ZEISS Otus ML 85mm f/1.4 Lens (Sony E)
Product Highlights
- Optical Excellence for the Finest Details
- Exceptional Depth of Field and a Harmonious Bokeh
- Ultimate Control Through Precise Mechanics
The ZEISS Otus ML lenses, are crafted for photographers who live to tell stories. Inspired by the legendary ZEISS Otus family, the new lenses bring ZEISS' renowned optical excellence to mirrorless system cameras (available for Sony1 E-Mount, Canon2 RF-Mount and Nikon3 Z-Mount). Designed with ultimate precise mechanics you are able to capture every detail with unparalleled sharpness, vibrant colors and a nearly three-dimensional effect that brings your story to life.
With the Otus ML, manual focusing becomes more than a technique, it's an experience itself and an indispensable tool for your creative freedom. The precisely engineered focusing allows for accurate settings, giving the confidence that every shot turns out exactly as envisioned. With the ZEISS Otus ML lens family you can rely on your lens in every situation.
What is the Meaning of Photography?
Explore Mo's Story with the ZEISS Otus ML
"What is the meaning of photography?" This powerful question sparks Mo Xie's journey - a professional photographer and ZEISS ambassador - through the lens of the ZEISS Otus ML 1.4/50. Guided by his early influences in craftsmanship and painting, Mo takes us from the vibrant streets of Guangzhou, China, to uncover the true essence of the people and places around him. Amid the rush of the city, his lens reveals raw, authentic beauty that’s often overlooked, captured in stunning color and incredible sharpness with the ZEISS Otus ML. Explore Mo's story.
More Than an Image - A Portrait of Identity in True Color
Explore Sinjun's Story with the ZEISS Otus ML
For Sinjun Strom, photography is about true craftsmanship and telling the stories that matter. As a creative storyteller, she focuses on capturing the unique, individual journeys of those whose voices deserve to be heard. Sinjun portrays a diverse group of Line Dancers, each with a story to tell. Through her lens, color is not just a shade, but a story, and every skin tone deserves to be portrayed in its richest truth. With the ZEISS Otus ML 1.4/85 and its renowned ZEISS look, she brings out the depth, detail, and authenticity in every portrait - portraying their story, and her own.
ZEISS Otus ML 1.4/85
A lens with relatively few glass-air surfaces, it was developed by Dr. Ludwig Bertele at ZEISS in 1930. At the time it was one of the fastest high-speed lenses for 35 mm photography, with apertures as large as 1:1.5 and high contrast thanks to effective stray light reduction. Its high speed and high contrast helped give the lens its name, which is derived from the word “sun,” the symbol of maximum brightness. You continue to find the aforementioned benefits with modern lenses in the normal and telephoto ranges whose optical design is based on this basic type.
⬛ Sonnar Design
🟩 Lens with aspheric optical surface
🟪 Lens made of special glass with anomalous partial dispersion
What's in the box?
- 1 x ZEISS Otus ML 85mm f/1.4 Lens (Sony E)
- Focal Length
- 85 mm
- Aperture Range
- f/1.4 – f/16
- Camera Mount
- Sony E-Mount
- Format Compatibility
- Full Frame
- Focusing Range
- 0.80 m (31.49") – ∞
- Free Working Distance
- 0.68 m (26.77") – ∞
- Angular Field4 (diag. horiz. vert.)
- 30°
- Diameter of Image Field
- 43 mm (1.69")
- Coverage at close Range (MOD)
- 289 x 193 mm (11.37 x 7.59")
- Image Ratio at Minimum Object Distance
- 1:8.1
- Lens Elements Groups
- 15 | 11
- Flange Focal Distance
- 18 mm (0.70")
- Entrance Pupil Position (Front of Image Plane)
- 42.6 mm (1.68")
- Autofocus
- -
- Image Stabilization
- -
- Filter Thread
- 77mm
- Rotation Angle of Focusing Ring
- 244°
- Maximum Diameter
- 88 mm (3.46")
- Diameter of Focusing Ring
- 88 mm (3.46")
- Length (With Lens Caps)
- 127 mm (5.03")
- Length (Without Lens Caps)
- 113 mm (4.44")
- Weight
- 1033 g (2.29 lbs)