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ZEISS Otus ML 1.4/85

Portray your story.

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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 that 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. 

Designed for the art of portrait photography, with the Otus ML 1.4/85, you can isolate your subject beautifully, capturing the depth and detail that bring characters to life. This lens allows you to highlight powerful expressions, subtle emotions, and the finest details, portraying your subjects exactly as you see and feel them. Portray your story.

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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.

© Alexander Tobisch

Optical Excellence for Finest Details

The ZEISS Otus ML lenses represent unparalleled optical performance. Even at f/1.4, in challenging low-light conditions where your eyes might struggle, the lens reveals the finest details and textures with remarkable sharpness. 

Aspherical design

The aspherical lens design ensures consistent imaging performance throughout the entire focusing range as well as sharpness to the periphery of the image. The asphere's more complex surface profile can reduce or eliminate spherical aberration and also reduce other optical aberrations compared to a simple lens.

© Gabriel Santos

The Distinctive ZEISS Look

Experience the unmistakable visual language of the ZEISS Otus ML lenses. Thanks to impressive true color rendition, outstanding sharpness, and incomparable micro contrast, a picture look is created that appears almost three-dimensional - the characteristic ZEISS 3D Pop. 

© Wolf-Peter Steinheisser

Harmonious Bokeh

The ZEISS Otus ML series is characterized by an extraordinary shallow depth of field that directs the viewer's gaze precisely to what matters. At the same time, the wonderfully harmonious bokeh - shaped by ten aperture blades - creates smooth transitions, elegantly showcasing the stories' subjects.

Photography with Passion and Precision

Manual focusing is more than a method – it's an opportunity to connect deeply with your craft, giving you unparalleled control and creative freedom. With ZEISS Otus ML lenses, manual focusing becomes an experience itself. Based on the legendary Otus family, known as best-in-class manual prime lenses, the ZEISS Otus ML offer a uniquely precise mechanical design that gives photographers full control over their images. Focusing is controlled by a smooth, metal focus ring based on a helicoid mechanism. 

DeClick Feature

The ZEISS Otus ML series offers a practical DeClick function for seamless aperture control. By using the supplied tool and an adjustment screw on the bayonet surface, the locking mechanism can be disengaged, allowing for stepless and silent aperture adjustments. This enables smooth exposure transitions in video applications, ensuring precise brightness control while panning.

Highest craftsmanship for an unparalleled feel

The full metal construction of the ZEISS Otus ML lenses combines first-class craftsmanship with exceptional quality. The precise and easily readable scales in yellow allow for quick and accurate adjustments to maintain full control. This unique feeling of becoming one with your equipment is supported by the compact and lightweight design.

A Perfect Fit

The ZEISS Otus ML Lenses are optimized for the latest mirrorless camera systems with Sony1 E-, Canon2 RF-, and Nikon3 Z-Mount.

Performance

Focal length

85 mm

Aperture range

f/1.4 – f/16

Camera mount

Sony E-Mount | Canon RF-Mount | Nikon Z-Mount

Format compatibility

Full Frame

Focusing range

0,8 m (31.49") – ∞

Free working distance

0,68 m (26.77") – ∞

Angular field** (diag. | horiz. | vert.)

30° | 25° | 17°

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

E: 18 mm (0.70") | RF: 20 mm (0.78") | Z: 16 mm (0.62")

Entrance pupil position (front of image plane)

42.6 mm (1.68")

Features

Autofocus

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Image Stabilization

–

Physical

Filter thread

M77 x 0.75

Rotation angle of focusing ring

244°

Diameter max.

88 mm (3.46")

Diameter of focusing ring

E: 88 mm (3.46") | RF: 88 mm (3.46") | Z: 88 mm (3.46")

Length (with lens caps)

E: 127 mm (5.03") | RF: 126 mm (4.96") | Z: 129 mm (5.07")

Length (without lens caps)

E: 113 mm (4.44") | RF: 111 mm (4.37") | Z: 116 mm (4.56")

Weight

E: 1033 g (2.29 lbs) | RF: 1055 g (2.33 lbs) | Z: 1061 g (2.34 lbs)
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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

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When taking pictures, an optimal image is not the only consideration. Capturing that special experience also plays a key role. With their reliable functions, camera lenses from ZEISS ensure that photographers can fully concentrate on the image and composition, and bring their creativity to life. In order to perfect this experience, ZEISS now offers accessories tailored to the requirements of demanding photographers.

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