Sony Europe offers you the chance to extend the warranty on the soon to ship Zeiss 16-35mm FE lens for 1 Euro only! And you will get full 3 years warranty! Grab it here: Sony DE, UK, ES, IT, FR, CH, AT, NL, BE, FI, SE, NO, PT.
Note: UPDATED Zeiss FE 16-35mm preorder links list:
Zeiss 16-35mm FE at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Sony Store US, Sony Canada.
Zeiss 16-35mm FE in Europe at Sony DE, UK, ES, IT, FR, CH, AT, NL, BE, FI, SE, NO, PT.
Zeiss 16-35mm FE in Australia and Asia at Sony AUS and Digitalrev.
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I cannot believe if this thing sells well: it’s way too expensive for a pure amateur lens with focus by wire and no DOF scale, about €400 more than a pro grade Canon 16-35/f4
Its a really great lens, its most definitely the best wide for ang 35mm. If you want somthing better you’d have to go medium format.
I won’t say this is the best lens base on the test with A7S; the edge of the image looks soft even at f/11 on a 12MP camera! I will wait for comparison against Canon 16-35 f/4L IS on A7R before making decision. Check out the test at 16mm: http://www.mobile01.com/newsdetail.php?id=15811
Ignorant much? The best FF wide angle lenses are high grade primes. This small, slow, “inexpensive” wide angle zoom is not in the running.
What’s wrong with Focus by Wire? and what DoF scale are you talking bout? The DoF scale on modern AF lenses are nowhere as good as manual scales, so for E mount lenses to omit it, I don’t see anything wrong.
don’t feed the troll 😉
DOF scale is there, it’s digital in the EVF and on the Display.
In my opinion much better compared to this little window, which you can’t even see at night.
The DOF scale is eletronic in the EVF and on the display. You can actually read the meters. Why would you wanna look around the camera and turn some non calibrated scale on a lens if you don’t have to do that 😉 On the A7 you virtually never have to take your eye from the viewfinder for setup, seting the lens, focussing, shooting and even review of the pictures. If that workflow is “too easy, straigtforward and amateurish” to you, then just stick to your “professional” DSLR…
To Canon lenses, no comment. Most are mediocre, many are overprized, some are good. Same as for every other big manufacturers lenses.
The paid Canon trolls are here again.
On B&H there is $150 difference between the Sony and the Canon lens.
From the initial reviews it seems that the Sony is significantly sharper.
The focus-by-wire makes a distance/DOF scale in the viewfinder possible, and enables fixed focus while zooming in and out. In other words, it is several generations ahead of the Canon.
I agree. I can see the prices crashing in about a year once all the hype settles down.
Focus by wire and distance reading in the EVF enables you to focus to the nearest metre quickly and easily – how amateurish. But then you wouldn’t know that, as you’ve never used one.
One year extended warranty is available in HK too.
“… soon to ship Zeiss 16-35mm FE lens for 1 year only!”
I think you mean “for 1€ only” =)
Oh shit. Sorry!
I have pre-ordered it September 15th.
I just wrote them an e-mail to ask when the lens will ship, as it should have arrived yesterday or today. They had a shipping estimate of Nov 4/5.
And I asked them if it’s still possible to get that warranty extension.
I can keep you posted if someone’s interested.
Sony UK indicates it is ‘Temporarily out of stock’, so there is no option to buy anything.
It doesn’t even have a ‘pre-order’ facility.
Furthermore, it says there is no information as to when it will be in stock again!
This sounds rather alarming, although I can only assume that there has been such worldwide interest and demand that initial sales and orders have far outstripped the manufacturing. Not good for those who live in countries less well served.
Nothing is more exciting that extended warranty on a lens.
Maybe not exciting, but you’ll be pretty pleased you have this warranty if your lens packs in a week after your first year of ownership.
What if it packs in a week after your second year of ownership ? :))
Then you will be just as pleased, seeing as it’s a 3 year warranty 😉
Be carefull with such offers!!!!!! Sony Switzerland had the same offer for the new Sony Alpha 77II when I bought it in the official Swiss Sony Online shop. I received just one booklet with a code that had to be unlocked online. Unfortunately this activation of the “Extended Service Plan” did not work. Im fighting since then (for more than 5 Months!!!) that this is beeing fixed. Unfortunately the European Sony Support is not able(or not willing) to handle such a problem within some days. I got various mails from different support centers (from different persons) and their strategy was always to forward you to another support unit (untiI was back as where I started).
It’s not available from Sony in Germany either. The sony.de site states that you can pre-order the lens, but when you try and order you get a message saying it is unavailable and that the date it will be in stock can’t be confirmed. I simply can’t believe that a company as large as Sony doesn’t offer a means by which you can pre-order this Item. Yet another example of how Sony is simply unable to manage supply and demand and customer expectations. The same happens with almost every new lens they release.
The same goes for Sony in France and in the UK. The lens is no longer available to pre-order. Well done Sony – another badly managed product launch ruined by availability problems!!!