Image from the Sony CP+ conference. Courtesy of Matthew Allard.
Back at Photokina Sony said they would launch the four new FE lenses in February (24-240mm FE) and March (rest of the lenses). Well, they cannot keep up with the promise. Sony said the release date and price will not be unveiled at CP+ but sometimes later. But at least according to DC.watch the final announcement will come very soon. Sony is officially the only company not showing ANYTHING new at CP+. And I guess it has to do with their new strategy to announce stuff off the big shows to get the full spotlight (just like they did with the A7II announcement).
I will try to get info about the exact announcement date the next couple of hours…
Reminder: This was the original shipment plan back at Photokina:
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I am so disappointed. Really strange from them to share no reason for the delay 🙁
maybe they cant handle the demand and are postponing so they dont get a shortage of lenses ? n_n
Or maybe they have problem to properly create those lenses … anyway, how come they have such an hardtime with e-mount lenses ?
Execpt the 55 and 35 that were there at first, it take them centuries to give us new lenses. During the same period, canon annonced and is selling at least 5 to 10 new lenses.
also, from the pictures, Sony CP+ conference looks very low profile!
It’s just a classroom for crying out loud.
Yeah, how were the 55 Sonnar and the 35 Sonnar so great? Well, the Sonnar arrangement, for starters. Seems Sony got chicken and decided to produce telecentric, mainstream, fast-glass instead of the really interesting stuff with which they started.
They just need to scrap the E-mount and introduce a curved sensor camera already. Do over.
Maybe they wanna redesign for smaller size after knowing people complain about it? 😉
They should be redesigning the lenses so they look as though they’re meant for the same system. What a hodge-podge of designs, features, speeds, sizes, and lengths.
Now you know how A-mount shooters feel! Sony’s always stringing folks along!
しょうがない。
E-mount is dead. Hehehehe. ]:->
Maybe Trolls can cheer me up and make me laugh with some of their weird comments 🙂
Maybe it’s due to sales forecast correction… upwards 😉
Do we know the weight of the new lenses yet? Wish we knew the prices.
They were expected ot be annoucned at Cp+ (as Sony said few months ago). But for unkown reason they had to delay that 🙁
According to dPreview, they are “beastly” “bulky” and “heavy”. Their words, not mine.
Do we got a price on that 24-240 bad boy yet. I got a scratch and would like to itch it.
If they’re not going to announce prices, etc. I wonder what they’ll be talking about at CP+… lol
exactly.
JFC Sony.
2014 tech I guess. lol
lol
At what time will we know if they have anything to talk about?
i know right? Honestly, this looks more like a meeting than anything else we were hoping for lol
I thought CP+ was the big Japanese camera show…
but I suppose it’s only just starting. Fingers crossed
yeah! but it will probably be short. It’s only going to be like a 45 minute announcement if I remember correctly.
Cause their twisted and take pleasure in our SAR miseries.
Canon 5ds isn’t looking half bad now that there’s nothing to rival it
Seriously…what’s going on? No cameras and no lenses?
Really? Please where can I get my 5ds?
Something is fishy…
Omg, Sony uses CP+ to screw SAR lol…. hehehe
Yes all this is SAR’s fault. We only get false expectations by reading sar.
Dear consumers, we at Sony have unfortunately run into issues with our suppliers providing the needed parts to complete these lens productions.
The following items are needed to start manufacturing:
Black plastic rod for the 3D printer.
A spool of wire for the fly-wire focusing.
If any of you can help provide the needed materials, please send your donations to:
Sony Headquarters
Japan
Attn: Kazuo Hirai
Thank you for understanding.
And please always remember to make.believe!
There’s a famous story about the focus puller on Yojimbo pulling focus through floorboards using wire attached to his toe and in his mouth. Focus-by-wire. Absolute master, he was.
I don’t even think he could pull focus with a fbw Sony lens, however.
I can’t believe this kind of bs is happening. Does SONY think that canon, nikon, etc are just stupid enough to announce new stuff at this kind of big event? At least they respect their customers, and SONY is humiliating its customers. I love my SONY cameras and lenses, but this kind of bs makes me really sick.
Dude relax. Sony purchased a huge share in Olympus. Everything’s gonna be jus…t…..f..i..n……uh.
Thanks for your kind words. And I like your sense of humor that you chose you name “makes me” shown right before “sick” 🙂
Serious. The amount of drama is over the top.
