[davidmanze]

In the Zeiss land, even cheap excuses are not cheap.

 

  Yeah....cheap excuses are BS.......expensive ones are fraud!   B)

 

   $2,000   Hmmm......  APO but only F2.8 surely at that price it should be an F2!

 

   Sigma 150mm F2.8  APO  shallower  DOF....... shallower DOP ........(depth of pocket) and it's a macro!

 

    No this Zeiss is the new way of re-hiking the price of lenses, and F2.8 is too small an aperture for a top flight portrait lens.

 

         Then there is the newly announced Sigma 135mm F1.8 coming soon.