Solid Image Quality. This lens offers solid image quality and great color warmth across the frame. Its ten-blade curved aperture makes for smooth out-of-focus highlights. Its flare resistance and lack of geometric distortion provide useful accuracy for photojournalism and street photography. It produces a bit more distortion than some lenses, so it may not be quite as good for architectural work. This focal length isn’t particularly suited to that work, anyway.

High-Quality Build. An all-metal lens housing gives the ZM 35mm f/2 Biogon a premium feel. Its manual focus ring offers precision focus adjustment and excellent speed.