Details at http://blogs.zeiss.com/photo/en/?p=4313
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https://www.ephotozine.com/article/zeiss-otus-55mm-f-1-4-apo-distagon-t--review-28738
some porn... what a thick motherzeissing glass!
Where does he get all those wonderful toys? @kholi :)
You just leave religion out of this, mister! We're talking science up in here!
@kholi For the love of god!!
As soon as I get back to LA I'll test with both new SBs. Just got it setup!
Otus+speedbooster= Sin. , but a tasty one
Going to be playing with this lens for a few weeks. Really excited, so far it feels very modern in construction. Kind of like handling the Sigma 18-35, but far more rigid.
Sharp as heck wide open. May also be able ot test it with the new Speedboosters specifically for BMD cameras.
The color rendition from this lens is completely accurate–and we actually feel like it’s the most true to life that we’ve seen sans the bit of saturation that it seems to add. Zeiss’s 55mm f1.4 Otus does a great job with greens and blues, but also tends to lack a bit on the warmer side.
http://www.thephoblographer.com/2013/12/30/review-zeiss-55mm-f1-4-otus-nikon-f/
Performance is very impressive even wide open just right into the FF-corner. So also at distant targets the lens does not show field-curvature. But it has some hefty vignetting at f1.4.
On FF, Nikkor 50mm f1.4G was one of my favourite lenses, wipe open delivered a substantial creamy bokeh, a pronounced vignetting (that I loved) and stopped down f2 was razor sharp (and vignetting much less) ... we'll see about the rest, but in the sharpness department this Otus from Zeiss is insane
With outstanding optical quality, the Carl Zeiss Otus 1,4/55 certainly represents a high water mark for a retrofocus fast standard for DSLRs. However, it might not be the high price that deters people, in practical terms the large size and lack of autofocus may be the more limiting aspects, but there’s no denying optical quality like this demands attention.
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