Doug, If you survey the past there are a number of excellent lenses that are surprisingly small and light weight, but have a beautiful draw to them.
I recall an old Leica R 70-210 zoom that Leica spec'ed and Minolta built for them that was shockingly good, specifically the color rendering. Not that you'd use one, but it is just an example. I have a mint Canon 70-210/4 I'm going to adapt to my Sony A7R myself.
I'm not sure I'd give up that Leica 60mm Macro to save 160g. If I recall correctly very few lenses could match certain versions of that 60mm.
I can tell you that the A mount Sony/Zeiss lenses adapted using the LE-AE adapter doesn't save much … it is the lenses that make up the majority of the bulk anyway. I much prefer using them on my A99 which handles better than any of the A7 cameras.
BTW, when I mentioned that I do not like the rendering of the Sony A7/A7R I meant the sensor rendering with ANY lens on it. The discussion regarding DR is one reason, and another I speculatively attribute to Sony's compressed RAW out-put, or whatever they are doing to the file out-of-camera.
- Marc
I recall an old Leica R 70-210 zoom that Leica spec'ed and Minolta built for them that was shockingly good, specifically the color rendering. Not that you'd use one, but it is just an example. I have a mint Canon 70-210/4 I'm going to adapt to my Sony A7R myself.
I'm not sure I'd give up that Leica 60mm Macro to save 160g. If I recall correctly very few lenses could match certain versions of that 60mm.
I can tell you that the A mount Sony/Zeiss lenses adapted using the LE-AE adapter doesn't save much … it is the lenses that make up the majority of the bulk anyway. I much prefer using them on my A99 which handles better than any of the A7 cameras.
BTW, when I mentioned that I do not like the rendering of the Sony A7/A7R I meant the sensor rendering with ANY lens on it. The discussion regarding DR is one reason, and another I speculatively attribute to Sony's compressed RAW out-put, or whatever they are doing to the file out-of-camera.
- Marc