p.10 #2 · Pre-order Sony G lenses: FE 24mm f/2.8, 40mm f/2.5, 50mm f/2.5
gocolts wrote:
I admit the surprising IQ of the 28-60 has me really curious on how these things will perform. I feel like their goal will be to be fast & small enough for casual use, yet sharp enough stopped down for more serious photographers. At least that's my theory.
I’m waiting for the complimentary ultra wide before I commit to that lens. Also, being a kit lens, variable aperture, I feel it should be 399 msrp. I won’t buy until it’st readily available for around 200, sort of how the original kit lens was in price.
p.10 #3 · Pre-order Sony G lenses: FE 24mm f/2.8, 40mm f/2.5, 50mm f/2.5
To ones who talk about 90 f2.5 as a bad idea. I did have Samyang 85 1.4, but sold it and now only use
my m-rokkor 90f4. The reason for that is that it’s sharper and has better rendering at f4, and very significantly smaller. I tend to use this FL either as a landscape/travel lens, or for head and shoulders portraits where f4 is appropriate aperture anyway unless you only want to have one eye in focus. Yes, you can not do full body with background obliterated, but who cares! I would not buy Sony now because I’m satisfied with what I have, but in principle such a lens is a really nice compromise imho. Even better would be collapsible 60-135 f4-5.6 to complement the 28-60, and this one I’d actually buy
p.10 #5 · Pre-order Sony G lenses: FE 24mm f/2.8, 40mm f/2.5, 50mm f/2.5
I am curious about the 40mm : I hope that, if it's designed with A7C users in mind (so compactness & lightweight), it will still keep benefits from Sony recent "breakthrough" designs (eg. 35 & 50 GM lenses), although for sure we'll not get here the latest & greatest glasses like the one in their front elements.
I don't care that it has a relatively slow aperture as I am shooting only landscapes (although such lens might be useful for environmental portraits as well if they use the same design philosphy as Sigma with its 35mm & 45mm iSeries).
I am looking for a 35mm/40mm lens as it's my most used focal length in the 24mm -> 70mm focal range so, it would be great qualitative alternative to my Tamron 28-75mm zoom for scenes I know would require 35mm/40mm (for me, typically woodland photography) and I will choose between CV 35mm APO, Sigma 35mm f2 and this Sony 40mm f2.5G.
Great times when you are not in hurry and can quietely see how these different lenses would compare.
Like Steve, I would also be interested by a "slow" ;-) 90mm f2.5 and would love a lighter/shorter Loxia 85mm with AF :-)
p.10 #6 · Pre-order Sony G lenses: FE 24mm f/2.8, 40mm f/2.5, 50mm f/2.5
Very curious about these lenses.
I just sold off my a7c wanting to downsize even more as the lenses (sony 1.8 trio) still made it bigger than I wanted for a take everywhere/travel hybrid rig. With these "slow" lenses it seems like Sony is pushing to kill crop sensors. I was contemplating picking up a Fuji, and a few of their wr fujicrons as they are light and small. These could theoretically be similar or outperform in size and performance. Not trying to start an equavelancy conversation, but factoring in crop equivalency these "slow" lenses are very competitive re: dof, etc. It all depends on how small Sony made them.
p.10 #9 · Pre-order Sony G lenses: FE 24mm f/2.8, 40mm f/2.5, 50mm f/2.5
rps_23 wrote:
Very curious about these lenses.
I just sold off my a7c wanting to downsize even more as the lenses (sony 1.8 trio) still made it bigger than I wanted for a take everywhere/travel hybrid rig. With these "slow" lenses it seems like Sony is pushing to kill crop sensors. I was contemplating picking up a Fuji, and a few of their wr fujicrons as they are light and small. These could theoretically be similar or outperform in size and performance. Not trying to start an equavelancy conversation, but factoring in crop equivalency these "slow" lenses are very competitive re: dof, etc. It all depends on how small Sony made them....Show more →
I was going to sell my A7C for exactly the same reason as you--that even the Sony 1.8 lenses still left the camera feeling a little too close in size to those same lenses on my A9. The Samyang tiny lenses made it all more compact, but I wavered in my commitment to the Samyang (though I do keep mine and think they are excellent lenses). All in all, it felt like the lenses I would be using on the A7C would obviate its size advantage. So I put it up for sale.
I took it off the board as soon as I figured out what the G/limited-aperture lenses might mean in terms of size and quality for an A7C kit. Especially if they are part of a new commitment by Sony to compact, very high quality gear. That would really be exciting.
It's not clear to me whether that would mean that Sony would let the APS-C bodies languish--I think the a6000 is still their best-selling camera (or maybe the best selling on Amazon). And after all, the new G 24mm would be a very nice 36mm fov on a crop body.
The main problem with Sony is that their gear has gotten so good that I don't want to sell any of it.
p.10 #11 · Pre-order Sony G lenses: FE 24mm f/2.8, 40mm f/2.5, 50mm f/2.5
chiron wrote:
The main problem with Sony is that their gear has gotten so good that I don't want to sell any of it.
I feel this challenge. I don’t want to sell all the really stellar glass I’ve acquired to make a better kit with better gapping and fewer lenses sitting on the shelf.
I think the only way to properly solve for the right kit is to keep adding then take away based on what isn’t getting used. Very pricey way to store money for awhile though.
