Milvus 25mm f/1.4 Full Frame Camera Lens for Nikon F-Mount ZF.2, Black

It’s constructed of metal including the lens hood. The fit and finish of everything is very well done. It mounts perfectly on any of my Nikon cameras. Including my Z8 through the FTZ adapter. It’s electronics connect and offer everything a Nikon AF lens would except autofocus. In the Z8 this is no big deal if you use “focus peaking.” In my opinion the results obtained are perfect. Very sharp all over. I think better than most of my Nikon glass.

Spectacular Bokeh at F1.4 and amazing center to corner sharpness at F4-5.6. Color is great, along with great contrast. Build quality is among the best. The weight is more than any standard 50mm, but the image quality is worth it. It's manual focus with a very long throw, but this helps finely tune focus. I use this on my Sony A7II, focus magnification and 5 axsis stabilization makes this lens a joy to use.

Thank you for the fast delivery and accurate delivery as a new product, but because the product was shipped in a plastic bag, the packaging was very poor and the product could be damaged or not work. The product was good.

I wanted to test this lens against the fantastic zeiss 15 classic before posting a review, I will say I am very excited to have this lens in my arsenal. it holds up nicely against the 15mm in micro contrast, sharpness, and excels over the legendary 15 in, flare control, shooting into the sun, portability, and the ability to use the 100x100 lee filter system. I also enjoy the focal length in that it is between the super dramatic wide angle of the 15mm yet still wider then the ideal landscape focal length of the 21, being the sweet spot for me if I only want to carry one wide angle. saw couple negative reviews on the internet on this lens though I am not seeing any negatives, it also makes excellent sunstars, I am going to test it out on stars tomorrow night as the weather clears and am feeling confident in its abilities. my only gripe is that it IS NOT HARD STOP as advertised and if you expect zeiss lenses to be at had stop AS ADVERTISED your fooling yourself. you would think that zeiss would have it together enough to deliver what they claim but it took me 3 15mm distagons to find one with hardstop, (meaning focus ring stops at infinity focus), come on ZEISS get it together. If I did not love there glass so much I would not still buy from them, my 21mm came needing a new cpu chip? my 15mm came with a sluggish irish and still needs to be repaired? am I a sucker or what! I have never had a problem with a plastic nikon lens. though when you get a zeiss kit that is working it is pure heaven and life changing.

I will definitely be buying more Zeiss lenses in the future. Overall the bokeh is very, very nice, especially out of focus highlights. The way this thing draws in general is just gorgeous. Manual focus shouldn't scare you away, It is definitely doable even without an aftermarket focus screen. (At least on a D610) the focus dot can be adjusted using the AF adjustment under settings. If you haven't noticed, the range of acceptable focus (according to the green dot) is kind of wide, (too wide for nailing f1.4) so I adjusted the confirmation dot to be just on the edge of coming on when focusing from near to far, and that has been working out great. If you're thinking about getting it, (you're probably going to anyway) here's another nudge.

Man I love this lens. Combined with my Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K, the imagery is just stunning. And this focal length (35mm) is the single most used lens in my set. There's plenty more technical detail out there on the interwebs if you need more detailed information. But I couldn't help but express my love for the Milvus lenses here.

Splendid 35 – best I've owned for any system. Far better constructed than any 35 currently or previously made for Nikon F mount, the weather sealing is very helpful, lens hood works like a dream, and it makes far more characterful images than any of Nikon's own lenses or the well-regarded Sigma 35 f1.4 Art. Also likely a better long-term investment than the Sigma if you can deal with manual focus and f2 speed.

I have had one copy of this lens for several years. Used it on Nikon D800E (36MP) and now [with FTZ adapter] on Nikon Z6II(24 MP), Z7II (42 MP) and Nikon Z8 (45 MP). Very much similar to the Zeiss Milvus 15mm: Nice color/contrast/overall look, but for most subjects, blurry at the far sides of the frame (maybe the last 3-4mm away from the center) where it never gets totally sharp, even after stopping the aperture down to f/8 or f/11. The newest competition in Nikon Z world is the Nikon Z 14-24/2.8 S zoom lens. This Nikon Z 14-24, as was true for the previous Nikon F 14-24/2.8G, stop for stop, gives a better impression of sharpness at the far sides of the frame compared to Milvus 15mm and 18mm. Of course, you lose the lovely Zeiss color rendition and snappy contrast. Note: This review based on 3 copies of the old Nikon F 14-24/2.8G, 2 copies of the Zeiss Milvus 15mm, 2 copies of the Nikon Z 14-24/2.8 S, and one copy of the Zeiss MIlvus 18mm. The extreme similarity in performance of my lone Milvus 18mm as compared to the 2 [rejected] copies of the Milvus 15mm leads me to believe that these have all been "good" copies.

