p.73 #1 · Pre-order: Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM ($1,399)
Ayoul wrote:
Any news from your dealers everyone ? Especially for people living in Europe ? Mine told me that they had no information regarding a future shipment. And the GM disappeared on Amazon (fr). A few days ago they estimated a delivery date around the 20th...
My dealer in the US is stating that the only official word they got from Sony is the April 12th date. I am patiently waiting.
p.73 #2 · Pre-order: Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM ($1,399)
Ayoul wrote:
Any news from your dealers everyone ? Especially for people living in Europe ? Mine told me that they had no information regarding a future shipment. And the GM disappeared on Amazon (fr). A few days ago they estimated a delivery date around the 20th...
That would match the situation in Poland, some retailers started listing the lens as "available in external warehouse" so it should be a matter of days now .
p.73 #3 · Pre-order: Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM ($1,399)
Ayoul wrote:
Any news from your dealers everyone ? Especially for people living in Europe ? Mine told me that they had no information regarding a future shipment. And the GM disappeared on Amazon (fr). A few days ago they estimated a delivery date around the 20th...
Ours shipped today. Another dealer close-by has one in stock, too. So it seems lenses are shipping.
p.73 #8 · Pre-order: Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM ($1,399)
Thanks for your answers everyone. I guess that based on your statements that it should arrive within a month. No news from my dealers, and no other dealer that I know here (France) list the lens as "in stock".
p.73 #9 · Pre-order: Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM ($1,399)
Ayoul wrote:
Thanks for your answers everyone. I guess that based on your statements that it should arrive within a month. No news from my dealers, and no other dealer that I know here (France) list the lens as "in stock".
Mon exemplaire vient du cirque photo à Paris. D'où êtes vous?
p.73 #11 · Pre-order: Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM ($1,399)
hesb wrote:
Mon exemplaire vient du cirque photo à Paris. D'où êtes vous?
Val d'Oise. Commande en ligne chez missnumerique. Je n'ai eu qu'une réponse générique sur le manque de disponibilité de l'article et le manque d'informations de Sony concernant un prochain approvisionnement... Bref, j'attendrai.
FYI english readers : just a small discussion regarding our locations in France and the availability of the lens from his dealer.
p.73 #12 · Pre-order: Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM ($1,399)
35 GM received. Perfectly centered. Compared to my 2 Sigmas, where one needs to go:
Sigma has significantly stronger field curvature (focusing on the corners equalizes sharpness more, but still with a visible advantage for the Sony).
Sharpness in the central region is very close, need to go to 200% to see differences,so not the difference lenstip or cameralabs showed.
The Sigma has shallower DOF at the same aperture, but the Sigma also is clearly not 35mm (106.4% magnification of the Sony yields the same size, so 37.4mm focal length if I calculated it right).
Getting closer to account for the difference, the Sony is slightly sharper, but not 69.7 lp/mm vs. 55 lp/mm, as lenstip shows.
The Sony shows similar levels of CAs in the mangenta parts of the frame, but much less CAs in the green CA part. Very big difference, here.
Much less flare prone, too. The copy we had as loan from Sony was similarly good, so certainly not an outlier.
p.73 #13 · Pre-order: Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM ($1,399)
Holger wrote:
35 GM received. Perfectly centered. Compared to my 2 Sigmas, where one needs to go:
Sigma has significantly stronger field curvature (focusing on the corners equalizes sharpness more, but still with a visible advantage for the Sony).
Sharpness in the central region is very close, need to go to 200% to see differences,so not the difference lenstip or cameralabs showed.
The Sigma has shallower DOF at the same aperture, but the Sigma also is clearly not 35mm (106.4% magnification of the Sony yields the same size, so 37.4mm focal length if I calculated it right).
Getting closer to account for the difference, the Sony is slightly sharper, but not 69.7 lp/mm vs. 55 lp/mm, as lenstip shows.
The Sony shows similar levels of CAs in the mangenta parts of the frame, but much less CAs in the green CA part. Very big difference, here.
Much less flare prone, too. The copy we had as loan from Sony was similarly good, so certainly not an outlier.
p.73 #14 · Pre-order: Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM ($1,399)
Holger wrote:
35 GM received. Perfectly centered. Compared to my 2 Sigmas, where one needs to go:
Sigma has significantly stronger field curvature (focusing on the corners equalizes sharpness more, but still with a visible advantage for the Sony).
Sharpness in the central region is very close, need to go to 200% to see differences,so not the difference lenstip or cameralabs showed.
