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Scott Stoness
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Registered: Sep 10, 2006
Location: Canada
Posts: 8817
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Review Date: Feb 24, 2013
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $1,850.00
| Rating: 10
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1) Hard stop at infinity, 2) Small and Light, 3) Very good IQ at f2
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1) No Auto Focus, 2) Poor cheap lens cap that never gives me confidence that it is secure.
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This is my go to lens for northern lights photography. All my canon's are frustrating in the dark. You have to find a bright object to live view focus. But the zeiss 25 f2 is sharp, hard stop at infinity and that makes it really easy to use in the dark.
I still use my 24 TS f3.5 in the light to remove the bowing of the trees but for quality, the 25 f2 is not to be beat.
High quality.
The only thing I don't like about this lens is the cheap lens cap.
For night shooting, there are none better.
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 Feb 24, 2013
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ic2foto
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Registered: Jun 19, 2010
Location: United States
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Review Date: Oct 14, 2012
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Top Notch Image Quality
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Price - but at least you get what you pay for.
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I'm currently renting this lens and several others for another round of testing ahead of my next purchase. On my 5Ds the IQ is very strong and does not disappoint. I'm also renting the Canon 24-70 LII which has almost equal IQ and may be a better buy, but for my work this MF lens is probably the better choice and easy to recommend to the most critical users.
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Oct 14, 2012
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philber
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Registered: May 20, 2008
Location: France
Posts: 6417
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Review Date: Aug 5, 2012
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 9
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Tremendous IQ, build quality, f:2.0, nice balance on a Canon 5D
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Cons:
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A few extreme corner pixels are not quite sharp
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For those with exposure to Zeiss' recent Distagon z* 35 f:1.4, Z* 25 f:2.0 will be familiar territory. It exhibits the same formidable performance and rendering as its elder, larger, longer-focal-length, faster brother. Temendous detail, fantastic colours and colour differentiation. Spatial placement is awesome, even in OOF areas.
Is it a perfect lens? No. A few extreme corner pixels are not sharp. This, of course, has been magnified by the Internet turning molehills into mountains. How bad is it? It hasn't lost me a single shot, and is totally invisible unless you know what to look for in a 100% crop, and those few pics can always be cropped out if it matters that much.
Also, compared to the 35, which has set a new standard for bokeh smoothness in its class, the 25 has great bokeh, but maybe not quite as remarkable.
Otherwise, it is just pure bliss. I did a shootout with the Distagon 21 f:2.8, regarded as maybe the world's best wide-angle lens, and the 35 f:1.4. The 25 showed that Zeiss do not release a lens unless it is better than its predecessors, and the 21 started to show its age. So I sold it and kept the 25. Enough said?
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Aug 5, 2012
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