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Zeiss Loxia 50mm F2 Planar

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Product Overview

Zeiss Loxia 50mm F2 Planar is a manual-focus normal prime lens for Sony E-mount. It covers the full-frame image circle. Introduced by Zeiss in 2014, it has 6 elements in 4 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, the Loxia boasts some of the smoothest focus ring ever found on a photographic lens.
A normal prime lens, the Zeiss Loxia 50mm F2 does not boast the brightest apertures, though it still may be worth a try for landscape and street photography.

Ratings

What we found

Neofiliac score 78%
Pros
  • Good image quality
  • Great build quality
  • Declickable aperture ring
Cons
  • Lacks features of newer Loxia lenses

What external reviewers found

External score 81%
Pros
  • Boken and color rendition are very good and typical of the Zeiss signature
  • Sharpness is not tack sharp wide open, even on the border
Cons
  • Not consistent across frame below F5.6
  • Bokeh is soft not nervous

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External Reviews

sonyalpha[1]

Reviewer score 81% (normalized by Neofiliac)
Reviewers from sonyalpha have found:
Zeiss Loxia 50mm F2 is a lens family with manual focus. All photos taken with Sony A7RII and without post processing are available in full size (42Mpix) in the following Flickr album. The lens is a little bit soft at F2.8 and become excellent as of F4, at F16 diffraction is visible and sharpness is decreasing.
Pros
  • Sharpness is not tack sharp wide open, even on the border
  • Boken and color rendition are very good and typical of the Zeiss signature
Cons
  • Not consistent across frame below F5.6
  • Bokeh is soft not nervous

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References

  1. ^ Zeiss Loxia 50mm F2. [sonyalpha].

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