Zeiss 16-35mm FE shipping early next week! Yesterday many US SAR reader got notified that their 16-35mm preorder at Amazon US will ship next week November 18!
Photographyblog (Click here) posted the extensive 16-35mm Zeiss FE f/4.0 lens review. The lens gets Highly Recommended for the following reason:
It delivers outstanding sharpness in the centre of the frame almost throughout its aperture and zoom range, and also performs very well at the edges of the frame too. The Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 16-35 mm F4 ZA OSS lens does suffer from both distortion and vignetting at either end of the zoom range, requiring some post-processing to remove it, but chromatic aberrations are well-controlled and it can even create some nice bokeh effects when shooting wide-open at 35mm. The relatively compact Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 16-35 mm F4 ZA OSS offers an effective image stabilisation system, quite fast, quiet and reliable auto-focusing on the A7R that we tested it with, intuitive manual focusing and an excellent level of build quality, plus it’s usefully weather-tight too. All in all, we’d definitely recommend buying this lens if you can stomach the price of admission – it makes an excellent addition to the already released Zeiss FE 24-70mm F4 and FE 70-200mm F4 lenses.
Preorder the 16-35mm Zeiss lens here:
USA/Canada at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Sony Store US, Sony Canada.
Europe at Sony DE, UK, ES, IT, FR, CH, AT, NL, BE, FI, SE, NO, PT.
Australia and Asia at Sony AUS, Amazon Japan and Digitalrev.
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They give literally everything a 4.5 or 4 star review. They’ve actually never given a lens below a 4 out of 5 star review.
http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/#lenses
Beggars can’t be choosy. It is not as if this system awash with choices..and the price reflects it.
I chose a Canon FDn 20-35mm f/3.5L. No begging here. Smaller & lighter than the Zeiss and beautifully sharp.
Do you know if this lens has coma at f3.5? Trying to find a wide angle that will also double for astro. The Canon FD 24 I have has terrible coma
I do. I own it. I don’t do astrophotography, so the 20-35mm isn’t relevant for me–landscapes at f/8 & f/11. However, I have a friend who does a lot of that and as weird as this sounds, the best lenses for astrophotography are the cheapo rokinon lenses, which actually handle coma really well.
Beautifully sharp = less sharp, and it’s the wrong mount. If you haven’t already purchased the Canon FDn 20-35mm F3.5L you’re just talking out of your a$$.
I own two copies. One for back up parts and one for using. It’s an excellent lens, troll.
I posted some comparisons here (all handheld and not manipulated):
https://www.flickr.c…s/26686760@N00/
Link doesn’t work 🙁
Is it that one?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/26686760@N00/with/15121919193/
There are several pictures of the same scene. Three different focal lengths, and for each one three different apertures. Plus some other pics with that lens. All hand held and not manipulated.
Please click on the link above the picture, not on the picture.
Exif data shown below the pictures; scroll down.
Original file size can be downloaded.
A super lens!
I can’t comment on their technical aptitude in terms of testing, but they apparently have no idea how to take care of equipment.
That has to be one of the grubbiest A7r that I’ve seen anywhere, which may have been a little understandable if heavily used, but the lens has already come in for some cosmetic damage and it can’t be more than a few days old!
I’m a working pro and no camera or lens that I’ve ever owned has looked remotely like either of those sorry pieces!!
They hired Pig Pen from the peanuts to handle the gear 😉
Can we expect a Loxia UWA? I think a 15 or even an 18 would be a major seller. It’s the one weakness on the A7/R is UWA. A native option with no color casting and minor vignette would be very welcome indeed.
Loxias are MF anyway, so why not Samyang 14mm?
Cuz it’ll likely not have the Samyang 14 distortion? 😀
jeez.. as if taking pics of a bookshelf at close range does say anything about a lens. what about infinity focus, where this lens would find most of its use in landscapes? having said that, do their test images look out of focus?
Thanks to all these reviews, I just bought the 16-35/2.8 ZA instead. A stop faster and stabilized on Alpha with focus stops, distance scale and true SSM without fly-wire accelerometer. Works on my Elpha without wobbles thanks to tough E-Mount replacement.
What’s flywire? Are you talking about those Nike’s? Why does that relate to a lens?
Fly-by-wire focus is what all E-Mount lenses use. It’s not the same as SSM. Fly-wire has accelerometer which kills real time feel. Turn fast, and it goes real fast. Turn slow and it goes real slow. Sometimes turning very slow and the lens doesn’t make any changes at all. The ring just spins and spins with no indication of reaching the end of either range. I don’t like fly-wire focus. Feels like a game controller.
hehe, the F2.8 is inferior to the F/4, and not sharp either…