Image courtesy: ePhotozine.
If you want to have a closer look on the two new Sony E-mount lenses just watch the 20mm hands on (Click here) and the 18-200 PX hands-on (Click here) at ePhotozine. There will be more E-mount lenses in a couple of months including the high quality standard Zeiss zoom and the 85mm f/1.8. I am now working to get the exact release period for the two lenses.
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Is this all for CP+? No more announcements?
It’s rumored that Sony will again let us see (behind a glass case) the prototype of the Zeiss 50mmf /1.4 SSM A-mount lens. This is starting to remind me how Sony kept dragging out the big 500 mm telephoto lens at shows for a few years before finely releasing it.
That’s all.
Crappy Sony kit lenses.
Wow, that 18-200 PZ is huge! Not an issue though if mounted on a NEX VG.
Really? Huge? C’mon…
Sony are releasing E-mount lenses a lot quicker than A-mount…
A-mount will die soon, Sony knows that
They know because they’re the executioner.
sonys doing what Sonyminolta does best, pissing its users off. all those sonyfanboys who went and bought the a99 are gonna cry when sony abandons the a system, cause no one aint gonna buy no gear from a dead system. Of course, people who cant listen to logic deserve to get burned.
Sony have already demonstrated that they are prepared to p1ss of users by ditching the superior Minolta iISO shoe and make people use a crappy adapter.
The next logical step is to put a native E-mount on ALL their ILC bodies and use an adapter for A-mount lenses.
The writing is on the wall.
If you think Sony is getting out of the a-mount market, you are inept in reading their long term product plans. And for everyone who complained about a lack of new e-mount lenses, I think the 20mm pancake may be a useful lens. The 18-200mm is great for the vg and FSLIC series of cameras, and if nex users want it separately, they can now buy it separately. To expect simultaneous introductions of seven lenses or so, in the midst of a difficult economy for many is silly.
About the hot shoe. I liked the Minolta hot shoe but if Sony was to standardize on a hot shoe across their entire imaging division, what they did makes sense.
Geez, you guys could f-up a wet dream…
Sony was going to take heat either way on the flash hotshoe. The iiso (‘maxxum’) hotshoe was always part of minolta-lore. They just decided to bit the bullet and get out a (yet another proprietary additions to) iso hotshoe. I never got the point of it either. The iiso adapter that they showed is quite flat, though.
As to lenses, Sony has ZA-AF lenses. Nobody else has them. Sony is clearly dividing it ‘precious bodily fluids’ between NEX (where there has been a LOT of activity) and Alpha.
a99 is a nice camera, but it didn’t advance the ball over a77 with its EVF. It also didn’t build-in on-sensor PDAF with ANY intentions towards backward compatibility.
It is a sunny day and life goes on…
If NEX sales are buoyant compared to SLT sales it makes sense for Sony to concentrate on E-mount.
Or drop the SLT concept all together and concentrate on making more compact, standard A-mount DSLR/OVF FF bodies which can compete with price…along with improving and building the E mount system. They make the best sensors, why not wrap it in the best body?
SLT’s will give way to mirror less when the technology allows for fast, accurate in sensor af. Not quite their yet in larger sensor sizes.
News flash bro, the minolta hotshoe was so good look what happended to minolta. oh wait, minolta went got ditched by konica and geuss who was dumb enough to buy mibnolta? Piss off its users? What users? |i dont see any pros running around with maxxum sonby dslrs. LOL
Sony is not leaving the dslr market…they will be DRIVEN out of the market, just like minolta got driven out when they were doing the same useless shat sony is doing now. But no surprises, seeing as how minolta is now part of Sony. Like minds think alike as they say.You are the only one saying the minolta shoe is any good…you need to join the rest of society and except that sony is good at making cameras…period.
correction. NOT good at making cameras.
The 18-200 must be intended for video because it looks hideous on the camera.
I wonder if E mount is the best choice for Sony.
Admin, any rumors about the exact specs or release date of the three E-Mount Zeiss lenses? Especially if the 50mm macro will be a 1:1 or 1:2 magnification lens.
April!
Thanks for this info! This means my clients will pay less for rented lenses from april on. 😉
18-200 could be OK ,but aperture change so quickly . Shoot outside is not too bad ,but try shoot anything indoor . System nex needs fast G zoom .
Why does the next system need 3 18-200’s?! It’s pathetic! Surely it’d be better to get a decent 70-300 out instead and maybe a 18-105? Three variations of the same lens is a waste of time
Sony learned that people were criticizing them for the lack of lenses available for the E-mount so than are pumping out NEX lenses like there camera bodies.
Sony…..enough already…………let’s try for quality NOT quantity!
I believe Sony’s largest market % is happy with the quality of the lenses and sadly for us thats their priority, I’ve been using the Zeiss 24mm next to a number of lenses and yes, the quality is sublime but it isnt worlds different and the people that care about that difference and have the money to spend are very much in the minority.
If you want a system with high quality glass, look for a manufacturer that is aiming to supply the customer in that field (fuji for example), not Sony.
What a sad waste…zeis lenses with a sony mount. Thats like buying leica lenses for the exakta mount.
I believed that sony mirrorless sensor had a problem autofocus beyond 210mm. At 200mm, object that is far the camera have some problem autofocusing, when the camera keeps searching. I don’t think there will be a 300mm lenses until some new sensor is out. And the 300mm lenses is only best suitable for that sensor.
Title is misleading… Hand on? Really?
No review. No comment. No sample. All they have is a bunch of photos of the lens (taken using a different lens, naturally).
Don’t say “hands on” if all you could do was “put your hands on it”. That’s not what it means.
Besides, should I expect this lens to be much better than the chrome 16 mm pancake? What are the expectations?
the 20mm is smaller than the 16mm. I might pick up an old NEX-3 and the 20mm for the most portable NEX camera/lens combo.
physically smaller I mean