Dear readers!
Your vote matters! Let Sony know what new E-mount lenses you want for your NEX camera!
Some notes:
– Please read all the list before voting!
– You can choose a maximum of five lenses.
– Most of the times for the same focal lenght you have different aperture lenses. Usually fast lenses or Zeiss lenses will be very expensive. That’s why you also have slower lens options (if you are on budget or want smaller lenses select that option)
– If you voted a wrong lens contact me. I can change your vote
– The list is very approximative. I learned that everyone has different wishes and I can’t make a list with 300 lenses 🙂 So if you don’t find the lens that exaclty fits your wish try to find a similar lens. What matters is that Sony understands what more or less people is waiting for.
– If I missed to add an important lens contact me. I will add it quickly!
– The list is ordererd by focal lenght (widest lenses on top)
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33 Responses
From my point of view NEX system primary needs compact primes. I would add one more 85mm or 100mm. Similar to recent 85mm f2.8 only for APS-C. It could be even more compact.
16-35 or 17-50 or even 18-50 f/2.8 are much more realistic and desireable than both the 16-65 or 16-80 options listed.
more compact zooms will necessitate shorter zoom ranges.
The 30mm pancake is the one in which i am the most interested in. The 24mm pancake and the 35mm pancake are also good options.
I don’t understand why everyone is voting for the 16-80.
That thing will be huge.
Yeah, more compact zooms!
I vote for a 16-40 and a 24-75 compact zoom (maybe f4)
And a smaller super zoom (18-135 f3,5-5,6)
Pancakes all the way. There’s no real need for big zooms. NEX is suppose to be portable – portable means pancake lenses. I want to hold it in the pocket, not bag.
Something bright, roughly 50mm would be great. 60 or 35, anything… just more pancakes.
I’d like to have a 28mm F1.8 pencake. As a 42mm equivalent lens it’d be ideal for me for street photography. At a price of like $400-$500 as a high quiality lens, at least on par with the Panasonic 20mm. Wouldn’t mind an optical stabilizer too with a little bit bigger lens body size but it’s not vital. (Or an in-body stabilization in the NEX-7.)
I´d like to know about the possibility of using my old MD lenses. When will an adapter be launched?
I don’t think 24mm f/2.0 or 30mm f/1.8, 35mm f/1.8 will outcome as pancake.
The aperture is just to big to allow a slim construction.
Althrough the 16mm lens is quite slim, I would love to have a real tiny lens.
24mm or 30mm f/3.5 maybe.
Just look how tiny some Pentax special series are.
@Jan K
Because the 16-80 for A-Mount is such a great lens.
Actually it is would be a new design for E-Mount, no adjustment.
So judging from an A Lens how a E would be, is not a good idea^^
Hi Dude! Panasonic did the 20mm f/1.7 lens. So may it is possible!
I guess you have a point in saying that the mirrorless lens should be all pancakes, cause otherwise just use a normal dslr.
Cheers, J
Have people actually seen a NEX camera? Can they imagine how it will look like when you attach to it a 16-80 f/2.8-3.5 ZEISS lens?????
I really don’t see the point in using such lens on a NEX system. Better to buy a DSLR if you want that zoom.
I’m a prime guy myself, but I understand why people are voting for the 16-80mm. There are times when portability doesn’t matter; say at a kids birthday, a BBQ, etc. So even though my first choice, as well as my primary lens 80% of the time would be a 32mm f/1.4 prime, I’d consider getting a high quality zoom. Although I’d rather have a non-zeiss version to save a few bucks. Let Zeiss stick with primes.
the 16-80 zoom is a very nice option for a nex camera, i would use it primarily for trips in different cities where i wouldn’t need a big zoom ration, but a relatively fast aperture for low light shooting, a 18-200 zoom is just too much range for cities. but except that pancakes are the way to go combined with good Zeiss primes, all of the designed to fit the APSC sensor not for full frame to minimize size and cost.
actually i would rather have the 16-80 in a mount with the ability to use the adapter to mount it on a nex camera, considering the case that sony actually fix the autofocus problem.
I really don’t understand why 16-80 zoom is on the top?
NEX needs fast primes.
Neither am I.
Why do every want Zeiss? They would be interesting faster and like a pro series, but first something cheaper and with quality like the prime SAM alpha lenses.
Fast Pancakes
Olympus
17/2.8
25/2.8
Panasonic
20/1.7
Pentax
21/3.2 (not that fast, but crazy sharp)
40/2.8
43/1.9
70/2.4
Samsung
30/2
Sony
16/2.8
History shows that fast pancake lenses range in the equivalent “normal” focal length for their format, and generally aren’t much faster than f/2.8. However, certain outliers suggest that the possibilities are greater. The Pentax 70/2.4 is dramatically smaller than its specifications would imply, and there are now a couple of pancakes for the DILC systems that are f/2 or faster.
