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Zeiss Loxia 85mm F2.4

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Product Overview

Zeiss Loxia 85mm F2.4 is a manual-focus short telephoto prime lens for Sony E-mount. It covers the full-frame image circle. Introduced by Zeiss in 2016, it has 7 elements in 7 groups.
Manual focus may be limiting to some, but purists will find it much more engaging. There are also fewer things to go wrong on the long run. To this end, Zeiss has endowed the Loxia with one of the smoothest focus ring ever fitted to a photographic lens, though some may find it hard to focus on live subjects manually at this focal length.
A telephoto prime lens, the Zeiss Loxia 85mm F2.4 is well suited for portrait photography.

Ratings

What we found

Neofiliac score 86%
Pros
  • Exceptional image quality
  • Great build quality
  • Declickable aperture ring
Cons
  • Not very bright for a prime lens

What external reviewers found

External score 90%
Pros
  • Superb Bokeh, very smooth
  • Very good optical performance as of F2.4
  • Excellent focusing ring coupled with the Sony automatic magnification and focus peaking
Cons
  • Very long lens hood

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External Reviews

sonyalpha[1]

Reviewer score 90% (normalized by Neofiliac)
Reviewers from sonyalpha have found:
Zeiss Loxia 85mm F2.4 is a lens family with manual focus. It contains 5 lenses as of 2018 all tested here. To switch between the photos mode (where the aperture can vary with a click by 1/3 IL) to video (with a quiet continuously varying aperture) you need to use a small key provided by Zeiss.
Pros
  • Very good optical performance as of F2.4
  • Excellent focusing ring coupled with the Sony automatic magnification and focus peaking
  • Superb Bokeh, very smooth
Cons
  • Very long lens hood

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References

  1. ^ Zeiss Loxia 85mm F2.4. [sonyalpha].

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