Just cameras and lenses people.
People complain when Sony releases too many camera bodies and when they don’t announce any. It’s a no-win scenario when you are dealing with this level of immaturity.
We all know this new lenses are coming – which is exactly what the platform needs. If I have to wait an extra 30-60 days for that new glass, I think I’ll survive.
M43 camera with a sony logo…not interested…
agree.. competitors care their valued customer way way better than Sony. If not because Nikon doesn’t have small bodies..I would not left them
I wonder if Sony is holding back the production release of the 24-240mm because it will be the “kit” lens of a future VG900-ish 4k Handycam.
If a full frame 4k Handycam is on the way, they will need the extra time to manufacture enough 24-240s to cover the amount of Handycam bodies for sale.
JVC has their “VG900” style S35 model out soon and I strongly suspect Sony is hot on their tail.
FF and S35 are not the same.
I didn’t want them anyway but it’s worrying. To the point that the mount might be dead. I hope canon come out with a mirrorless camera
Have you not heard of the EOS M? They’re not too into mirrorless it appears.
I meant a mirrorless full-frame camera. I’m considering leica but I’m not hugely fond of rangefinders
You want it…you want it bad. Don’t resist your deep inner Sony urges.
They tried and failed…like 3 times.
Delaying this lens is like delaying the palpitations of my heart. I can’t go on living now Sony. Oh the deep dispare, depression and sense of utter desperation. How can I go on living? I can’t live if living is without you. I can’t live, I can’t live anymore……
I see a big refit coming. Probably received these with A-Mounts instead of E-Mounts.
A-Mount is dead. Sony just doesn’t have the brass to openly admit it.
Not that I care, I have no issues with mirrorless tech. Though it does bother me that Sony kept us on a string on matters. Would have much preferred to set my sights on another mount rather than to wait on false hopes.
A-mount is alive. updated lenses is on the way. They wouldn’t do that if it was dead. I love my big fat a-mount camera instead of a small e-mount.
leaving sony for fuji was the best decision I made
Yet you’re still here.
Amateur comment
Their lineup is also still quite limited. But you do get a … tele-converter? 😀
I like fuji’s lens lineup. Never owned a fuji but their system look pretty solid. Would like to see them to release some FF mirrorless.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! I don’t know why I’m laughing but it just seems appropriate!
Aren’t these events for the camera companies to show and announce their wares. They have a captive audience. Announcing later is a bit risky considering all the other camera users I imagine will show up at the Sony event since they are there at the event for their respective camera company (canon, nikon, Fuji, etc). Having their own event, who is going to show up, present Sony shooters. It is not like they are Apple. Shoot, canon and nikon don’t do such foolishness but at least they are in a better position to pull off such shenanigans.
Invited press
By the nature of your questions, you sound new to this. The manufacturers don’t announce or display new products at every show. They pick and choose and recently Sony has decided to make some announcements off-cycle, outside the noise of the competition’s releases. Not many consumers even know of CP+ and the mainstream media certainly doesn’t cover it. Sony is a large enough company to understand how to play the media and release products on their own timetable.
“Sony and Lenses” could be the title of a TV Drama – an old and ongoing one.
This holds true to EVERY new system. People forget that. It is not like for example Fujis X lineup is huge. And EOS M lineup or Nikon 1 lineup… don’t even mention them xD …
They do have 8 primes which is 6 more than Sony… with 4 more in the works (3 this year)… and Fuji does tend to deliver… and it is not like the quality is any worse either… Sony FE really on has the 55mm at present that really shines…
If that were the case it would be titled “Desperately Seeking Lenses.”
So unreliable. One off-event announcement (during US holiday shopping season) goes well and Sony thinks we’ll all be paying attention when they finally announce…. something…..
I paid attention around CES, now CP+, now I think I’ll wait for September back to school shopping season and check back. Too much trouble guessing when and what Sony will do. Sony think they are smart, but appearing haphazard and unsupportive of industry events makes Sony look bad. I want predictability, not random surprises. Good technology, bad marketing.
