Sometimes I do receive almost unbelieveable rumors from unkown sources. I wanted to share one of those with you 🙂
I got this email on Saturday from an anonymous source:
“new lenses will be released in Q3-Q4 2012: 1.4/200ZA, 100-400F/2.8G SSM and 4/200G macro SSM”
Can the source confirm me that he really meant 200mmm f/1.4 ZA??? The fasted 200mm lens I know is the [shoplink 4821]Canon EF 200mm f/2L IS USM[/shoplink] and the [shoplink 4822]Nikon 200mm f/2G ED AF-S VR II Nikkor[/shoplink]!!!
With that example I wanted to show you why I usually take a lot of time before to post the rumors I do receive. I always try to double (and if possible triple) check rumors to give you reliable info about future Sony cameras and lenses. I promise you, one day I will write a long post with all the fake rumors I received 🙂
Just a reminder:
We know from trusted sources that at least 4-5 new Zeiss lenses will be announced during 2011. And as long as we know this should all be prime lenses (one of them is the 200m f/2.0 ZA).
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i will move to sony if they really release a ZA 200mm f1.4
Zeiss is no fan of tele zooms.
Hello Andrea. Is it correct to expect a 50mm from Zeiss too, included in upcoming lenses?
Canon have the monster 200mm f1.8
http://www.the-digital-picture.com/reviews/Canon-EF-200mm-f-1.8-L-USM-Lens-Review.aspx
Why won’t Sony have super monster 200mm f1.4 >:)
Err.. because the body is not there yet? 🙂
4/200G macro SSM is possible….
Not only possible but it already exists. Minolta made a Minolta AF 200/4 Macro APO G in 1999. All sony has to do is change lens coatings and ergonomics a bit.
100-400mm f/2.8? i don’t think sony will make a over 10kg monster lens.
200mm f/1.4 again way too big and expensive.
the macro lens is possible but i would say it will be a g lens not a CZ one 🙂 so yea seems pretty fake, probably someone saw the rumor about 3-4 zeiss lenses and decided to make some wild guesses ^^
“the macro lens is possible but i would say it will be a g lens not a CZ one 🙂 so yea seems pretty fake, probably someone saw the rumor about 3-4 zeiss lenses and decided to make some wild guesses ^^”
+1
Why impossible, there is nothing impossible for the woodworkers of Sony 😀 😀
it’s impossible because of the size and price of 2 of the lenses, given the current user base which sony has, those lenses will not be profitable at all, that is why this is impossible, maybe in the distant future if sony will lead the DSLR market.
Keep in mind that it doesn’t have to be profitable. Do you really thing that coming 500 f/4 would be really profitable for Sony? I don’t think so – it’s one of the lenses made for prestige than anything else.
I hope one of the 4 new FF CZ is reworked CZ 85 SSM. CZ 200 f/2 is already known, I wish one of them is super wide in the range of 14-16mm f/2. have no preference for the last one. Maybe a replacement of 50 f/1.4? All must be SSM of course for the sake of video. Best optics deserve best electro-mechanics.
If that is the case then my next lens purchase will be the 85 and the super wide.
100-400 2.8? No!
Why not?
There was a rumor about liquid lenses here on this site a few months, right?
liquid lenses specialized for mobile phone
Neither the 200/1.4 nor the 100-400/2.8 are believable, for simple size reasons (Nikon’s 200-400/4 is massive, Sigma’s 200-500/2.8 is gigantic, a 200/1.4 would be similar in size to Nikon’s old 300/2). There’s been steady rumours trickling out of a 180-200/2 though as well as the 200/4 Macro (or possibly a 200/2.8 Macro instead of the pair).
What Sony needs to do is:
1. Ship the damned 500/4.5G
2. Release a 200mm prime. Either the fast one or the Macro, preferably the fast one with good MFD (I’d like to see 1:4 like the 135ZA can do)
3. Release an exotic normal in the ZA line. IE a 50-58mm f1.2 ZA, pricing in around the other current ZA primes
4. Release an ultra-wide prime, also ZA. 14mm would be ideal here.
“What Sony needs to do is:
1. Ship the damned 500/4.5G”
That won’t happen until the A77 is released….1st-2nd quarter 2010.
My guess its been sitting waiting for the last 6 months for a body to fit it to.
At 8-10K there wont be many lined up to buy it though.
First step to the release was the A900/A850 firmware upgrade (IMO). In testing I think the A900 had trouble with the 500G which is why the software was not release a couple of months ago. Someone remembered to check and “Whhoops!!”
The firmware upgrade for A900/A850 is a nice addition and some buyers of the new 500G may use it on FF but I think more will put it on an APS-C camera that shoots faster than 5FPS
Wildlife/sports shooters will prefer the 750 MM equivalent.
I’m sure the A77 AF (possible 3rd generation)will be better than A900/A850 even after firmware upgrade.
