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Enjoy your new lens! Let us know how you like it.The eagle has landed.
Why?I collected my long-awaited one, confident that I had the perfect solution for low light, for AF, and my favorite FL. Even did a comparison test against other lenses to verify my initial impression. It is the first Zeiss lens that I try but don't buy (I own 11).
Its good protection but too big for my taste.How does everyone like that lens shade?
I am not one to look for extreme corer sharpness wide open and such performance, which only affects part of a picture and not all pictures. I am very sensitive to colours, contrast, shadings, detail, rendering style, all of which affect 100% of all my pics. I set up a comparison between 3 alt lenses, the ZA 24 and the Sony kit zoom. Not only did I rate the ZA less than the 3 alt, but I felt it was closer to the zoom than to the alt trio. Only my personal opinion, of course, others are free to feel otherwise.Why?
I assume you mean the ZE (rather than ZA) 24mm designed for the NEX E mount and not the ZA 24mm f/2?Not only did I rate the ZA less than the 3 alt, but I felt it was closer to the zoom than to the alt trio. Only my personal opinion, of course, others are free to feel otherwise.
I only know I like it better than the zoom at 24mm, and did some "quick & dirty" between the M9 with a 35SummiluxFLE and the 24/1.8 on the 5n and found the Nex combo to perform pretty good.I am not one to look for extreme corer sharpness wide open and such performance, which only affects part of a picture and not all pictures. I am very sensitive to colours, contrast, shadings, detail, rendering style, all of which affect 100% of all my pics. I set up a comparison between 3 alt lenses, the ZA 24 and the Sony kit zoom. Not only did I rate the ZA less than the 3 alt, but I felt it was closer to the zoom than to the alt trio. Only my personal opinion, of course, others are free to feel otherwise.
Would care to expand on what you use your lenses for? Obviously, the f/3.5 Elmar is a very slow compared to the E-Sonnar 24/1.8. What sort of comparisons you make?Hi Philip,
Overall, the best alt I tried was the Leica Elmar 24mm f:3.5. Despite the modest specification, a fantastic lens IMHO.