Zeiss Announces Two New Killer Full Frame E-Mount Lenses With A Smooth Iris Setting.
Carl Zeiss Lenses announced two new killer full frame e mount lenses. The Loxia 35mm and 50mm both f2.0. The Loxia lenses are manual focus with a killer de-clickable aperture setting. Finally we can rock iris pulls with a turn of a screw. Here is a rip from the Carl Zeiss Lenses Blog.
UPDATE Pricing. The 35mm will retail for around $1300 and the 50mm will set you back around $950. Check them out here from BH Photo.
“The Loxia lenses offer several key highlights, including optimization for digital sensors and electronic viewfinders, the mechanical aperture setting and – for ambitious videography – the mechanical deactivation of the aperture click stops (de-click).
The Loxia family has been specially optimized for digital sensors and the functions of mirrorless E-mount full-format cameras. An electronic interface transmits lens data (EXIF), but also recognizes focus movements and, if desired, activates the camera’s magnifier function. Moreover, the Loxia lenses enable precise manual focusing and a mechanical setting of the aperture (working-aperture aperture priority). This traditional way of working can express one’s personal photo lifestyle, and open up surprising new creative possibilities to compose the image that go beyond all automation.
Yet photographers are not the only ones who will enjoy the Loxia. Ambitious videographers will have at their disposal the possibility of progressive aperture settings (de-click). This will put a tool with enormous creative potential into their hands thanks to the mechanical deactivation of aperture click stops. The lenses’ precise manual focusing also makes the Loxia suitable for professional video productions.”
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