The Sigma has shallower DOF at the same aperture, but the Sigma also is clearly not 35mm (106.4% magnification of the Sony yields the same size, so 37.4mm focal length if I calculated it right).
Getting closer to account for the difference, the Sony is slightly sharper, but not 69.7 lp/mm vs. 55 lp/mm, as lenstip shows.
The Sony shows similar levels of CAs in the mangenta parts of the frame, but much less CAs in the green CA part. Very big difference, here.
Much less flare prone, too. The copy we had as loan from Sony was similarly good, so certainly not an outlier.
p.73 #15 · Pre-order: Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM ($1,399)
37.5mm assuming Sigma to be exact 35mm which it may not be.
Holger wrote:
35 GM received. Perfectly centered. Compared to my 2 Sigmas, where one needs to go:
Sigma has significantly stronger field curvature (focusing on the corners equalizes sharpness more, but still with a visible advantage for the Sony).
Sharpness in the central region is very close, need to go to 200% to see differences,so not the difference lenstip or cameralabs showed.
The Sigma has shallower DOF at the same aperture, but the Sigma also is clearly not 35mm (106.4% magnification of the Sony yields the same size, so 37.4mm focal length if I calculated it right).
Getting closer to account for the difference, the Sony is slightly sharper, but not 69.7 lp/mm vs. 55 lp/mm, as lenstip shows.
The Sony shows similar levels of CAs in the mangenta parts of the frame, but much less CAs in the green CA part. Very big difference, here.
Much less flare prone, too. The copy we had as loan from Sony was similarly good, so certainly not an outlier.
p.73 #16 · Pre-order: Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM ($1,399)
nandadevieast wrote:
37.5mm assuming Sigma to be exact 35mm which it may not be.
Yes, here I assumed the Sony to be the exact 35mm. So there is a difference and at closer distances your target to judge sharpness is clearly zoomed in compared to the Sony. Then factor in the lens profile correction. The Sigma has a strong distortion and you loose a bit in addtion.
p.73 #17 · Pre-order: Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM ($1,399)
j4nu wrote:
Interesting observations about sharpness, so maybe copy variation in both cases plays a significant role and lenstip got a bad sample of the Bigma...
Just did a new test from typical portrait distance for us photographing a bank note to judge fine detail in perfect light conditions.
There you can clearly see the Sony to be sharper. At first I thought I misfocused the Sigma several times and repeated the test again, but it turned out to be the same. Here there is a clear advantage when comparing the fine detail.
p.73 #18 · Pre-order: Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM ($1,399)
Holger wrote:
35 GM received. Perfectly centered. Compared to my 2 Sigmas, where one needs to go:
Sigma has significantly stronger field curvature (focusing on the corners equalizes sharpness more, but still with a visible advantage for the Sony).
Sharpness in the central region is very close, need to go to 200% to see differences,so not the difference lenstip or cameralabs showed.
The Sigma has shallower DOF at the same aperture, but the Sigma also is clearly not 35mm (106.4% magnification of the Sony yields the same size, so 37.4mm focal length if I calculated it right).
Getting closer to account for the difference, the Sony is slightly sharper, but not 69.7 lp/mm vs. 55 lp/mm, as lenstip shows.
The Sony shows similar levels of CAs in the mangenta parts of the frame, but much less CAs in the green CA part. Very big difference, here.
Much less flare prone, too. The copy we had as loan from Sony was similarly good, so certainly not an outlier. ...Show more →
p.73 #19 · Pre-order: Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM ($1,399)
Holger wrote:
Yes, here I assumed the Sony to be the exact 35mm. So there is a difference and at closer distances your target to judge sharpness is clearly zoomed in compared to the Sony. Then factor in the lens profile correction. The Sigma has a strong distortion and you loose a bit in addtion.
I remember a comparison Philippe Reeve made between the two sigmas and the 40mm. the 1.4 is wider than the 1.2 which might confirm that as you say, the sony "is" the real 35, and the sigma a bit less wide.
p.73 #20 · Pre-order: Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM ($1,399)
Teo Rey wrote:
Can we see the photos you're using for testing?
I don't have all of them on this laptop, the other are on my wife's Imac, but here a link to two images of the bank note, which I have here, with the A7riv such that magnification is the same at f1.4, central region. If I have time I update the folder later. Zoom in to 200% and you should clearly see the difference. This was the best Sigma shot (I did both MF and AF with the cross-hair magnification). All the GM shots are similar. It seems the GM is more accurate in AF. https://uni-siegen.sciebo.de/s/egq68fn4DakDyj4
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