Traumhafte Farbwiedergabe & Bokeh, ja Federleicht ist es nicht, aber ein gut verarbeiteter Panzer wiegt halt. zeigt ab & zu paar CAs bei hohen Kontrasten, stört mich nicht, es geht mir mehr um den Look/Charme. Man erkennt ein gutes Objektiv zB. an der Abbildung der Hautfarben und da ist das Zeiss auch Top Notch.

Optical and mechanical parts ara superb quality. You feel the level of engineering. Unfortunately, this manual lens is too difficult to use, because of its weight and manual focus needs precision as infinity is not at the mechanical end of the focus ring. Also, intended to use this manual focus lens with my F4, unfortunately the designer team didn't think of aperture ring indicator alignment with Nikon F series DSLR aperture window of the viewfinder. You need to look down to the lens if you’re using aperture ring with SLR cameras.

Ich habe eine Weile überlegt, wie ich das Milvus bewerten soll. Und ich bin zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass der Kauf des Milvus eine Herzensangelegenheit ist und sich nicht reinweg mit dessen (überragenden) optischen Leistungen begründen lässt. Ein Zeiss-Objektiv kauft man nicht, weil man es braucht, sondern weil man es will. Kühle Rechner werden angesichts der Preise einen weiten Bogen um die Zeiss-Milvus-Reihe machen. Es sieht zwar deutlich moderner aus, als die Objektive der Classic-Reihe, aber es ist und bleibt ein Zeiss-Objektiv der reinen Lehre. Kein Schnickschnack (AF oder Bildstabi), dafür viel Charakter (Bokeh), Liebe zum Detail (Samt in der GeLi) und dienlichen Neuerungen (Wetterschutz, Linsenvergütung). Ist es seinen Preis wert? Ja, auf jeden Fall. Ich für meinen Teil nutze es fast nur noch. Dennoch, ist der Kauf vernünftig und rational begründbar? Nein! Dafür ist es für ein Objektiv ohne AF schlichtweg zu teuer. Ich kann jedem potentiellen Käufer nur raten, sich mal ein Milvus auszuleihen und zu testen, ob man mit dem Konzept überhaupt warm wird.

When I received the lens delivery, the Amazon outer packaging was intact, but the original Zeiss box inside was damaged. The lens itself was not damaged and was in perfect condition. This is not the first Zeiss lens I have bought — I own several lenses from the Zeiss “Classic” series. The 15 mm f/2.8 ZF is currently the only lens from the Milvus series in my collection. I use it on a Canon DSLR via an adapter. The build quality of the lens is excellent. The aperture ring could be slightly wider, which would make it more comfortable to use. I also recommend replacing the 95 mm plastic front cap — the original Zeiss cap comes off easily when the camera with the lens is in a bag. It is therefore best to screw a protective filter onto the lens right away. The lens is quite heavy, but it fits comfortably in the hand. Even though this is a manual-focus lens, focusing is not a problem. I can easily set the focus to infinity, and with a quality adapter this causes no issues. The lens has good contrast and does not flare in sunlight.

Leider mußte ich das Objektiv zurückschicken. Es kamen damit keine scharfen Bilder zustande; je weiter das angezielte Objekt weg war, desto weniger scharf war das Bild. Das heißt, es handelte sich nicht um Front- oder Backfokus, sondern - offenbar - um eine Dejustage. (Die benutzte Kamera funktioniert einwandfrei.) Der Fehler erstaunt mich bei dieser Firma, scheint Zeiss aber auch anderweitig zu unterlaufen; Nasim Mansurov/photographylife berichtet sogar von einer "bad copy" des Otus 1.4/55. Dank an Amazon; die Rückabwicklung hat perfekt funktioniert. (Dafür gibt es Stern Nr. 2.)