Description
The flexible all-rounder
Loxia 2/50
Our compact standard lens for full frame Sony ?7 cameras. Revel in the exceptional feel of precise manual focus, giving you unparalleled creative freedom at your fingertips.
ZEISS Loxia 2/50
The flexible all-rounder
A 50mm lens was legendary photographer Cartier Bressons favourite. The reason is simple: this focal length provides the equivalent field of view of the human eye on a 35mm camera, which makes for a very natural perspective. Compact, light and extremely flexible, the ZEISS Loxia 2/50 shines in the most varied of applications. Regardless of whether its for street photography, landscapes, portraits or spontaneous discoveries, the ZEISS Loxia 2/50 is the ideal companion for photographic and filmic exploration.
ZEISS Loxia lenses were specifically designed for Sony ?7 cameras. This means that they can make the most of the mirrorless, full frame system, while giving you all the creative possibilities of classic photography with manual focus at the same time.
And thats not all: ZEISS Loxia lenses also provide everything you need to shoot high quality video, such as the unique DeClick feature for smooth adjustment of the aperture, for example.
Design
Loxia 2/50
The famous symmetric lens design invented by Dr. Paul Rudolph at ZEISS in 1896. The Planar lens is the most successful camera lens design and, by the way, the most plagiarized ever created. It provides the lens designer with numerous means to correct aberrations extraordinarily well. And its performance is very constant over a wide range of imaging ratios, enabling such a versatile lens variety as the Makro-Planar lens.
Features
Loxia 2/50
DeClick feature
One completely new feature of the Loxia lens is that you can declick the apertures locking mechanism using a tool (supplied) and an adjustment screw on the bayonet surface. This means that for video applications, you can smoothly eliminate any unwanted differences in brightness as you pan the camera. This feature can also be used with other video systems whose size makes them suitable for adaption.
Precise manual focus
Manually focusing a lens means controlling the image result from your fingertips. A good ergonomic design makes all the difference. ZEISS lenses stand out with their large rotation angle which enables precise focusing. Changes are immediately visible in the viewfinder.The high-quality focusing mechanism moves smoothly without play, thus also supporting the intuitive interaction
with the focal plane. The precise engraving in meter and feet, and the depth of focus scale provide additional support for manually focusing.
Virtually distortion-free optics
Dramatic perspectives and a view from extraordinary image angles ZEISS lenses open up new composition possibilities. Distortion would disrupt the composition because straight lines, whose image does not go through the image center, would be reproduced with a curved shape. This annoying effect is accordingly and largely compensated through elaborate
optical designs at all focal lengths.
High-grade full-metal casing
Tangible quality that holds its value is what qualifies ZEISS lenses for decades of hard use. A
precision-engineered full-metal casing, grippy focus and aperture rings made of metal, and a tough front bayonet and filter screw guarantee stunning photographic results. A special sealing ring on the bayonet also protects the interface between the camera and the lens.
Full frame compatible
ZEISS lenses are suitable for digital Sony Alpha cameras and have been optimized for film
and sensors up to full 35 mm format (24 x 36 mm).
Specification :
Focal length 50 mm
Aperture range f/2.0 f/22
Focusing range 0.45 m – ?
Number of elements/groups 4-Jun
Angular field, diag./horiz./vert. 46.78 / 39.38 / 26.70
Coverage at close range 255.1 mm x 168.3 mm
Filter thread M52 x 0.75
Dimensions (with caps) 66.2 mm
Diameter of focusing ring 62.1 mm
Weight 320 g
Camera mounts E-Mount