HOT news!!! Zeiss announces the 2.8/12, 1.8/32 and 2.8/50 macro for NEX!!!
Wow! What a good day for NEX useres! Zeiss announced that they will release three new NEX lenses in mid 2013 (Source: Zeiss.)! All priced at around 1.000 Euro! Finally this system is going to have high quality prime lenses!!! The first three lenses are the 12mm f/2.8, 32mm f/1.8 and 50mm f/2.8. Zeiss also said that “Zoom lenses are an option that is still being considered“. These are autofocus lenses(!) with support for all camera functions. The lenses are designed to cover the APS-C circle and not the for FF NEX cameras like the Sony NEX-VG900.
I think this is one of the greatest Photokina news along the nice Sony NEX-6 announcement!
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A99 body Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Jessops, Wex UK, Wex Germany, Sonystore DE-UK-FR-IT-ES-NL-SE-FI-CH and more links at Alphacameradeals.
A99 with kit lens links Alphacameradeals.
RX1 Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Wex UK ,Wex Germany and more links at Alphacameradeals.
NEX-6 body Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Wex UK, Wex Germany Sonystore DE-UK-FR-IT-ES-NL-SE-FI-CH and more links at Alphacameradeals.
NEX-6 with kit lens Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Jessops, Wex Uk ,Wex Germany and more links at Alphacameradeals.
NEX-VG900 Amazon, BHphoto, Sonystore DE-UK-FR-IT-ES-NL-SE-FI-CH, Wex Uk and more links at Alphacameradeals.
NEX-VG30 Adorama, Amazon, BHphoto, Wex UK, Sonystore DE-UK-FR-IT-ES-NL-SE-FI-CH, and more links at Alphacameradeals.
Sony E-mount 16-50mm Amazon, Adorama, Wex UK, Sonystore DE-UK-FR-IT-ES-NL-SE-FI-CH, and more links at Alphacameradeals .
Sony E-mount 35mm Amazon, Adorama, Wex UK, Sonystore DE-UK-FR-IT-ES-NL-SE-FI-CH, and more links at Alphacameradeals.
Sony E-mount 10-18mm Amazon, Adorama, Wex UK, Sonystore DE-UK-FR-IT-ES-NL-SE-FI-CH, and more links at Alphacameradeals.
Sony A-mount 300mm f/2.8 Amazon, Sonystore DE-UK-FR-IT-ES-NL-SE-FI-CH.
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Andrejew
10 months ago |The most important question for me is:
Full frame lenses or aps-c???
windrincar
10 months ago |APS-C
Ken Rockwell
10 months ago |First
Patrick
10 months ago |Fail
Ray oody
10 months ago |No you’re not. And I like the 12mm 2.8 .. No OS i believe..
Ragnarok
10 months ago |LOL! First at fail!
Sky_walker
10 months ago |Not first in that either – almost every post recently got first-failers.
Michele
10 months ago |It looks like Ken Rockwell always got it wrong: can’t even be first in a proper way! Hahahahaha
Patrick
10 months ago |Yeah!!! Now we can choose from oss sony or zeiss and choose the better optical formula!
Varn
10 months ago |Wow! Truly overwhelmed, I’m so glad that I made the right decision for choosing Sony over Canon and Nikon, many times I thought I’ve made a mistake.
Chad
10 months ago |Great to hear about these new lenses. The more E Mount options, the better!
Now it’s sorely missing a 16-50 2.8! Like, the ONE thing i want hasn’t been announced! (power zoom too slow to excite me)
MdB
10 months ago |Sony G coming early next year according to roadmap.
Philipp
10 months ago |Finally a good E-Mount Macro Lens!
steveen
10 months ago |Very nice! I was originally planning on getting the 10-18mm from sony but I don’t mind waiting a up to a year for a quality native WA prime coming from zeiss themselves. The price being within the area of the zeiss 24/1.8 makes it even sweeter.
clivengu
10 months ago |Same thought here.. Since the 10-18mm isnt that cheap either. And with 10-18, I think most will be using the wider end ,10mm. For me 11mm or 12mm is the perfect range. Somemore with f2.8.. That is if it really stick with the 1k price.. not 1.8k when released
Christopher
10 months ago |I’m kinda excited about the 12mm 2.8 too! Woop whoop!
