Carl Zeiss Milvus 85 mm f/1.4
11. Summary
- very solid and stylish casing,
- sensational image quality in the frame centre,
- excellent image quality on the edge of the APS-C/DX sensor,
- splendid image quality on the edge of full frame,
- perfect correction of chromatic aberration,
- good correction of spherical aberration,
- negligible distortion,
- imperceptible astigmatism,
- moderate vignetting on APS-C/DX,
- very nice appearance of out-of-focus images,
- sensible performance against bright light.
Cons:
- huge vignetting on full frame.
The tactics employed by Zeiss is interesting to say the least of it. First they showed the uncompromising Otus 1.4/85 with an outstanding quality, a lens produced without caring about the dimensions and the price but also one which has no rivals on the market.
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Practically one full year after that launch comes the Zeiss Milvus 85 mm f/1.4 and its producer proves that they can construct a device almost equally uncompromising but with smaller physical dimensions and for a price two times lower. From our part we don’t doubt the tested Milvus deserves our Editor’s Choice badge.
