Quote Originally Posted by Sheiky
Can I ask why you want the Zeiss so badly? They only offer manual focus (alright I suppose you can live without it), what do they offer more than say a sigma or a canon 50mm 1.4? I see prices are much more expensive, do they really offer that much more image-quality or build-quality? Or is it just the name?

I myself can't explain as well. When I visited one of my local stores, I tried the "legendary" Distagon 21mm/2.8 & the Makro Planar 50mm/2. I must say that the images are really impressive & gives that "Zeiss" color rendition alongside its "3D" IQ. The build of these lenses are on par or even better than the Canon's L series that are not weather-sealed. I also had the same dilemma between the Canon & Sigma. I did own 2 Canon 50 1.4 & their micro USM gave up on both occasions. While Sigma is sharp wide open, sometimes it FF & BF as well. And quite heavy as well.