Zeiss ZF Lenses Review — 18/3.5 DISTAGON

The question: will the new Zeiss ZF 18mm f/3.5 Distagon be a free upgrade for existing Zeiss ZF Lenses readers. The short answer is “no”: the not-inexpensive 18mm must be purchased to assess it exhaustively, and assessing it and updating the review to my quality standards will take at least 50 hours. There will be a very reasonable upgrade price, somewhere in the $10 range, and the overall price might increase slightly. There will also be additions to the review for some of the existing ZF lenses. Expected final release date is late September 2008, depending on when the 18mm is actually available.

In the meantime, the review will soon be updated to include some comments from the Zeiss factory on expected optical behavior which will definitely be of interest to prospective purchasers. Get Zeiss ZF lenses at at B&H Photo