Name: Zeiss Milvus 50mm f/2.0 ZE Macro Lens for Canon EF
Brand: Zeiss
SKU: ZI502MZE
Price: 1158.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)

Zeiss Milvus 50mm f/2.0 ZE Macro Lens for Canon EF

Zeiss Milvus 50mm f/2.0

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Zeiss Milvus 50mm f/2.0 

Capture stunning detail with the Zeiss Milvus 50mm f/2 ZE Macro lens for Canon EF. Manual focus, exceptional build. Shop now for unparalleled image quality!

Are you seeking to capture the grandeur of the minuscule world or the natural perspectives of everyday life  The ZEISS Milvus 2/50M Macro Lens for Canon EF is your perfect companion. This lens, with its macro capabilities, excels in close-range photography, allowing you to highlight even the tiniest details in the foreground or background. As a standard lens, the ZEISS Milvus 2/50M portrays the world in all its natural perspectives, making it a versatile tool for a wide array of applications. It's particularly adept at capturing breathtaking details in close-ups and traditional portraits, thanks to its Makro-Planar design. This lens stands out as the fastest 50mm macro lens currently available, ensuring excellent imagery even in challenging light conditions. The ZEISS T antireflective coating and special pitch-black lacquer on all lens edges significantly reduce stray light and prevent reflections, resulting in high-contrast images that are perfect for high dynamic range (HDR) photography. The ZEISS Milvus 2/50M is a future-proof solution, designed to meet the requirements of current and future high-performance digital cameras. It minimizes coma, astigmatism, and spherical aberrations, ensuring consistently high resolution across the entire image field. For those who value precision and control, this lens offers manual focusing, with a large rotation angle for pinpoint accuracy. The top-quality focusing mechanism moves smoothly without backlash, allowing for creative interplay with the focal plane. Built to last, the ZEISS Milvus 2/50M features an all-metal housing and special seals for protection against dust and splashes, ensuring its functional reliability even in challenging environments. Its ergonomic design reduces camera shake and enables fatigue-free photography. The lens also employs a Floating Elements Design, which ensures consistently high image performance from the minimum object distance to infinity. The Planar lens design, the most successful and frequently copied camera lens design of all time, ensures high imaging quality across a large range of image scales, making the ZEISS Milvus 2/50M a truly universal macro lens.

I have the gold ring Nikon 35 f1.4, 85 f1.4 and bought this to explore macro, the "normal" 50mm focal length, and slowing down my photography (manual focus). Instantly noticed this has more sharpness, contrast, and richness of color. It renders close to how I like to post process, so a bit of time saving there. Build quality is excellent as everyone says.Downsides are a bit of softness and noticeable vignetting at f2.0 (unless this is what you want), and of course, price.An added plus is the ability to digitize some of my old family photos. I'm keeping it for this, plus it's just fun to manually focus a really high quality, exceptionally built lens.

Exceptional, but pricey

I’m loving it.  It’s like a work of art all by itself with taking any photos.  I’ve only had it for Two days now and I haven’t taken it of the camera.  There is a learning curve in the close up to macro range but it’s easy.  Everyone writes about the focal throw and how much twisting is needed ... this is true but it’s not a negative. .. the twist is so fine that you get focused sharply and easily.  Then there is the aperture, you lock it at f22 and the camera will handle it just like any other.  The lens hood is a work all by itself.. it have a Velvet lining to kill glare ... amazed .. well that is my review... I have to go touch my new lens now. 

I see as I write this that the shelves are bare ... I must have got the last one

Why did I wait so long ??

I have been looking for a 50mm-ish macro lens for very long time, and have tried several options but finally this is the only thing I am satisfied with.

Great Macro Lens

It's all about what you're taking pictures of, but this lens is just about perfect for me. I shoot a lot of cars. I can get fantastically sharp close-ups with the macro with wonderful bokeh. The 50mm is good for full shots even at The 1.5 increase from my dx format camera. And 75mm is a great portrait and landscape lense as well. The color reproduction is brilliant. Sharp from corner to corner. The only thing I might warn you about is the very thin focal plane at f2 but that can be a good thing. Again; if that's what your after.

Zeiss Milvus 50mm f/2.0 ZE Macro Lens for Canon EF

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