new carl zeiss ikon

[Terence]

You could also consider the 28 Ultron. It's a lot of lens for it's price.

 

[fuwen]

Zeiss jsut anounced the delay of their shipment of Zeiss Ikon Body and 21, 15 lenses to Aug 2005. 85 to Sept 2005.

 

[glchua]

The scans are coming along slowly, I should have them all by Mon or Tues but for now this is the only sample taken with the 35 Biogon... about 1/30 f/2 thereabouts , handheld.

Hi Terence,

The sharp-unsharp rendition of this lens seems very similar to the 35 ASPH cron. Nice!

 

[Terence]

Hi Terence,

The sharp-unsharp rendition of this lens seems very similar to the 35 ASPH cron. Nice!

Thanks, and for less than half the price of the cron

 

[Terence]

Here's another scan of an image with the same lens..

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=10245&cat=500&page=1

 

[glchua]

Interesting food! Maybe we should do a side-by-side comparison with the 35 cron, seems indistinguishable from the web image.

I'm looking to buy the 21/2.8, hope the price is affordable.

 

[Terence]

Interesting food! Maybe we should do a side-by-side comparison with the 35 cron, seems indistinguishable from the web image.

I'm looking to buy the 21/2.8, hope the price is affordable.

Sure thing, I've got nothing but high regards from the crons, the 35 is no exception. My only gripe is its price.

The 21/2.8 is going for a pre release price of approx S$1600! But still cheaper than the Leica I guess, if that's any consolation.

 

[thx1138]

Just checked with Pro Photo: Latest quoted prices...

Zeiss Ikon Body (Chrome) - S$2,600 (Japan)
ZI 35mm f/2 - S$1,740 (Japan)
ZI 85mm f/2 - S$4,600 (German) - no stock yet

Cannot believe the outrageous price for the 85mm f/2 - even more expensive than a Leica-M Summicron 90mm f/2 APO ASPH????

 

[kex]

i think they are still dreaming la..

this type of pricing see how many they can sell lor..

2.6k + 1.7k for a set..

 

[LKSC]

Just checked with Pro Photo: Latest quoted prices...

Zeiss Ikon Body (Chrome) - S$2,600 (Japan)
ZI 35mm f/2 - S$1,740 (Japan)
ZI 85mm f/2 - S$4,600 (German) - no stock yet

Cannot believe the outrageous price for the 85mm f/2 - even more expensive than a Leica-M Summicron 90mm f/2 APO ASPH????

Dr Joseph Yao has good pricing on ZI. About USD895 for the 35/2, or about S$1,450.