Rumor of Zeiss Otus coming to Mirrorless Mounts

[Del Paso]

Petapixel has a review video of the 50mm f1.4:

Zeiss Otus ML 50mm f/1.4 First Impressions: Still Legendary?

Zeiss brings back a legendary line of lenses after a long hiatus. Have the other manufacturers caught up to Zeiss during this time?

petapixel.com

This is a bit disappointing... I expected better from an Apo, maybe spoiled by Leica's Apo lenses.
I think I'll take a closer look at Canon's RF 1,4 and 1,2 versions.

 

[MikeGalos]

Petapixel has a review video of the 50mm f1.4:

That's not focus breathing. That's focus hyperventilating.

 

[angelisland]

Comparison was done with printouts on A4 paper, looked like inkjet. Certainly not fine art print, it was not even special printer paper or very high DPI. One page showed full picture, one page cropped in to better illustrate contrast and sharpness which was considered the differentiator for the Zeiss.

Difference in sharpness and contrast was clearly visible with both prints, the Otus was clearly superior by some good margin. I was actually quite surprised by how much.

Not what I consider pixel peeping.

But does it matter to anyone who is not a photo nerd? Would anybody in the real world see it, or care?
Just because there is some discernible difference when scrutinized at close proximity by someone who was looking for differences does not answer the question…
Would someone in a gallery, for example, *who is looking at the subject, not some out of focus corner thing*, like one over the other, and why?

 

[scottburgess]

I was never into positive films. I usually shot Kodak Tmax, occasionally Tri-X.

I shot Reala 100 when I wanted real negative films.