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Archive 2017 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon

  
 
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p.24 #1 · p.24 #1 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


Hello,

Any comparison with the Nikon AFS 58/1.4 (with film or digital body such as D4 or D800/E)?

Thanks.



Dec 27, 2013 at 08:00 PM
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Thomas73 wrote:
Hello,

Any comparison with the Nikon AFS 58/1.4 (with film or digital body such as D4 or D800/E)?

Thanks.


Lens rental comparison

http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2013/11/otus-is-scharf



Dec 28, 2013 at 09:29 PM
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p.24 #3 · p.24 #3 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


Thomas73 wrote:
Hello,

Any comparison with the Nikon AFS 58/1.4 (with film or digital body such as D4 or D800/E)?

Thanks.



http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/lens-widget-fullscreen?compare=true&lensId=zeiss_otus_55_1p4&cameraId=nikon_d800&version=0&fl=55&av=1.4&view=mtf-ca&lensId2=nikon_58_1p4g&cameraId2=nikon_d800&version2=0&fl2=58&av2=1.4



Dec 30, 2013 at 11:33 AM
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p.24 #4 · p.24 #4 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


Light_pilgrim wrote:
Leica is what I would do if I want MF. MF body and a MF lens. Canon does everything possible to make people stop using Zeiss lenses - they even no longer allow to replace a focusing screen.


I just replace my focus screen on 5d3 with super matt type, I can also choose other manual focus screen to be replace with. Its just a 10 minutes job.




Jan 03, 2014 at 10:33 AM
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p.24 #5 · p.24 #5 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


Thomas73 wrote:
Hello,

Any comparison with the Nikon AFS 58/1.4 (with film or digital body such as D4 or D800/E)?

Thanks.


http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Zeiss_Otus_1-4_55/sharpness.shtml
vs.
http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Nikon_Nikkor_AF-S_58mm_f1-4G/sharpness.shtml



Jan 04, 2014 at 02:40 AM
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p.24 #6 · p.24 #6 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


Anyone have any insight as to the availabilty of the Otus 55/1.4 in the ZE mount? My local camera store indicated to me today that stock is really scarce and no one at Zeiss Canada can give him any prediction of availability except sometime in 2014.


Jan 05, 2014 at 06:36 PM
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p.24 #7 · p.24 #7 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


My Otus ZE should be delivered tomorrow. Assuming OOPs has mended its ways and is no longer predominantly a storage facility


Jan 16, 2014 at 03:47 PM
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p.24 #8 · p.24 #8 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


I love sharpness so,so ignored sigma art 50,just ordered otus for my D800e


May 14, 2014 at 03:34 PM
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p.24 #9 · p.24 #9 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


mogud wrote:
Anyone have any insight as to the availabilty of the Otus 55/1.4 in the ZE mount? My local camera store indicated to me today that stock is really scarce and no one at Zeiss Canada can give him any prediction of availability except sometime in 2014.


Aden Camera in Toronto had some stock I belive in ZE mount, I picked up my copy from them in April.



May 14, 2014 at 06:23 PM
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p.24 #10 · p.24 #10 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


potinam wrote:
Do you have any comparission with new sigma 50mm 1.4 ART?

at 1.4 sigma has vigneting,color fringing and chrom.aberration,-otus free from this even at 1.4



May 15, 2014 at 12:08 AM
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p.24 #11 · p.24 #11 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


Depending on which shots we examine, the Otus sometimes has very high levels of vignetting wide open.


May 15, 2014 at 01:50 AM
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p.24 #12 · p.24 #12 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


carstenw wrote:
Depending on which shots we examine, the Otus sometimes has very high levels of vignetting wide open.


That's the one thing that Zeiss couldn't exorcise from their 35mm line, Otus included- though one could accept the extra vignetting as part of their signature 'look', and it can usually be corrected easy enough.

Still, definitely glad Sigma saw fit to try and tackle it, though it is a little worse in the Art than it was in the EX.



May 15, 2014 at 03:21 AM
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p.24 #13 · p.24 #13 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


vignetting is a tradeoff, and ev is more easily corrected than what is left if you hold size constant and try to make vignetting go away.




May 15, 2014 at 10:20 AM
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p.24 #14 · p.24 #14 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


otus on D800e jpeg from camera:



© leonasj 2014


at 1.4







F 2.8



Edited on May 21, 2014 at 12:51 AM · View previous versions



May 19, 2014 at 02:15 PM
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p.24 #15 · p.24 #15 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


even this croped pictures are nothing but great² !


May 19, 2014 at 02:27 PM
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p.24 #16 · p.24 #16 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


johnctharp wrote:
That's the one thing that Zeiss couldn't exorcise from their 35mm line, Otus included- though one could accept the extra vignetting as part of their signature 'look', and it can usually be corrected easy enough.

Still, definitely glad Sigma saw fit to try and tackle it, though it is a little worse in the Art than it was in the EX.


Zeiss could have exorcised it, at the expense of either i) a higher price tag for the same resolution and contrast across the field; or ii) a drop in resolution and contrast at the same (or lower) price tag.

Hence the Sigma.



May 19, 2014 at 03:10 PM
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p.24 #17 · p.24 #17 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


Otus on D3s jpeg from camera:



© leonasj 2014


f1.4





© leonasj 2014


f/4




May 27, 2014 at 02:12 AM
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p.24 #18 · p.24 #18 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


price is so high might go with sigma on this one


May 27, 2014 at 09:39 PM
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p.24 #19 · p.24 #19 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


betfair wrote:
price is so high might go with sigma on this one


This lens is not for everyone.



May 27, 2014 at 09:53 PM
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p.24 #20 · p.24 #20 · Official: Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 APO-Distagon


A viable alternative would be the Zeiss 50mm MP. Picked that one up second hand and it just blows me away everytime I use it.


Jun 27, 2014 at 09:41 PM
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