3rd Party Primes: Zeiss

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3rd Party Primes: Zeiss

Switching over to zeiss, which means german lenses that are manual focus, and so they make a number of just beautiful primes, and we're not going to go into each one of them, so I'm just going to bring them all up one time they can all come out and take a bow. These lenses like this, I would just say the same thing about all of them it's, manual focus, it's really sharp and the manual focus feel of focusing is buttery, smooth, beautiful, it's fantastic on here. So all of these lenses are really good for anyone that doesn't mind manual focusing, and so they make a number like an eighteen nikon doesn't have an eighteen they used to have in eighteen, but if you really wanted in eighteen, this would be a great place to look at it. Beautiful eighty five one fours and twos. We're going to talk about a few more their lenses a little bit more in detail when we get to the macro lenses, but some really great stuff is on the more spendy side, so most of their lenses are a thousand dollars to two ...

thousand dollars a few of them are less than a thousand dollars there are two specials iceland's is that we should talk about. They have funny names the otis so the otis lands is a special lens that zeiss recently came out with and their goal was to create the best standard lands in the world they said okay, no rules were going to do whatever it takes to make the best standard lens in the world and we want to make it a fifty millimeter lands and they figured out that it can't be fifty if we want to make it the best we're going to make it a fifty five to make it optically just the sharpest thing out there and so this lens has been selling quite well with nikon d eight ten and eight hundred users people who have thirty six megapixels and they want as much quality as possible now this is a two point three pound lands this is a shot put of a lens it is a very heavy big land this is not what you want to be walking around in a large city for hours and hours and our this is something that a lot of times people will be using in the studio for photography you know if you're going to be photographing a ferrari with the d a ten this is probably the lens that you might want on that and so it compares a little bit with the fifty eight one four but look at the price you do pay a very pretty price for this lands and so this was the first of their otis siri's. The next lens that they came out with is they wanted to create the best short telephoto in the world. And so for somebody who wants the ultimate, in short, telephoto sharpness, the eighty five one four is going to do that. Now, if I haven't mentioned it before, the fifty five, eighty five are manual focus lenses, and so there is no auto focusing on this. They have created lenses that have been tested and verified, as these are the best that you can, that you can possibly by and for people who really want the highest resolution. They are selling quite well. I mean, these or not, but you're going to find around the streets most of the time, but they are out there. There are people who are using these, and they're just fantastic quality, absolute, fantastic quality.

Class Description

Lessons

1. Nikon Lens Class Introduction
2. Nikon Lens Basics
3. Focal Length: Angle of View
4. Focal Length: Normal Lenses

   John Greengo goes in-depth on the difference focal lengths make when shooting with a Nikon® lens.

5. Focal Length: Wide Angle Lenses
6. Focal Length: Telephoto Lens
7. Focal Length Rule of Thumb
8. Field of View
9. Aperture Basics
10. Equivalent Aperture
11. Depth of Field
12. Maximum Sharpness
13. Starburst
14. Hyper Focal Distance
15. Nikon Mount Systems
16. Nikon Cine Lenses
17. Nikon Lens Design
18. Focusing and Autofocus with Nikon Lenses
19. Nikon Lens Vibration Reduction
20. Image Quality
21. Aperture Control and General Info
22. Nikon Standard Zoom Lenses
23. Nikon Super Zoom Lenses
24. Nikon Wide Angle Lenses
25. Nikon Telephoto Zoom Lenses
26. 3rd Party Zooms Overview
27. 3rd Party Zooms: Sigma
28. 3rd Party Zooms: Tamron
29. 3rd Party Zooms: Tokina

1. Nikon Prime Lens: Normal
2. Nikon Prime Lens: Wide Angle
3. Nikon Prime Lens: Ultra-Wide
4. Nikon Prime Lens: Short Telephoto
5. Nikon Prime Lens: Medium Telephoto
6. Nikon Prime Lens: Super Telephoto
7. 3rd Party Primes: Sigma
8. 3rd Party Primes: Zeiss
9. 3rd Party Primes: Samyang
10. Lens Accessories: Filters
11. Lens Accessories: Lens Hood
12. Lens Accessories: Tripod Mount
13. Lens Accessories: Extension Tubes
14. Lens Accessories: Teleconverters
15. Macro Photography
16. Nikon Micro Lens Selection
17. Fisheye Lenses
18. Tilt Shift Photography Overview
19. Tilt Shift Lenses
20. Building a Nikon System
21. Making a Choice: Nikon Portrait Lenses
22. Making a Choice: Nikon Sport Lenses
23. Making a Choice: Nikon Landscape Lenses
24. Nikon Lens Systems
25. Lens Maintenance
26. Buying and Selling Lenses
27. Final Q&A
28. What's in the Frame