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or buy Sony 55 1.8 and be 99% there and have autofocus and save money.

Seriously.
 
The Nikon one will be more versatile since it will have an aperture ring.

However, one has to ask "why?"... Why on earth would you want to mount a huge, heavy, optically immense lens on a humble little camera like an A7II? As another poster commented, get the 55/1.8 and be done with it. It is an excellent lens. Not 99% of the Otus, but maybe 90%. Nice and sharp.
 
antono yuwono said:
I want to buy otus lenses, which is better :

buy otus for canon and use converter or buy the one for nikon and use converter also..

or is there another better way?

The camera i want to use the otus is sony a7 mark 2
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The Nikon lens is more versatile; you can use it on E-Mount, Leica M-mount, Canon EOS, all through adapters, as well as on Nikon bodies.

The Canon lens can't be used on Nikon bodies.

Some Otus 55 pics:

50 Summilux & 55 Otus on the Sony a7S - the last word

After yesterday's test of the Leica 28 mm f/2.8 Elmarit ASPH I'm no longer sanguine about how rangefinder lenses -- which, fo me means Leica M-mount lenses -- will do on the Sony a7S. I think each one has to be tried, at least until the focal lengths exceed 75 or 90mm. I thought I'd
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Some Zony 55 pics:

Leica 50 ‘lux on the M240, Sony 55 FE on the Sony a7 - the last word

I’d had really good luck with the Zony 55 (official name: Carl Zeiss 55mm f/1.8 Sonnar FE) on the a7R, and I expected superlative results on the less-demanding a7. Just to make things interesting, I compared the combination to the Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux-M ASPH on the M240. In some ways, it’s...
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I won't ask why. But I would recommend the Nikon version since it has an aperture ring. The Otus will be an all manual affair, and a mechanical aperture seems very logic for me. And, if you for some reason ever want to use the mighty Otus on a Canon or Nikon DSLR, only the Nikon version will be adaptable to both.
 
MisterHairy said:
The Nikon one will be more versatile since it will have an aperture ring.

However, one has to ask "why?"... Why on earth would you want to mount a huge, heavy, optically immense lens on a humble little camera like an A7II? As another poster commented, get the 55/1.8 and be done with it. It is an excellent lens. Not 99% of the Otus, but maybe 90%. Nice and sharp.
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I used the Otus 55 on an a7R for a series on fire engines:

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Why not the Zony 55? Aside from the admittedly small optical deltas, there were operational reasons.

These were focus stacked, and the Zony focus-by-wire doesn't have DOF markings (which I derate), focus distance indication, or precise small difference adjustment.

More from that series here:

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antono yuwono said:
I want to buy otus lenses, which is better :

buy otus for canon and use converter or buy the one for nikon and use converter also..

or is there another better way?

The camera i want to use the otus is sony a7 mark 2

thanks
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With the EF mount you can utilize a Metabones 4 and have full control of aperture on-camera.

Full auto metering. Also get (slow AF) and full EXIF data.

With the F mount you will need one of the "dumb" adaptors. This will require stop-down metering and no EXIF.

BUT - as explained above, a more universal lens as it has an aperture ring. Possibly easier to sell?

I am struggling with the same issue and the Distagons.
 
You will not get AF as it is a manual focus lens, as are the ZE/ZF.2 Distagons.
 
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Hello

I use Otus 85 with novoflex adapter. Easy to use especially to A7mk2, because focus enlargement is stapilized. Spectacular lens.
 
The Otus 85 is a little awkward handheld on the alpha 7 series, but it works a whole lot better on them handheld than on a DSLR:

Otus 85mm on the a7R & D810 - the last word

I’ve been using the 85 mm f/1.4 Zeiss Otus recently. It is, I believe, an even better lens than the 55 mm. It’s not just that it is so sharp, or so contrasty or so free from distortion – the images just look right. The photographic term of art for this is that the lens
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antono yuwono said:
I want to buy otus lenses, which is better :

buy otus for canon and use converter or buy the one for nikon and use converter also..

or is there another better way?

The camera i want to use the otus is sony a7 mark 2

thanks
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buy the Sony Zeiss 55 1.8 and don't look back.
 
Many thanks for your info Jim,

Now may I expand a bit on the subject of the Otus...

If you have a choice now, would you rather buy the Otus, or.. buy a Pentax 645z, (because if we can buy

Otus, i think we can also buy the Pentax----i know still double the price, but with the Pentax we also get a good lens kit)

What will be your main consideration..IQ or what..

Thanks
 
antono yuwono said:
Many thanks for your info Jim,

Now may I expand a bit on the subject of the Otus...

If you have a choice now, would you rather buy the Otus, or.. buy a Pentax 645z, (because if we can buy

Otus, i think we can also buy the Pentax----i know still double the price, but with the Pentax we also get a good lens kit)

What will be your main consideration..IQ or what..
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I'm scared of Pentax's US support, and find the lens line to be a bit confused, with modern, expensive lenses, and older, cheaper ones. Tex, if you're reading this, could you provide commentary?

Also, it's not clear to me that the 645Z, with any currently-available lens, will provide materially better IQ than a D810 and one of the Otii, and the Otii have the potential to be used on lots of bodies, and I'd really rather not embark on a new system at this point. I'm hoping 50+ MP bodies from Nikon and Sony will close the gap to nothing -- or maybe the Otii will be better; it's hard to tell how good they really are on 36 MP cameras.

I've got an H1, a H2D-39, and a bunch of Hassy V and H lenses gathering dust, so I'm once-bitten, twice shy.

Jim
 
JimKasson said:
The Otus 85 is a little awkward handheld on the alpha 7 series, but it works a whole lot better on them handheld than on a DSLR:
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From your blog:

"With the alpha 7R electronic viewfinder, things are different. Focus peaking works quite well, although I reiterate my request – are you listening Sony? – to be able to assign buttons on the camera to change the focus peaking sensitivity, so there is no setting appropriate for all subjects."

One may assign a button to "peaking sensitivity" as well as assigning a slot to that function on the Function Menu.
 
Graham Best said:
JimKasson said:
The Otus 85 is a little awkward handheld on the alpha 7 series, but it works a whole lot better on them handheld than on a DSLR:
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From your blog:

"With the alpha 7R electronic viewfinder, things are different. Focus peaking works quite well, although I reiterate my request – are you listening Sony? – to be able to assign buttons on the camera to change the focus peaking sensitivity, so there is no setting appropriate for all subjects."

One may assign a button to "peaking sensitivity" as well as assigning a slot to that function on the Function Menu.
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Thanks. That doesn't really do what I'd like. I want to press a button and cycle through the sensitivity choices, not press a button which brings up an menu, press the up or down buttons, then press the center one.

In case its not obvious, I'd rather not look at menus in the field at all.

Jim
 
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