Batis samples from Zeiss

[BJNY]

I wish Sony would also offer a Monochrom

Elliott | getDPI

 

[Vivek]

I wish Sony would also offer a Monochrom

Elliott | getDPI

Yes, 4K videos in monochrome!

 

[BJNY]

MTFs of 85mm Otus and Batis compared:

Impressive! New Batis 85mm almost matches the Otus 85mm MTF performance! | sonyalpharumors

 

[Vivek]

That is a junk site with sensational headlines and links what Kai is selling. :thumbdown:

 

[ErikKaffehr]

Hi,

I have downloaded that picture and looked at it at actual pixels. It is quite terrible and quite terribly processed.

Best regards
Erik

The eoshd exif shows the image is from last fall and has a pile of exif inconsistencies. The pic on the Zeiss flicker is IMO more interesting. Taken arms extended, top of head (has to be LCD+Eye-AF due to DoF); not a nice setup for current A7R with mechincal shutter vibration/delay. Dated mid-April whereas other A7II pics in the series are from february. Other pics in the Batis 85/1.8 series are equally slightly cropped to match the "paper" aspect ratio of the high MP shot. With stripped exif this sure looks like it is from a 59ish MP sensor, but there really is no way to be sure. Unlikely to be sensor-shift pic IMO, on top of head that is a very very hard t as sensor-shift is multiexposure. Could surely be upres, but then again why upres only that one, others with lower res are only cropped slightly.

I took a look at the file with unix "strings" command. It contains some meta-info that is not listed otherwize like last edit is 15th April, with pic taken 13th, but nothing of use and surely no smoking gun there, unfortunately.