ZEISS Otus 28mm f/1.4 ZE Lens for Canon EF

The best adapter is this one to use the ZEISS Otus 28mm f/1.4 ZE Lens for Canon EF on a A7 series camera, https://bhpho.to/46wH423. Note the mfr does not list that lens specific but should be find.

Hello Joshua. The Otus 28mm does not telescope, and with the additional of a screw-in adapter, you can easily use this lens with a matte box. We like to use a screw-in adapter that provides a 114 front clamp-on diameter to the lens. That way, multiple different matte boxes from various manufacturers like Wooden Camera, ARRI, Bright Tangerine, and others.

A tripod collar is only necessary with longer/telephoto lenses.

At worst, the flares will look artistic and beautiful ... everything is beautiful through that lens (not kidding !). But yes, stopping the lens down even to 1.8 will likely eliminate it.

The COI for the ZEISS Otus 1.4/38 is Japan.

The Zeiss Otus 1.4/28 focuses beyond infinity, as does the other Otus lenses. The special glass types used in the construction of the lens are sensitive to thermal expansion, so a hard stop would cause infinity problems at high temperatures.

Why are professional medium format or cinema lenses more expensive than consumer camera lenses? the latter have higher performance and more precise manufacturing specs. The higher optical quality the lens (sharpness, distortion, CA, micro contrast) the more it costs to make the lens. That is why professional medium format lenses are so expensive. For consumer lenses manufacturers try to balance performance at a price point general consumers can afford. Nikon and Canon have long has separate lines of cheap consumer and expensive pro lenses at two different price points. Zeisss standard DSLR lenses have a higher optical performance than most DSLR lenses. As more pros who had used digital medium format were moving to high res DSLRs There was a growing niche market for DSLR lenses that had that medium format performance. For the Otus line Zeiss told their designers to create as optically perfect of a lens as possible without any regard for the price point. in simpler terms perfection as if price was no object. They came up with the Otus. For people shooting professionally for art directors on professional high res cameras. The optical superiority of the Otus absolutely justifies the cost. For the average consumer, especially if they are using a lower res camera with lower optical specs, an Otus is a waste of money.

The Nikon F version rotates the same way as Nikon lenses (i.e. the scale reads from infinity on the left to MFD on the right) and the Canon EF version rotates the same way as Canon lenses (i.e. the scale reads from MFD on the left to infinity on the right).