This image of the Zeiss Batis 135mm lens was seen on a Newspaper today

Ladies and Gentlemen this is the first leaked picture of the new Zeiss Batis 135mm f/2.8 lens! Expect it to be officially announced this week on April 5 at around 11am Berlin time. Readers should really follow our RSS feed, follow us on Facebook and Twitter if they don’t want to miss this announcement and the Sony announcement on April 23!

Lens specs:

• 135mm f/2.8
• Minimum focus distance: 0.87 m (working distance: 0.74 m)
• Maximum shooting magnification: 1: 5.3
• In lens stabilization
  
• Filter diameter: 67 mm
• Maximum diameter: 98 mm
• Focus ring diameter: 81 mm
• Weight: 614 g
• The price is about the same as the Batis 18mm lens ([shopcountry 56821])

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Thanks Mirko ;)

Drew Geraci spotted that Sony A9 image on the A9 FB group! The camera is available for preorder for $6,799. Again…what a crazy day we have today :)

Sony Photographer Hidema Nakajima shared this image of the Sony 16-35mm f/2.8 GM FE lens with the following text:

I am introduce SONY new wide zoom lenses that I have assisted in developing. I had a NDA with SONY till March 31th. So, today April 1st I can say SONY FE 16-35mm F2.8 GM coming soon!

As you know today is April’s fools day :)
But that 16-35mm GM lens image looks so much real that it’s by far one of the best fakes I have ever seen on the web!

UPDATE: Hidema just commented on this post and shared this video where he xplains how he created that image: