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Sony and official partner Secondipity keep offering some great savings on refurbished A and E-mount stuff. The world best autofocus lens, the [shoplink 29446 ebay]55mm f/1.8 FE Zeiss now sells for $887 on eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink].
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Sony A77 for $618 at SonyStore.
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RX1 for $2,099 at SonyStore.
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This is the 1St time I heard people said it is the best af lens… totally Don’t understand. Not to mention canikon’s 220 or 218, 640, this is even much inferior to sigma 50 art.
It’s really not. It’s superior in imaging capabilities imo. Sharp with smooth boekeh. Sigma is sharp with busy bokeh. They both have low distortion. The 55FE’s weaknesses are vignetting and focus-by-wire.
I think you might want to have a look at the DXOmark scores for this lens on A7R compared to the Otus on Nikon D800. See the equivalent canon mount compared to Otus.
Lol, the trolls are in force today here.
but it doesnt have OIS. I believe sony is making too many sacrifices with the full frame mirrorless. All these lens are very pricey, heavy, and dont have ios. It defeats the purpose of being small (they arent small at all) and also they lack the features you need for proffesional work, F number, AF speed, battery duration. They are cute, but you are better off with a dslr at the end.
On the other hand models like the a6000 DO make sense, its blazing fast and small, but of course, sony loves crippling its own products, and none of them has a mic jack or a decent video codec. Oh wait! the a5100 has xavc-s! great! but also doesnt have viewfinder, buttons and even has a ? button….marketing people please, stop getting your hands on the cameras.
Hi! i have a prosumer camera that records in hi quality codec, but I need a help button on my camera???? etc etc
Noooobs and their need for OIS.
Not everybody is better off with a DSLR because not everybody shoots for 8 hours. So, even with a short battery life, it’s good enough for most people. And, it’s still smaller than a DSLR.
Nooooobs and their whining about video/audio when buying a camera. LOL!
Noooooobs and their poser attitude towards the help button. Then, don’t use it.
OIS for video
Read my 3rd paragraph? (I’m assuming you know what a paragraph is).
Even if you are shooting for 8 hours, you would still want a mirrorless system. It is way lighter!
The FE 55 is pricey because it is pretty much peerless in terms of optical quality. In fact, I’d say it’s a bargain for what it can do.
Heavy? Clearly you haven’t used one.
You’re talking b*****ks, but if you don’t like Sony, buy something else.
Bye.
Bugger off troll
you can connect a mic with the multi function hotshoe. in fact thats the case with most of the sony cameras. I have this lens and its the best lens ive ever owned. I like how small it is. So very portable and my setup is about 1/3 of the size my canon / nikon stuff used to be. I dont mind not having OS. The zooms have it which is great for video but the extra few stops you get with fixed lenses mean its not so important as it might be otherwise. Considering this lens gets often compared with the Zeiss Otus for $4000 its a total bargain.
Agreed, it’s about damn time that our lenses can run iOS.
Don’t forget flower mode and smile shutter. Wouldn’t be a pro camera without that. But you can’t turn the back screen off.. You can make it black.. but powered black. YEAAAAHHH
So much nonsense in one single comment.
http://store.sony.com/-cms-page.sony.authorized.dealer.list
Admin like to taunt canikon trolls 😀
If Canikon had just one lens as good as the FE55 I might get interested. Most Canon lenses are mediocre, full of CA and not very sharp wide open. Nikon is doing a better job, but their very sharp lenses have worse bokeh. Sigma makes very sharp lenses now but their bokeh sucks compared to a Zeiss Sonnar. All other don’t even have Full Frame so no competition.So I think it’s quite fair to call the FE5 the the best.
Nothing fly-by-wire focusing can be considered “best” anything. Doesn’t even have any mechanism for stabilization. How is that “best”?
Admin’s posts are often indistinguishable from those of a master level troll, that’s how.
The admin is not saying that it has the best Autofocusing drive he is saying it is the best lens that isn’t manual focus (highest scoring according to dxo, though that may have changed since the sigma 50 art lens release).