RVN
10 months ago |thiss!!!!!
rogers f
10 months ago |mid 2013? hahaha take a long times
kirk fuk
10 months ago |Go get yourself those m43 cameras. They have bunch of lens selections available today.
But the thing is, no matter how long you wait, that tiny sensor won’t go bigger.
So yeah, I can wait for more and more lenses for nex.
räven
10 months ago |Wonder how the IQ will be. Zeiss has had it’s ups and downs in IQ over the last few years.
Sky_walker
10 months ago |Gratz NEX users!
that’s what you need, enjoy!
Oh, by the way: I love an insult towards m4/3 users:
“If current APS-C lenses were also used for the Micro 4/3-bajonet, we wouldn’t be able to achieve the best tradeoff between lens size (weight), and image quality.”
hehehe
documensony
10 months ago |The quote from Zeiss simply means, that these APS-C lenses are too big compared to what m43 competion can offer. No reason for being coy, really
mkln
10 months ago |it also means zeiss believes in APS-C more than it believes in m4/3… or otherwise they would have invested in that direction.
kirk fuk
10 months ago |With all these new lenses and advance af system on nex,
DEAD on m43!!
Like I said the other days, having pro dslr-look and features (GH3) but with tiny sensor is like a muscular dude with a tiny penis dancing around in a gay bar.
Gamagama
10 months ago |Surely this is a good news to Nex users!
But on the other hand, is it a indication to Sony? Why Zeiss their important partner releases AF lenses on its own? Not only Sony has AF Zeiss lens now, zeiss releases for Fuji x-mount also.. Will zeiss make af lens for canon, Nikon, Pentax in the future too?
Sky_walker
10 months ago |O_o huh? I’m quite sure Sony knew for quite a while what Zeiss works on, as well as where they can release AF lenses and where they cannot. Forget about AF Nikon or Canon lenses from Zeiss. At least: for their DSLRs.
MdB
10 months ago |Also considering they have left the EOS-M out, despite meeting the criteria of being an APS-C mirrorless, as well as Samsung NX. I guess they are focussing on the ‘enthusiast’ mirrorless cams, specifically mentioning the NEX-7 and X-Pro1.
Carl
10 months ago |Sony has made E mount license free. Canon and Samsung might be demanding royalties for their AF protocol.
Brendon
10 months ago |Thats the reason even Sigma launched two lenses for only NEX and m43 when Samsung was very much around at the time of launch. Similarly I highly doubt Canon would want anyone else making lenses for their mount.
m43 and Sony gives away the entire focusing mechanism of their mount so no reverse engineering is necessary (like how Sigma does with DSLR lenses).
documensony
10 months ago |If Samsung’s NX range and Canon’s M becomes more popular, I am sure Zeiss will be ready to deliver in those mounts too. However, AF and other coommunication with camera is complicated, som Zeiss will need some critical mass from those other mounts to jump their ship…
GreenLens
10 months ago |Bad news. This diminishes probability of seeing FF NEX next year.
räven
10 months ago |I’m hoping for a rx1-50 instead. 50mm f/1.4 at 2100$
MacT
10 months ago |I hope for that too. But that’s only hope. Not 1,4 and definitely not for 2100
GreenLens
10 months ago |No way, it’s within the digital zoom range already. Logically, RX2 should be wideangle.
Carl
10 months ago |With the main advantage of larger sensors being depth of field control, I think they could go even faster than that. Something like a modern take on the Canon 50/0.95 would make me seriously consider dropping some coin.
Weakling
10 months ago |At first I was: Another 50mm? Then I read: Macro? Yay!
MacT
10 months ago |existing 24mm, upcoming 50mm macro and 12mm – three lenses I need. Tempting..
Weakling
10 months ago |The 12mm is tempting yes, but am leaning towards the 10-18mm from Sony. On the other hand: the 12mm is faster. Decisions, decisions. Well neither is out yet, so time enough to think this through.
documensony
10 months ago |No aperture ring on Nex-versions. Only Fuji-mounted lenses will have aperture ring
Ragnarok
10 months ago |Errr… Did you really expect NEX lenses to come with an aperture ring? What a weird expectation.
documensony
10 months ago |Yes, I like to have an aperture ring on the lens, like I do on my manual ZM, CY and other lenses. The Fuji-folks can have it, it seems.