Poor you. Sony didn’t meet some arbitrary goal you set for them.
cameras wont be announced at cp+
OK… I GET IT!!!
they wait for other companies to show their hand and then they make their move…good!
but why in the name of god, they cant fully announce the lenses
its not like there are top secret
we know about them from half year
i think sony focus was to bring as many as 25 lenses to FE mount in 3 years, well, know i bet they wont
knowing sony, that they ship a lense half year after they announce it, that means this 4 lenses will be available until christmas, if we are lucky, thats more than a year since sony list them on the roadmap, funny roadmap as they list those 4 lenses in 2014, well 2014 its over and we dont even know a damn real thing but the focal length and aperture (under development, so maybe that will change too)
if minolta was able to make good glass fast and sony buy minolta, then what the hell happened
i think some people in sony (lense design and manufactering) are well overpaid
I was hoping to be surprised with an early announcement of the A7rII
Oh give it a rest you whiners. Boo-friggn’-hoo. Not like you were going to just drop some cheddar on any of these tomorrow anyway. So they don’t announce according to these “reliable” predictions… your life is over, Sony is a POS, etc. Get a grip.
You want a grip? I got a grip for ya! Take a look at this fugly thing.
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Sony is bankrupt, they did not sale enough FF Emount camera’s, so that devision has no money to finance new FF Emount lenses, they never will admit that focussing all there resources on the FF Emount system and let the Amount and even the Emount APS-C come to a stand still with no more evolution is a big mistake !!! yes there seems to be a vacany job in the marketing sector within Sony ?!!! anyone could do better then this show !!!! all customers even Sony customers are now looking elswhere for new stuff, and they are not at all disappointed, many brands are coming with very good camera’s and lenses, learn a lesson Sony !!!! customer can even buy those new toy’s almost immediately, that’s the strategy from many other brands, and it pay off.
You have obviously not seen the current financial results for Sony have you…..If you bothered to do any research you would know that in fact all of Sony’s Departments are now running in profit. Sony is doing juuuust fine. But thanks for the concern…
That’s just one quarter. And for a company which keep losing money for about a decade, this is simply not enough.
And just make the situation worse, this delay may mean that Sony actually cut their manpower in R&D to get a positive financial statement. It equals to suicide.
What you should also notice is that up to this point, under Kazuo Hirai, Quarter on quarter Sony’s results have been getting better and better…. Now they are in profit….Not much wrong with that…. It’s called a turn around…
LOL, It’s not concern at all, Sony is certainly not bankrupt, but Sony is blind for the real needs of customers.!!!Not everything is about FF, and prestige, please tell them, thanks.
The reason why we are seeing more FE mount lenses is because the E mount is already fleshed out in comparison. The market cried out for more FE lenses, and Sony is responding. Let’s not forget that in the grand scheme of things, E mount has been around a lot longer than FE. They’re going to focus on their new baby for a little bit longer, until they have their bases covered.
They’re imaging division is actually making money. They actually are going to increase the budget and invest more in their imaging division. The Sony’s only financial problem is their phone division.
What an asylum this site became. One or two months without new camera or lens and the MOUNT IS DEAD. I mean, go to some Canon site and watch and learn what is patience. Crap camera after crap camera for couple of years now, yet no one screams EF mount is dead.
It is simply a very strange Strategy to go to a event like the CP+ show with empty hands ???????
They are Sony. Japanese. Ninjas. They have to be unpredictable and stealthy. They dont simply announce camera when you expect them to do. They throw A7SII at your nape when you dont expect it.
… while you sleep. And then disappear into darkness, never seen again. You’re left with a sole body and nothing else. *Ninja-style* wooooo
Well, this isn’t nearly as bad as the Nikon announcement of a dedicated astrophotography camera… WITH A BUILT IN POP UP FLASH????… LOL
Meanwhile Canon confesses their M3 mirrorless is so lousy that they won’t even try to sell it in the U.S….???… LOL
Fuji gets a new teleconverter!!!… Whooo Hooo!!!!… LOL
And big Pentax announcement was a KS2 without blinking lights on the grip??? Thats exactly what’s been holding me back… But then displayed a play-dough finger puppet dressed like a reject a900 design… and calls it a full frame camera????… LOL
http://4.static.img-dpreview.com/files/p/E~TS589x442~articles/8579230519/pentaxfullframe_04.jpeg
Going to be an interesting year folks.
Elton John Neil Patric Harris Ricky Martin Ellen DeGeneres I hate these surprises.
If what they say is true.
You are a shadow in the fourth dimensionTo float away with you
We see the corners where nothing happens.
While we drifted we were one
Ceilings lifted walls were gone
You speak the language of the breeze
All your leaves were meant for me
-Zeiss
This is not poetry…. this is an abomination….
