New Zeiss lens for full frame DSLRs

The product name “Otus” refers to the Latin name of an owl species known for its excellent vision in darkness. Featuring a newly developed floating elements Distagon design, the Otus 1.4/55 is equipped with 12 lens elements in 10 groups, including a double-sided aspheric lens and six lenses made of special glass with anomalous partial dispersion. These sophisticated features create image results without color fringing or distortion, which is especially obvious with night shots. Because the Otus 1.4/55 is an apochromatic lens, longitudinal chromatic aberrations are corrected by its lens elements of special glass with anomalous partial dispersion. As a result, bright/dark transitions in the image, and especially highlights, are rendered with no colorful artifacts. Although it is not a traditional focal length for architectural and landscape photography, here, too, the lens can deliver very good results. For portraiture, the Otus 1.4/55 render the finest details precisely, and thanks to its maximum aperture of f/1.4, the photographer can consciously play with the depth of field and create a smooth bokeh. The Otus 1.4/55 is manufactured with outstanding mechanical quality. The smooth focus operation with the large angle of rotation allows for the finest variations when focusing. Its robust metal barrel with the easy to grip focus ring makes the lens perfect for the everyday situations of professional photographers, and guarantees a long product life. The yellow labels on the scales, which are borrowed from the professional Zeiss cinema lenses, contribute to better visibility. For its innovative product design, the Otus 1.4/55 already won the iF product design award 2013.

The Otus 1.4/55 will be available with F bayonet (ZF.2) and EF bayonet (ZE) from the end of October in all global markets.