Zeiss Touit 32mm f/1.8 : Specifications and Opinions

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Giorgio_Via

sent on 09 Maggio 2024

Pros: the perfect mid-focal lens for APS-C. You photograph everything there is, so even more than what you see. Sharpness and other technical data? It's a Zeiss lens.

Cons: Zeiss glass aside, lots of plastic. Quite large, especially with lens hood attached, noisy autofocus

Opinion: purchased to pair with Zeiss Touit 12mm f/2.8 on the Fujifilm X-E4. The perfect pair with which you can take photographs of any type and in any place, apart from the lion a kilometer away in the Serengeti. Detailed but not sharp, on the contrary, soft images. Fantastic portraits. Why did I sell it? Because on the body of the X-E4 it looked like a panettone. If the X-E4 is the ideal camera to put in your pocket and you can handle the slightly larger 12mm, a daily lens with normal focal length on that body needs to be more compact. I'm not complaining about rings and autofocus because I replaced it with a Voigtlander Ultron 27mm f/2, manual focus and with rings so thin that you have to use your fingertips, but really compact. Highly recommended as a normal lens on normal-sized camera bodies

Stile70

sent on 13 Febbraio 2023

Pros: Construction, sharpness

Cons: Diaphragm ring with little friction

Opinion: I use it on Fuji, built well excellent materials, very sharp at all openings. autofocus good though not great, but definitely better than the Fuji 35 1.4. Really high optical quality worthy of the name Zeiss, kept in the backlight perfect even in the most "bad" well-made hood in plastic material, the only drawback in my opinion is a ring of the diaphragms a little too free, I would have preferred more frictioned.

Beppex7

sent on 04 Aprile 2021

Pros: Construction, sharpness, diaphragm ring, brightness.

Cons: Resting light blocks diaphragm ring.

Opinion: Purchased used as a new one halfway through the price of the new as the first fixed lens to combine with the Fuji X-S10, I immediately appreciated the construction and image quality, sometimes even too sharp and clinical. Paired zeiss + fuji colors great. From amateur photo, however, I find slow autofocus and dancer and, for my need non-professional, inaccurate and noisy. As long as I update the firmware to the latest version and the lens changes identity. Autofocus definitely improved and precise, quiet. It returns the pleasantness of use I expected from such an optics and brand. Beautiful and functional lens. Rating 9.5 if updated.

Nonno Baker

sent on 22 Giugno 2019

Pros: Sharp, light, bright

Cons: Cost of the new, a little plastic.

Opinion: Taken used here on Juza pretty much as new and at a decent price. It was immediately love even if I use it on an A6000 not stabilized that I use intensely and almost exclusively with fixed optics. The autofocus is accurate and fast enough for me, eye recognition works well in AFS. Less versatile than a zoom but with a focal length from classic "normal" that allows, with some limitation, to make beautiful portraits and even panoramas. Autofocus a bit noisy and that sometimes activates even at rest. Very usable at TA becomes more than a blade... a scalpel closing a couple of stops so much that sometimes for the portraits I intervene on the skin sweetening the imperfections of the same. Very elegant, but it is a subjective matter, and well assembled is however clearly plastic. Excellent manual MAF use for both the A600's focus assist and the smooth, smooth, updo- and on the right excursion. Very recommended.

Sceriffoh725

sent on 27 Febbraio 2019

Pros: Well built and so much optical quality.

Cons: I expected more but probably for very subjective issues.

Opinion: In the end, love was not tripped with this lens. Used with Fuji has always been competing with the 35 1.4 and eventually won this. The Zeiss is not a bad lens indeed. Beautiful colors, beautiful the blurred, more neutral and predictable lens of the Fuji, perhaps the edges even sharper, beautiful three-dimensionality by contrast, minor A.C. but the character of the 35 1.4 at the end prevailed. I did not notice differences on the speed and accuracy of the focus, the operation seemed to me equal. In conclusion, perhaps the Zeiss are part of a photographic world different from the most practiced and proposed and can for this not be well understood and pay pawn, or more simply, as in my case, you prefer other regardless.

Salvatore M

sent on 14 Maggio 2016

Pros: Sharpness, contrast, colors, brightness, build quality

Cons: Autofocus noise in video

Opinion: I am a simple enthusiast, so mine is a non-professional review and as such should be read. The lens is very sharp, in the landscape photos at closed diaphragms (e.g. f8) allows you to have crystalline images from one corner to the other, a little ' postcard ' effect that I wanted without ever reaching when I used compact cameras of other times. The sharpness seems even almost "exaggerated" in the photos of people, especially if they are not children, as it is ruthless against any defect or imperfection of the skin; In portraits of adults-especially women-so I tend to use it more often at full aperture, so as to soften a little ' the grain of the skin... As for the brightness, which is one of the main reasons why I bought a fixed (the kit 16-50 in my opinion is a good goal), now at F2 I can take pictures inside the house at 600-1000 ISO, where before with the kit I needed 2500-3200; Which, together with the sharpness and contrast, allows me to get photos that leave me very satisfied. Bought from Amazon, the autofocus already has the 2.0 firmware and is quite fast; Maybe less than that of the kit, but with little light the parts are reversed thanks to the greater brightness. As for the absence of stabilization: under 1/30-1/40 of a second is easy to risk the blur, but I have to say that I do not take pictures to people under 1/60, so they are not stopping them... so if you stick to those times minimum (or better maximum), the problem is not Poses. For static subjects with little light, on the rare occasions when you can not use even a mini-tripod, I imagine that the advantage of the Sony 35 mm becomes clear. The focal length is very versatile: in the photos in the House the field is not too narrow so you can easily make portraits more or less enlarged; Outside it is easy to use the famous zoom with the feet, so easily pass from the photos of small groups full length to the portraits with half-bust. Weight and Dimensions: slightly heavier (50g.) and bulky (2 cm.) of the kit, but still acceptable (I hate bulky and heavy equipment), however well balanced with the machine body (a6000) and pleasant to look at and touch; It remains almost always attached to the machine, I carry with me also the kit in a relatively small enclosure of case logic (18x14x10), together with a mini tripod, spare battery etc., and I use the kit only when I need a wide field for landscapes, or if I want The minimum weight (by bike for example) and in that case maybe I leave the touit at home. The blur varies depending on the situation, and I'm still learning to use it: almost magical in some cases (especially with partial backlight), a little hard in others; In any case, much nicer than that of the kit (but it was obvious). Very nice also the contrast and the three-dimensional effect that derives, easy to find at many openings; Which, together with the very vivid colors, always give me the sensation (or perhaps the illusion) with this lens of being able to make magical pictures. Which is difficult to argue in a technical review...