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Know-howClose up: the new super wide angle lens from Carl Zeiss
It is here: the lens at the top of the wish list of our community on Facebook and Flickr. Now you can look forward to exploring entirely new creative opportunities. In the next few days, this is where we will be showing you everything our new SLR lens has to offer.
By the way: If you register as a Facebook fan, you can be one of the first to get all the latest news about our new super wide, and lots of pictures, too. Join like-minded friends of Carl Zeiss on Facebook, or here on the Camera Lens Blog, discuss what you think and let us know what you are expecting from our latest lens.
The new ZEISS Distagon T* 2,8/15. Available in May 2012.
Full protection against extraneous light
15 elements in 12 groups
Explore totally new horizons of sharpness and depth of field
Protection: an integrated lens hood with 95 mm filter thread
The latest SLR lens for different mounts. Available in May 2012
Tags: architecture, Carl Zeiss, Carl Zeiss Lenses, Close-ups, depth of focus, Distagon, Focal length, landscape, lens, super wide angle, videography, wide angle
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37 Responses to Close up: the new super wide angle lens from Carl Zeiss
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Thomas | March 9, 2012 at 2:11 pm
I hope you’ll bring it for M42, too!?
Stas Medvedev | March 9, 2012 at 4:32 pm
Sehr gut!
Edoardo | March 11, 2012 at 3:20 am
Really? Great UWA options aren’t scarce, especially for Nikon shooters. Even neglected Canonistas can adapt the 14-24. I’ve got one and use it usually from 14-18mm and maybe 4 times a year.
Where are the Zeiss APO tele primes? That’s where there aren’t great options >135 and <200mm. Leica R Tele APOs are traded like gemstones on eBay. Because that's what they really are. I would have thought that's where Zeiss would have gone next. Oh well.
Riccardo | March 11, 2012 at 10:40 am
Edoardo, I guess you meant “Bulky UWA options aren’t scarce …”
Being a Nikon shooter I have never considered the 14-24 as viable option. The 14-24 is a very good lens indeed, but it’s too bulky and heavy, doesn’t accepts normal filters and requires expensive and obtrusive adapters. This is the reason why I opted for the 21 Distagon. A wider lens, with similar size as the 18, would be a welcome addition to Zeiss line-up.
Edoardo | March 15, 2012 at 6:46 pm
The bulk is why I went for a 21 too. The instances where the **average** enthusiast both needs and can properly compose an UWA are often infrequent.
you young jin | March 11, 2012 at 5:42 pm
Users are using is the Sony a900.
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Super wide-angle lens pyeonggwang recommend? 2f / 15m so right?
Among them 14-24 or 70-200 or 50-300 of the
I’m thinking Sony made.
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norbert | March 13, 2012 at 1:30 pm
@you young jin
Seriously WTF?
The lens look very promising, but come on.. Show something more than screws.
Maximilan | March 14, 2012 at 12:13 pm
번역기 돌리지 마세요
쪽팔려요
Eric | March 12, 2012 at 3:11 am
I agree about the lack of tele lenses. I would *love* a 200mm Makro-Planar. It would open up an entire range of photography for me — birds, wasps (close-ups are not a good career move), climbers, mountains/moon, sunsets, etc etc. If I want wide, I’ll use a MF like a Mamiya 7.
apodream | March 12, 2012 at 10:18 am
I “just” want an amazing 35-70 F4 … and 90 F2 apo.
Picard | March 12, 2012 at 1:43 pm
Any chance it will come in E mount ?
petr jehlik | March 12, 2012 at 6:40 pm
well, it looks like 18/2 ZF/E is comming.. in other word s fastest UWA lens ever built – that’s my bet (maybe “wish”); more realisticaly 16/3,5 or slightly faster whith that huge filter thread Ø95 in mind..
franco | March 12, 2012 at 9:43 pm
i would like a 20 mm f/4 and a 85 mm f/2.8 , with the same filter diameter (62 mm.?) , lightweight , without flare (when shoot the sun) , for mountain and hiking use.
hannes | March 13, 2012 at 1:40 pm
Looks like a 12mm f/2.5 lens with close focusing capability. Hope it also comes with E-Mount (even without AF), as it would complement the existing Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 perfectly.
