Zeiss Batis 85mm and Batis 25mm Lens Review for the Sony E Mount Cameras

Every now and then a camera comes along that gets everyone excited.  This summer it is the Sony A7r II.  There are numerous reasons to be thrilled about this new camera and we will cover these in an upcoming review real soon.  What’s really exciting is the large number of lenses this platform is capable of using.  Sony has a large line of lenses that is continually growing, many with a Zeiss badge.  Leica and Canon lenses can be adapted quite easily to the A7 series of cameras with a variety of different adapters.  Best of all, Zeiss has decided to jump into the game and provide two new lenses with hopefully more to come.  Zeiss has launched the 25mm f/2 and the 85mm 1.8 Batis line of lenses.  Like everything Zeiss does, they thought outside of the box and innovated a number of things with these lenses.
Publishers Note: This article contains numerous image downloads so that you can evaluate the images made by these two lenses for yourself.  This is the first time we have tried this so...