MdB
10 months ago |E-Mount probably has no protocol for the camera to understand a digital aperture ring.
Bill
10 months ago |The Fuji aperture ring is a digital switch it is not actually linked to the aperature. It is just where Fuji wanted to put the controls for manual aperture. It is poossible the Zeiss ring will be manual but most likely digital.
Carl
10 months ago |It’ll probably be similar to the aperture rings on the Contax N and 645.
documensony
10 months ago |Hmmm … can’t help wondering if the 1.8/24mm Zeiss will soon appear in X-mount for Fuji as well … ?
Rooru S.
10 months ago |Not quite sure, since the ZA 24mm f/1.8 was made for Sony and with Sony. What does that means? Look at the 135mm f/2 Zeiss recently released, even though Zeiss made a ZA 135mm f/1.8, since it’s made for Sony, for some reason, they made that lens f/2, and probably, is different even with a smaller aperture. Maybe you’re going to see a 24mm f/2, but not f/1.8, and something bigger than f/1.8 don’t know…
Peter
10 months ago |Interesting
Sony is releasing 35 f/1.8 in Nov
and Zeiss is going to release 32 f/1.8…
MdB
10 months ago |Yeah I thought that too was a bit strange.
documensony
10 months ago |Zeiss knows that many potographers prefer Zeiss lenses above other brands. When the ZF/ZE DSLR-lens range started, the first two lenses were actualle 1.4/50 and 1.4/85 … even though each and every camera brand had the same kind of lens-designs in-house already.
Sahaja
10 months ago |Exciting, but 1,000 Euro!?! ~ the price is high compared to the excellent Fuji X-Pro lenses.
Patrick
10 months ago |But they can be better!!!!
documensony
10 months ago |Price is reasonable compared to those Schneider lenses announced for m43 yesterday … they each run at $3k and above.
Brendon
10 months ago |According to mirrorlessrumors the Schneider lenses are all coming in at Euro 1500 which means around $1500. So they will be priced close to the Zeiss lenses.
The Schneider lenses are pretty fast to boot – 14mm f2.0 , 35mm f1.4 and 60mm f2.4.
Of course due to the 2x crop factor they aren’t directly comparable to any of the Zeiss lenses.
MdB
10 months ago |I thought Zeiss weren’t doing any more APS-C format lenses?
Carl
10 months ago |Not for Sony, for A-mount.
These are independent designs for E and X mount, so Zeiss can do whatever they want to.
Alain
10 months ago |That’s a wonderful news especially for nex 7 owner!! We will have a large choice and quality lenseswith my Zeississ 24 which I love but was a alone !! Happy to see finally 6 new lenses ! The last I’m waiting R is the G2.8 with instant apperture and that’s it !!
saiman
10 months ago |Love thr news!! Thanks, admin.
This is indeed shows that E-mount is the future… I think it will soon have more versatility than the A-mount.
btw… OSS??
waldomarek
10 months ago |no OSS needed for those short focal lengths, according to Zeiss. if OSS was to be implemented, it would apparently affect the quality of the lens/images.
MdB
10 months ago |Except for the fact that half of the E-Mount cameras released to date have been video cameras, where OSS is extremely useful at all focal lengths.
Don Cox
10 months ago |I think these lenses are aimed at still photographers.
Sky_walker
10 months ago |Yep, they are. Zeiss already sells video lenses with E-mount (or PL or F or one of few other for that matter), so I don’t see a point (from Zeiss perspective) in duplicating the line-up when excellent lenses are out there for those willing to pay.
MdB
10 months ago |Nope. At least Sony seem to be making all their lenses for E-Mount OSS, unlike the first couple.
MdB
10 months ago |So there will be:
10-18mm f4
12mm f2.8
16mm f2.8
16-50mm f3.5-5.6
18-55mm f3.5-5.6
19mm f2.8
24mm f1.8
30mm Macro f3.5
30mm f2.8
32mm f1.8
35mm f1.8
50mm f1.8
50mm Macro f2.8
all in the in the ‘under 55mm’ range. And lenses over 55mm:
4 versions of the 18-200mm
55-210mm
… erm that’s it!