Sony, having the most luxuriously over-sized and shallow mount here, should have plenty of engineering room to make some aggressively specified lenses.
I miss the compact zeiss primes in your list, like a C Biogon T* 4,5/21 or C Biogon T* 2,8/35.
I think a compact build size is for the NEX much more important than a large aperture.
Small camera = pancake lenses
Small prime lenses would be amazing for this camera.
I might even be willing to settle for an f/2.8 range if they could keep the price and size down and image quality up, say: 20/2.8, 30/2.8, 60/2.8, 85/2.8, etc. Then maybe a larger f/1.4 lineup to compliment it.
However, since it’s unlikely that Sony will have many lens options for this system for awhile, I think a nice f/2 lineup would be ideal. As a matter of fact, if Sony would make a 30 or 35mm f/2 and an 85mm f/2 or f/2.8 (like the new A-mount one), I would definitely buy it.
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@kevin
Panasonic and Olympus primes aren’t that small, too.
So Sony 16mm E might be as small as it gets.
But in m4/3s you have 34mm and 40mm equivalent and in NEX only 24mm.
Wide angle is nice but not very use able in all day.
I was happy with 35mm all day when I was a younger^^
The E Mount is not oversized.
Keep in mind that 4/3s and m4/3s have a way smaller sensor.
Their mounts look big compared to the Sensor, as well.
It is designed that way to allow easier Lens design and get less distortion.
With a digital Sensor it is much more important that the light rays hit closer to 90° angle than it was in film days.
Olympus took the risk to use a new designed mount as they went from film to Sensor SLR.
Cannon, Nikon and Minolta keep their mounts.
Their top end lenses are much complexer designs than Olympus fourthirds ones (And they have professional grade glass!).
If a FF DSLR with new mount would be newly designed, it came with much bigger mount than EF, F, or A …
I think Panasonic has an edge over Sony right now because of the fast Panasonic 20 f/1.7 pancake.
I had a hard time choosing between the GF1 and the NEX-5 because of this lens and in the end I chose the GF-1 even though the NEX-5 is a superior camera.
If Sony releases a fast NEX pancake, I’ll probably sell my Panasonic in favour of a NEX-5.
I need 24-105!
I need a zoom lens of zeiss!
btw..I like 50mm f/1.0 SSM (Zeiss) many more
Lest people forget, the votes for the larger and zoom lenses might be wanting to put them on something besides the tiny NEX 3 and NEX 5. Something, perhaps, like the NEX-VG10 camcorder, which comes with the 18-200 zoom in the kit. It is about 3 x 5 x 11 inches. Far from tiny, and it needs LOTS of other lenses, and many of these make sense. Not so much the pancakes, since likely they will not have Optical Stabilization, which is needed in all camcorder lenses.
The 35mm and 30mm 1.8 pancakes are really the same lens. So, doesn’t that make it the top wanted lens?
I would think this is a very useful poll for Sony ….and for other lens manufacturers now able to make to the NEX. I would add a scaled down version of Sigmas 8-16mm hsm and hope most will have full AF capability.
I would have voted for 12mm.
Something like the new Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 12 mm f/2.0 Lens would be awesome on my NEX-5:
http://www.olympus-europa.com/consumer/21693_accessory_m_zuiko_digital_ed_12mm_1_2_0_24778.htm
I would really like to see an E-mount lens based on the quite excellent Minolta Zeiss version but it should be significantly cheaper! It is a very sharp lens according to some website.
Sorry. What I meant to say is that the Minolta 85mm G f/1.4 is a very excellent alternative to the Zeiss version, and should be quite significantly cheaper! In fact, all the Minolta G-series lenses takes very good images and should be seriously consinderd for Sony’s E-mount (and it’s A-mount). This should deflect claims about the lack of choice of lenses for Sony’s ranges of Digital cameras!
More primes!!!!…
An ultra-wide Zeiss is the one thing I desperately need. Because the 16mm pancake is a joke on the 24MP sensor of the NEX-7, and every other super-wide has terrible purple color shifts, this is top priority. Coming from a full-frame with access to a 16-35 f/2.8 on Canon, I am dearly missing wide angle lenses. To get a 16mm field of view on a 1.5 crop, we would need a 12mm lens. I don’t care about pancake lenses, unless their quality is high. I would be happy with lenses the size of the 24mm f/1.8 Zeiss, as long as they do the job!
A 24mm (35mm equivalent) pancake lens would completely rock my world.
19-80 f2.8-3.5 could be great ,please sony. No more pancake.