Re: State of the art manual portrait lens for Sony – Loxia 85 2.4? Voigtländer 65 2.0?
zeitlos wrote:
Now the crucial question: The 75mm 1.5 does not exist natively for Sony. is this coming? If not, what are the disadvantages of using it on a Sony A7III? Will all the help that Sony cameras offer with manual focusing then be offered at all? Are aperture, time, etc. included in the EXIF data of the photo? Is there anything else to consider?
The native Voigtlanders have full electronics: EXIF, focus distance for 5-axis stabilization, and electronic Lens Compensation. The native Zeiss Loxias don't have a focus distance encoder, so they only get 3-axis stabilization, but they have the rest.
There is an AF adapter for Pentax that would get you EXIF with the Limited. I don't know if Pentax has distance encoding, or if that adapter translates it. Third-party adapters don't bother supporting much beyond the basics.
Edit: below is a quote from ricoh-imaging.co.jp. Presumably "focal length" is erroneous and should be "focus distance."
The lens which can obtain the focal length information such as F/FAJ/FA series lenses are corresponded to five-axis mechanism (horizontal shift, vertical shift, roll, pitch and yaw), and the other older lenses are corresponded to three –axis mechanism (roll, pitch and yaw).
Re: State of the art manual portrait lens for Sony – Loxia 85 2.4? Voigtländer 65 2.0?
zeitlos wrote:
Now the crucial question: The 75mm 1.5 does not exist natively for Sony. is this coming? If not, what are the disadvantages of using it on a Sony A7III? Will all the help that Sony cameras offer with manual focusing then be offered at all? Are aperture, time, etc. included in the EXIF data of the photo? Is there anything else to consider?
The native Voigtlanders have full electronics: EXIF, focus distance for 5-axis stabilization, and electronic Lens Compensation. The native Zeiss Loxias don't have a focus distance encoder, so they only get 3-axis stabilization, but they have the rest.
There is an AF adapter for Pentax that would get you EXIF with the Limited. I don't know if Pentax has distance encoding, or if that adapter translates it. (Edit: Pentax claims 5-axis stabilization for their K-1 cameras.) Third-party adapters don't bother supporting much beyond the basics.
Re: State of the art manual portrait lens for Sony – Loxia 85 2.4? Voigtländer 65 2.0?
zeitlos wrote:
Now the crucial question: The 75mm 1.5 does not exist natively for Sony. is this coming? If not, what are the disadvantages of using it on a Sony A7III? Will all the help that Sony cameras offer with manual focusing then be offered at all? Are aperture, time, etc. included in the EXIF data of the photo? Is there anything else to consider?
The native Voigtlanders have full electronics: EXIF, focus distance for 5-axis stabilization, and electronic Lens Compensation. The native Zeiss Loxias don't have a focus distance encoder, so they only get 3-axis stabilization, but they have the rest.
There is an AF adapter for Pentax that would get you EXIF with the Limited. I don't know if Pentax has distance encoding, or if that adapter translates it. Third-party adapters don't bother supporting much beyond the basics.
