Genoweffa Posted February 19 Share #21 Posted February 19 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) 2 hours ago, Olaf_ZG said: There are many, many good lenses available at the moment. To me, there are two main criteria, not necessarily in the same lens: - weather proof: here Leica shines, but Panasonic is good as well - rendering: the Lux is sublime, original zooms very good. The sigma 85mm disappointing (to me). So a zeiss 85 would have a chance. Portraits only. Price is fair to me, but I am not interested in using adapters, so they have to make it L-mount. Get Otus 85..or for less Milvus 85 which is 100% Otus for indoor portraits (w/sigma adaptor in case of ze versions)....prices are super low (at least in USA) https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/802980187-USE/zeiss_2040_292_otus_85mm_f_1_4_ze.html Edited February 19 by Genoweffa Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LD_50 Posted February 20 Share #22 Posted February 20 8 hours ago, Biotar said: M lenses are not an alternative because you don't have automatic aperture control. M lenses are absolutely an alternative to any other L mount manual focus lenses. Look around the forum at all the people who shoot M lenses on an SL body and all those who want an EVF on an M body. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biotar Posted February 21 Share #23 Posted February 21 I use a lot of M-lenses on the SL myself, but it's a blessing to still be able to focus at f/1.2 or f/1.4 at medium apertures. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biotar Posted February 21 Share #24 Posted February 21 Am 19.2.2025 um 21:00 schrieb Olaf_ZG: There are many, many good lenses available at the moment. To me, there are two main criteria, not necessarily in the same lens: - weather proof: here Leica shines, but Panasonic is good as well - rendering: the Lux is sublime, original zooms very good. The sigma 85mm disappointing (to me). So a zeiss 85 would have a chance. Portraits only. Price is fair to me, but I am not interested in using adapters, so they have to make it L-mount. Milvus is weatherproof, the MC-21 also has a rubber lip. For 1k it looks like a good try in 85mm. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FocusDot Posted February 21 Share #25 Posted February 21 On 2/19/2025 at 4:12 PM, Biotar said: So there is no need to wait ... The ZE version of Otus has been working on the L-mount for some time now. As it always was the case for ZF.2 versions of Otus/Milvus... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FocusDot Posted February 21 Share #26 Posted February 21 On 2/18/2025 at 12:07 PM, Ivar B said: Zeiss will on February 25 launch a new series of lenses and I see it is speculated that this will be a relaunch of the superb Otus lenses. If so, will they be avaiable in L-mount? I would be surprised if this should turn out to be the case. I see several Chinese lens makers offer L-mount lenses and will have obtained a license from Leica, but Zeiss Otus will be head on with the Leica APO-lenses. I thought Zeiss was out of lens business...? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biotar Posted February 21 Share #27 Posted February 21 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) vor 49 Minuten schrieb FocusDot: As it always was the case for ZF.2 versions of Otus/Milvus... Yes - with Novoflex-Adapter, but in the wrong focus direction. 😉 Edited February 21 by Biotar Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardC Posted February 21 Share #28 Posted February 21 1 hour ago, FocusDot said: I thought Zeiss was out of lens business...? Yes and no. They haven't released new consumer lenses in a few years (until now), and their current consumer lenses are manufactured by third parties such as Cosina and Sony. On the other hand, their cinematography business has been very prolific. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biotar Posted April 17 Share #29 Posted April 17 It seems that the L-mount will not be included for the present. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shefys Posted April 20 Share #30 Posted April 20 On 2/19/2025 at 4:44 PM, LD_50 said: M lenses are absolutely an alternative to any other L mount manual focus lenses. Look around the forum at all the people who shoot M lenses on an SL body and all those who want an EVF on an M body. Aperture control and EXIF information are missing with M lenses. It's a bit of a hassle to manually configure settings each time you change a lens and let's be honest - 6 bit encoding is not great for 3rd party lenses. With native L mount it would behave like E-mount: IBIS, exif, proper lens corrections in post instead of faking it with closest Leica lens type. After all it is 2025, not 1965. I also understand why there is a lack of those lenses in L-system - tiny marketshare vs anything else. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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