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24/2 finally

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Irenaeus

Member
Great!

BUT, it leaves a little, tiny room for doubt in my own mind about FUTURE releases, in that it says that the 24mm *...ROUNDS OUT the existing Planar (SAL85F14Z) and Sonnar (SAL135F18Z) models also developed in conjunction with Carl Zeiss.*

That leads me to wonder if this mightn't be the last of the ZA lenses for the alpha cameras.

Hopefully, the copyrighter didn't mean what I think it says.
 
edwardkaraa

edwardkaraa

New member
With Sony, everything's possible :)

But of course, hopefully not. Just bad wording me thinks. I doubt it if the author would know that much.
 
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cbaldeck

Guest
Carl Zeiss primes are the best of the best, IMO. Although Sony has the 24mm focal length pretty well covered with its 16-35 & 24-70 zooms, I'd love to have a faster wide prime which is well corrected for coma, in order to try doing some night landscapes with stars, but without trailing. This is a pretty demanding task and requires top performance wide open. From what I've read, not many lenses are really up to it, but I'm hoping this one is.

Charles
 
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panyawong

Guest
The only thing left I would like them to release is a 50/1.2 planar or actually 1.4 would be suffice, with SSM of course. :)
 
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espressogeek

Guest
Bob, I agree the use of a the A700 is not idea but even the full frame shots look lame to me. I seem to feel this away about most any shot I see from DPreview. I cant wait to see some samples from other sources.

docmoore said:
A700 not full frame on many of the samples for one...:ROTFL:


Bob
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jonoslack

jonoslack

Active member
espressogeek said:
Bob, I agree the use of a the A700 is not idea but even the full frame shots look lame to me. I seem to feel this away about most any shot I see from DPreview. I cant wait to see some samples from other sources.
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Those who can photograph do . . . . . those who can't review
:ROTFL:

Sorry, it's past my bedtime.
 
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espressogeek

Guest
Jono, I don't know if that maxim is universally true but it appears to be so in the case. I've been thinking of swapping to the A850 or A900 for a while and the lack of a Zeiss wide and fifty have been holding me back. It appears that now we are half way there. Perhaps I could make do without the fifty.
 
barjohn

barjohn

New member
I'm kind of surprised no one has said anything about the 35/1.8 that appears to be more reasonably priced and will work with the Sony adapter (except for AF).
 
jonoslack

jonoslack

Active member
espressogeek said:
Jono, I don't know if that maxim is universally true but it appears to be so in the case. I've been thinking of swapping to the A850 or A900 for a while and the lack of a Zeiss wide and fifty have been holding me back. It appears that now we are half way there. Perhaps I could make do without the fifty.
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Well, worth mentioning that the Sony/minolta 50 f1.4 is a perfectly okay lens - not Zeiss standard maybe (or price), but it works well on the A900.

all the best.
 
jonoslack

jonoslack

Active member
barjohn said:
I'm kind of surprised no one has said anything about the 35/1.8 that appears to be more reasonably priced and will work with the Sony adapter (except for AF).
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Hi John
I think thats because this is the little enclave for Sony FF geeks, and the 35 f1.8, interesting though it may be, is an APSC lens.

all the best
 
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espressogeek

Guest
Jono, Thanks for the info on the 50/1.4. I have used it briefly on my buddies A900 and while it is great stopped down it lacks the resolution I look for when shot wide open. I want to take the A900 with me where I take my 5D today and I need that wide open performance. I could probably live without it by using an alt lens but it would be nice to have a better alternative there. Nikon has proven you can make a great 50/1.4 for a reasonable price and I hope that other companies step up to that level of performance since I shoot 50/1.4 a lot.

Sorry to have taken this thread off topic. I'm really looking forward to the first real samples of the new 24/2.
 
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