The Zeiss 50mm f/1.5 Sonnar ZM excels in being smaller, shorter and lighter than other 50mm f/1.4 lenses. It doesn't block the finder, as do other 50mm f/1.4 lenses. It has no visible distortion, but it's not the lens for people who are counting pixels wide open.

Oct 12, 2018 · It focuses from .9 metres to infinity in about 85 degrees, with a beautifully damped helicoid. The focusing ring is made of metal, and is ribbed in a way which makes it very easy to find and grip. The aperture ring is a nice metal ring at the front of the lens, and stops down from f1.5 to f22 in 1/3 stop increments, with a very precise click.

Nov 22, 2015 · What Zeiss claim is that the ZM 50mm C Sonnar is in fact not ideal for all subjects. They claim it might be considered more ideal for portraits or for subjects where bokeh, shallow depth of field and perhaps the capturing of atmosphere are …

Apr 11, 2021 · The Zeiss C Sonnar T* 50mm 1.5 ZM clearly shows the nature of the Sonnar optical design: focus shift in spades. It isn’t very sharp wide open (hey, it is a 1932 design!) but it just worsens stopping down, with the focus plane running away so fast that the DoF never manages to fully compensate for it.

Unobstructed viewfinders, compact size and high quality construction are traits that are shared by pretty much every M-mount camera. But the biggest appeal might lie beyond the cameras themselves – the system also offers a wealth of prime lenses, a …

The lens design and aperture geometry reflect its predecessor from the 1930s, the Sonnar 1,5/50, which was the fastest standard lens of its time. The excellent flare control inherent of the Sonnar lens design is further optimized with the ZEISS T* anti-reflection coating.

This narrowed down my search to 2 lenses – Leica Lux 50/1.4 ASPH vs Zeiss ZM Sonnar 50/1.5. The new Lux is well known to be one of the best 50mm lenses made today but it is 3x the cost of the Sonnar.

Mar 15, 2023 · A Review Of The Zeiss C Sonnar T* 50mm f/1.5 ZM Lens. Even though it’s a lens for 35mm film and full frame digital cameras, at times the Zeiss 50mm Sonnar 1.5 tends to exhibit a lovely medium format-esque look in terms of the transition from in focus elements to the out of focus areas of a picture.

Buy ZEISS C Sonnar T* 50mm f/1.5 ZM Lens (Black) featuring Leica M-Mount Lens, Aperture Range: f/1.5 to f/16, ZEISS T* Anti-Reflective Coating, Manual Focus Design, Minimum Focus Distance: 3', Filter Thread: 46mm, 10-Blade Diaphragm.

The C Sonnar T*1.5/50 ZM lens is the modern technolo-gical reincarnation of the classical Sonnar 1.5/50, the fastest standard lens of its time, for the Contax II range-finder camera. It is fast, very resistant to flaring and unusually compact. With its well controlled distortion, the lens produces a very accurate representation of objects.