Hey everyone Adam here over at the Digital Goja showroom today we're gonna
take a first look at the zeiss batis 40 millimeter f/2 for the full-frame Sony
mirrorless camera system stay tuned
So prior to the introduction of the 40
Zeiss had four different lenses in the batis lineup they offered it 18, 25, 85
and 135 millimeter lens and photographers were requesting to have a
normal focal length lens introduced into the lineup and that's where Zeiss
introduced the 40 millimeter lens now this focal length is extremely versatile
it's great for shooting travel landscape you can shoot great portraits with this
lens and you can even do macro photography which we're gonna get into
in just a moment now if you're interested in purchasing the zeiss batis
lines check out the links down below we're gonna have it listed for you in an
exclusive bundle from Digital Goja like I mentioned in the introduction the
lens is designed specifically for the full-frame mirrorless cameras from Sony
but you can also use it on your crop sensor camera as well where you get an
equivalent field of view of 60 millimetres so that's cameras like the a
6500 that I have over here or your a6000 or 6300 now this follows the distagon
optical formula it has nine elements and eight groups and it has a nine blade
around a diaphragm for smooth bokeh effect now this lens also has the t-star
coating to reduce glare and ghosting especially when shooting with a backlit
subject now what makes this lens so versatile as the fact that you can focus
up really close you can focus as close as 9.5 inches from your subject matter
with a maximum reproduction ratio of one to three point three so although this is
not a true macro lens it does allow you to get some great detail shots of your
subject matter and also something that's going to separate this loans from other
batis Lenses is the fact that it has a focusing limiter switch on the side of
the lens this is going to give you the ability to do some precise autofocus
talking about full auto focus it has a linear autofocus motor for manual focus
it's going to be focus by wire and that's where Zeiss has
the best implementation of this in the industry it's extremely precise you have
long rotation and to assist you in manual focus it does have an OLED
display this is going to give you your focusing distance and depth of field
preview now talking about compatibility this lens is fully compatible with all
the auto focusing modes of Sony Sony's been known for their great auto focus
and especially with their current updates rolling out with their improved
iaf tracking this is going to work seamlessly with the system and I can't
wait to try this lens out especially with the new 6400 that's coming out all
right so if we take a look at its build and construction it's an all-metal
design and it has dust and moisture resistant seals it's lightweight in fact
it weighs under a pound at twelve point seven three ounces so it's a perfect
match and it's balanced for your Sony mirrorless system now this lens doesn't
have optical stabilization but it's fully compatible with the in-body
stabilization of your Sony camera so if you're working with the 6500 or the
full-frame a7 series cameras it's going to work well with that but if you if you
want to use it on a gimbal this lens the fact that it's lightweight is gonna work
really well with a lot of the gimbals that are out there so that about wraps
up our first look on the Zeiss 40 millimeter f/2 batis I hope you
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