You want to stick your tubesteak in my sister?
Are you MAD?
He aint mad, he is an artist beyond his time and mind
Beautiful! I got another one:
Breeze butt answer wit
And soon condemned by jugular pace.
While raven quarks above the hole
In one and all before the snow.
As you ask as i fray
turbulent winter packs the tray,
January fire over the coastline
Perplexed bark on tree of frostbite.
Does it slow you down
the frown brown gown.
And delight so delight
meek are bright by inner light…
– Vivitar
The lenses are on show at CP+ but there is no prices or launch dates, but it doesn’t mean they will not be available for a long time. I’m now thinking there will be a joint launch with a camera or multiple cameras. They will do a big announcement post CP+ but before the next large trade show which starts early April. maybe we will see a A7rII, A7sII both with IBIS and maybe even a pro A9 before April
Thank you Admin….
More waiting again I guess
MY apologize for off topicking, but since this is total madness anyway, i would ask for some help from more experienced lens-gatherers. Do you consider this prices OK, would any of these offers interest you, or should i say simply, should i buy something from the list that follows:
Vivitar Series 1 135mm f2.3 ========130e
Meyer Orestegor 200mm f4 ========80e
Nikon AI 105mm f2.5==============170e
Jupiter 21M 200mm f4=============45e
As you can see, i need telephoto manual lens for my precious fire crapping Nex until i gather the money for some better lens. They all appear in mint condition. All suggestions are appreciated.
Secret lens …… to be revealed later …………..
Waw Sony, that make the waiting worth it ??!!!!!
looks like m43 olympus air
Some one should make similiar video about sony as they made about Nvidia GTX 970 fiasco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spZJrsssPA0
Haha … laughed so hard! Thank you.
guy walks to a Sony store and ask for a telefoto lens.. sony rep” we have this 55mm Zeiss it’s very good”.. same guy ask for a wide angle “we have this 55mm Zeiss”. guy asks for a macro ” “we have this 55mm zeiss”.. guy asks for a portrait lens .. “we have this 55mm zeiss” ..
Come on There is 16-35 and 70-200.
True last year there were 55 and 35 only at launch and the kit lens of course.
the Zeiss 35 is pretty nice. But it lacks resolving power 20 vs 30 (sigma art on a 36mpix sensor ). I bet the upcoming 35mm is better. I hope they fix the sonsor shake issues with the upcoming A7R II or what ever it’s called.
Guy walks into a Sony store, gets a professional FE 70-200/4 telephoto lens, picks the 16-35/4 Zeiss wide angle over the 15/4.5 Voigtländer, has to wait a few more weeks for his 90/2.8 macro… and decides to sit on his $499 yet excellent Nikon 85/1.8G with adapter while he waits for his FE 85/1.8 Zeiss that will come later this year and will complement his current FE 55/1.8 Zeiss perfectly.
Guy walks into the store and asks for a modest Sony wide angle prime. Sony rep says, “we have a semi-almost-fast-for-1958 normal lens for $1000.” No, guy wants something wider. “Well, we have a semi-wide sort-of-but-not-quite-fast wide angle lens for $1000.” Hmm, maybe guy wants a modest telephoto for portraits. Rep says, “Well, we have this nice heavy short telephoto lens for $1000.”
Come on, Sony has a 35mm also for wide angle…Macro? who needs it anyway.
Why would a guy walk into Sony store?
Anyway, I though they closed all their stores 🙂
I for one am not surprised. There was no way Sony was going to have all these lenses released in the next 4 weeks. Part of me is also happy, because this line-up is inconsistent, seems rushed, and cheapens the current line-up.
My assumption is that the 35/1.4 is the A-mount design rushed to market for E-mount. Probably a similar story with the macro. And there’s no doubt in my head that the 28/2 + converters, and the superzoom were demanded to be rushed to market by executives that had nothing to do with the original A7 development team.
I feel like Sony was aiming at a Leica-style, Zeiss-Ikon-style, next generation high IQ full frame camera. The Zeiss primes, the compact-ish Zeiss zooms, and the Loxias all point in that direction. And I feel like at one point some Sony middle management got surprised by the A7’s success, and decided to shift resources from A-mount to E-mount. I think these proposed new lenses were squeezed into the road map at this point.