Lets face it Sony have been working on the A700 replacement for about 10 years now and it will have to be an AMAZING camera.
🙂
Screw 50-58mm, go with a 63mm — pull a Pentax and just choose a random odd focal length! 🙂
I’d rather see something more wide than long, eg. 48mm but that’s just a wish – construction reasons will be what’s gonna make a difference.
16mm f2.0 for APS-C please 🙂
+100!
CZ 50mm F1.4 and 35mm F1.4, please and thank you.
2012 still a long time to go, enough time for them to do the research, may be they can sacrifice distortion control for the super large aperture and fix the distortion problem by software.
Nah, it’s crap. I don’t want to have picture blurred by software distortion correction. 🙁
well, some people will say anything to get on TV eh? Im still hoping for a prime between 20, 24, or 28mm that would be f1.4 and sharp wide open. I’d give just about anything for one of those.
J
There is a big prime gulf in the middle of the range. Where’s a 35mm, or a 50mm f/1.4 from CZ ? The Sony design is the old Mino with new coatings, it can’t be hard to better such a design in the MA mount. Come on Zeiss, bring on the ‘Normals’.
200mm 1.4
I’d go for one of those.
A Zeiss macro would be nice too, to replace my 100mm 2.8
“1.4/200ZA, 100-400F/2.8G SSM”
BWAHJAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHA! This is beyond ridiculous! 😛
If you know it’s ridicilous, why post it? I can come up with hunderds of these rumors:
1. Is Zeiss going to make a new DSLR?
2. Sony about to announce a 10-800mm f.1.8 lens nobody heard of.
You can go on for ages, And especially here, because you hear what you want to hear…:P
Because I want to have some fun once in a while 🙂
and that’s very cool 🙂 As long as you state that it’s highly unlikely to happen – it’s a nice mind game on how and whatever it’s possible to build such things 🙂
A 1.4/200 … will be as big and heavy and expensive as a 2.8/400 or a 4/600. 6kg/13lb, not handholdable without much work in the gym. And the depth of field at a suitable focus distance will be thinner than the thickness of the structure of a sheet of plain paper. Good luck with focusing …
While the specs of these imaginary lenses are hard to believe, I do find the idea of Sony pumping out a bunch of telephotos while leaving their massive gaps at the wideangle end unplugged sadly quite believable.
Some spoof lenses made me laugh:) new FF camera is really welcome, lenses are fine with me.
It is unrealistic to imagine any f/2.8 zoom lens for the 35mm format more than tripling its focal length between its zoom extremes, such as a 100-400/2.8. While it is possible, the lens would be more prohibitively expensive and bulky than Sigma’s 200-500mm f/2.8.
Less impossibly fantastic is the suggestion of a 200mm f/1.4. Canon has an EF 200mm f/1.8 L USM, afterall, and Sony upstaged Canon and Nikon’s 135mm f/2s when they debut the 135/1.8. Whether anybody could actually use the depth of field of a 200mm f/1.4 is more unbelievable than the specification itself.
Well, such lens could be used for anything that requires focusing at infinity – eg. astrophotography, though it’d need to have very very precise focusing.
Though as far as I think that 200f/1.8 would be possible – f/1.4 seems like a dream wish. Though if they made it than… bravo! Congrats for outstanding skill, and big hopes for better-than-competition image quality at f/2.
Where stays the promised 500F4
Wait until A7x is released.
does this means there will be no more APS-C lenses in the future anymore?hmm
Most probably no more APS-C Carl Zeiss. But creating a prime CZ for APS-C is waste of money. Prime lens is small anyway so using a FF prime (rather than APS-C prime) will offer not as big advantage than APS-C zoom gives.
hi, this rumor looks very impossible for you guys but, yesterday i went to the sony style in singapore and guy there, i’m not sure what is his position, maybe manager or in the same level said that next year, 2 FF sony camera is coming. He also said when he went to japan, he saw the A1, as big as d3x nikon, very good camera for pro, bigger then a900.
Also, the a77 is coming also next year with dual SLR and SLT feature, he said. I don’t know the details, but that was all he said about.
It looks impossible, but i don’t think he told me a lie story, considering he is working in sony style in singapore
From pure physical point of view, its possible to build them. What will look much less friendly will be size of those things (I mean, have you ever seen Nikkor 200/f2? Thats huuge.) and then there will be price, which will be insane..
Though, 200mm/f4 macro is no problem.. And it would be very usefull.
Theres no problem in building fast tele lenses, problem is with weight/size and price. Almost every manufacturer is capable creating for example 50mm/f1.0, but they wont do it, cause it cost arm-leg and kidney..
Why settle for 200 f/4? Minolta has 200 f/2.8. I guess if they want to label it as CZ they want one step better than old Minolta lens. Sony can make 200 f/4 Macro as easy choice lens. I also hope they bring back 70-210 f/4. I never use the Minolta version and definitely would want to try if Sony make one with reasonable price.