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While we no longer rent this product, we do carry the Zeiss Milvus ZE 35mm f/1.4. You may also find alternatives in the Recommended section on the left-hand side of this page.
Advanced optical design for high-quality images
Great low-light performance and shallow depth of field
Manual focus with internal-focusing mechanism
Nine-blade curved aperture
The Zeiss ZE 35mm f/1.4 is a very fast wide-angle manual-focus lens. Looking for a newer version of this lens? Check out the Zeiss Milvus ZE 35mm f/1.4. Key features include:
Fast Aperture. The f/1.4 aperture provides stellar low-light performance with a shallow depth-of-field. The nine-blade curved aperture produces extremely pleasing bokeh.
Advanced Optical Design. The Zeiss ZE Distagon 35mm f/1.4 for Canon contains Zeiss’s typically excellent optical design. Its T* anti-reflective coatings help to produce high-quality, high-microcontrast images with accurate colors across the entire focusing range. Images remain sharp even at the edges, and there’s almost no distortion or aberration.
Manual Focus. This lens sports a precise, ergonomically designed manual-focusing mechanism with a large angle of rotation. An all-metal lens housing gives the ZE 35mm f/1.4 a premium feel.
Sale of Zeiss ZE Lenses. We’re a registered Zeiss dealer and sell new, in-box, fully warrantied Zeiss ZE lenses in our For Sale section. If the lens is listed, we have a new, in-box copy of it in stock for immediate shipment. If it’s not listed, it’s backordered, but we still have rental copies available.
Zeiss Try and Buy. We offer a new service with ZE lenses only. First, rent any ZE lens for four days. Then, if you decide you want to buy it, we will apply your four-day rental fee to the purchase of a brand-new copy at our listed price. (Please note that this isn’t your used rental copy. You’ll be buying a new lens.)
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Some of you already know I love this lens so I may have some trouble being objective about it. But I’ll try by doing some negatives first: It’s big and heavy. At nearly 5 inches long and 1.8 pound...
Some of you already know I love this lens so I may have some trouble being objective about it. But I’ll try by doing some negatives first: It’s big and heavy. At nearly 5 inches long and 1.8 pounds its going to be the biggest prime in your bag probably. And pixel for pixel, the 35mm f2 is sharper at 2.0 than this lens is at f/1.4. By a hair. And the Canon or Nikon 35 f1.4s certainly have as much resolution wide open, so there’s no reason to get the Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 just for wide open resolution.
After that, though, I’m all about this lens. It preserves sharpness well out to the edges with almost no distortion, very little aberration and vignetting for an f/1.4 lens. At f2.0 it’s the sharpest 35mm I’ve shot with, including the ones mentioned above. The bokeh is like butter, as nice as anything I’ve shot with and definitely better (in my opinion) than the Canon or Nikon 35 f/1.4s, but that gets subjective.
I love it. I use it constantly. But one thing I will note for anyone considering it: you need to be ready to manually focus. Focus confirmation lights are nice, but at f/1.4 they aren’t accurate. (To see for yourself use them focusing on the same object from near and from far. It will clearly be two different places that the camera claims focus confirmation.) So if you use this lens be prepared for some live-view focusing. At f/1.4 you won’t have much chance of accurately focusing through the viewfinder.
Angle of View | 62 degrees |
Aperture | f1.4-16 |
Brand | Zeiss |
Dimensions | Length: 4.7" |
Filter Style | nonrotating front element |
Focusing System | Internal focusing, nonrotating, manual |
Groups/Elements | 9/11 |
Maximum Magnification | .20x |
Weather Resistant | No |
Weight | 1.8 lb |
Angle of View | 62 degrees |
Aperture | f1.4-16 |
Brand | Zeiss |
Dimensions | Length: 4.7" |
Filter Style | nonrotating front element |
Focusing System | Internal focusing, nonrotating, manual |
Groups/Elements | 9/11 |
Maximum Magnification | .20x |
Weather Resistant | No |
Weight | 1.8 lb |
Lensrentals.com offers rentals ranging in length from 1 to 90 days. The shopping cart will automatically update the quoted price as you adjust the length of your rental. Our most common rental periods are shown below:
Rental Period | Lenscap+ | Rental Price | Total Price | Price Per Day (Approx.) |
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3 days | $13.00 | $54.00 | $67.00 | $22.33 |
4 days | $14.00 | $58.00 | $72.00 | $18.00 |
7 days | $18.00 | $77.00 | $95.00 | $13.57 |
10 days | $24.00 | $104.00 | $128.00 | $12.80 |
14 days | $32.00 | $135.00 | $167.00 | $11.93 |
21 days | $42.00 | $181.00 | $223.00 | $10.62 |
30 days | $53.00 | $227.00 | $280.00 | $9.33 |
45 days | $69.00 | $296.00 | $365.00 | $8.11 |
60 days | $81.00 | $347.00 | $428.00 | $7.13 |
90 days | $104.00 | $447.00 | $551.00 | $6.12 |
Rental Period | Lenscap | Rental Price | Total Price | Price Per Day (Approx.) |
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3 days | $8.00 | $54.00 | $62.00 | $20.67 |
4 days | $9.00 | $58.00 | $67.00 | $16.75 |
7 days | $12.00 | $77.00 | $89.00 | $12.71 |
10 days | $16.00 | $104.00 | $120.00 | $12.00 |
14 days | $21.00 | $135.00 | $156.00 | $11.14 |
21 days | $28.00 | $181.00 | $209.00 | $9.95 |
30 days | $35.00 | $227.00 | $262.00 | $8.73 |
45 days | $46.00 | $296.00 | $342.00 | $7.60 |
60 days | $54.00 | $347.00 | $401.00 | $6.68 |
90 days | $70.00 | $447.00 | $517.00 | $5.74 |
Rental Period | Rental Price | Price Per Day (Approx.) |
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3 days | $54.00 | $18.00 |
4 days | $58.00 | $14.50 |
7 days | $77.00 | $11.00 |
10 days | $104.00 | $10.40 |
14 days | $135.00 | $9.64 |
21 days | $181.00 | $8.62 |
30 days | $227.00 | $7.57 |
45 days | $296.00 | $6.58 |
60 days | $347.00 | $5.78 |
90 days | $447.00 | $4.97 |
Return shipping is included in the shipping price, and we include a prepaid return label with your order - all you need to do is bring it to an appropriate drop-off location when your rental is complete.
FedEx 2Day | $25.00 shipping |
FedEx Standard Overnight | $38.00 shipping |
UPS Ground | $25.00 shipping |
UPS Next Day Air | $48.00 shipping |
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