Seems to be erring to the short end of the field it must be said! Not really complaining, at least there are a pretty decent range of options soon…
waldomarek
10 months ago |that’s a bunch of lenses, indeed, we’re lacking on the telelenses, but we shouldn’t complain of course.
i kinda get the feeling we’ll be getting new telelenses “soon”. i really want to get a telelens (thinking of the 55-210) but afraid a new and better one will arrive “soon”…
MdB
10 months ago |There is certainly nothing on the roadmap from memory as a replacement to the 55-210mm, which is supposed to be a decentish lens, except for slow AF (probably improved with on sensor PDAF if supported) and slow aperture.
I am definitely not complaining, in fact I only just noticed it to be honest.
There is a short tele prime coming (which basically means 85mm) on the roadmap, which will help a lot. Still guessing it will be an 85mm f2.8 like the easy choice (most other primes have been similar to easy choice models) but likely with OSS. It is possible that it will be a bit faster, maybe even a lot faster, in that it won’t be competing with the 85mm ZA in the range. Still my bet is on a reasonably priced 85mm f2.8 OSS, close to 50mm and 35mm in term of price.
Carl
10 months ago |The problem is that it’s hard to make teles small, no matter the flange distance (well, unless they make them catadioptric).
butch
10 months ago |that woudl be intereting to have but with a fixed Fstop and boken thats ringy wouldnt that kill them
jsut thinking about how cute a 200f4 and 300f5.6 woudl look along with the old 500F8
Sky_walker
10 months ago |Doesn’t Tokina sell E-mount catadioptric lens?
Carl
10 months ago |This one
http://www.kenkoglobal.com/Mirror_Lens-400mm-F8.html
Something autofocus like the Minolta V 400mm would be more interesting, though.
documensony
10 months ago |Didn’t Minolta have a VERY compact 250mm mirror lens some 20 years ago?
Carl
10 months ago |Yeah, the Rokkor 250/5.6 is about the same diameter as a 50mm lens, just a bit longer. They go for silly money on ebay these days.
butch
10 months ago |that’s neat but i think that they would need to offer the lens in F5.6 even if it meant having them a bit bigger or a bit less range (300mmf5.6 might e the ideal spot )
Ashwaniman
10 months ago |E-mount is still in need of a decent quality zoom and telezoom lens, with fast AF and an aperture of f2.8 to f4.
Albhui
10 months ago |First Fuji uses the Sony EVF, now Zeiss is producing autofocus lens for Fuji……
Guess there must be some agreement between Fuji and Sony and that Sony don’t see Fuji as a direct competitor and allow Zeiss to produce autofocus lens for Fuji…….
Guess Sony is keeping good business relationship across the industry with the exception of Canon.
documensony
10 months ago |In cameras, Sony only have TWO direct competitors: Canon and Nikon (and Canon being the REAL competitor). Everyone else ca be seen as potential allieds in the continued push to throw Canon off the throne.
Albhui
10 months ago |Nikon is also an a business partner of Sony as Sony provide Sensors to Nikon while Nikon provide other tech to Sony such as Nano Coating, AF module etc
Seems Olympus is also exchanging tech with Sony after Sony’s share investment.
The new EPL5′s flip screen looks just like NEX-F3, and it uses a Sony sensor….Let’s hope Sony will get EM-5′s IBIS in the near future.
I think Sony only have 3 enemies in the Camera market: Canon, Panasonic and Samsung, which are all Sensor manufacturers.
pancanikonpus
10 months ago |Is not FF lenses, we will not see Nex FF in 2013.
Vladimir
10 months ago |FUJI will see FF.
documensony
10 months ago |Zeiss is likely to have a few FF lenses in their bag too if needed
HajLender
10 months ago |Anybody remember the roadmap of lenses by Sony from Feb 2012?
http://2.static.img-dpreview.com/files/news/1477505005/Roadmap.jpg?v=1584
I am still missing one quite important lens from Sony for portrait photo.
There were supposed to be introduced the following lenses in 2012:
1. large aperture standard fixed lens = 30/1,8?
2. wide angle zoom = 10-18/4?
3. standard zoom = 16-50?
4. high magnification zoom = ????
