Moderately Wide Angle. The 35mm focal length is very popular for street and landscape photography, but can be useful for just about any type of shooting. The moderately wide angle provides a slightly wide perspective without the distortion commonly associated with wide-angle lenses.

Fast Aperture. The fast f/1.4 aperture provides great low-light capability and performance, with the ability to create images with a very shallow depth-of-field to isolate the subject from background.

Optical Design. The ZM 35mm f/1.4 Distagon is optimized for digital sensor capture. It offers an extremely flat image field that enables a high degree of corner-to-corner sharpness with minimal distortion. Each element has the Carl Zeiss T* anti-reflective coatings to help minimize reflections and boost image clarity and microcontrast.

Build. Like the rest of the ZM line of lenses, the ZM 35mm f/1.4 Distagon features an all-metal barrel and lens mount. The ultra-smooth manual focus ring is perfect for still and video use. This lens is fully manual and rangefinder-coupled for use with Leica rangefinder cameras.