Zeiss Otus 28mm f1.4

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May, 2024

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Expert review by : Bryan Carnathan (the-digital-picture.com)

Zeiss 28mm f/1.4 Otus Lens Review

If you demand a very high level of quality in a wide angle manual focus lens, don't mind a large size and weight and have a sufficient budget, this might be your lens. The Zeiss 28mm f/1.4 Otus Lens is impeccably well built and should reliably deliver...

Mar, 2016

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Expert review by : Mark Goldstein (photographyblog.com)

Zeiss Otus 28mm f/1.4 APO Distagon T* Review

The Zeiss Otus 28mm f/1.4 APO Distagon T* is a superb wide-angle prime lens for landscape photographers looking for the ultimate in image quality. You’d expect sharpness to be high across both the frame and aperture range from such a premium optic, and...

Jan, 2016

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Expert review by : Thomas (cameralabs.com)

Zeiss Otus 28mm f1.4 review

The Zeiss Otus 28mm f1.4 is a wide-angle lens and the third model in the much acclaimed Otus family. So expectations are very high, matching the incredibly high price tag of 4500 EUR which makes it the most expensive lens of this series so far.

Excellent image quality across the full-frame area ; It's the only 28mm f1.4 lens for full-frame bodies available

No autofocus ; Extremely high price ; Large and heavy ; No weather sealing at the lens mount

The Zeiss 28mm f1.4 Otus is a unique lens. It is the only current f1.4 28mm lens for full-frame bodies and it delivers beautiful-looking images and superb quality across the board, even with the aperture opened to f1.4. This performance coupled with...

Feb, 2016

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Expert review by : John Riley (ephotozine.com)

Zeiss Otus 28mm f/1.4 APO Distagon T* Review

John Riley reviews the wide-angle Zeiss Otus 28mm f/1.4 lens, designed to be the ultimate wide-angle lens.

High and very even sharpness ; Very low CA ; Lovely “look” to images ; Beautiful engineering ; Low distortion

High price ; Busy looking bokeh ; Large and heavy ; Manual focus only

Both Nikon and Canon now offer 24mm f/1.4 lenses, rather than 28mm, so it may mean that our tastes are moving wider. In 28mm optics, the Zeiss Otus is really on its own, so quite unique with its f/1.4 bright aperture. The quality is magnificent, but...

Dec, 2015

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