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Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/85

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Product Overview

Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/85 is a large-aperture manual-focus short telephoto prime lens for Canon EF-mount, Nikon F-mount, and Pentax K-mount. It covers the full-frame image circle and has 6 elements in 5 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.
A telephoto prime lens, the Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1,4/85 is well suited for portrait photography.

Ratings

What we found

Neofiliac score 93%
Pros
  • Bright maximum aperture
  • F-mount with physical aperture ring
Cons
  • Classic rendering not to everyone's taste

What external reviewers found

External score 80%
Pros
  • Excellent sharpness when stopped down
  • Compact and light
  • Large aperture ring
Cons
  • No fluorine coating
  • Limited focus response

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External Reviews

imagingsource[1]

Reviewer score 80% (normalized by Neofiliac)
Reviewers from imagingsource have found:
The Zeiss 85mm ƒ/1.4 is a manual-focus-only lens. It produces negligible distortion, on either the D200 or D3x. The minimum close-focusing distance is good for close subjects, at just over three feet. The lens ships with 72mm polarizer filters.
Pros
  • Excellent sharpness when stopped down
  • Large aperture ring
  • Compact and light
Cons
  • Limited focus response
  • No fluorine coating

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References

  1. ^ Carl Zeiss 85mm f/1.4 Planar T* 1.4/85. [imagingsource].

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