Sunday, April 28, 2002, 8:28:03 AM, wayne wrote: wwaprhm> i haVE a zeiss 28mm f2.8 lens for pentax and the image quality is awesome is wwaprhm> thjere other zeiss lenses available for pentax
None. And none at all. Sorry to disappoint you (but you shouldn't be since the *image quality* is awesome, which is after all all that's needed, unless you mean image as in "image conscious", "person's image" :-) ), but your lens is probably a Sigma(*1)... Although it's said that Zeiss (west) cooperated with Pentax on the design of K mnt and other things as well, they never produced a lens in K mnt. Unless it's a post conversion by a machinist, though. What exactly does the front ring say? *1: Carl Zeiss Jena, the part of Zeiss which was "left" in the Eastern Germany after the WWII, producer of some excellent lenses too, in the 80s or so licensed the name CZJ to several makers of lenses, just like Carl Zeiss (the ex-western one) does now to Sony (and the Sony lenses aren't made by Zeiss anyway...). So Sigma, and also some importers in UK who held the name license, could stick a CZJ label on many lenses from whatever they chose... Just like now, when you can find a "Carl Zeiss" lens on sony digicam, Leitz lens on Leica & Panasonic digicam, Canon lens on Canon G1&2, ..., but the lens IS THE SAME ONE... go figure :) Good light, Frantisek Vlcek - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
