a7/a7R/a7S/a7 II Overview Training Tutorial
For German readers: A7 kit Gold Box at 12.00 (via DL).
Portraits with the 90mm Macro Lens (SonyAlphaForum).
Loxia 35mm review by Louis Berk.
Sony FE 2/28 – Rolling Review (Phillipreeve.net).
FE 55mm lens review by Mikeonthestreet.
Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 Distagon: Quality Control Issues, Right Side Blur at f/1.4 (Diglloyd).
Sony A7II + Zeiss FE 35 mm 2.8 (SonyAlphaForum).
FE 28mm test at Kasyapa.
One more curved sensor patent spotted by Egami.
Magnus: “I just saw the post about using the A7R as a sports camera and would like to share my experiences. I think it works great and regularly use my A7R with Sigma 70-200/2,8 and LA-EA4 adapter shooting floor hockey. It’s really not the fastest camera regarding auto focus and continous shooting but it works! For close up action I have my old A580 with Sony 16-50/2,8.
Here is a sample folder with pictures scaled to 4k (2160p height), most of them are ISO3200-6400:
https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=5EB650FD44E6A38A&id=5eb650fd44e6a38a%217736
…or if you prefer facebook but these are scaled to 1280 pixels width:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.767273960016818.1073741853.157736730970547&type=3
This might be interesting too, It’s the same floor hockey team at the same arena shot with Tamron 150-600 and LA-EA4 adapter on my A7R. This combo sure gets waaay to close indoors but although its ISO6400 I think it works great:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.764185910325623.1073741852.157736730970547&type=”
Christian: “I got the opportunity to test my Sony NEX-5T in extreme conditions. I went for a 2:30 hour walk through the city and next to the Charles River. The temperatures were -24F (-31C) degrees with the windchill! I had to face a lot of wind when next to the Charles River, changing lenses was a challenge and quite risky for the sensor. The camera performed really well during this hike, I did not notice any change working in these temperatures. The screen, AF and battery worked perfectly well. Even if the grip is very small, I could still use it with my gloves but I must admit that it wasn’t very convenient. Against all odds, this little camera passed the extreme weather test!
http://ilovehatephoto.com/2015/03/02/photographing-2015-boston-blizzard-part-1-the-ghost-city/
http://ilovehatephoto.com/2015/03/11/photographing-2015-boston-blizzard-part-2-the-artisticmacro-approach/“
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There are only few image samples of 90FE macro going around, but of what I have seen so far – can’t await the delivery of my preordered piece. 🙂
I agree with Drasko. I don’t understand why so many A7 users dislike the 35FE28. It is for my usage an excellent lens and it works super with the A7II. Wide open there is a slightly visible drop of sharpness to the borders/corners, but that’s completely gone at f5.6.
I hope that the problems that Lloyd had with his Distagon sample is just bad luck. However my experience in the past with lens quality (mainly centering issues) would just be confirmed.
I never experienced problems with my A mount lenses (all ZA and G), but it is a completely different story with E/FE lenses. I hope that Sony really starts to invest some more money in QA.
When using my NEX7 I encountered lots of decentered APS-C lenses. I exchanged one 35/1.8, one 50/1.8, one 1018/4 and 4!! Z1670/4 – all confirmed.
With FE it looks so far much better. The 35/28, the 55/18 and the G70200 were fine. With the 2470Z I exchanged also one lens due to centering issues, but I don’t know whether it was confirmed – I gave back the working sample because it didn’t convince me.
Just to clarify, how do you test for centering issues?
Tripod, Camera and an object with enough details in sufficient distance.
– AF object with center point and switch to manual exposure mode, turning AF off, don’t change any setting
– Capture images with the object in every corner
– Compare images
Why does digilloyd want to charge to show the decentering problem with the FE 35mm 1.4? I get it that he charges for his reviews, but if this is something that has to do QC, wouldn’t the importance of letting it out (instead of just speaking about it) onto the public be the right thing to do?
He did show the ARW compression issue straight up before.
Indeed, and the generally unintuitive layout of the website is not really enticing me to subscribe either.