Probably by now marketing has figured out that these new lenses cannot compete with the state-of-the-art. Face it. The 35/1.4 has to match or beat the Sigma 35/1.4 Art, and the significantly smaller new Zeiss ZM 35/1.4. The 28/2 and the superzoom are already consumer-grade and will no doubt cast a negative image on the whole system.
Looks like Sony postponed the release and I honestly hope the cancel the whole thing, and focus on the original road map, which should include the Zeiss FE 85/1.8 and the rumored Zeiss FE 25/2.
….Or… is it just taking them longer than intended to schedule the required manufacturing capacity………..No.. you’re right…. that’s just crazy talk!!…
I’d think capacity is scheduled months in advance. But perhaps too many manufactured lenses are fail QC. Or they are just generally displeased with IQ. This is quite common with lens delays.
Man your just Mr negativity….Or is that Mr conspiracy?!?
I just used to be a Nikon user. I have come to expect the worst-case scenario most of the time.
I agree to some of your points.
Regarding the mainstream material – I don’t think it puts negative image on the system but will increase the camera body sales.
Look at the A7mark I. It was in my understanding from day one an entry level FF in the A7 series.
I think there are a lot of budeget orientated hobby photographers out there who are willing to invest 2-2,5k but not not more. Not everybody can invest a 10k in a complete system.
That’s pretty much my position – the a7 was an affordable way into full frame and the budget just about stretched to a 35/2.8 and 55/1.8… There’s no way I’d have been able to invest Loxia money in the system though.
“My assumption is that the 35/1.4 is the A-mount design rushed to market for E-mount. Probably a similar story with the macro.”
Look at this cutaway of the 35/1.4. Look how far back the rear element is. That is not an A-mount design.
“My assumption is that the 35/1.4 is the A-mount design rushed to market for E-mount. Probably a similar story with the macro.”
Look at this cutaway of the 35/1.4. Look how far back the rear element is. That is clearly not an A-mount design.
Full size: http://www.newsshooter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Sony-35mm-internals-photo-2.jpg
That is very helpful. Thanks for the image. This puts my mind at ease.
Interesting photo, I hadn’t seen that before. That does suggest a brand new design specifically for the new FE mount. That’s a good thing in one sense.
But in another sense I am disappointed, I was hoping that Zeiss might have brought back the legendary design of the old Rollei / Contax 35/1,4 with the unique (for 35mm) almost “3D” rendering. The ZE/ZF versions are completely different, lack that 3D pop and in most senses inferior (though maybe better for landscapes). Some say this is due to lead and other now-banned materials so perhaps they can never bring it back. The Rollei / Contax versions are always at such high prices online these days and sometimes it’s nice to have auto-focus.
Still even if it’s not like the legendary old lens it will be interesting to see what they come up with. I always prefer delays over rushed products so better to be patient.
too much fantasy
come on… that’s normal 🙂
NOBODY expects the Sony Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise…surprise and fear…fear and surprise…. Our two weapons are fear and surprise…and ruthless efficiency…. Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency…and an almost fanatical devotion to the development of new camera bodies…. Our *four*…no… *Amongst* our weapons…. Amongst our weaponry…are such elements as fear, surprise….delayed release dates and secret announcements…. I’ll come in again.
Haha … great!
Yes it was unbelievable to see on Finnish video, Sony stand looks more like a political meeting with more people than stands to show their gear… They better rent a smaller stand then wasting space and avoiding 3rd party manufacturers to show their products.
nlm Sony and its strategy ( just blabla)
“Back at Photokina Sony said they would launch the four new FE lenses in February (24-240mm FE) and March (rest of the lenses). Well, they cannot keep up with the promise.”
Well they haven’t broken any promise yet seeing as February isn’t even over, and as you say, the announcement will be very soon, whatever that means.
For that matter March isn’t either. I’d rather they took their time than rush lenses to the market if they’re having problems…
They did say that it was only a target date and nothing official. But their road map is certainly didn’t deliver.
it’s a shame and a great lack of respect for all people who are waiting for news !!!!
Wait, what? Lack of respect? I don’t think they’re doing this to spite people…
It’s not because you don’t do the thing to spit people that it isn’t a lack of respect. It’s about 4 months i’m looking news everyday to have informations about news lenses and camera. And nothing. Canon and nikon don’t make many mysteries. Sony looks like apple for this. And i am really fan of sony. All my cameras are sony. I have waiting for the CES, i have waiting for the CP+ and nothing !!! For People who are waiting every days it’s a lack of respect to not say them when news lenses and cameras will come. I’m really disappointed.
