ZEISS announces new Otus 100mm f/1.4 lens

The ZEISS Otus 100 mm f/1.4 is the latest addition to the Otus line. The 100 mm joins the 28 mm f/1.4, 55 mm f/1.4 and the 85 mm f/1.4.

The Otus series of lenses are all manual focus lenses and are available for Canon EF and Nikon F. With adapters they can easily be used on other camera systems.

Although the Otus 100mm f/1.4 was developed for 35mm full-frame cameras, ZEISS says the lens gives you the quality and look of a medium format system.

Because this lens is apochromatic, chromatic aberrations (axial chromatic aberrations) are corrected with special glass elements with anomalous partial dispersion. Chromatic aberrations are therefore significantly below the defined limits. ZEISS claims that bright-dark transitions in the image, and especially highlights, are reproduced almost completely without color artifacts.

Aberrations caused by extreme differences between shadows and reflections are particularly obvious in images captured at night. ZEISS says that thanks to excellent correction of lateral chromatic aberration, complex shots can be produced with absolute perfection.

Light sources located in front of or behind the focusing plane present particular challenges for each lens. In the case of the ZEISS Otus, the longitudinal chromatic aberration is so low that virtually no color fringing occurs.

ZEISS says the aspheric lens design ensures consistent imaging performance throughout the focusing range, as well as sharpness at the image periphery. The more complex surface profile of the sphere can reduce or eliminate spherical aberration and also reduces other optical aberrations compared to a simple lens.

The official price has not been shown yet, but it could be between $4000 and $5000, if we take into account the rest of the lenses of the Otus series.