Anyone willing to use M42 lenses on a digital body will consider used
lenses. Oddities are that market.
Adam Maas wrote:
It will have to be one hell of a lens, but the lens it's design
evolved from (the CZ T* 50mm f1.4 Planar in C/Y mount) is considered
to be one hell of a lens.
And it's not competing against the 40 year old lenses for most of the
market. Most of the market won't even consider buying ancient stuff
like that, folks like us are oddities to the market.
The competition is the newer C/Y stuff (Usable on EOS via adaptor) and
the AF lenses that are similar.
The attraction to the new ZS and ZF stuff is a combination of
reputation, brand awareness and weaknesses in other makers systems
(Canon doens't have a reasonably priced pro-level 85mm, Canon's wides
are lacking in wide-open and edge performance, Nikon's 50/1.4 is
underwhelming).
-Adam
P. J. Alling wrote:
It's competing with 42 year old M42 lenses, some of which were
superb. So yes you can. It will have to be one hell of a lens.
Adam Maas wrote:
Pricing is based off new Nikon AI-S prices. Which are pretty
comparable (That seems to be priced off the 50/1.2 AI-S, which is
the same price new).
You can't really compare the prices of 40 year old lenses with brand
new lenses, unless you're talking Leica.
-Adam
Juan Buhler wrote:
This from the Leica list. $500 seems excessive for a 50/1.4, given the
price of the SMC Takumars...
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stephen Gandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Jan 17, 2006 9:37 PM
Subject: [Leica] New Zeiss SLR List Prices
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The new Zeiss 50/1.4 in Nikon or M42 mount is estimated to ship in
February,
with a list price of slightly less than $500 in Japan.
The new Zeiss 85/1.4 in Nikon or M42 mount is estimated to ship in
March,
with a list price of slightly less than $1000 in Japan.
Selling prices will be slightly below the figures above.
Stephen Gandy
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