Craig Ho | March 13, 2012 at 1:53 pm
2.8/16mm is more realistic and desirable.
hannes | March 13, 2012 at 3:35 pm
Well, 110 grade field of view should be equal to about 12mm focal length at fullframe. And I bet it’s f/2.5, which would be extremely fast for such a wide lens. Nice addition to their line-up!
juljul | March 13, 2012 at 2:02 pm
the rumored 15mm F2.8 ^_^
juan carlos | March 13, 2012 at 3:20 pm
really too / detail shots of screws and lens cap edge, am i that stupid… you announce the latest greatest with no information / just what is that wide angle lens you’re promising im not seeing ?? guessing is old and not fun trick zeiss !
Matthew Vella | March 13, 2012 at 10:09 pm
The complete specs and official announcement are supposed to be published by Zeiss in 3 days’ time, i.e. Friday 16th March
Alexis | March 13, 2012 at 6:15 pm
What I really want is a 28mm – 110mm F4 zoom.
Raymond Larose | March 13, 2012 at 9:14 pm
I am just DYING to take this to NYC with me and get some amazing architecture shots. This is going to be one INSANE lens. I have the 3.5/18 – it’s just not crazy wide enough for my vision of cityscapes and seascapes. This 15 is topping my want list now.
Matthew Vella | March 13, 2012 at 10:01 pm
As far as I know this will be a 15mm f2.8. I sincerely hope that this new lens is rectilinear.
What I would really want to see from Zeiss is a 125mm APO IF 1:1 Macro lens. I decided not to go for the 100mm in favour of the Nikon because the Zeiss is 1:2 and does not have IF.
M | March 14, 2012 at 1:30 pm
A very, very intriguing optic that finally offers Canon shooters a world-class UWA option. As a Nikononian I’m quite content with my ZF.2 21 and 1,4/35 along with the peerless Nikkor 14-24.
you young jin | March 14, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Maximilan
알아서?
you young jin | March 14, 2012 at 2:43 pm
15m 100%
Martin W. | March 14, 2012 at 10:14 pm
Hmm does not look favorably …. But in my case is even more space near the 18er, 21er, 28er and the 50s
Humberto Núñez | March 15, 2012 at 9:52 am
Will you sell it in Mexico?
Carl Zeiss Lenses | March 16, 2012 at 1:59 pm
Dear Humberto – You can find your local dealer here: http://www.zeiss.com/photo/dealer
ziya bayraktaroğlu | March 15, 2012 at 10:15 am
As far as I understand zeiss has a strategy that focus on the quality of the MTF , reasonable fast f values with acceptable prices, not the filter size,ease of use,weight etc..at the beginning of the this strategy they did not used much special glasses such as aspheric and anamolous disperse but now they turned to use of them with an acceptable extra price up.Nowadays digital era getting into a new stage of high resolution which demands more powerfull lenses than the zeiss think and I guess about it.I think zeiss will again adopt their strategy making less CA and distortion on the new lenses with or without adding fisheye lens to complete lens line up similar to contax lenses.
Daryl | March 16, 2012 at 3:20 am
The front element looks very round, similar to the Nikon 14-24, could this be an aspheric? I look for a lens that has great sharpness out to the edges, otherwise why use a 95mm filter. Possibly made in Germany and undoubtedly very expensive.
bk | March 15, 2012 at 1:00 pm
B+W 95mm UV Haze MRC 010M Filter is $162. Zeiss, do you have a UV (or circ pol) filter this size?
Macboy | March 15, 2012 at 5:34 pm
好緊張, 快啲公佈 !!!!!!
Lhasa | March 15, 2012 at 6:48 pm
Say what, Macboy???
Macboy | March 16, 2012 at 1:40 am
I said : I hope the lens release ASAP
Hannes | March 15, 2012 at 7:06 pm
The lens hood of my 24mm f/1.8 CZ just fell into pieces … That doesn’t make the integrated lens hood look as an advantage … ^^
(Why the hell is this thing glued together?? I mean, the metal ring feels premium, but the crap plastic front – why didn’t they just keep it and used it for cheapo sony lenses?)
Ed Coenen | March 19, 2012 at 6:24 pm
O, no, Lee filters doesn’t have the right adaptor for this lens.
Tim Devine | March 29, 2012 at 12:15 pm
What is the thickest filter ring size that can be used before you’ll notice vignetting from the filter?