Sony E-mount owners still lack the possibility to buy some f/2.8 zoom. Sony managers stated months ago that they acknowledge they have to “do something” in that regard. Well, there may be a chance that Sony goes to “wow” us with a crazy lens: The Japanese site Egami found a brand new Sony patent describing what would be the world’s fastest Full Frame zoom yet…a new 28-70mm f/2.0 FE zoom!
Of course this is only a patent yet and we may never see such a lens in a real store. But the fact they patented it means engineers seriously are considering to make it. Here are the patent details:
- Patent Publication No. 2016-14841
- Published 2016.1.28
- Filing date 2014.7.3
- Example 1
- Focal length f = 28.84 45.32 66.50mm
- Fno. 2.06
- Half angle of view ? = 36.87 25.52 18.02 °
Damn would it be cool to have such a lens! But it probably would weight and cost a lot too 🙂
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This would be a game changer if the IQ is right.
“what would be the world’s fastest Full Frame zoom yet”
Sigma 24-35/2 is a full frame zoom and just as fast.
Joint fastest is still fastest.
But this Sony has a broader range.
Sure. But not THE fastest. ONE OF the fastest. Going to be. Maybe.
Yeah but put it that way and some projection lenses which “zoom” a few millimeters would have been the fastest zooms, a long time ago;)
Why not f/1.4 ? Why not f/1 ? Lenses that are disproportioned on cameras ar a pain to use. I remember using a Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8 on a D5100, after two days I was just about to set the combo on fire. I realized I absolutely needed a larger heavier camera or a smaller lens. Sony f/4 is pretty large already, imagine a f/2 one. I tried the Canon 24-70 f/2.8 with adapter on a A7 and it was very hard to use.
I’m sure it will sell like hot cakes though, and that’s just about the only thing Sony (and others) care about. For me, even professionaly, photography have to be a joy, and I don’t see that with unbalanced equipment.
That “I need a heavy camera for a large lens” thing is just stupid. What do you do if you use a 600mm lens, attach weights to the camera?
I quite often use an A6000 with the FE 70-200 and it works fine, you just have to grab the combo by the lens and not the camera…
So the the basics for this is: ergonomics don’t matter ? Great, we need more photographers like you :))
No, the basics is this: your understanding of ergonomics is wrong. And yes, we do need more photographers like him.
Ah I’ve shot photography as a joy with nothing but unbalanced equipment for many years!
Good for you both. I find it ,,stupid,, to quote you. Using a 600mm lens even on big DSLRs I always used monopod, I never seen anyone using a combo like that hand held.
Nobody said anything about a 600mm which is hard to hold still even with the body removed. What you said was that you can’t even stand the 17-55/2.8 with a not-so-small body, so it’s your problem.
“What do you do if you use a 600mm lens, attach weights to the camera?”
To be fair though, there are people who handhold 500 f5.6 .
Reading the info in the patent and looking at the diagram, it looks to be surprisingly small for the spec. Half the elements appear to be aspheric so it’s a pretty advanced design, and there is a LOT of distortion, probably a result of compromises made to get it so small for the spec. But hey, that fixes up in software.
If this is everything it appears to be, it’s one hell of an interesting lens.
Hello $3,500 lens!
More like 4500$ given the price of the terrible f4.
For Zeiss perhaps. Maybe not for a “G” lens…
If they would just fix their F4 from being so meh (focusing and sharpness), that would be useful to most photographers. Sony already charges $1,200 for the F4 version of this lens… I can’t imagine what an F2 version would cost.
There is no f/4 version, the f/4 version is 24-70.
_Almost_ the same. You probably understood what he meant.
I’m just saying, sometimes the 24mm matters to people.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Very good if they manage to make one tho
One of the big arguments for mirrorless is small size and light weight compared to dslr. But this lens would be quite the opposite. Huge and heavy. So everyone make the weird combination with a small and light camera tosses that argument out and get a very front heavy unbalanced system.
So, use the 24 70 f4 or the many small lenses currently available. Nobody is forcing you or anyone to buy a ‘Big’ Lens. The point is that people have a choice.
a 70-200 f2 would be something to WOW people.. for focal lenghts from 28-70 i use primes. 28mm 35mm 50mm are mostly f2 or faster and not that big or hreavy, + they are sharper than any zoom sony could produce..
70-200 is for most portraits and sport photographers (+tele converter) a must have.. but probably too big and heavy to produce and to handhold