Originally Posted by Duplo
Hi Sune,
I will most likely not be buying it, 18mm is somehow not very useful to me.
if I need to go wider than 28mm on 35mm digital I have another option available that seems to be pretty much the most impressive UWA made to date.
and on pentax I prefer the DA21 in terms of FOV and the results from it are very, very nice too.
That i Dislike the 25/2.8 is a little rough. I just prefer the renderings of the 28/2 over it, plus it fell a little to wide or too narrow to fit my way of shooting.
Yep, that is the one lens from zeiss I am keeping my fingers crossed to see someday.
I feel much the same way about 18mm. That and the fact that on paper, there doesn't really appear to be anything unique about this new 18mm's properties. For the price, it would be interesting to see in use where in the design the money went though.
I only had a few minutes with the 28/2 to sample it and it was very sharp in close and more balanced out to infinity than the 25 seemed (able to be sharper at distant infinity from wider apertures, where the 25 benefits from stopping down more noticeably). The extreme minimum focus distance of the 25 makes it more interesting to me personally though, its in a league all its own with its 'on-paper' stats. Its a bit more near-sighted if you will - a product shooter for example vs a more traditional wide-angle approach with the 28.
Zeiss Distagon T*25/2,8 - updated Aug 08 - a set on Flickr