Sony Japan announced the 28-135mm FE lens will ship starting from December 19. Info on the lens: Interview with Ueda (SAR article here) and press release (SAR article here).
US preorder at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, SonyStoreUS.
EU preorders at Sony DE, UK, ES, IT, FR, CH, AT, NL, BE, FI, SE, NO, PT.
Sony FS7 4K camcorder at Adorama.
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I would love a 28-135 f.4 lens. But this one is way to big and heavy. Maybe to expensive also
This is a video lens,useful for… videographer,but considering the small amount of dedicated FE lenses,worse than useless,this lens seems a joke at the expense of photographers.
Interesting decision to release OSS lenses. I am really hoping for cheaper/smaller/brighter OSS-less lenses in the near future, though I don’t know if the IBIS works as well as OSS in with long lenses anyway.
3000usd? LOL
It’s essentially a video lens. Video zoom lenses have all sorts of requirements, like keeping a constant focal length whilst focusing, and not changing focus whilst zooming. Most still camera zoom lenses compromise on that for the sake of simplicity, size and weight.
The consequence is that full-on video lenses are very expensive. Compared to a lot in the market, this one is cheap.
Judging it by still image standards is simply not appropriate.
Hope to see the same range & optical quality in a smaller lighter body. Many A7/s/r owners are not video buffs.
I was hoping that more people had a clue as to the purpose of this lens and pose interesting questions and or observations. Instead we get ridicules comments from neophytes with absolutely no knowledge of lenses, cameras or video equipment.
This lens alone has convinced me to adopt a full frame E-mount camera. There’s just nothing out there so cheap, compact, and light. I dislike there is no manual zoom override though, or at least wire control that appears more responsive – maybe fixed in firmware before release.
$3000 for a f/4 zoom – definitely not for photography. Nikon 24-120/4 is $600 in a kit with D750 for comparison, much smaller and 2 times lighter.