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Zeiss Batis 85mm f/1.8 : Specifications and Opinions

Zeiss Batis 85mm f/1.8

The Zeiss Batis 85mm f/1.8 is a tele lens for FF and APS-C, manufactured from 2015. The focus is done by Lens AF motor (non-ultrasonic), it has image stabilization. The average price, when it has been added to the JuzaPhoto database, is 1039 €;

24 users have given it an average vote of 9.5 out of 10.

MOUNT

This lens is available with the following mounts:

Sony E: this lens is compatible with mirrorless fullframe and APS-C Sony.

Specifications
Focal lenght	85 mm
Angle of view	28.6°
Format	FF, APS-C
Max. aperture	f/1.8
Aperture blades
Lenses/Groups	11 elements in 8 groups
Min. focus distance	0.80 meters
Reproduction ratio	0.12x
Features
Stabilization	Yes (built in lens)
Focus	Lens AF motor (non-ultrasonic)
Internal Focus	No
Built and notes
Tripod ring	No
Extenders	No
Filters	67 mm
Lens hood	Yes, supplied
Weather sealing	Yes
Weight	475 g
Dimensions	81 x 92 mm
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Reviews

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The following opinions have been automatically translated with Google Translate.

Paolopi

sent on October 08, 2021

Pros: Good construction, attractive and original design, good colors, weight, af.

Cons: Stabilizer, high cost compared to quality.

Opinion: I used this lens for 3 years and although of "blue blood" it never convinced me to the end. Meanwhile, the stabilizer did not work well with my stabilized bodies, strangely a micro-shake was often generated when it was active (maybe my failed specimen??), and unfortunately, not having a dedicated button on the lens I had to deactivate also that of the sensor from the menu to be quiet, but I had taken it just to have the double stabilization body / lens!!!. LIGHTNING FAST AND ALMOST INFALLIBLE AF, even with little light, very quiet. The rendering of the lens drops dramatically when working in low light conditions, while it is sharp and bright in good lighting. I switched to sigma 85 dg DN, monstrous, and sold it without regret, a lens to which I gave 7 but I was good.

Andrea Di Bianco

sent on December 10, 2020

Pros: Construction and sharpness

Cons: Eye AF difficult in low light

Opinion: I have been using the Sony 85mm f1.8 (on A7rIII) for almost a year now. A very valid lens that I find a little soft in TA. I wanted to replace it with the Zeiss Batis 85mm f1.8. In the store I tried the AF eye of this lens, f1.8, normal interior lighting, but the AF eye was very difficult at distances of 4/5 meters, while hooking normally and kept tracking at shorter distances. I thought it was due to the light of the interior, and I mounted the Sony 85mm 1.8. Well, the latter, always at f1.8 immediately hooked the eye at any distance. The shopkeeper could only agree with me. I came home with my Sony.

Ferorake

sent on October 12, 2018

Pros: sharpness, construction, AF, Lack of AC... in short everything

Cons: Senseless Optics

Opinion: Zeiss has produced a masterpiece of Lens: very solid, with a ring of MF that looks like crumed butter (difficult to explain the sensation), excellent sharpness, non-existent AC. I mean, it's a perfect lens, except for one thing... it costs madness and it's f/1.8. Zeiss used to be a stratospheric lens and then said "tié is an optical quality but to use it you must kill, all manual". Now proposes these lenses with absurd constructions, small, autofocus, schermetto style OLED "technology pioneers", but then I'll Square an 85mm with an aperture 1.8. I refuse to spend €1,000 for an 85mm with an aperture f 1.8. The Nikon consideration will pull it over, that Canon too, and the Sony apart from a less prized construction and some more AC is Identical. By the way my specimen had a huge speck of dust in the last front lens. I wonder how it came in, but it was really big, and I was going to contact the Zeiss, but then I sold it. It is not a magic lens, it has no particularities you will remember. It seems to me so much a optics from €300 "best buy", as could be the Nikon 50 1.8 G for nikonisti, simple without many pretensions but super sharp and EXPLOABILISSIMA. Pity that this costs over €1000 NEW. I find it unequal and ridiculous to compare with a Sigma Art 85 or a Canon 85 1.2 L II. Zeiss on this lens as on the 135 mm f/2.8 (a lens like that you buy vintage from €30 and you have with some retouching in PP the same optical quality, but maybe even without) is out of your mind. There is no other explanation, why make an 85mm f 1.8 and make it pay so much by taking care of the construction so much, you must have lost the Reason. If you want to buy it do it, but don't expect it to become your favorite lens.

Mattek

sent on March 14, 2016

Pros: Three-dimensional, color great for portrait, very good sharpness already TA, good AF, almost no aberrations, stabilizer, quality construction, tropicalization

Cons: Price and availability bias

Opinion: Goal that I find excellent, especially in its native application that portrait. The distortion actually present (but testing results before and after a possible correction we tend to forgive this shortcoming that achieves a lens of a size / very good weight / performance ratio) but depending on portraits from the subject / composition you may not even fix (I have gotten shots that looked attractive with correction from zero to 50%). very good colors that facilitate task in post. Good pop and 3d effect. On A7i autofocus very fast until the light enables good shots so for me it's ok (I state that I do not do sports or other similar genres) and manual focus even if by wire pleasant to use. This stabilization and effectively in the media. beautiful construction and weather sealing. Su 9 only for the price a little high for the distortion.

Francesco Boscardin

sent on November 10, 2015

Pros: Outstanding optical quality, OLED display is very useful in that street in landscape for complete control dell'iperfocalern

Cons: Virtually none

Opinion: I was one of the first to have them, fortunately, they ranked even when they had just announced. I have not repented, exceptional mechanical construction and extremely light, the optical quality is that I already knew all the Zeiss, open and never underexposed shadows, colors Zeiss. The OLED display is exceptionally useful in many occasions, I think the future on the next optical, the sun perhaps in a bit little leggibile.rnLi recommend it to everyone.

Photos taken with Zeiss Batis 85mm f/1.8

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