The Zeiss FE 24-70mm shipment just started in Asia. And there is a great review made by SLRclub (no translation available but plenty of nice images!).
The bad news I got in these days is that the production Stock that should have been shipped to Europe has been retired. The reason is a small production error on these batch of lenses. Therefore EU stores will get their lenses with 3-4 weeks of delay.
Zeiss 24-70mm preorders: EUROPE at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, SE, PT USA at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, SonystoreUS.
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The performance in this 24-70 review is awesome! A must have for every A7r owner.
Just got my A7 with Kit lens and looking forward for a Zeiss.
So unsure if I should buy the 55mm f1.8 or the 24-70mm f4.
Both seem to be great 🙂
I think the 55mm is better but you will have to use your feet to zoom.
Changing focal length and distance to the subject is absolutely not equivalent.
@Zebbelin: Your question can not be answered this way unless you tell us what Kind of photos you are planning to make.
Well hard to say. My current setup was a NEX-7 with the Zeiss 24mm f1.8 and I didn´t miss the zoom very often.
I like Bokeh shots, but I´m also doing night shots with long exposure.
As the 55mm has no OSS I´m unsure if long exposure make fun even when using a tripod.
I think I´m going to wait for march as there are some rumors about new Zeiss lenses.
If the 55 had OIS what was the fun added to long exposures where tripod is a must?
Sony’s decision to add stabilization only to the zooms is a good one IMO. F4 zooms are used as walk around lenses, vacation lenses, day to day use and even stock photography (most people use zooms for convenience and OIS is a must). For more serious work like sport, weddings 2.8 zooms are the best along the primes and OIS is not mandatory because when you shoot human subjects and moving ones OIS is not a help.
Maybe I should have been more clear that I meant image quality. Clearly a zoom and a prime are not the same.
@Lofote “Changing focal length and distance to the subject is absolutely not equivalent” well said
Sorry the stupid question, but this delay is in the end of february or will be after?
Well i cant translate everything.. but overall the images r excellent 24mm witg high scores in corner n center.
At 70mm they say image is a bit soft in the edges but gets much better at f11
They say they r very surprised with the distortion control
Ghosting is there…
Overall they seem to like it.. n the test was done with a7 not a7r
Sharps look good…
Bizar. To invent the A7r and have no lens line up. Not the first time for Sony. Happened with every new cam. Once the lenses are available, the camera is obsolete already.
You really seem to be not in reality. You say that like it is ONLY Sony. Look at Nikon 1, at Canon M, at Fuji mirrorless… *ALL* of them have a small lens lineup on day one of a new Mount, really all and everyone of them. It is perfectly NORMAL. So wake up!
Oh and there are plenty of lenses to choose from with adapters. So you *can* use the camera in its full extend.
You people always compare it to the lens lineup that Sony A, Nikon F, Canon EF and Micro 4/3 have *TODAY*. But these lens lineups where not there since day 1, but grown over many many years or even centuries (for the first three). All of them started with very few lenses. So your comment is just …I am sorry… stupid…
When Fuji introduced X-Pro1 they introduced it with 18mm f/2, 35mm f/1.4 and 60mm f/2.4 Macro lenses. You were covered for wide, normal and portrait situations with fast and optically excellent lenses and didn’t really need anything else. So not sure what you meant by your comment about Fuji.
You’re joking right? Fuji gives you full frame equivalent 27mm, 50mm and an almost unusable 90mm lens. with the A7 you have a 28-70 zoom, 35mm, 55mm, 24-70 coming just 3 months after release, a 70-200 right behind that AND you have an adapter that gives you PDAF with A mount lenses if you want ultra wide, wide, telephoto, macro. And that doesn’t get into the MF options that are much better vs the other systems named. The A7 and A7r have more lens options at release than any of the other cameras and it isn’t even close.
Mr. Jones, you are quite correct sir. But there is a talking point going around that Sony doesn’t support with lenses.
I think we are seeing quite the opposite with the A7(r) platform. I’ve got the LAEA-4 and between some killer A-mount lenses (35/2, 85/1.4, 135/1.8, 200/2.8), a couple Leica M-mount lenses, a Contax G lens, a Minolta MD lens and the FE 55/1.8, I’m certainly not wanting for coverage.
The killer is that most of these terrific lenses can be had at a fraction of their Canikon equivalents and in most cases perform better.
“Won’t somebody think of the children…..”
Bohek looks a bit meh at times, but oh well .. I think there goes my 1000€ 😉
Getting tired of these delays in Belgium…. no 35mm in stock, no 55mm in stock, 24-70 delayed with 4 weeks… blablabla…
U could order the 35mm and 55mm from Germany
Just buy a couple of manual focus primes, e.g. 50/1.7 and 35/2.8. Can be had for less than 50€ altogether (with adapter) and should be plenty of fun till the new lenses arrive.
I think it’s good news actually. The very early samples that showed up on the internet had very poor corner performance, maybe that was caused by misalignment during production and they are fixing it.
Probably just the wrong shade of blue on the zeiss logo…
I’d be happy to take one of these before they throw it into the garbage bin.
Other reports were with A7R, this one is with an A7.
Corner performance limitations at 24mm are already apparent in Sony’s own MTF charts for this lens.
Every zoom has limitations at both ends and especially at wide end. Every lens is a compromise because there is no perfect lens. Zooms are convenient but the compromise factor is higher than with primes.
Have you ever looked at MTF charts for high end 24mm primes? they all have pretty significant falloff in the corners 😉
As an indirectly related question, anybody know a good shop in Dublin where I can pick up this lens when it’s avaialble? I’m going to be heading there at the end of February, and from the looks of it (just a quick search online and through the photo stores in the city centre) Dublin has no love for Sony gear. I can’t find a single shop even selling the A7/A7r. What??
Nevermind. Found that there are actually two Sony stores in Dublin. 🙂
I hope the quality control of the new, emergency batch does not suffer. These announcements make me a little nervous
LOL ’emergency batch.’ The simple fact that QA found an issue implies that QA/QC is working. You deduced that Sony must now rush a batch of lenses implying QA would suffer. Troll, LOL
For me the pictures at slrclub from the FE 24-70/4 (and others on the net) are somewhat disappointing.
The lens is a Tessar, when the bokeh isn’t nice then it is ok, but at 24mm there is a lot of vignetting and it isn’t sharp at all near the corner. Too expensive for this performance.
I hope, the production ones for Europe are much better.
I canceld my preorder and I’m waiting till I can try one by myself before I will buy one.
It’s good that they do withraw a bad batch but they should offer compensation to those who did preorder it with a promised date.
Compensation?! LOL
Did anyone anywhere in the world get a guaranteed arrival date for this product? No, because not even Sony knew for sure when the product would ship. Sony website, ‘Estimated ship date.’
As far as I know the only ‘date’ Sony has mentioned is ‘Available February.’ Not the beginning of Feb, not the end, just February.
I just love how people feel entitled to ‘compensation’ for having poor assumptions, or improper expectations based on rumor and gossip. LOLOLOL
Did anyone notice that it appears this lens will be telescoping when zooming in to 70m? It looks like it from the link above, has anyone heard for sure? If it does then I’m canceling my preorder, I hate telescoping zooms and would rather stick with the kit lens for a while until there is another non-telescoping option.. I know it’s crazy, but they drive me insane. Would love to know for sure if it does if anyone has any insights… Thanks!
Nobody answer me , but i checked my Sony preorder and it is the same= shipping between 25-26 frebuary