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Is the new Zeiss mount for Canon?


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I guess Zeiss can incorporate "null" contacts to keep the EOS firmware happy, replicating the "chipped" adapters used so far.

 

It will be an interesting week in Köln. Maybe I better answer those offers of PMA tickets for next winter after all.

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It could be Mamiya guys . There was talk of this on my forum about this also and a few folks thought it maybe Mamiya. Mamiya is coming with a 45 T/S lens from Harbetai ( spelled wrong sorry) with Zeiss glass. Not sure this has anything to do with the ZE coding but does make you wonder. Not sure Canon would sell there license to Zeiss

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It could be Mamiya guys . There was talk of this on my forum about this also and a few folks thought it maybe Mamiya. Mamiya is coming with a 45 T/S lens from Harbetai ( spelled wrong sorry) with Zeiss glass. Not sure this has anything to do with the ZE coding but does make you wonder. Not sure Canon would sell there license to Zeiss

 

Hartblei:

Phase One introduces 3.5/45mm TS lens: Digital Photography Review

 

Interesting range of tilt/shift etc MF lenses:

Hartblei

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Thanks for correcting that. Brain is still trying to get going this early saturday morning. LOL

 

I hope to be getting one of these soon to test from Phase One.

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Hartblei:

Phase One introduces 3.5/45mm TS lens: Digital Photography Review

 

Interesting range of tilt/shift etc MF lenses:

Hartblei

 

I believe what Hartblei does with the Super Rotators is use Ukranian ARSAT MF optics in their own special mount. I am a bit suspicious of this $4000 45mm Super Rotator as I don't really know if it is significantly different from the one Hartblei sold for about $1000. And I think Michael Foreman used to sell them for less on Ebay. (Now all Super Rotators are shown as out of stock on the Hartblei site.) This lens and others were available in Mamiya and other mounts. That is a lot of additional profit for Phase One simply for marketing. (If true I think this is very revealing about the prices of MF digital gear.)

 

What I think may be the same or similar glass is available from Hartblei.com as a 45mm shift (no tilt) for $295 and a 55mm tilt for $395. Plus $45 for a Pentacon to Mamiya adapter. The 55 I have is quite good, very big and heavy because it is for MF - I use it on 35mm. I had one of the shift adapters that allowed shift when using any Pentacon lens on a 35mm. But it was badly aligned so I returned it. Maybe they have improved these.

 

As for Zeiss glass, Hartblei also took some Hasselblad type Carl Zeiss lenses and put them in their own TS mount. They showed these at PhotoPlus Expo two years ago if I recall. These were pretty expensive. I think it was the Zeiss people who were showing the lenses.

 

Anyhow I don't know if this is very related to Zeiss lenses for Canon unless, the Carl Zeiss Hartblei MF lenses have adapters for Canon.

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I think this has been mentioned in the German forum, but I haven't noticed it here:

PhotoScala is speculating that Zeiss' new ZE SLR mount is indeed likely to be for Canon:

 

well, guys, I'd like to add just my 2(euro)cent ...

 

There's another system that is identified by the "E" letter, the Olympus one. While I agree it's more likely it's Canon, until Monday I won't give up my (little) hope for Oly and the 4/3. Last year I had an email exchange with Zeiss suggesting the 4/3 mount as a market that had almost no primes and their single line answer was "not negative", or at least sounded like that to me.

Now, Zeiss is going after mounts with expired copyright, afaik this applies to both Nikon and Canon, but the 4/3 one is in "public domain" so to say, therefore there could be a little chance for that one, until proved different of course.

Since its releasing the Panasonic 25/1.4 for the 4/3 has always been heavily backordered, and now for the first time since a few weeks it's steadily "in stock" at B&H, just a coincidence or ... a hint?

 

Oh well, just two more days of guessing ... you know, that 85/1.4 would do great on my Leica D/3 ... :-))

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Well my bet is some system my win pretty big here if it is true. Zeiss certainly makes some nice glass as almost all of us have tried them on different mounts through the years. Be interesting to see what ZE really is intended for.

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Maybe Zeiss has Licensed the Exacta name :)

 

ZE= Zeiss Exacta

 

That's good one. Rob. LOL

 

I don't think there're really a lot of people care what they do. Now they have offerings in 4, or may be 5 different mounts already and there's no sign the mosquito factory of Cosina in Nagano prefecture is reaching its full capacity. Guess these Z-whatever lenses aren't that popular after all.

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