera, other than what we all have been rumored just from this site as well (A57, A35, A99, NEX-F3, etc.)
Just my two cents. 🙂
Yummy!
you wanted more lenses for the e-mount, well, here they are. now buy them!
Don’t be ridiculous
+100000000000000000000
this lens absolutely will shut their mouth who complaint about the lack of lenses E-mount camera :p
pretty bad this lens can’t use on Alpha mount.. maybe sony will create special adapter to make this lens compatible with A-mount camera 😀
now we wait some CZ new lens for A-mount, c-mon sony!! it’s time to show time with a99 and nex9!! 😀
Any adapter for an e-mount lens on A-mount would require optical elements to correct for the latter’s much longer registration distance. Putting an extra set of optical elements between the lens and and camera will always impair optical quality to some extent, so it’s very unlikely to happen. Of course it’s not impossible that the fundamental optical design is compatible with A-mount’s longer registration distance, but so an A-mOunt version might be possible. However, it’s clear that these lenses are designed for professional videographers and not aimed at the still photographer so it’s likely to be of only peripheral interest to this group.
The ZF.2 versions of the same lenses are significantly cheaper.
The answer is very simple.
If you want shoot with cinema lenses, you use a proper cinema camera.
If you want to use an alpha, the current alpha lenses are not too shabby for video. The CZ actually deliver a very similar look of these cinema lenses.
Even the underrated alpha non zeiss 50mm 1.4, delivers a very cinematic look on video, if the lighting and camera movements are professional enough.
That lens makes the Sony 500 F4 G look like a bargain.
😉
These should be magic on the FS700
good to see there are new (ZEISS!) lenses, i was still thinking of buying the 24mm f1.8 zeiss and pondering for so long because of the price, so these new lenses are way out of my league, i’ll pass xD
Put that 70-200 on your C3 and go stand next to someone with a m43 with pancake lens and ask him if size matters..
+1 absolute legend!
These are not native E-mount lenses. Like the CP series they have a changeable mount on the lens itself. That is all.
http://www.zeiss.com/cine/cp2
http://www.zeiss.com/cine
http://www.zeiss.com/C12575690045D103/EmbedTitelIntern/Broschure_Compact_Prime_and_Zoom_lenses/$File/Broschure_Compact_Prime_and_Zoom_lenses.pdf
that’s such a great idea of CZ!
Want the zoom one. Wait… how much? That’s it, nothing to do here.
That honestly has to be the nicest 70-200mm to ever be made! You have to watch the YouTube interview with the Zeiss rep to fully appreciate what they have done.
I’m guessing the prices are pretty much in line with where they should be, for the people buying the FS700. Obviously for the rest of the Nex camera’s, there is no market.
I have been looking at the Zeiss web but failed to see E-mount mentioned among the available mounts for these lenses. But I have not downloaded and read the PDF documents, it might be specified there.
But I found this interesting statement: “Carl Zeiss will soon also be offering the Compact Prime CP.2 lenses with Micro 4/3 and A-mount.” after clicking on the link “New Mounts for CP.2 Lenses”, link: http://www.zeiss.com/C1256A770030BCE0/WebViewAllE/637148653BE4DFC7C1257797002ECAA3
Since they apparently will be available for A mount they are by default available for E-mount via the usual adapter.
Edit: Yes, E-mount is listed in the brochure http://www.zeiss.com/C12575690045D103/EmbedTitelIntern/Broschure_Compact_Prime_and_Zoom_lenses/$File/Broschure_Compact_Prime_and_Zoom_lenses.pdf
Does it come with AF? *lol*