Zeiss Milvus Primes (EF)

Zeiss Milvus Primes are designed for photographers and filmmakers seeking outstanding image quality, manual focus precision, and reliable, durable construction. Whether you're shooting stills or video, the Milvus lenses provide exceptional performance with minimal distortion, excellent bokeh, and a beautifully constructed build.

Key Features:

  • Optical Design: The Zeiss Milvus Primes are known for their outstanding optical performance, featuring a complex design that minimizes distortions like chromatic aberration and color fringing. They use advanced glass elements, such as aspherical and low-dispersion glass, for sharp images and natural bokeh. Multi-layer coatings reduce flare and ghosting, ensuring high contrast and clarity even in challenging lighting.

  • Aperture Range: It features wide apertures (f/1.4 to f/2.0), offering excellent low-light performance and a shallow depth of field for creative focus control. The 9-blade diaphragm creates smooth and pleasing bokeh.

  • Focus Throw: Milvus lenses have a long, precise focus throw, ideal for manual focus control and critical adjustments, making them perfect for cinematography and high-end photography. The well-dampened focus ring ensures a smooth, tactile experience.

  • Advanced Optical Design: It features an advanced optical design for excellent performance at both wide-open and stopped-down apertures, making them ideal for stills and video. Floating elements and coatings reduce aberrations, ensuring consistent image quality across the entire frame.

  • Build Quality: It is built with durable metal housings and weather-sealed designs, making it reliable in various conditions. They offer a professional-grade feel with precise manual focus and aperture rings, ensuring long-lasting performance in demanding situations.

Image Quality:

The Zeiss Milvus Primes offer exceptional sharpness, contrast, and color fidelity, thanks to advanced optical elements such as aspherical and low-dispersion glass. They minimize distortions and provide crisp, clear images with rich detail, even at wide apertures. With multi-layer coatings to reduce flare and ghosting, these lenses offer vibrant, true-to-life colors and excellent low-light performance, while their wide apertures (f/1.4 to f/2.0) allow for precise control over focus and subject isolation.

Physical Characteristics:

The Milvus Primes are built with durable metal housings and weather-sealed construction, ensuring reliability in tough conditions. Their smooth, long-focus throw allows precise adjustments, ideal for cinematography and photography. The click-less aperture ring provides seamless exposure control, making these lenses perfect for video work. Overall, they offer a robust, ergonomic design for professional use in both stills and video.

For more detailed specifications and availability, please visit the Zeiss Milvus Primes official website.

5 Lens Kit $ 200 /day

Technical Specifications

  • F/ 2.8
    CF 0.25 m
    OD 90 mm
    WEIGHT 721 g
    LENGTH 4.31 in
    MOUNT EF
    FORMAT Full Frame

  • F/ 1.4
    CF 0.45 m
    OD 83 mm
    WEIGHT 922 g
    LENGTH 3.84 in
    MOUNT EF
    FORMAT Full Frame

  • F/ 1.4
    CF 0.25 m
    OD 95 mm
    WEIGHT 1225 g
    LENGTH 4.82 in
    MOUNT EF
    FORMAT Full Frame

  • F/ 1.4
    CF 0.80 m
    OD 90 mm
    WEIGHT 1280 g
    LENGTH 4.45 in
    MOUNT EF
    FORMAT Full Frame

  • F/ 2.0
    CF 0.44 m
    OD 81 mm
    WEIGHT 843 g
    LENGTH 4.09 in
    MOUNT EF
    FORMAT Full Frame