(SR5) Zeiss Cp lenses for E-mount coming.
After today’s Sony announcement there are many rumors floating around the web about the upcoming lenses. A very reliable rumor says that Zeiss will make the CP lenses available for Sony E-mount too! The Zeiss CP lenses are compact primes with manual focusing. They are very expensive and meant for the use on the future professional NEX videocameras. The price is crazy high: you can get them for $3900 at Bhphoto or on Amazon, B&H, Adorama, J&R, eBay! Not exactly a lens you will buy for your Sony NEX-3/5!
Via Zeissrumors
pancanikonpus
3 years ago |Wow! it was so cheap. long life Cow Zeiss
Alfonso
3 years ago |Oh, that’s sad =P I got excited when I read the title, I thought I would get a nice lens for my NEX-3 lol
santela
3 years ago |Why the hell would anyone buy these lenses in E-mount?
It’s manual focus anyway, so why not buy them in a more practical mount then use an adapter?
EE
3 years ago |Putting the astronomical price aside for a moment: what makes these lenses desirable over ‘regular’ NEX lenses?
Ultra low F-Stops (ex .98, 1.0) or…what, exactly? Someone please explain it to me…
RB
3 years ago |They are optimized for cine. There you have totally different specs than in still shooting: You don’t want to see in the movie when a lens is changed. I.e. they have to have absolute identical imaging properties (aperture behaviour, color tone, etc). Moreover, they might be remote controlled by an external servo motor, i.e. they have to have the same housing. You don’t want to hear them in the movie, i.e. aperture and focus must operate absolut silently. And last but not least, the sales figures might also contribute to the price tag as well.
EE
3 years ago |Thank you for clarifying!
Sky_walker
3 years ago |there’s one more thing – they are all parfocal lenses, unlike regular DSLRs, so they don’t change their focal length while refocusing from close to distant subjects. It makes transitions much more appealing, and bokeh looks nicer during the process.
JakopN
3 years ago |If your a film maker it makes sense to buy the lenses or rent them. I think it has to do with the markings of the lens to pull focus. But I rather use my primes that I already have for my alpha. I don’t know much about PL MOUNTS. I think this might help http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?125995-What-is-a-PL-mount-lens
Peter
3 years ago |This is why you by Zeiss CP-lenses….you can change the mount on the lens it self at the moment there is mounts for PL,EF,F and the soon for m4/3 and hopefully for to E-mount.
http://www.zeiss.com/cine
Peter
3 years ago |Ment buy…here is a direct link to the CP-lenses:
http://www.zeiss.com/c125756900453232/Contents-Frame/042839dea0e28e5fc125756f003e6703
EE
3 years ago |So it has a quick mount change? Big deal. There are lends converter mounts for all types of lenses….
I am clearly missing something.
Ezio
3 years ago |at least all those mount pieces come in the kit with the lens (and the price tag), you don’t have to hunt down any third party metal piece or ruin your precious zeiss lens cus of faulty 3rd party converters. Even if you take the standard photographic argument that Lens is worth more than body, the same is happening for CP.2s.. Zeiss honestly dosn’t care what camera system you use to record (hence why they are coming out with that many mount fittings), as long as you use their lenses
zstan
3 years ago |lol. 10k? right. so sony NEX wants to compete with Leica now for the luxurious market?
RB
3 years ago |No, but in the cine market. There you have totally different specs than in still photography (cf. above).
Nice Name
3 years ago |Who needs this useless very expensive Zeiss lenses that belong to 19 century?
Sony it is 21 century. Please provide autofocus lenses or if you do not know how to make lenses, plese contract Nikon to do that for you.
Sony could sell much more NEX cameras if they had portrait lens and standard pancake. What’s wrong with you sony? Olympus could make standard pancake, panasonic did the same, Samsung did the same, and you do not know how to do that? you want to sell to customers nearly useless, highly overpriced, 19 CENTURY lenses from ZEISS? Why? Can you explain? Give people a choice. Please provide autofocus lenses and you’ll see what people choose. Shame on you
RB
3 years ago |In cine, you don’t want to have autofocus: Shifting the focus through the image (e.g. changing it from one person to the other) is an important creative element. Same for aperture setting.
Nice Name
3 years ago |Actually, I want to have autofocus in “cine”. And hundreds of thousand of other people do. Tell me how are you going to manual focus these $5000 lenses on NEX-5 ??? And what about older people who eyesight is not kin anymore ????
NEX-3 and NEX-5 are amateur cameras. Why should I put $5000 lens on amateur camera? Do you think that putting these heavy and expensive lenses on amateur camera convert it to professional camera?
