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Just got myself an Otus 85 to go with my D810. Coming from 2 years of shooting mainly on Zeiss 100 Makro Planar (portraiture mainly), I think the wow factor for me is less as 100MP is already an awesome lens.
But the 85mm focal length is actually my beloved length, and the lack of CA, bokeh, and overall sharpness, and 3D-ness of the Otus is a step up from the 100MP lens. If you are shooting and posting on FB, one may not notice that much of a different to be really honest.
Having said that, there's something magical about how the lens was constructed and the smoothness of the focus ring, you have to put it in your hand and use it for sometime to really appreciate it.
My biggest challenge is to nail focus at f/1.4 - f/2 in which if I shoot using VF i am only getting 30-40% in focus images. The DOF is just too narrow to shoot portrait, unless you and the subject and hold still while you hunt for the focus. After some research, I bought myself a Zacuto z-Finder 2.5x, and it really helps me in nailing the focus at wide aperture. But too bad.... I just learned that Nikon will disable live view when shooting tethered...hence rendering Zacuto useless in such shooting situation. Nonetheless when I am not shooting tethered Zacuto is the best tool to help to improve the focus accuracy and number of keeper images.
Will share some images when I have the time. For the time being just sharing some experience of using this lens.
Oh, ya, the filter.... I cant understand as well why Zeiss can't lauch their filter together with the lens, or maybe perhaps Otus 85 was launch much earlier due to pre-launch information leak? Not sure but I ended up buying a Sigma 86mm for the time being, and for critical shoots i just remove the filter. Pretty much defeat the purpose of buying it at the first place though.... Anyway the Filter is available now and I am going to get one although its really costly .
Cheers
Chong!
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