Touit Gallery

Touit 12mm wide open

There's a gallery of Touit pictures here.

Whoops, no picture there.

Here's the gallery of Zeiss Touit pictures [Whoops again—see updates below. —Ed.]. You can see 'em at many sizes. Just going by these samples, I'd be more interested in the 12mm, myself. Of course you can't go by just a few samples.

Taken on a Fuji X-Pro1.

Hey, the funky name worked. I downloaded this picture and then couldn't find where it went, so I did a Spotlight search on "Touit" and there it was. "Nikon 35mm f/2," by contrast, brought up about 400 files.

Mike

UPDATE: Apparently some readers are having problems accessing the image page (and some readers aren't). I'm afraid I don't know why, or what the fix is, but I wrote to my contact at Zeiss suggesting they look into it. Sorry for the inconvenience. 

UPDATE #2: I heard back; apparently "the factory" (Zeiss Germany) has made the decision to keep the samples images un-viewable until after the press event in mid-May. Seems...allow me to remain polite...counter-productive to me, but then, what do I know about the photo community on the Internet? I guess this post is now pointless, for which, apologies.

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Comments

[john crowley]

Hi Mike,

Salgado's book is already out in Europe. I had pre ordered Genesis in March and it arrived some weeks ago. A big project and a big book (even bigger depending on how much money you are prepared to spend) and production values are very good. However if you don't like double page spreads well you out of luck with this book. They are everywhere. I put some pictures up on my site http://www.crowleyphoto.com/blog_files/a5b2d1a6c65edce94ca6f89032e127d1-8.html so you can see for yourself. Genesis is excellent value, more than reasonably priced.

Thanks for great blog Mike.

John

[Ed]

Best set of sample pictures I've ever seen....

Greets, Ed.

[Robert Howell]

Geez. Nice Zeiss. Makes me want to be a photographer again.

[Matt Penning]

The page on Flickr is private. Too bad.

[I believe you just have to be signed in to flickr, which is easy to do. --Mike]

[Tom Kwas]

If they make the 12mm in M4/3rd's, I think I'll have to put the ranch up for sale...

[Jim Meeks]

For some reason the link says I don't have permission to see the page, that it's private. Any clue as to why?

[I believe you just need to sign in to flickr. Try that and please let me know if you have further problems. --Mike]

[Richard Tugwell]

Why do you have to sign up to Yahoo just to view some photos?

[Stephen Cowdery]

Signed in to Flickr, page still comes up as private...

[Tim Bray]

Um... I’m being told that Flickr page is private and I can’t see it.

[Tim Bray]

Nope, I’m signed into Flickr. It’s begging me to re-upgrade to Pro, which maybe I should do anyhow.

[ed g.]

Nope, I'm signed into Flickr, and the page is private. Maybe it's set to contact/friend access only, and you're a contact or friend of the owner?

[Will Whitaker]

That looks to be, more precisely, a round touit. I'm sure Zeiss will make the images accessible when they actually get a round touit.

With my apologies,

[Bruno Masset]

Martin Doonan wrote:
"As an aside: I wonder if all the parrot fanciers out there are going to start getting annoyed by their Googling being polluted by links to photography websites?"

I can see camera people annoyed by:

having psittacidae websites polluting their Google results, or

the questionable flair for English slang of Zeiss' product marketing department

resorting to nicknames like "Twitar" or "Twitagon" to refer to that lens, a bit like the Sigma 200-500/2.8 has been nicknamed the "Sigmosaur" ;-)

[Christer]

Herr Zeiss: that is bad PR.

[D.C. Wells]

I am a Flickr member, and when I clicked on the link this morning from my home iMac, it took me to a large collection (3 pages?) of photos. The photos were taken with the 12mm mounted on the Fuji and the 32mm on the NEX (or vice versa) according to a note on the page.
I just tried it from my office Dell, and I got the "no access" message. Perhaps someone at Zeiss had inadvertently posted the photos, and Zeiss just found out?

[Benjamin Marks]

Thought I would take a look, but it may be a while before I get around (wait for it) to it.

[ctein]

Dear Mike,

Something changed in the page status. I could view it shortly after you put up this pot; now when I try to go to it, I get the "this page is private" screen. Nothing's changed in my status (and, no, I'm not a flckr member).

pax / Ctein

[Ed]

Well you little hacker Mike......I guess these weren't meant for public viewing. Well in this case the early bird cought the wurm. BTW, the 60 mm Sigma is out (Fotobooms in The Netherland is selling it, or so it seems), for NEX and m4/3 for 169 Euro or 239 at BH foto....

http://www.fotobooms.nl/detail/0/172/176/1304/16309/sigma-60mm-f2.8-dn-zilver-%28mft%29.html

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/918905-REG/sigma_60mm_f_2_8_dn_lens.html

Other colors also available.....now I don't preorder anything after a test by Mike, so get cracking Mike.

Greets, Ed.