Affording an especially broad, 18mm equivalent field of view, the Sony E-mount Touit 12mm f/2.8 from ZEISS is a prime wide-angle lens well-suited for landscape, architecture, and interior shooting. A sophisticated Distagon optical design includes two aspherical elements and three low dispersion elements, which help to control a variety of aberrations, distortion, and color fringing in order to produce sharp, well-corrected imagery. A floating elements system is used, too, to maintain consistent image quality throughout the focusing range. Individual elements also receive a ZEISS T* anti-reflective coating to suppress flare and ghosting for greater contrast and color accuracy when working in strong lighting conditions. Additionally, suiting both photo and video use, this lens incorporates a DC autofocus motor to deliver especially fast, quiet, and precise focusing performance.
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Key Features
- E-Mount Lens/APS-C Format
- 18mm (35mm Equivalent)
- Aperture Range: f/2.8 to f/22
- Two Aspherical Elements
Affording an especially broad, 18mm equivalent field of view, the Sony E-mount Touit 12mm f/2.8 from ZEISS is a prime wide-angle lens well-suited for landscape, architecture, and interior shooting. A sophisticated Distagon optical design includes two aspherical elements and three low dispersion elements, which help to control a variety of aberrations, distortion, and color fringing in order to produce sharp, well-corrected imagery. A floating elements system is used, too, to maintain consistent image quality throughout the focusing range. Individual elements also receive a ZEISS T* anti-reflective coating to suppress flare and ghosting for greater contrast and color accuracy when working in strong lighting conditions. Additionally, suiting both photo and video use, this lens incorporates a DC autofocus motor to deliver especially fast, quiet, and precise focusing performance.
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ZEISS Touit 12mm f/2.8 Overview
Wide-angle prime is designed for APS-C-format Sony E-mount mirrorless cameras and provides an 18mm equivalent focal length.
Bright f/2.8 maximum aperture suits working in available-light conditions and is also ideal for astrophotography use.
Distagon optical concept affords high sharpness, well-corrected image quality from edge-to-edge, and very low field curvature.
The optical design utilizes three anomalous partial dispersion elements to reduce color fringing and chromatic aberrations for increased clarity and color fidelity.
Two aspherical elements control distortion and spherical aberrations in order to produce greater sharpness and more accurate rendering.
ZEISS T* anti-reflective coating has been applied to each lens surface to help minimize reflections and provide greater contrast and color fidelity.
Floating elements system helps to maintain consistent image quality throughout the entire focusing range, from 7.1" to infinity.
DC autofocus motor delivers quick and quiet focusing performance to suit both stills and video shooting applications.
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ZEISS Touit 12mm f/2.8 Reviews
Fantastic Lens
By Allan
Rated 5 out of 5
Date: 2024-11-14
I haven't used Zeiss lenses since my film days with my Hasselblad medium format cameras. Recently, I wasn't wowed using a 100mm Zeiss on my Leica M 11, but am totally overwhelmed by the Touit 12mm f/2.8. It is a perfect choice for my Fuji X-T50. It responds perfectly to my settings and the photographs are consistently as sharp as I want them. I recommend this lens to you without any reservation.
Zeiss does it right
By Joel
Rated 5 out of 5
Date: 2023-03-02
I've owned numerous Zeiss lenses over the years and they have always been stellar. I might have given this 4.5 because the aperture ring isn't stiff enough and will sometimes move but it's optically fabulous. At normal working distances it's very good/excellent right to the corners from f4.0-11.0. Center is razor sharp throughout. Unless you're doing big enlargements (which I do) it's good wide open too. I shoot full time for my living so my gear is important. Not sure how it would be wide open in the corners for something like astrophotography. I don't use it for that. It's beautiful aesthetically, especially with the matched hood. Additionally I had to give it back a half star for it's performance shooting infrared. That's a niche thing but I shoot a lot of infrared. I use it on Fuji bodies (X-T5) and Fuji doesn't have much in ultra wide that is both good with standard photography AND infrared.
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How well would this lens be expected to perform for shooting the milky way? I am currently shooting with the kit 18-35mm lens and am looking to take get better image quality when shooting at night than i can achieve with the kit lense. Is there a compatible Nex7 lens that would be recommended before this one? I don't mind if it would require an adapter, just looking for a good night photography lens with a reasonable price.
In this focal range and price range I would say this is the best you could opt for to give you improved image quality over your 18-35mm kit lens. Sony offers a 16mm f2.8 lens but it would not give you the same field of view as this lens would, and the optical quality of this Zeiss lens is much greater than the Sony 16mm option.
Date published: 2018-08-28
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Will this lens work on the new FF Sony E-mount cameras?
The Zeiss Touit 12mm f/2.8 Lens (Sony E-Mount) can be used on the full frame Sony E mount cameras, though the cameras will crop down to an APS-C size sensor mode. This lens is not designed to cover a full frame sensor.
Date published: 2018-08-28
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What firmware version is installed on this lens?
Our stock is updated with the latest firmware.
Date published: 2019-04-15
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If I use this on my Sony Fs700 will it be cropped since the Fs700 is a super 35? I'm debating on buying it but not sure about its ability to perform in terms of video.
There shouldnt be vignetting, no. Super 35 is roughly the same size as APS-C.
Date published: 2018-08-28
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Anybody know if the lenses in the B&H stock have the newest firmware?
Our stock is updated with the latest firmware.
Date published: 2018-11-05
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Does this item come with an international warranty, or for the US only?
The lens comes with a 2-year USA limited warranty. If you are outside of the United States, please check with the manufacturer locally, to see if they will honor the USA warranty. This is entirely up to the discretion of the manufacture in question and out of the control of B&H.
Date published: 2018-08-28
Can this lens be used on a full frame sensor?
Can this lens be used on a full frame sensor?
The ZEISS Touit lens will work on any Sony E mount camera. If the camera uses a FF sensor, the camera will recognize the lens is designed for APS-C sensors and will automatically crop the image. This feature can be turned off and the user can crop the image manually.
Date published: 2019-03-19
Can this lens take advantage of the new 40 mp on ...
Can this lens take advantage of the new 40 mp on the XT5?
The ZEISS Touit 12mm f/2.8 Lens for FUJIFILM X should have no issues handling the full 40 MP on the Fujifilm X-T5.
Date published: 2022-11-21