Sony Japan officially released…the release date 🙂
The Sony 35mm f/1.8 E-mount worldwide shipment will start on December 7th.
You can check the price and estimated shipping date at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Wex UK, Sonystore DE–UK–FR–IT–ES–NL–SE–FI–CH, and more links at Alphacameradeals.
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Too bad Steve Huff can’t mount this thing on his RX3000.
Interesting, why I have a feeling that this lens can cover FF? Nikon 35mm f/1.8 has similar spec which cover APS-C. However, Sony version is about the double price and assume to be used as standard lens on NEX (52mm equivalent). If it can’t cover FF, it is not worthwhile. It may not be illogical but just my feeling of why it is expensive than expected. Just my 2-cents.
Cause the Nikon doesn’t have OSS. If you want a cheap DT lens, look at the Sony 35mm 1.8.
That’s why we always keeep asking for IBIS from NEX so that we are not charged repeatedly for OSS in each len.
Question: why does that thing cost ~ $675 (55650 yen)?? I thought the retail price in NA is ~ $450… even with difference between regions, I don’t think it should differ by that much.
… why does it cost ~$675 (55650 yen)? Regional difference shouldn’t be that significant, would it?
I live in Northern Europe. What’s the best place to order this lens from so I can have as soon as possible?
on the french sonystore, the release date is End of january
And still no in depth review from trusted websites…
Grmpf, too bad. It’s always the same. They announce it in September and tell us it’s gonna be available in November. Then they postpone it to December and finally, the only place where it’s avaiable in December is Japan. Seems like whole Europe won’t get it before the end of January. And I don’t think it will arrive in my mailbox before February. This is really really disappointing for me. I was looking forward so much to getting this lens for christmas and taking some nice low light shots during christmas.
Let’s cross fingers that the ship carrying the lenses will take a shortcut through a wormhole. And hopefully, the container of interest will stay on board.
… as a replacement for the long-awaited 35mm, I would consider buying the 50f1.8 in order to allow some good low-light shots. But I just CANNOT buy it in silver. I wonder how many years it will take Sony to paint it black. I just can’t stand the thought of buying the lens in silver and regretting it a few months later when I see the black version. (I have a NEX-7 and I think the NEX-silver would ruin it’s looks. Leica-silver, however, would look much better…)
the silver 50mm 1.8 looks quite cool on the NEX-7 with the straight black lenshood on imho
The front lens diameter is almost twice less then the F/3.5 kit lens.
Looks like this lens alone have the hard vignetting. And only the embedden in-camera vignetting correction hide it. But nevertheless, the amount of light it provides to the matrix in opened iris by this toy lens is in times less then the real lens.
really too expensive
Where is fast zoom G ????
Hello to everyone,
Is there anyone here who can read Chinese and try to order the SEL35F18 (Sony E-mount 35mm F/1.8) from this site: [ http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.10.27.Hw7NGs&id=15993405162 ] 2,000.00 CNY = $320.789 USD . If this is true then, we are all in U.S.A. are paying an extra $100 for it. That is if this deal is real.