This is by no means the world’s best AF lens. It is not the fastest, or sharpest and does not have the most character. I might, might rank it in the top 20.
Now if we are talking about the best 50mm(ish) lenses, then yes it ranks up there as second best. The Sigma art beats it in everything from sharpness to bokeh quality, to low light functionality. The lens is decently small, but I would have preferred a little larger with a bigger aperture and OIS.
The 55FE has a much nicer draw than the 50 Art (and I’ve owned both of them). Sonnar design is beautiful, and you can’t beat the bokeh.
I agree that it needs OIS. Manual focus and aperture too, honestly. I’d be happy at f/2 however.
I wouldn’t be. I would be happy at f1.4, even happier at f1.2.
Make it big. I don’t care. I am a full grown man. Leave the little stuff to weak wristed wimps. Just give me the IQ
It’s currently #33 AF lens on lenscore overall, #25 AF lens in teh category resolving power, #44 in the category bokeh. It’s a good lens, but it’s really really silly to expect a small, lightweight inexpensive lens to outperform all those large, heavy expensive pro lenses. Let’s keep at least one finger in touch with reality. (rankings may be off by 1 or 2, had to count manually and weed out MF lenses along the way)
Ugh… bore off mate.
Ugh… dream on mate.
You managed to write an even more boring post.
The Sigma 50 Art has a nice bokeh?? *ROFLCOPTER AND LOLMATOR*
The Sigma is on same sharpness level, thats it. The Sonnars produce much nicer pictures overall.
http://www.dpreview.com/lensreviews/sigma-50mm-f1-4-dg-hsm/5
Dpreview claims the 50 art 1.4 has “ovely smooth background blur in the close-up and portrait shots”
So what’s your source? I own the sonnar. It’s ok. It’s sharp. Like most f1.4 50mm would be at f1.8.
EDIT – “LOVELY smooth background blur in the close-up and portrait shots”.
you fail to realized that Sonnar bokeh is unrivaled and definitely a lot less harsh than the sigma ART series
Another retarded statement from the imbecile admin!!
So you come here to bash the admin and naming him words? Nice human you are, congratulations. Back to your dark cave now!
Admin, Sony FE 70-200mm deal is no longer available, I saw you keep posting it so just to let you know…
I already own the 50mm 1.4 Zeiss A mount- which is stellar. I also have the 135mm 1.8 Zeiss. I’m missing the 85mm 1.4 and I want the Otus. Why oh why can’t we have this in A mount? Why!! It would complete my Zeiss evil trio.
The 55 is just a cheat lens (a lens intended for dSLR but adapted down for FE-mount). By the looks of things, you can clearly see the extension tube disguised as a A-Mount adapter connecting the 55 to the A7 body.
Oh boy.
There are trolls and then there are clueless trolls.
clueless? look at the 35/2.8 or the loxia, there are no extensions from the mount they fully take advantage of flange distance to keep the kit footprint small. If you compare the 55 length next to a 50mm for SLR + lens adapter, it’s the same length. I just with the 55 was closer to the body like the Loxias are.
The upcoming distagon 35 proves my point. no?
In pure relation to the DxO scores, then yes – this is the best AF lens available today, regardless of mount. Even looking at the countless images online, both OOC and RAW – the FE55 renders much smoother bokeh than the Sigma ART50 and retains just as much sharpness. It’s ridiculously well built and small for the size. Focus-by-wire isn’t ideal, but with Sony’s focus peaking it makes manual focusing a breeze. I’ve often heard of other photographers wanting to pick up a A7 body JUST to use this lens. It’s simply a marvelous piece of engineering. Naysayers are going to bark up some nonsense arguments, but considering the way it handles flare, maintains contrast and uniformity sharpness wide open – those arguments against this lens just fade away.
It far fro m the best.
Which ever lens took the Emily Ratajkowski photos is the lens for me.
Admin, please continue to troll. At least, you are being classy. It is very entertaining to see how personally the title of your post is being taken.
Apparently, it’s easy to get people all butt-hurt when you don’t mention their favorite lens as the best. LOL. Freakin’ losers.