You just broke the news for me! Yeah, this looks promising. I have their little 28mm F4.5 pancake, but it’s locked at F/4.5 only, so it’s hard for me to commit to using it much. I would have preferred them simply reworking and re-releasing it as a 28mm 2.8 rather than making this 26mm oddity. Hopefully optics turn out OK.
I love 28mm for travel walkaround and this is close enough, hope it's reasonably sharp wide open, but not getting my hopes up. Right now I use a good copy of the old Sony 28/2.
Very clearly an AI image by the mangling of the EVO badge, but have seen some other real photos from early testers and it's roughly the same size. Interested to see if it has the 35mm EVO gotchas (but worse). The AF motors will likely be quite middling in a lens that size.
RoamingScott wrote:
Very clearly an AI image by the mangling of the EVO badge, but have seen some other real photos from early testers and it's roughly the same size. Interested to see if it has the 35mm EVO gotchas (but worse). The AF motors will likely be quite middling in a lens that size.
I had to go to the thread I had not heard of the "gotchas" but yeah in your example I would not want this lens even if it is not really made for that kind of background. I hate the busy background..... the only reason i still have the 14 and 35 vs the 16-35gm is that the 2 copies i had of version 2 had that busy background.... blah.
Hoping its decent not expecting amazing I have other lenses for amazing that make up for the operators deficiency
I am continually amazed that no company has produced a really good AF 28mm lens The only one available that is small and f2 is the Sony which is from it's original lineup and has never been updated (I tried 3 and were never happy with them) Leica have the Q3 series and Ricoh the GR (28mm equivalent) both of which sell well so I really don't know why there is this gap
I have their little 28mm F4.5 pancake, but it’s locked at F/4.5 only, so it’s hard for me to commit to using it much. I would have preferred them simply reworking and re-releasing it as a 28mm 2.8 rather than making this 26mm oddity. Hopefully optics turn out OK.