Later we can expect:
1. high performance standard zoom
2. mid-magnification zoom
3. middle telephoto
4. pancake
In addition the road map is not talking about new lenses from Zeiss
MdB
10 months ago |High magnification zoom is the ‘updated’ 18-200mm. The high quality standard is the G zoom, probably big but with constant aperture. Mid magnification zoom is something like 18-135mm or 16-105mm. Mid tele will be an 85mm or thereabouts. No idea on the pancake, 40mm maybe?
They have stuck to the new roadmap pretty well to date.
documensony
10 months ago |My guesses are:
1. large aperture standard fixed lens = 30/1,8?
2. wide angle zoom = 10-18/4?
3. standard zoom = 16-50?
4. high magnification zoom = 100-300/4-6.3
Later we can expect:
1. high performance standard zoom = 18-42/2.8G
2. mid-magnification zoom = 35-100
3. middle telephoto = 85/1.8
4. pancake = 21/3.5
spaceman
10 months ago |Your first four guesses are lenses that have already been announced, so no need to guess
peterv
10 months ago |Thanks, this great news! The 24 mm NEX practically lives on one of my two NEX 7′s. The IQ is outstanding, and I’m looking forward to these new lenses for E-mount.
One question a lot of customers will ask themselves though: Will these lenses be a good future investment now that it’s clear Sony might bring out a FF NEX sooner or later?
spaceman
10 months ago |HajLander – I think the Mid-telephoto could be the portrait lens you are missing. It will probably be 70, 85 or 90/f2.4ish
Joe
10 months ago |hey andrea do you know the likelihood of the new Leica M using a Sony full frame sensor?
Denis
10 months ago |They doesn’t use Sony sensor.
Arnold
10 months ago |The sensor of the Leica M is made by a Belgium company, CMOSIS.
Denis
10 months ago |Premium lenses for APS-C, not FF? Thanks, but no thanks. Especially considered first CZ 24/1.8, which doesn’t worth its price: good lens, but not 1000 euro good.
Arnold
10 months ago |luminouslandscape tested the Zeiss 24 and it’s nearly as good as the Leica Summilux !
Denis
10 months ago |It’s worse than Distagon 24/2. With all the benefits of short flange distance. Overpriced.
spaceman
10 months ago |The Zeiss line up looks promising. I would have hoped that the Zeiss 32/1.8 would be more like 28mm or faster to distinguish itself more from the Sony lens, and if only the 50mm/2.8 would be 60mm+, again to distinguish it from Sony.
By the way, on Zeiss’ site I read this:
Will they be manual focus lenses like most other SLR lenses made by Carl Zeiss?
The new family of lenses will consist of autofocus lenses with support for all camera functions. The E-mount lenses for NEX cameras can also be focused manually. In addition to that, the lenses for the X-bayonet will come with a manual aperture setting.
Does this mean the Fuji X will have manual aperture control only?
Zachery
10 months ago |No, they are just pointing out that they are fully supporting the X system’s design which requires the control ring on the lens for aperture. A company not adding that ring would be half-assing things, something you could expect form Sigma who sells APS-C lenses to MFT suckers.
Zeiss is making the point that they are fully supporting the systems they are currently targeting.
Steve
10 months ago |And the old tired A-mount is lucky to see a new Zeiss every three years.
Last was the 24/f2 in 2010 and the next is a 50/f1.4 in 2013.
Great news for NEX
Joel Richards
10 months ago |Also disappointed these are all APS-C lenses. They look nice and round out the NEX lens stable but don’t support the possibility of a full-frame NEX any time soon. Plus, it means a goodly portion of the NEX lenses available are very premium, very expensive lenses.
eths
10 months ago |This is excellent news!
Poki
10 months ago |Yeah, now I don’t have to buy the Sony 10-18mm lens to get a good wide angle! I just love primes so much more, and now I have an option!
So the only thing I’m missing now is a longer portrait and macro lens (85mm portrait, 100mm macro), but yeah, I think 12mm CZ, 24mm CZ and 50mm (the cheaper Sony one) will make a quite good set.
