Preorders:
In USA at:
Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 FE at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
Sony 90mm f/2.8 FE at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
Sony 24-240mm FE at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
Sony 28mm f/2.0 FE at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
Sony Fisheye Conversion Lens for FE 28mm F/2 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here).
Sony Ultra-Wide Conversion Lens for FE 28mm F/2 Adorama (Click here).
Sony Fisheye Converter for E 16mm F/2.8 and E 20mm F/2.8 Adorama (Click here).
Sony Ultra-Wide Fisheye Converter for E 16mm F2.8 and E 20mm F2.8 Adorama (Click here).
In Europe at:
Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 FE at Sony Germany, Sony UK, Sony FR, Sony IT, Sony ES, Sony NL, Sony BE, Sony AT, Sony CH, Sony SE, Sony FI, Sony NO, Sony PT.
Sony 90mm f/2.8 FE at Sony Germany, Sony UK, Sony FR, Sony IT, Sony ES, Sony NL, Sony BE, Sony AT, Sony CH, Sony SE, Sony FI, Sony NO, Sony PT.
Sony 24-240mm FE at Sony Germany, Sony UK, Sony FR, Sony IT, Sony ES, Sony NL, Sony BE, Sony AT, Sony CH, Sony SE, Sony FI, Sony NO, Sony PT.
Sony 28mm f/2.0 FE at Sony Germany, Sony UK, Sony FR, Sony IT, Sony ES, Sony NL, Sony BE, Sony AT, Sony CH, Sony SE, Sony FI, Sony NO, Sony PT.
And we also have the graphs showing the optical lens design. The 90mm macro and Zeiss 35mm obviously have the more high quality design. The 90mm lens has a unique Super ED glass while the 35mm Zeiss has an Advanced Aspherical lens. Both also have Direct Drive SSM super fast focusing.
And this is the Direct Drive SSM super fast focusing module on use on the new 90mm macro and Zeiss 35mm.
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hmm,trying to find optical layout of the tamron 90mm but failing 🙁
http://photorumors.com/2015/02/27/the-latest-patents-from-tamron-canon-and-ricoh/
Thanks, that should kill all speculations of a restyled Tamron 90mm once and for all.
However http://egami.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2015-02-26
Interesting, but completely different.
I’m personally more surprised at how advanced the 28mm design looks on paper. Renewed hope it will be a sleeper hit.
Agreed. The 28/2 is very well priced, quite fast and a very useful FL. They should sell truckloads of them!
That was my first reaction. I was mainly interested in the 35mm, but the 28mm might be able to exceed expectations.
I suspect the 35mm will be much faster focusing but the 55mm isn’t bad and I don’t think it uses the newer/fancy AF motor either.
Trying not to get expectations up.
Yes, the low price of the 28mm really got me worried. But it seems they have used a lot of exotic glass in it. Keeping fingers crossed for, maybe not stellar, but good to decent performance, especially for video. But that flat rear element facing the sensor got me a tad worried, again. My old Tamron SP 90mm f2.5 has a flat rear element, and it can sometimes create an ugly blue circle due to sensor reflection… :-S
I think all the FE lens (one exception) are a bit of a let down for video due to the strange way they handle MF but yeah lots of exotic glass for a relatively cheap lens. I’m not too worried about the rear element because it is a native lens and the sensor reflections in the A7 are well documented.
Then again it is Sony.
I agree with both of you, actually all of the lenses have more complex optical formulas than I expected, the 90 and 28 being the ones with the biggest difference. (Gosh, thinking back to the film days when many primes had just 4-5 lens elements…) I hope to see some real-world samples and lens tests soon.
this lens unlike old tamron is sure to have modern coatings optimized for digital
Don’t tease me… the headline said a 24 -140 mm lens, but after looking at the article, I realize that it was supposed to say 24 – 240 mm. I’d love to see Sony develop something in the 24 – 135 mm range with decent speed.
lol. Typo.
The new 90mm macro looks real good so far…but where the heck is the new high resolution camera to go with it?
Well, it’s either coming, or not coming.
Which do you think is more likely?
I see they have ED glass and Super ED glass but I am disappointed they are not using Super Duper ED glass -perhaps it is the cost
Damn Sony for cutting corners…
Direct Drive SSM is quite different from the original SSM (rotational based supersonic wave motor). It’s more or less the perfection of piezoelectric motors originally derived from their sensor shift stabilization system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btAPqKf_Au0
It’s much older than that. It was first patented by Minolta, eons ago, before anti-shake.
The time lag is probably because focus-by-wire wasn’t accepted back in the days when Minolta filed their patents.
Too many lense, not enough bodies.
There goes Do-what’s ridiculous assumption the 35mm was designed for A-Mount and a spacer ring added to the back…
Waiting patiently for Animalsbybarry’s opinion on these lenses, I don’t buy until the master speaks.
They will be crushed by Canon when they get serious about mirrorless
That’s right, starting in 2050. 🙂
… but for now they are specialising in low dynamic range 50Mp cameras …
Dinosaurs too invested in protecting their investments.
If you’re trying to draw a parallel with the extinction of the dinosaurs, do you really think Sony will survive such change any better than others?
Well I think every manufacturer is competing with cell phone cameras. They have been the most used camera for a long time. That said Sony has been an agent of change for a lot of the larger camera makers and yes Sony will do just fine. They happen to make most of the sensors in cell phones, video cameras, heck they just had a breakthrough in sensitivity for sensors in cars both back up cams and the ones that allow adaptive cruise control and lane change alerts etc. Not to mention a whole lot of traditional dslrs. They are positioned to dominate if large Dslr cameras continue the decline into simply pro wedding photography tools etc. The average man who wants to take pictures of their children and vacation really doesn’t want to carry 15lbs of kit if you can get the same performance and image quality out of a smaller 5lb kit. That is being general, my kit is much less than that. I take it everywhere.
That’s a pretty iffy “when”.
Lens designs look a lot like each other these days.
Except for these ones, right? The elements are all completely different…
So where are all the people who said the 35mm was a SLR/SLT design with adapter now?
At the camera store trading in their Sony for used D800E.
sh*tty price compared to Sony SAL lenses
The 24-240 design looks very interesting. This could be the mother of all mega zooms with its optical quality. Lets see some real world full rez samples soon please! 😀