MF Short Tele Recommendation

I am thinking of adding in one short tele MF lens into my collection and I am thinking of either a Zeiss ZE 1.4/85 or a LEICA Summircon 90f2 which is almost the same range.....

Any good recommendation or any reference of the comparisons of both?

Consider the Mamiya and Olympus offerings as they are pretty nice too.

I can wholly recommend the Samyang/Rokinon/Bower 85/1.4 too. It's better wide open than most anything out there.

Oh yeah, if you're gonna be using the lens at distance and stopped down, the Contax 85/2.8 is pretty amazing.

cool, i had a mind of samyang too but not too sure whether is on par with zeiss or summicron... i m quite sided to leica or even a Summilux 80f1.4 if there is a good offer....

plasticmotif wrote in post #13411662
I can wholly recommend the Samyang/Rokinon/Bower ....

And sometimes it is even wooly in the bokeh
Here I would think the hybrid lens plastic part could probably have cracks:
http://forums.dpreview​.com …age=39623400&ch​angemode=1 But it seems that the Samyang lenses produce sometimes under more or less monochromatic light (LED for example) a woll like bokeh. I think it is due to their hybrid aspheric lens surface.

Furthermore the Samyang 85/1.4 has - relativ to others - often a stuck iris.

Normal the image quality seems pretty high, and it could probably work for some years without problems. But I think not many of the now new Samyang lenses will work in 20 years. The now >20 years old Zeiss, Pentax, Olympus, Leica lenses will do even in 20 years I think
OK, that is a guess.

imperian wrote in post #13411673
cool, i had a mind of samyang too but not too sure whether is on par with zeiss or summicron... i m quite sided to leica or even a Summilux 80f1.4 if there is a good offer....

for 250 USD, it's a steal, it's perforamance is pretty amazing.

You could put your money elsewhere to pick up a slightly longer lens like a nikon 105