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Official for ZE

OBERKOCHEN/Germany, 01.09.2010.
A woman is sitting at the bar of a dimly-lit cafe. Lost in thoughts, she doesn’t notice the glass of wine the bartender places before her. From a distance, a photographer tries to capture her mood. He brings her face, which is leaning toward her phone, into focus. Everything around her becomes a blur, and the lights in the background coalesce into a wild “dance” of diffuse shapes.
This shot will only work with a fast lens with short focal length and harmonious bokeh. Carl Zeiss introduces a new lens for just such images: the Distagon T* 1,4/35.
By introducing the Distagon T* 1,4/35, Carl Zeiss is complementing the Planar T*1,4/50 and T*1,4/85 lenses with a wide-angle lens that shares the same high speed. Crisp, sharp images work every time, whether at dusk or in the weak lighting conditions of a café, and without the need for a tripod. With its 35-mm, the Distagon T* 1,4/35 matches the classic and versatile standard focal lengths when used on cameras with APS-C sensor formats.
Due to the special bokeh effects in both the foreground and background areas, the Distagon T*1,4/35 opens up new creative possibilities, giving photographers more options to ‘play’ with focus. Thanks to its large focus ring, photographers can also create highly accurate, sharp pictures, even at maximum aperture opening. In addition, the optical construction of the lens guarantees high image quality across the entire image range. Furthermore, with one step less than the full aperture opening, the light fall-off toward the edges is just one f-stop.
With the ZEISS T*‘s anti-reflective coating, its sophisticated stray light reduction and the excellent flare control the new Distagon also takes pictures of bright light sources without artifacts. The Distagon T*1,4/35’s extremely long-lasting and robust all-metal precision mechanics, for which Carl Zeiss is known, make this lens perfect for use on-the-go and for photo reports.
The Distagon T* 1,4/35 will be available in first quarter of 2011 at a recommended retail price of €1385.71 (excluding VAT)*.
Official Release with sample
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muteteh:
Considering the price tags, reviews in photozone, and the lenses being manual, I wouldn't be caught dead with a Zeiss lens attached to my Canon.

logaandm:
It figures. I bought the f2 a couple of months ago. Sharpest lens I own and I own 3 L primes. I suspect the Zeiss will be a winner for those doing video or who like manual focus.

muteteh:

--- Quote from: logaandm on September 01, 2010, 06:38:35 AM ---It figures. I bought the f2 a couple of months ago. Sharpest lens I own and I own 3 L primes. I suspect the Zeiss will be a winner for those doing video or who like manual focus.

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According to photozone's reviews on FF sensors, the Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 has sharper corners than the Zeiss Planar ZE T* 85mm f/1.4, and the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II gives a very good fight to the Zeiss ZE Planar T* 50mm f/1.4

I would expect new Zeiss lenses to do better than 20 years old Canon lenses which cost ~1/5th their price, which is why I take wikipedia's word on those being Cosina lenses.

Justin:
I've never used a zeiss lens on a canon but these reviews referenced above have kept me from believing the hype. It makes no sense to buy unsharp lenses, even if tonality and contrast and bokeh are beautiful. First and Formost as a photographer our pics need to appear in focus.

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