According to Sony Japan the 16mm f/2.8 lens is available in pre-production version only. Expect the “final” lenses to perform better results.
Source: dpreview
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According to Sony Japan the 16mm f/2.8 lens is available in pre-production version only. Expect the “final” lenses to perform better results.
Source: dpreview
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Good to hear that, it’s quality right now doesn’t impress so hopefully final version will be superior to this pre-production one. There’s nothing worse than great, capable sensor paired with sub-par quality lens… well worse could be only great, capable sensor coupled with great quality lens crippled by unintuitive interface 😛
good to hear. i say don’t buy yet. i was drooling for the NEX cameras but im still waiting for the DSLR HD video to compete with the 5D MKII or 7D from Canon. when is that coming out by the way?
more from the dpreview forum:
Update from Sony – all 16mm F2.8 samples pre-production
Andy Westlake
Just an update to all our readers.
We’ve been liaising with Sony over the past few days as we’ve had concerns over the image quality of the E 16mm F2.8 lens samples we’ve received. After sharing our image samples and preliminary MTF tests with them, today we received confirmation from the General Manager of Sony Digital Imaging Europe that the lenses we’ve been set are not in fact production standard, as we were initially told, but pre-production, and the design has since been changed.
Furthermore, we’re told the situation is the same for all other reviewers, so all samples currently available on the web should not be taken as indicative of final image quality.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1037&thread=35353520
That’s nice, but it is the 18-55mm image quality that is so-so, not the 16mm. I wish the news had been that the 18-55mm had been improved.
Will: Strange, to my eyes the image quality of the 18-55mm is not too bad.
The 16/2.8 lens on the other hand is very disappointing, and seemed to be only usable from F8 onwards.
That is great but not make sense. if they don’t have the production piece today, how would they able to ship on June? if they have the production piece now, I would rather interested to see how it perform. that is the key factor that I choose to buy or wait.
I think I saw a lot of chromatic aberrations in the corners of images taken with this lens – but that might actually be curable with a software tune up.
HHIS I solhdu have thought of that!