[Leica] New 85 f4 ZM

[luisripoll at telefonica.net (Lluis Ripoll)]

Very interesting news Mark, for me is easier to focus at F4, if this  
lens is not big and no expensive could be a nice desired object. I've  
hjust posted one picture with an old Sonnar Jena from 1948 2/85! these  
lenses was fantastic, iMO more smooth or less crips than Leica, but  
the overall performance was really fantastic.

Saludos cordiales
Lluis


El 08/07/2009, a las 22:29, Mark Rabiner escribi?:

> http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=864877
>
> Jonathan Eastland has just reviewed this new 85 and the new 15mm CV  
> M for
> the The British Journal of Photography which I get regular emails  
> from I'm
> glad I can read British.
> Its being called the
>
> Zeiss ZM Tele-Tessar T* 85mm f/4
>
> And its just out if its out yet at all!
>
> It's a bit smaller than my 90 Elmarit, Jonathan says.
> Which I take out with me when I'm looking for a more lightweight  
> option to
> my awesome 90 APO ASPH. But the Elmarit is still heavy as hell.  
> Twice as
> heavy as I normally like to have up front there.
> The new Cosina made ZM 85 is for sure bigger them my LTM  90 elmar  
> which his
> also f4.
> But smaller than the current yet discontinued Elmarit M designed for  
> NASA.
> I love f4 glass on my Leicas why?
> Because I don't have to look through the darned thing.
> Nothing is made darker and harder to focus at f4;
> - it just makes for a super compact flare free optic;
> Which cost less money.
> For me that's getting my cake and eating it too.
>
> Jonathan is impressed with the classic optical design of this new 85  
> for the
> Leica M and what they've done to extend that.
> He says it does better at f22 than older Leitz 90mm glass.
> But I bet my Elmar does better at f32.
> (the ZV only goes to f22)
> I'm an f32 and be there kinda guy and yes I've heard the phrase  
> "diffraction
> limited".
>
> Naturally I can get the adaptor and shoot my own tiny LTM Elmar 90  
> f4 on my
> M's.
> But it might look kinda silly.
> Its kind of skinny thing like a pinky. People might laugh at me. And  
> I'm
> sensitive.
>
> Slow compact glass is where its at I keep saying rinse and repeat.
> But Mr. Kobayashi at Cosina always got it.
> Now the Zeiss people he's working with also have got it. I bet he  
> talked
> them into it.
> Zeiss in Germany has been offering a f/2, 85mm Sonnar T*  monster  
> which cost
> a fortune and really was a Zeiss lens made in Germany. Generally you  
> can
> tell by the price. If it cost $ 2,912.00  (B&H) then its made by  
> Carl Zeiss
> AG in Oberkochen.
>
> We don't need all that size and weight in front of what's supposed  
> to be
> compact camera system, the Leica M. its nice to not have a blocked
> viewfinder and a front heavy camera.
>
> Fast glass is an SLR need. You're always wanting the groundglass to be
> brighter. So you can then stop down a little and really get it.
> People think they need speed where all they're looking for is  
> "brightness"
> and the leeway to know they've got their focus.
>
> An M needs a complete F4 option from wide to tele.
> Like it did in the day. The 50s and 60's.
>
> So they've come out with this classic f4 and had Cosina do it.
> I love the Zeiss chrome front rim design like on a Contarex.
>
> Cosina always willing to come out with a more humane option for the  
> monsters
> the other camera companies make. But Kaufmann's catching on.
> I do notice the new 18 and slow 24.
>
> I don't think we need a whole lens line of f1.4's.
> We need f4's not f1.4's.
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> Mark William Rabiner
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