Chuck Jones
Subscriber Member
I have no idea about the Zeiss or Tamron thing, though again I will say these Batis are right up there build quality wise with the OTUS, just a whole lot lighter and smaller. At about one third the cost! Fastest autofocus lenses I've had on my A7S too, so that lighter glass seems to assist autofocus speed as well.Thanks for that, Chuck!
One small correction- if Zeiis were to come out with one of their newsletters on certain special lenses, I can supply some samples that they may not have seen in real life. I don't know where batus belongs be it Zeiss or Tamron.
BTW, don't you think Michael articulated one issue very well?
Michael's issue is something I'm not fully understanding I guess. My friends who are architectural photographers use tilt shift lenses to do this correction in camera. And for exactly the reasons Michael brings up they most often shoot tethered to a laptop to check each shot. I can be witness that the electronic "level" in the A7R is a bit of a joke - its never accurately level!
Anything you shoot where your worried about parallax without a T/S lens tethered to a laptop, your always going to have the issue of not knowing exactly where the end frame lines are going to fall until you finish your corrections in post. Shoot tethered, and use a T/S lens, and you should be able to correct with a couple degrees of rise and/or shift in camera and see what your going to have on your laptop screen before you get home. Software enhanced lenses have nothing to do with that one way or the other. Your live view is only going to be accurate if you T/S correct the parallax distortions in camera. Since neither Batis presently announced is a T/S lens, I don't see the difference.
I like to get it right in camera whenever possible anyway. Not only saves potential for later problems, it sure simplifies the workflow.