Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just like the "guessing game" they played with the ZI rangefinder and lenses, clever ad lads at Zeiss, they've succeeded already - were talking about it!! Douglas Didier Ludwig wrote: >>Or this is all a hoax. I don't know. >> >> > >I don't think it's a hoax. There were different pictures on the zeiss >webserver that have been replaced in the last hour by this one: >http://tinyurl.com/926jp > >This means there's really something going on the zeiss server. It the same >procedure like with the ZI RF camera and ZM lenses; I guess they do that >intentionally to keep the lists and forum gossip going on. > >One picture showed a 85/1.4 lens called Zeiss Ikon ZF with serial number >000000. The look was very, very close to the make of the ZM lenses and that >means Cosina might be involved. Another picture showed a classic manual >Nikon SLR body. > >That's why I'm quite shure these new ZF lenses are in Nikkor F mount, no >autofocus, no hypersonic motor, and no Canon. > >But I can second Mehrdad that manual focus lenses will rather not sell like >sliced bread amongst DSLR users. > >Didier > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >