Description
The Carl Zeiss range of T* lenses offers high standards in terms of performance, reliability and, of course, image quality. You can count on highly advanced flare control for crisp and brilliant images. And virtually zero geometric distortion, ensuring precise accuracy when reproducing shapes, especially useful when photographing products and architecture.
The Zeiss 25mm f/2.8 Distagon T* offers a popular wide-angle view, and has an extremely close minimum focusing distance of 6.7" (17 cm). Allows the creative photographer to shoot wider vistas, inspiring landscapes, cityscapes and architecture.
Compatible with Nikon's F (AI-S) bayonet SLR system.
• Control of flare and ghosting are outstanding, so that even extreme highlights in the image field do not affect the quality of the image.
• Precise mechanism enables exact manual focusing.
• Carl Zeiss T* lens coating.
Zeiss 25mm f/2.8 Lens Mounts for Canon(ZE), Nikon(ZF), Pentax(ZK), Leica & Zeiss(ZM), and Universal M42 Screw Mount(ZS) (See Links Below)
Features
• Nikon F Mount Manual Focus Lens
• Can Only Be Used in Manual Exposure Mode on Digital Nikon SLRS
• Can be Used with Aperture Priority or Manual Exposure Mode on Nikon Film SLRS
• Lens are AI-S style mount - no electronics
Reviews
The Best Moderate Wide Angle Lens Available to Nikon SLR Owners, November 25, 2007
By John Kwok (New York, NY USA)
This review is from: Carl ZEISS Distagon T* - Wide-angle lens - 25 mm - f/2.8 ZF - Nikon F (Electronics)
In collaboration with the Japanese firm Cosina, Zeiss has developed a series of Nikon F-mount lenses (which are also available, to a less extent, in Pentax Screw "S" and Bayonet "K" mounts) that are more than refined versions of its late, lamented Contax/Yashica-mount SLR Carl Zeiss lenses. The second lens issued in this collaboration, the 25mm f2.8 ZF Distagon lens, is an updated version of the original Contax SLR 25mm f2.8 Distagon, which is based upon the original 25mm Distagon designed back in the mid 1960s for the Contarex SLR system. It is heavier than its predecessor, with a slightly wider filter thread (58mm versus 55mm).
But, like its critically acclaimed predecessor, it is a superb lens, and, quite possibly, the best 24mm/25mm lens currently available (While I have not shot with this lens, I am quite familiar with its predecessor, since I own - and have used for many years - a 25mm f2.8 Distagon, whose impressive optical performance led me eventually to switch from Nikon to Contax.). This new 25mm Distagon lens (just like its Contax predecessor) easily out-performs current and past 24mm f2.8 Nikkor lenses, especially wide-open at f2.8, showing substantially greater resolution and higher contrast. Anyone who owns a Nikon digital SLR camera that accepts Nikon manual focusing AI/AI-S lenses - as well as those who own manual focusing Nikon SLRs from the Nikon F onwards - should strongly consider adding this fine lens to their kit (The only major negative feature of this lens which may dissuade potential purchasers is that it does not come with a proprietary Nikon digital chip; Nikon did not give Zeiss permission to "chip" this lens.).
