Here is the 50mm prime and premium lens in Sony Alpha lenses: the Zeiss Planar T * 50mm F1.4 ZA SSM. This fast prime lens is quite upscale and is compatible with Full Frame DSLR and APS-C DSLRs in Sony A mount. This is a very nice piece of glass that Sony announced today with [...]
Sony today introduces two new E Mount lenses intended for its NEX mirrorless cameras and NEX camcorders NEX-VG. The lens range for Sony NEX system is expanding with two new lenses that were expected : a truly compact, light and thin pancake lens (thin compared to what Sony had accustomed us to), a 20mm f/2.8 [...]
“What happens when mounting a Sony E mount lens on a Full Frame NEX-VG900 camcorder ?” asks Miranda from Portugal ! That is a good question. The NEX E-mount lenses are designed for APS-C sensors. The NEX-VG900 professional camcorder is based on a full frame sensor. Mounting a n APS-C NEX with E-mount lens on [...]
High performance, extremely compact, Sony NEX mirrorless cameras however suffered of a poor and not attractive lens range in Sony E mount like this medium optical quality, too heavy, too bulky, standard 18-55mm zoom that would come in kit with all NEX cameras sold… But thigs are changing and at this Photokina 2012, Sony unveil [...]
Sony unveils today a new telephoto lens aimed at APS-C DSLRs. This Sony-A mount lens will not be compatible with Full Frame Digital SLRs. It offers to Sony cameras owners an affordable and lightweight alternative to the 70-300mm G lens. The Sony DT 55-300mm F4.5-5.6 SAM only weights 460 grams, the advantage of an image circle [...]
Sony is offering a $100 rebate on the purchase of a DSLR with a lens. You can save on the following digital SLR : SLT-A77 SLT-A65 SLT-A57 SLT-A35 (Unfortunately, the SLT-A37 with 18-135mm lens, a new combination announced last week is not part of this discount. Yet, logical… but I do recommend this high-quality/budget friendly [...]
Sony’s new E-mount lens for NEX mirrorless cameras, the SEL 18-200mm will offer an equivalent to a 27-300mm once mounted on a NEX-F3 for instance, the new camera announced today along with the SLT-A37 DSLR. Optically stabilized by Sony’s Optical Steady Shot system, the SEL18200 lens receives no less than 4 aspherical elements to fight [...]
The new DT 18-135mm f/3,5-5,6 SAM lens launched today by Sony is aimed at being mounted on APS-C Alpha mount DSLRs like the SLT-A37 also unveiled today. The lens is not stabilized as anyway most Sony digital SLRs get a CCD-shift image stabilisation system, built-in. Very compact, this 7.5x zoom lens is the lightest 18-135mm [...]
Once in a while, I think to the webmaster that incidentally published a web pages of a product that has not yet been unveiled, officially I mean, by the manufacturer. Quite often, we know that these self-leaks are organized by the manufacturer itself. Canon, Nikon, Sony and Panasonic have already used that in the past while officially fighting hard [...]
That is magic ! SLR Magic announced the wide-angle 23mm F1.7 fast prime lens for Sony NEX mirrorless cameras last December. Today, they give up and announce they are not satisfied with the lens image quality and price that would have to be increased from its originally announced $379 as their Chinese manufacturer said after [...]
Here is the pdf document sent to me by Sony this morning and that has emerged as the CP+ Japanese photography trade show opens this week. You know, Sony NEX cameras may be the best mirrorless cameras, but they have a burden… their poor unattractive lens range. Sony E lenses don’t offer enough choice to [...]
HUge and expensive ! here is the Sony SAL500F4G, a supertelephoto lens for Sony DSLR like the Alpha 77 on which (APS_C sensor) it becomes a 750mm equivalent. The Sony 500mm F4 G SSM gets 3 ED glass elements and a nano AF coating to eradicate the flare and enhance contrast and color reproduction. It [...]
