Least Expensive zF glass, anyone?

[Rick Darge]

I've been thinking of picking up the zf 100 & zf 50 1.4..

Zacuto.com seems like the best deal since they throw a gear ring in for the 50.

Anyone know of a better place?

[Güray Gürsoy]

not the lenses you are after but you may also look at red rock micro.
they have a set called;
microFollowFocus Bundle: Zeiss Lens Edition

-Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/ 85mm telephoto lens
-Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/ 50mm standard lens
-Zeiss Distagon T* 2/35mm moderate wide angle lens

3 lenses and their rings, a follow focus unit and a pelican case for all...
with a good price...but with a little lead time...

[Shane Kelly]

Richard,
I'm not sure that zacuto actually throw in the lens gears, if they did, that's a good deal. I know it's in the photo but it doesn't say anything else about the gear. Prices are still pretty comparable.

Shane
still waiting on delrin gears for the zeiss set

PS once I get my 100mm this week, I'll post a tutorial on how to remove the iris click stops on a zeiss zf if anyone is interested.

[Rick Darge]

Lowdown, I would be very interested in de-clicking. Is it as easy as they say?

I sent my 17-35 and 80-200 to a lens tech to do that, since they were more complicated lenses.

thanks

[Shane Kelly]

Richard,
what I was saying is that it's easy ( for me ) on the zeiss zf's. I removed the back of my nikon lens but stopped when I saw some springs. I can show you how to do the zf's, but the nikons not so much.

[Rick Darge]

No problem man, I was actually just asking about the Zeiss click removal. My 1.4/50 is coming in soon and I'd like to make that happen.