(SR5) Zeiss Loxia FE 21mm f/2.8 will be announced on Monday (Oct 12) at 11:00 Berlin time!

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And now we are close: Highly Trusted sources told us Zeiss will announce the new Loxia 21mm f/2.8 Full Frame E-mount lens on Monday Oct 12 at 11:00 Berlin time! I have no info on the price yet but the lens has a Biogon design just like the [shoplink 9804 ebay]ZM T* 2,8/21 version[/shoplink].

As usual you can follow the announcement live blogging on SAR! And keep in mind Sony will announce many more new FE lenses the week after the Zeiss announcement!

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Lightroom 2015.2 adds Sony A7sII support and lens profiles for many third party lenses.

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Adobe just updated Lightroom which now added full support for the new Sony A7sII. The A7sII is the first Sony camera with 14 Bit uncompressed RAW and will ship starting from next week.

Another good Adobe news is that they added Lens Profiles for many third party lenses many SAR readers here do own:

– Canon FD 28 mm f/2.8
– Canon FD 50 mm f/1.4
– Canon FD 135 mm f/2.5 S.C.
– Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 45 mm f/2.8 (Contax 645)
– Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 35 mm f/3.5 (Contax 645)
– Asahi Pentax Super-Takumar 55 mm f/1.8 (M42)
– Fujifilm Fujinon 50 mm f/1.4 (M42)
– Fujifilm Fujinon 55 mm f/1.8 (M42)
– Minolta MC Rokkor 58 mm f/1.2
– Minolta MC Rokkor -PF 55 mm f/1.7
– Minolta MC Rokkor -X PG 50 mm f/1.4
– Minolta MC Tele Rokkor -PE 200 mm f/4.5
– Minolta MC W.Rokkor -HG 35 mm f/2.8
– Minolta MD 50 mm f/2
– Minolta MD Celtic 135 mm f/3.5
– Minolta MD Rokkor -X 45 mm f/2
– Minolta MD Rokkor -X 50 mm f/1.7
– Minolta MD W.Rokkor -X 28 mm f/2.8
– Minolta MD W.Rokkor -X 28 mm f/2.8
– Nikon Nikkor 24 mm f/2.8 AI
– Nikon Nikkor 50 mm f/1.4 AIS
– Nikon Nikkor 50 mm f/1.8 AI
– Nikon Nikkor-H Auto 50 mm f/2
– Nikon Nikkor-P.C Auto 105 mm f/2.5 AI
– Nikon Nikkor-S.C Auto 50 mm f/1.4
– Nikon Nikkor-UD Auto 20 mm f/3.5 AI

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Lightroom 6 at Adobe (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).

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Zeiss Vicepresident: ” Full Frame is the future” and “Sony was surprised by E-mount success”

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FDtimes published a PDF document containing an interview with Zeiss Vicepresident Winfried Scherle. Here are a couple of interesting tidbits:

1) Full Frame is the future:
“I’m convinced that in the near future the relevant innovations and improvements will be made with Full Frame sensors. With the huge number of FF still picture cameras being sold, these sensors will be available for attractive prices. Canon started with the 5D MKII and was, according to my understanding, surprised that the community used the still camera for motion pictures. Sony has the a7RII and a7S which is dedicated for motion pictures. I’m convinced we’ll see more and more cine cameras with Full Format sensors.”

2) About the lens strategy with Sony:
“We have regular strategy meetings with Sony where we discuss roadmaps and so on but please understand that we can’t disclose further details.”

3) About E-mount:
“I think they were surprised about the success when they introduced the first mirrorless cameras in an environment that was dominated by DSLRs. So the E-mount market and mirrorless cameras have been a really disruptive technology. It started to be very popular in Japan but now it’s spreading around the world. And it’s getting even more relevant with the a7 series Full Format cameras. We are convinced that this will also drive the motion picture industry.”

It’s very clear how Zeiss is focused on Full Frame E-mount lens development. I don’t think we will ever see a new [shoplink 41087 ebay]Zeiss Touit APSC lens[/shoplink] launch anymore!

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$100 off on the Rokinon 12mm FE lens. New 50mm f/1.2 and 21mm f/1.4 in Stock!

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You save $100 compared to all other current US store prices on the Rokinon 12mm f/2.3 Full Frame Emount lens for sale at official Rokinon seller [shoplink 41051 ebay]BestpriceOptics on eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink].

And the new Rokinon APS-C E-mount lenses are in Stock for the first time here:
21mm f/1.4 on [shoplink 41052 ebay]eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink] and Amazon US (Click here).
50mm f/1.2 on Amazon US (Click here).

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Speculations on forums: Did Diglloyd post images shot with the new Loxia 21mm and Otus 28mm lens?

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I got many mails from readers and saw many discussions on forum about Diglloyd latest posts. In particular people are questioning about two posts:

  1. Post one (Click here). Diglloyd posted images shot on the A7rII with a unnamed 21mm lens. The File Info shows this is an E-mount 21mm f/2.8 lens. There is no such lens on the market yet and Diglloyd doesn’t say in that post what lens he used. So because people keep discussing about those images on the web I asked him what lens he used and he answered he used an adapted [shoplink 41039 ebay]ZF lens[/shoplink]. It’s up to SAR readers to believe him or not :) UPDATE: On a new post Diglloyd makes it clear those ar ZF lens shots.
  2. Post two (Click here). Diglloyd posted an A7rII image shot with what he called “unknownLens”. Again, on forum and other blogs people speculated this could be the first image shot on the new Otus 28mm f/1.4 lens.

Beside all that speculation I have been told by my sources the new Loxia FE lens design is based on the current [shoplink 9804 ebay]Biogon T* 2,8/21 ZM design (here on eBay)[/shoplink]. And announcement should be made someday next week!

And do not forget that one week after the Zeiss Loxia 21mm announcement also Sony will announce their 8 new FE lenses too! Stay tuned on SAR!

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