Zeiss 28mm f/2 Distagon T* Manual Focus Lens

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 28mm f/2 Distagon T* closes the gap in the line of high-end lenses for analog or digital SLR cameras. This bright lens offers a popular wide-angle view, and has a minimum focusing distance of only 9.5" (24 cm). Thanks to the floating design, image quality remains almost consistent from the close-up range to infinity.

• High image quality in the close-up range makes this lens ideal for still life photography of small objects.

• 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 28mm f/2 Mounts available for Canon(ZE),  Nikon(ZF),  Pentax(ZK),  Leica & Zeiss(ZM), and Universal M42 Screw Mount(ZS) (See Links Below)

• 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

• Front & Rear Lens Caps
• Lens Hood
• 2-Year Warranty

The Best 28mm Lens Not Made By Nikon for its Manual Focusing SLRs, July 20, 2008

By John Kwok (New York, NY USA)

This fantastic Zeiss Distagon lens is a slightly improved version of the legendary Contax SLR Zeiss 28mm f2 Distagon which, unfortunately, was not produced as long as its f2.8 sibling. Without a doubt, this lens (or rather, the Zeiss version which I do own) is the best 28mm lens I know of for manual focusing Nikon SLR cameras. It offers superb contrast and resolution at virtually all apertures, with optimal performance at f4 and slower apertures. However, still at both f2 and f2.8, this lens demonstrates superb contrast and resolution from the center of the lens outward towards its edges. This is a great lens which I strongly recommend for available light photography, but I can also recommend it too for all-around, general purpose photography as well. Due to its superior T* multicoating and ample aperture blades (I believe either 9 or 10), it renders out-of-focus areas with a very pleasant, almost subtle, bokeh.

By Lloyd L. Chambers "http://diglloyd.com" (Portola Valley, CA USA)

Without a doubt, the ZF 28/2 Distagon has considerable "personality" which must be understood to exploit it fully. The Zeiss designs are clearly "artist's lenses"--they do not render images generically like the brand-name alternatives. Some of them draw so differently that the usual "by the numbers" comparisons are actually quite misleading. The ZF line offers image rendition unlike any other lens line, together with astonishing consistency in color rendition and flare control.

The 28/2 Distagon has some close-range field curvature which can be exploited to good effect, along with beautiful bokeh, stunning contrast and superb flare control.

The Zeiss 28/2 Distagon offers great artistic possibilities at f/2 (for several different optical reasons). By comparison, an f/2.8 lens has 1.4X the depth of field of an f/2 lens, and As a result loses such expressive potential. This is one reason that I wish Zeiss had made the 25/2.8 Distagon an f/2 design instead, and why a 20/f/1.4 would be appealing.