Good news for European readers. UNlike previously stated on Sony Europe sites (late January) the Zeiss FE 55mm is shipping…NOW! First preorders have been shipped yesterday and all single Sony Europe stores changed the delivery date. Click these direct Zeiss 55mm links to Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT.
You will likely get the lens for Christmas! 🙂
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Specs and order links in Europe:
Sony A7r body at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT, WexUK, WexDE.
Sony A7 body at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT, WexUK, WexDE, Amazon UK, Amazon DE, Amazon FR.
Sony A7 with 28-70mm kit Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT, WexUK, WexDE, Amazon UK, Amazon DE, Amazon FR.
Sony RX10 at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT, WexUK, WexDE.
Zeiss 35mm at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT,
Zeiss 55mm at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT
Zeiss 24-70mm at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, SE, PT
Sony G 28-70mm lens at Sony DE, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO.
Sony 70-200mm lens at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT.
18 Responses
Any news as to what Sony is going to bring during CES in a month?
At CES just compacts. In February BIG stuff coming.
like for this cute old A-mount? 😛
I got mine!
My 55 is on the way too 🙂
Primary the delivery was announced for Jan, 28/29.
Not bad, 6 weeks earlier!
Hopefully my ordered 24-70 also comes soon.
Yesterday afternoon I was in my premium reseller’s shop. He asked me whether I’d like to “play” with the newest delivery. He again had A7R on stock and also received the first 55/1.8 Zeiss.
We just made a couple of pictures around the shop. So the images where nothing well composed, but at least something to pre-judge IQ to a certain level. We put them on a computer reading it with Sony’s IDC.
Colors are beautiful, contrast is snappy, and the bokeh seems to be fine, too. Sharpness is superb in the center, wide open acceptable. A f4 shot was sharp across the frame.
Apparently it looks like it has same as the recent Sony-Zeiss’ issues with amount of CA and especially purple fringing.
This is nothing critical of course but a little bit unfortunate nonetheless.
I tested a pre-production version on A7R and was disappointed that is was not sharp at F1.8, other Zeiss lenses are sharp wideopen.
Not shipping in all of Europe.
UK says End of Jan still on the sony website 🙁
Might have to get one from our cousins over the river in Holland or Germany 🙂
Just checked my eMail – Yippie!
Just got mine – it looks quite similar to the 1.8/24mm for NEX, about 1mm thicker and 3mm longer.
Delivery date still end of January, ordered by sony.de online shop 🙁
they changed it now?
Ken seems happy with his A7.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/sony/a7.htm
Somebody please teach this guy the difference between PDAF, an CDAF – Ken Rockwell I mean.
PDAF and CDAF
“Included NP-FW50 battery: made in Japan, not China.”
Seriously, Ken, who gives a f**k?
Kens site and opinion is a bit of a joke…
Haha +1