MdB
10 months ago |I don’t think a FF NEX is around the corner. I thought maybe, if the Zeiss E-Mounts were FF then it might be true, Sony leaving things up to their premium partner to make high quality optics for their FF NEX. Also, nobody seems to be mentioning it amongst all tr excitement of a future FF NEX, but the lens mount/sensor housing on the VG900 is absolutely ENORMOUS!!! A FF NEX is starting to make little sense… Lastly, the fact that A-Mount lenses can’t use the NEX PDAF means even A-Mount isn’t a proper option, LA-EA2 won’t support FF. For video, yes it’s happening, in a stills body, not for a LONG while yet.
Sam
10 months ago |32mm f1.8 Zeiss VS 24mm f1.8 Zeiss. What can be the main differences in those 8mm’s?
Linh
10 months ago |8x 1.5 = 12mm.
Name Required
10 months ago |But in real terms it is still just 8mm. Seems a bit pointless to me. They shouldnt of been thinking about creating zoom, but just went ahead and create it instead of making a lens so close in focal length. 18-100 is my vote.
Zachery
10 months ago |Counting millimeters means you don’t understand how focal lengths work. It’s a 63º vs. 47º40′ angle of view difference. That would be a dramatic loss in resolution if you were to simply crop from the wider angle. Far too much to accept on a regular basis especially for these low resolution 16 and 24 megapixel cameras.
The difference between 32mm and 24mm on APS is huge. The first is practically “normal” and the latter is about 35mm equivalent. That’s a massively different angle of view and completely different sense of image.
As for creating zooms, zooms are larger, more expensive to make, and 99% of the time are worse quality than the primes they intend to replace and offer smaller apertures. The only genuine example I have encountered is the Nikon 14-24mm which is far higher quality than any prime at 14mm, or really, any other wide angle at 14-21mm with perhaps the edge case of the Zeiss 2.8/15 wide open, but only wide open.
Just because you don’t personally want the lens hardly seems a rational reason not to make it, many others will love to have a fast Zeiss normal with AF on their NEX camera. I know that if I was still shooting NEX, I’d be looking forward to these. My whole kit would be nothing be Zeiss.
Simon_P
10 months ago |To my surprise, why Zeiss can make af lens on Fujifilm X-mount? Isn’t Sony and Zeiss has signed exclusive deal?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-10220446-39.html
Kingrenas
10 months ago |What a beauty!
horst
10 months ago |I kinda get the 32mm lens; but for the intended audience, the 12mm and 50mm seem to be off.
12mm is for web amateurs only, and 50mm for the fellas who didn’t quite get the crop factor thing .
Justin Beevor
10 months ago |NEX-6 plus Leica 50mm macro in a Nauticam housing. Yes please!!
Alien
10 months ago |Zeiss 50mm Macro, NEX7, Nauticam housing lets go diving for small critters, yeh!
Alain
10 months ago |I’m very happy with this news ! But i would have prefered 32 mm a little bit faster than 1.8, because it is claused to the 35mm 1.8 Sony lens which got OSS !!
And I would had prefered a 60 mm macro lens … and I’m little scared the 50 mm lens will not have OSS : impossible to use for video and with 2.8 will not be really good in low light situation…
Twaddler Belafonte
10 months ago |STUFF JUST GOT REAL
labaars
10 months ago |I would hope that they will add a distance scale on the 12mm lens. I lost interest in the Nex Zeiss 24mm lens after I found out it had no such scale. Without it, how can you use hyper-focal focusing? This seems to be essential in landscape photography, for me at least.
Denis
10 months ago |It is actually very bad sign. The main benefit of mirrorless is a possibility to design optics without mirror in mind, that remove some limitations, which is always a great thing. On the other hand, the sensor stack in fuji (sensor itself, set of filters) needs higher angle of incidence compared eg to nex-5n and this expressed in huge fuji 14/2.8 (compare this to super elmar 21/3.5 or biogon 21/2.8, which are nearly flawless — if these would be AF, they were just a little wider).
tom
9 months ago |Please more native E mount . Thanks Zeiss 12mm f2.8 . Give us nice zoom 18-70 f2.8-3.5 please . ALL in Emount with oss and autofocus . Thanks
andy
9 months ago |I wish to have 12mm f2.8 ,zeiss . 12mm is very wide and do not need oss .
And why we have to wait so long for nice zoom(f2.8) for e-mount ? Sony wake up