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Zeiss Batis 85mm F1.8

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Product Overview

Zeiss Batis 85mm F1.8 is a short telephoto prime lens for Sony E-mount. It covers the full-frame image circle. Introduced by Zeiss in 2015, it has 10 elements in 8 groups.
For incremental weathers, Zeiss is kind enough to include weather sealing.
A telephoto prime lens, the Zeiss Batis 85mm F1.8 is well suited for portrait photography. Built-in image stabilization makes the lens easier to use handheld, and can be quite valuable for landscape works.

Ratings

What we found

Neofiliac score 93%
Pros
  • Optically stabilized
  • Weather-sealed
  • OLED display
  • Rather lightweight for its focal length
Cons
  • Barrel with large diameter

What external reviewers found

External score 70%
Pros
  • Excellent build quality
  • Good image stabilization
  • Very fast, efficient and completely silent AF Optical stabilisation makes it well suited for A7 1st Gen
  • Beautiful Bokeh and blurry background
  • Built-in optical stabilisation
Cons
  • No sensor-shift stabilisation
  • No MF/AF switch on the barrel
  • Struggles against flare and glare
  • Some distorsion and lens fall off but well corrected automatically in Lightroom

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External Reviews

cameralabs[1]

Reviewer score 73% (normalized by Neofiliac)
Reviewers from cameralabs have found:
The Zeiss 85mm f1.8 Batis is a short-telephoto lens for Sony's e-mount mirrorless cameras. It's sharper in the important areas, has less longitudinal CAs, less haloing around bright light sources, and better resistance against flare and glare in strong contra light. It also has superior build quality plus a useful display to indicate distance and depth-of-field. The presence of optical stabilisation is desirable for owners of Mark I A7 bodies.
Pros
  • Excellent build quality
  • Built-in optical stabilisation
  • Good image stabilization
Cons
  • Struggles against flare and glare
  • No sensor-shift stabilisation

sonyalpha[2]

Reviewer score 68% (normalized by Neofiliac)
Reviewers from sonyalpha have found:
Zeiss Batis 85mm F1.8 GM is an excellent portrait lens. The lens get an overall score of 45 on DXOMark.com. The build quality of this lens is very good all metal except the lens hood in plastic. The tests were made on a Sony A7RII, the most demanding sensor with 42 Mpix.
Pros
  • Very fast, efficient and completely silent AF Optical stabilisation makes it well suited for A7 1st Gen
  • Beautiful Bokeh and blurry background
  • Lightroom lens profile is a very nice idea but you rarely use it in practice, it would have been great to have...
Cons
  • Some distorsion and lens fall off but well corrected automatically in Lightroom
  • No MF/AF switch on the barrel

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References

  1. ^ Zeiss Batis 85mm f1.8 review. [cameralabs].
  2. ^ Zeiss Batis 85mm F1.8. [sonyalpha].

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