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Huck Finn
03-02-2006, 05:19
Latest from Zeiss: ZI sales brisk, lens tests, 400 lpm, & more . . .

Click on Camera Lens News 24 here:
www.zeiss.de/C12567A8003B58B9/?Open
Bertram2
03-02-2006, 05:33
Should be helpful for all those,who had no clear imagination what kinda quality comes from Zeiss. ;-)

bertram
Ken F.
03-02-2006, 05:52
Latest from Zeiss: ZI sales brisk, lens tests, 400 lpm, & more . . .

Click on camera Lens News 24 here:
www.zeiss.de/C12567A8003B58B9/?Open


It's all good news, I'm very pleased with my new 28 f2:8!

Cheers,
kf
JohnL
03-02-2006, 06:20
This is truly impressive, but then, as they themselves mention :"Let's just say that this test is relevant to everyday photography the same way the top speed of a Formula 1 race car relates to everyday personal transportation". There is no film in regular use that comes close to that resolution -- 400 lp/mm is the equivalent of about 550MP on a digital FF (i.e. 24x35mm) sensor!
leafy
03-02-2006, 06:47
This is truly impressive, but then, as they themselves mention :"Let's just say that this test is relevant to everyday photography the same way the top speed of a Formula 1 race car relates to everyday personal transportation". There is no film in regular use that comes close to that resolution -- 400 lp/mm is the equivalent of about 550MP on a digital FF (i.e. 24x35mm) sensor!
It is a pity that Tech Pan is no longer available :(
FrankS
03-02-2006, 06:49
Which lens was capable of this?
back alley
03-02-2006, 07:12
the 25mm lens.
Socke
03-02-2006, 07:29
Which lens was capable of this?


The ZM Biogon 25
rover
03-02-2006, 07:30
If I were to get just one ZM lens, this is the one that I have wished for.

25/35/50, looks like a great trio to me.
back alley
03-02-2006, 08:15
my concern with the 25 is the need for a separate finder.
i'm thinking the 28/35/50...
schaubild
03-02-2006, 08:22
Zeiss officially confirmed that the Gigabit film reaches the 400lp resolution. They use it for lens tests.
If this is reproducable (and necessary) outside of a laboratory is another question.


http://www.zeiss.com/c12567a8003b58b9/contents-frame/098729cea9ef2428c1257118005d1d20
FrankS
03-02-2006, 08:26
Would the entire viewfinder (outside of the 28 framelines) approximate the 25mm lens?
sockeyed
03-02-2006, 08:31
FrankS - probably. I looked through both a ZI (black paint!) and the Zeiss 25/28 finder this weekend thank to Tom Abrahammson. There is space around the 28mm framelines in the camera's VF that probably come close to a 25mm. Looking through the 25/28 finder, one realizes that the two fields-of-view are really not that far apart.

The finder is gorgeous, by the way, but expensive. The black paint ZI...yummy!
John
03-02-2006, 08:31
Bravo Zeiss !!! :)
I hope Frank Granovski sees this. Cameraquest has had them all along. :)
rover
03-02-2006, 08:34
I personally don't find an external VF that big of a hassle with a wide lens as my composition tends to get looser the wider I go.
back alley
03-02-2006, 08:44
it's not a great hassle and i used them with the p before. it just seems odd that with a modern metered camera to have a vf on top of it.
plus, the zeiss one costs about what the cv 25 lens costs...
Kyle
03-02-2006, 11:49
Would the entire viewfinder (outside of the 28 framelines) approximate the 25mm lens?

The Zeiss Ikon blog by ZeissFan mentions that he uses the ZM 25/2.8 using the entire VF for framing.
yossarian
03-02-2006, 12:39
Too bad Zeiss doesn't package and sell that film...