Interesting Rumour

[Adam Maas]

There's an interesting rumour thread over at APUG, it seems that Carl 
Zeiss may be expanding their new line of 35mm lenses to include a ZK 
line, with an announcement supposedly at PMA.

This would be interesting, as it would mean that there would be a 
readily available 85/1.4 in K mount again, along with the excellent 
25/2.8 Distagon (I don't see much interest in the other ZF lenses here 
in Pentax-land, the macros and 35/2 are too expensive and the 50 
Planar's no better than the FA)

No word on what mount, but I'd expect KA, Zeiss is avoiding electronics, 
but contact coding and a locking aperture ring are easy, and the 
aperture design is already linear on ZF.

The downside? The Planar 85/1.4 simply doesn't match the A* in performance.

The Upside: you can actually get one.

-Adam