I’m not exactly sure what you’re saying here. Are young that they don’t just come and say they don’t have any news, or are you mad that they don’t have news, at all?
I mean, they teased 4 new lenses at CES, and wanted to announce production models of those lenses at CP+. I’d personally much rather them take their time to develop their product than have something EVERY conference. Let’s not forget that Sony tends to wait until after these shows so that they can announce front and center.
Sorry i’m french and i have to improve my english. I’m mad because i want to buy a new camera and lenses. And every month i read that we will have new cameras and lenses soon. And every month i have to wait again. Rumors said we will have new products at CES….nothing…must wait the CP+…..and at CP+….nothing. Now i don’t know when new lenses will come and their prices. I don’t know if a sony a9 or a99ii wil arrive a day. It’s the same policy as apple. Mystery mystery mystery. Well, mysteries bored me.
most complainers will not buy one of these anyway – its all about the crying.
I came here to say “and all the complainers complained about the late lenses they would never buy”.
Thom Hogan wrote that he thinks Nikon couldn’t get their products ready in time for CP+. They were expected to announce more things than just an astro-DSLR and a few Coolpix. Maybe Sony too has run into some kind of production problem, or problem with suppliers? Maybe it’s not a strategy of announcing things between trade shows, but an actual inability to meet production deadlines?
What we need is more bodies. We need entry-level, mid-range, enthusiast and professional bodies, both APS-C and FF, and for both lens mounts. Each of these bodies should be available in a regular version, a R(esolution) version, a S(ensitivity) version, and a M(onochrome) version. Let’s see, that makes 4*2*2*4 = 64 bodies. Please start working on those, Sony!
Entry-level and mid-range doesn’t need R/S/M versions, only enthusiasts and professionals need that kind of specialization. So 40 bodies are enough.
That is a shame.
Sony has you. Has you all.
That’s OK Sony. Triple-check the design. Run some more quality and stress-tests. Make sure the mass production process is tight and ready to run smoothly.
Good things are worth waiting for.
I think the same. There is no reason for disappointment. Some are just getting stressed by expectations pushing and daily new rumors that are not or quite late fulfilling. Espcially not for probably moderate delay in final release of some lenses.
There is a reason, if someone offers you a carrot and says you’ll have that carrot by spring and you actually get that carrot in the summer, you’ve been lied to. Whether you want a carrot or not doesn’t change the fact
Sony never promised anything. The only dates mentioned were target dates, not release dates. Being wrong with an eta is not the same as lying.
If you think that’s what they are doing, I admire your optimism, but pity your naivete.
Get ready for the new FEx mount 😉
Looks like Sony need to hire some more people.
I wonder if they might be holding back the release until the announcement of the results of the 2015 Sony world photography awards. The semi finalists( or is it finalists) will be announced around the 24th of this month. The awards presentation is not til April…. If they did it then it would be a bit of a disappointment.
That’s it, I’m dumping Sony and switching to Canon.
The new CEO is just very smart. A big surprise requires a dedicated special announcement. Sony will have their own rules and an effective strategy which proven with the announcement of the A77II and A7S.
The pro cam we are all have been waiting for will be so worth the wait.
Give me the Pro E-mount A9 and all my canon gears will be seen in used department.
Ahhh, lenses are overrated anyhow – I’d love to see the A9, the A9r, A9s, A9 II, A7 III with 57 axis stabilization, and the A7000 (for use with your 4 year old APS-C emount lenses.)
Some quotes from dPreview about the new lenses using strange words to describe what is supposed to be a light, easy to carry camera system:
We can only assume that this large, heavy, beautifully well-made lens will be optically excellent, but we wouldn’t want to guess at the likely price.
…the [21mm] adapter adds considerable bulk (and a fair amount of extra weight) to the total package.
But not as much as the frankly rather unwieldy 16mm fisheye adapter, which really is quite a lump. We took a quick look at corner performance wide open on both adapters, and we weren’t too impressed…
At F3.5-6.3 this wide-ranging zoom isn’t the fastest lens in Sony’s FE-mount lineup but assuming the optical quality is reasonable it should be a useful travel and everyday lens.
this image gives you an idea of the size of the thing when zoomed out to 240mm. It’s quite a beast.
I don’t trust any Sony lens that has a matted rear element
Hoolk tell joke: So Sony released this new lens….