Tag : planar t, slr camera, alpha digital, coated telephoto, carl zeiss, lens sony

Company : Sony List Price : Amazon Price : $1,299.95 Used Price : Average customer review :

Features

• 85mm f1.4 telephoto lens boasts professional performance for portraits and close-ups
• Astonishing sharpness at fully open aperture
• T* coating to reduce flare and increase contrast
• Smooth, visually pleasing background effects
• Focus hold button for full creative control, auto clutch to stop manual focus ring rotation

Product Description

A brilliant lens for portraits, low light and midrange telephoto shooting. It’s a beautiful piece of glass - and for intimate or low-light portraits, fashion shots, and quick candid photographs with superior visual accuracy, this professional lens will satisfy the most uncompromising demands. Its performance at fully open aperture is astonishingly precise - and its 35mm-equivalent 125.7mm focal length gives you sharp midrange close-ups and natural, distortion-free portraits at relaxed distances.

Customer reviews

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Superb Fast Telephoto Lens From Sony and Zeiss
Although this fine lens is optically based on the famous Contax Carl Zeiss 85mm f1.4, its digital performance is more reminiscent of a medium telephoto lens, than that of a fast portrait (short telephoto) lens since its 35mm equivalent focal length is nearly 130mm. I was able to handle it at this year’s Photo Plus East, the annual photography and digital imaging trade show held at New York City’s Javitts Center, and was impressed with its overall handling, especially its swift, almost silent, autofocusing. Having used Zeiss lenses for more than fifteen years, I have no doubt that this new lens is as optically superb as its manual focus equivalent that’s available now for Nikon F-Mount 35mm SLR cameras (The new Zeiss ZF (Nikon F-Mount) 85mm f1.4 Planar lens is optically superior to the earlier Contax version that I own.). This lens - and other current and future Zeiss lenses for the Sony Alpha system - is most likely being assembled by Sony at either its own lens manufacturing plant - or Tamron’s (a wholly owned subsidary of Sony) - at least some of the components, especially its lens elements are being shipped from Zeiss’s Oberkochen, Germany headquarters - under strict Zeiss supervision, including quality control.