They must be in bed with sony in some way now...

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0601/06...ensesnikon.asp

Anyway...I am a Nikkor lens whore.....BUT I wouldn't hesitate to buy a Zeiss lens in a heartbeat. I use them all the time in the filmmaking world.

 

I still don't get the big thrill. I know Zeiss makes great glass, but there's a few things I'm not big about:
1) Nikon doesn't yet have a FF sensor so it's unlikely there will be a big benefit for the current APS cropped cameras. Film bodies of course would see a benefit.
2) Stop down metering. This one would be a major PITA for me.
3) No auto focus. Not such a big deal, but you'd definitely want a large viewfinder and a split-prisim focusing screen if you're going to be using this glass.
4) Price. Considering a Nikkor 85/1.4 goes for $750 and the Zeiss 85/2 is $2750, they had better be really good.

Cool concept, but I wonder how practical it really is.

 

Cost is no different then buying Leica glass.

I wouldnt buy one because i am set on good primes.

But I love the idea of being able to take your body and use whatever quality glass you want.

Nikon wont go FF. And im not bothered buy it...because I dont want to have to rebuy all my glass.....like some Canon owners would if they upgrade.

 

PS: I'm sure this glass will only be purchased by high end professionals.

 

that's all I need to read... Peter Jackson watch out!! SRIKA is coming in for the kill!!!

 

Why is that funny

The Zeiss Digiprimes are THE most amazing pieces of optics in the digital HD realm.

And Zeiss has always made amazing glass for motion picture cameras.

There are worse things to derive news lenses from

 

its funny because I kinda don't think I'm a threat to PJ... are you?

 

Well, I'm not a director and I don't pretend to be...:P

Now his DP..... maybe one day if I get lucky

 

so the director has nothing to do with the cinematography of a picture, yes?

 

Depends on the director....someone like James Cameron...yeah.

But a director tells the DP (director of photography) what he wants, and the DP does hsi best to acheive the look the director wants. more or less.

 

 

A movie looks the way it looks because of the DP...they create the "look" of the movie.

 

So the DP is sort of like a creative liaison between the director and the cinematographer?

 

let's take for instance the HUGE pans in PJ movies - for instance LOTR - panning across great expanses of scenery, sometimes rotating while panning, mixing near and far scenery to really create some dynamic visuals... who makes those calls?

 

The DP is the cinematographer.

cinematography is blanket term for lighting/camera

 

Sometimes the director. sometimes the DP. sometimes both.

Its a collaboration.

If I see something that I think fits the story I'll run it by the director and say hey, what do you think about this. He'll he either, yeah awesome or nah don't need it.

For a movie as HUGE as LOTR a lot of that stuff is pre-decided in pre-production, and storyboarded (sketched) out months before even shooting.