When will the two mystery lenses shown in the ZF product pictures be announced officially?
The two “mystery lenses” will be disclosed at Photokina in September 2006, latest. But I can imagine that I will take demo photos with them prior to photokina and report on the results as soon as I have them. Zeiss ZF Planar 85mm f/1.4 and Planar 50mm f/1.4 plus two mystery lenses (Photo courtesy Zeiss) Q. How many lenses in total will comprise the ZF/ZS line by Photokina 2006? We expect to have six ZF lenses at Photokina, and an official view on how we extend the line from there.Q. Are there plans to develop autofocus lenses or lenses that have a greater level of communication between lens and camera than the just-announced ZF with Nikon? It is too early to talk about autofocus ZF lenses today. Q. Was Zeiss aware, before Nikon announced it, that Nikon was ceasing production of many of its manual focus lenses? Yes, we have been quite often contacted by industrial users of Nikon manual focus lenses over the last year, asking us for Contax RTS manual focus lenses to replace Nikon types w
