Zeiss Milvus 85mm f/1.4

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Nov, 2024

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Expert review by : Mark Goldstein (photographyblog.com)

Zeiss Milvus 85mm f/1.4 Review

Sporting a brand new optical design, the Zeiss Milvus 85mm f/1.4 is a superb prime lens for portrait photographers who have the time to focus manually. You’d expect sharpness to be high across both the frame and aperture range from such a premium...

Oct, 2015

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Expert review by : John Riley (ephotozine.com)

Zeiss Milvus 85mm f/1.4 Review

John Riley reviews the Zeiss Milvus 85mm f/1.4 lens, the perfect portrait lens? Find out in our review.

Razor sharp throughout ; Virtually zero CA ; Low distortion ; Very easy manual focusing ; Weather sealing

High cost ; No AF ; Weight

The Milvus 85mm f/1.4 is without doubt a superb lens. It is fairly bulky, quite heavy, but well balanced. It is a gorgeous example of fine engineering. But above all the fast 85mm is a very exciting lens to use, offering a very pleasant perspective on...

Apr, 2016

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Expert review by : Szymon Starczewski (lenstip.com)

Carl Zeiss Milvus 85 mm f/1.4

The following chart allows you to follow the history of 1.4/85 Zeiss instruments. It all started with a 6-element Planar with Contax and Yashica mounts which evolved into the contemporary model sold in Canon (ZE) Nikon (ZF) and Pentax (ZK) versions.

very solid and stylish casing ; sensational image quality in the frame centre ; excellent image quality on the edge of the APS-C/DX sensor ; splendid image quality on the edge of full frame ; perfect correction of chromatic aberration ; good correction...

huge vignetting on full frame

Dec, 2015

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Expert review by : Joshua Waller (ephotozine.com)