Sony has showed negligence and ignorance of the needs of customers. I put today my NEX-5 on sale. And if I manage to sell it, I’m going for Nikon mirrorless. I expect that Nikon will provide basic lenses right from day one. I also expect that Nikon will have some decent flash, that pulls power from flash batter not camera battery. I also expect that Nikon flash for new mirrorless would be compatible with existing flashes so I can buy for very good price few SB800 and enjoy multi flash capabilities without need to go from flash to flash to change setup.
Sony, I have message for you. If you do not act fast, there will be more people like me. Just see when Nikon release their mirrorless.
RB
3 years ago |We are talking CINEMA, Big Screen, not amateur video in NEX-3/5/7/9.
Nice Name
3 years ago |RB, your comments have (to some degree) merit. However if someone needs very shallow dept of field for video, should rather go for Canon 5D mark 2. Because of FF sensor, the dept of field will be really as shallow or better than with $5000 zeiss lens.
E mount camcorder (or NEX cameras) are NOT professional tool so providing customers super expensive pro lenses, and NOT providing consumer grade f2.8 or f2.0 lenses can only be interpreted as very poor product release practices by Sony management
doug
3 years ago |Complete overkill. The NEX cameras are nowhere near capable of doing justice to Zeiss CP lenses.
Ezio
3 years ago |its not meant for NEX3/5/7/9/xx (though i would love to see some Rigs made for this),…. its for the NEX VG-10 and all future Video Camcorders made with E mount.
Doug
3 years ago |They’re serious overkill for the NEX VG-10 as well. Putting a pro lens on that camcorder will not turn it into a pro camcorder.
dyna
3 years ago |And when Nikon announces Carl Zeiss Cine lenses for their mirrorless system (which I guarantee will occur), are you going to scream and cry then, too? Christ, man, the NEX-5 hasn’t even been out for a full year yet and you expect the world. What is wrong with you people?!
It’s ZEISS that announced compatibility with Sony, giving people who shoot cine and have the budget their opening to work with some of the best glass in the world NOW. And when Sony updates the E-mount line down the road (which they’re obviously going to do for those of you who jump ship at the sight of an ice cube off the port bow), the lenses will be there for those who want them. You might say the VG10 isn’t a serious camcorder (it actually is, especially for those on a budget) but sooner or later there will be one (as already discussed ad nauseum here).
Seriously. With Tamron and Sigma on board NOW and Nikon not having announced anything for their first generation, your logic isn’t even flawed… it would have to be logic first.
And when Nikon goes mirrorless, having had to change their mount entirely to do so just like everyone else, you watch the issues that arise within their system as they adjust to out of the box thinking… something Nikon is most certainly NOT known for. Not in the slightest.
Your gun jumping would be hilarious if it weren’t so serious.
Nice Name
3 years ago |RB, your comments have (to some degree) merit. However if someone needs very shallow dept of field for video, should rather go for Canon 5D mark 2. Because of FF sensor, the dept of field will be really as shallow or better than with $5000 zeiss lens.
E mount camcorder (or NEX cameras) are NOT professional tool so providing customers super expensive pro lenses, and NOT providing consumer grade f2.8 or f2.0 lenses can only be interpreted as very poor product release practices by Sony management.
Nice Name
3 years ago |Worth reading:
http://www.slashgear.com/canon-5d-mark-ii-video-capture-is-comparable-to-500k-pro-video-equipment-2116819/
Peter
3 years ago |These lenses are for the cine market…and designed for stills…at the moment there is NEX-VG10 with E-mount but Sony is already working on a more professional video-camera with E-mount:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGzahFZizkE
Sergio Vargas
3 years ago |You guys are completely missing the intended market for these. RB made a very good explaination on what seperates these from still lenses. These aren’t for the luxurious market or for normal folks like you and me, they are for cinema.
Sony has the e-mount nxcam, or called something similar, coming up to compete with the panny af100/105 which are both aimed at the indy filmmaker. That will make use of these lenses. For filmmakers, cameras and lenses are actually a very small portion of the budget.
In a way, this is positive news for those wanting to get into making short films knowing that Sony has plans for professional quality equipment aimed at the budget flimmaker.
EE
3 years ago |Sony’s new INDY cams use NEX mount….OK—now it makes total sense.
Milos Janata
3 years ago |Can i see some video comparing this and and for example this? -> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/614836-REG/Bower_SLY85C_85mm_f_1_4_Manual_Focus.html
Greg
3 years ago |No interested in these video lenses whatsoever. Its great to see Zeiss expanding their support for Sony, but I would REALLY like to see Zeiss manual photo lenses for A-mount. I know you can adapt them to a-mount using the Leitax adapters, but I would much rather buy them for a-mount from Zeiss. If Sony users had the option of both the Sony-Zeiss AF lenses and the standard Zeiss MF lenses, this would make the Sony system even more interesting for high end photographers.
pancanikonpus
3 years ago |Apparently this Cow Zeiss CP lens is not for common camera. It is for matching with BIG Cinema camcorder.
I am user that not belong to this