![]() None of that is to say this lens isn’t a stunner - comparing just about any lens to a Zeiss Otus is rather unfair, for many reasons. Well, except nearly two pounds of weight. But once you hit f/4 and especially f/5.6, there’s very little in it between them. Wide-open it does not have the consistent across-the-frame resolving power or micro-contrast of the Otus 85, nor is it apochromatic. It could nearly be considered a mini-Otus, particularly stopped down. We never got that, but we do have the Contax Zeiss 2.8/85 - one of the finest lenses of its time that remains an amazing optic. I had always personally wanted a line of “Mini Otuses” - f/2.5 or f/2.8 versions. This peaked with massive, uncompromising lenses like the Sigma Art or Zeiss Otus series, but has since reversed course after several companies - Nikon, Sigma, Tamron, and Sony most notably - have released excellent and compact f/1.8 to f/2.8 prime lenses, as well as zoom lenses like the Nikkor 24-50/4-6.3 and Sony 28-60/4-6.3. The 2.8/85 is not one of those, unfortunately - slow lenses faded from fashion, likely due to whims of bokeh fanatics who photograph fence posts and flowers. ![]() The Milvus line, made for Nikon F and Canon EF mounts, boasts a number of lenses whose optical design dates all the way back to the Contax Zeiss line. Zeiss, of course, makes many of its own lenses for numerous mounts today - Otus, Batis, Milvus, Touit, along with a few others like their M-mount line. Zeiss - easily the most highly revered lens maker alongside Leica at the time - had worked with Contax dating back to the 1930s when it designed and produced lenses for the Contax rangefinders. ![]() These SLR lenses, made by Carl Zeiss in cooperation with Yashica, were designed for the Yashica and Contax C/Y mount 35mm cameras. There really doesn’t exist a line of affordable vintage lenses that I love more than the Contax Zeiss lenses. W-Nikkor-C 3.5cm f/2.5 LTM and W-Nikkor-C 3.5cm f/3.5 LTMīest Use Cases: Mirrorless, Canon EF ( Simmod or plain adapter), Nikon F, and Pentax K ( Leitax) Credit: KEH Camera.Nikon Nikkor AI 45mm f/2.8 P & Contax Zeiss 2.8/45mm Tessar.The significantly thinner sensor stack of the Nikon Z mount allows it to perform much better than, say, Sony E mount - about 1.0-1.5mm versus roughly 2-3mm respectively, according to Kolari Vision and Roger Cicala in Petapixel’s previous article on sensor stack thickness. However, some non-Leica cameras perform better in this regard than others. ![]() This can produce with images that have soft, smeary corner performance and color shifts due to the shorter exit pupil distance and angle of incidence of wider angle lenses. In this Guide, I have tried to avoid wider (wider than 35mm) focal length rangefinder lenses, as these typically do not work well with many non-Leica mirrorless cameras due to the sensor stack on digital sensors - which film, of course, did not have - and the lack of off-set microlenses. Some will only work with their full focus range on mirrorless cameras - this is noted when it is the case. Some of these lenses will work on both DSLRs (though this may exclude or have caveats for certain DSLRs, like Nikon F, due to flange distance differences) and mirrorless cameras.
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