Well, if you want a top quality zoom for your Video work with E-Mount cameras you can buy the new Zeiss CZ.2 15-30mm T/2.9 lens. It’s not thaaaat expensive…you get it for € 17,900 or US$ 23,900….excl. VAT! You can already preorder it at BHphoto (Click here).
To read the full details about the lens click over to the press text at Zeiss.com.
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cine zooms are all crazy expensive because they don’t breath. When you zoom the focus doesn’t change. plus all the things that limit noise from focusing that can be an issue when sound recording is involved. Not to mention the gears used in aperture and focus are crazy smooth for focus and aperture pulls.
And the limited sales volume to pay for the engineering of all these features.
Plus they are measured in t-stops.
Yeah a Tstop is just taking an actually measurement of the light transmission through the aperture vs just using the math formula used to make the fstop markings. so a f2.8 might be a f3.2 in actually light transmission after losses do to lens design.
Cine lenses are often designed with a certain t-stop in mind (zeiss superspeeds, etc) so there is no cheating the buyer. I (unfortunately) find myself shooting with a canon 24-105mm/f4 lens every week for a certain client. This lens may as well be an f8 – it is about 1.5 stop darker than my sony zeiss 24-70 or canon 24-70 at the same aperture. T-stops are nice, you know what you are getting.
Sweet payday if even just one person uses the referral link!
At least now E-Mount fanboys will stop their whining about no lenses…
I would get one but they don’t do it in white.
compact, compact, колко да е compact?
Was so exited until I saw the price…. This is actually the perfect lens I’ve been looking for, sans the price though…
15-30? totally a waste of money for this focal length!
I don’t know about the value, but this range for cinema work is great.
If you do a pan shot, you’ll get sick with a wide-angle lens like this. You can only use it for steady panoramic shots with the actors far away.
Why would you get sick panning at 24 or 28mm? And why limit yourself to shooting with the actors far away? One often uses a wide angle with the subject fairly close because the camera cannot be placed far away.
Cine prime ? No problem Samyang can make for 1/5 price of zeiss . I am just wonder why they do not make cine zoom lens yet ???
it would be the same pricing if you consider the development and precision needed to zoom over the full range without seeing any change in focusing sharpness. On conventional zooms you have to adjust sharpness permanently when you change zoom length, on those Zeiss lenses, sharpness does not change what ever the range you choose. It is that precision game that makes it’s pricing. Movie makers and TV institutions pay such prices with ease, for private use it is impossible.
It’ll still be much cheaper. Zeiss would charge a hefty premium for something still made in Germany, and a lot of work done by hand.
The sad thing is for obvious reasons there are no B&H reviews so “top quality zoom” is an assumption based on Zeiss’ reputation and the high price. This assumption doesn’t always pan out. Witness the new 24-70.
the obvious reason being that it’s only preorder at the moment…?
I witness the 24-70mm almost every day. It’s actually spectacular… have you shot with it? A pretty wonderful lens.
99.9% of all users on this site will never shoot with it, the first reason for this being it’s pricing.
No, the samples I’ve seen in several reviews are pretty frightening. If you’re shooting jpeg using firmware correction or post-processing with software it might not be so bad. Still, I’d personally consider other options.
Zeiss cinema lenses are great, citing the Sony still camera lens is not a valid comparison.
Most of them are just the regular ZF/ZE lenses in a cine barrel. Not all of them are what I call great, optically. Mechanically, sure…
…but they don’t make a ZF/ZE version of the zooms, do they?
It’s the CP.2 series of cine lenses that match with ZF.2/ZE series.
Andrea … should I preorder one or two? So I can have a spare? I need a good lens for my Hasselblad Lunars.
an Otus prime would serve more of us than this monster in price and bulk – a very unsocial step from Zeiss 🙂
Photozone gives this two stars.
Really? They’ve tested a lens barely open to preorders? At least I just made a search at their site and didn’t find a test of this lens.
Sorry I was just being facetious with my pre-April fools statement. It’s probably more frustration at photozone’s lack of love for Sony lenses.
I was about to place the order then I found out the shipping would cost me another $129 so I canceled the order. 🙂
Lenses like this make Leica lenses a bargain. 🙂
Another crazy Sony product – Sony has abounded the old NEX users/now A5/6000 as far as lenses !!
Their assumption is A5000 and A6000 are just for beginners and intermediate users that are not likely to buy additional lenses –
Then they play the game of advertising the A7/r at discounted prices over and over and Ok make it not to expensive – but they are raping the consumer with only overpriced Zeiss branded glass for their A7/r
So only a slow kit and a crazy priced 70-200mm F4.0 at $3000 – not even a $2800 and more than any Nikon or Canon FF 70-200mm F2.8 – so now yet another Zeiss at a crazy price
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So this is just want the consumer market needs 🙂 a $24.000 lens
I guess they are in step with the fact that the rich are getting richer – so have to actor to them