Carl Zeiss Lenses – “Stress test”
Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* 4/16-35 FE ZA OSS Full Review by Drew Steven.
Sony A6000 Mirrorless Camera Review and Example Images (DigitalPhotographySchool).
Sony A5100 review at CameraLabs.
This is not a test! The Zeiss FE 16-35 ZA on the Wye Downs (XeXets).
Sony A7R in “not weatherproof” shock (Tobinators).
A7 with tri navi rendering at Fredmiranda.
Working with Sony A7S’s S-Log2 Footage in Post (Planet5D).
Shoulder Mounted Options from Zacuto for the Sony FS7 (Cinema5D).
Most Popular Compact System and Mirrorless Cameras with Our Readers (Digital Photography School).
Sony a77 Mk II review at ThePhoBlographer.
Sony Updates Semiconductor Business Flyer and icnreases sales forecast (Image Sensor World).
Jobe: “B&H shipped the HVL-F32 flash yesterday. I thought it wasn’t due to ship until mid December so this might be an accident. Figured I’d shoot you a quick snap of the boxes: https://imageshack.com/i/ipPYfcE5j”
JJ Sereday: “I am a professional who used to be a Canon DSLR user (5D Mark II, 7D etc.) but switched to Sony 2 years ago when Canon released the 5D Mark III. I was very disappointed with their upgrade which took over 4 years to come. From that moment I realized that Canon’s philosophy was to only implement advance technologies when the market demands it. I didn’t want to be with a company that become complacent.
So I switched to Sony, picked up an A99 and never looked back. By all means Sony is far from perfect and I do get frustrated with their customer service and communication. (Or lack of communication rather) But the gamble turned out to be a smart bet since Sony has been really pushing the market. I am now fully invested with just about all of the Amount full frame lenses an A99 and an A65. I also picked up the A7s since it is probably the best camera on the market in its class.
Sonys division between A mount and E mount is a little frustrating as well. Im more accepting of it since I can use all my Amount lenses with the Emount system but there are some caveats. Non the less – I will be riding it out and hoping for Sony to make some smart decisions.
One decision they made well was with the Sony FS7. They actually listened to their customers and gave them MANY of the features and ergonomics requesting. While it is on my TO GET list, I came across the contest Sony has to win one. (it actually may have been from your site). So I decided to work on a film Ive been too busy to work on and submit it.
The short film is called : In The Details. I shot some footage on a trip I took when I first got my A99 and told myself once I finished it I would send it your way since it was done entirely on Sony A99.
http://vimeo.com/jsaycreative/inthedetails”
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I think it’s fair to say Sony has been a huge disappointment for Alpha users in 2014. “The year of A-Mount” never materialized, then we learned that the whole system is getting gradualy discontinued, and Sony has provided nothing comparable to its own SLT cameras in their E-Mount division.
E-Mounts remain too small, with narrow-aperture lenses, lag years behind Sony’s own A77-II in terms of AF etc.
As of today, Sony has no real options for us non-statue shooters. They’ve got one half-baked system and one discontinued system, with a lousy adapter in between that solves nothing.
Big cameras and lenses are needed to rectify that. An A99-sized A9 and FE 24-70 f/2.8 would be a start.
Sony has catered enough to the fans of ‘compactness’, they must address everyone else’s needs in 2015 – if not in A-Mount, then in the form of FE.
“…lag years behind Sony’s own A77-II…”
Lol, you are clueless. Have you ever used the a6000?
A6000 can’t compare with 2007 DSLR, let alone 2014
http://www.verybiglobo.com/sony-alpha-a6000-worlds-fastest-af-part-2/
And that’s in good light
Agreed. Sony is the biggest scam in the camera world right now.
And while it’s great that they’ve partnered with Zeiss, it doesn’t seem to be benefitting them much. The Zeiss lenses designed for Sony are some of the worst the German manufacturer has ever produced.
be careful with such comment. Without Sony, Zeiss would existe! It is the same as Leica and Panasonic.
Everybody know and do not expect the same quality from Sony/Zeiss lenses as from Zeiss properly!
Fortunately Zeiss produce excellent lenses till today… look at Otus…. and the new Loxia….
You must be joking! Where did you test those Zeiss lenses so poorly designed as you mention?
Not sure what your link proves here. Certainly not that the “A6000 can’t compare with 2007 DSLR”.
Did you actually click on the link and see the test? 1D3 from 2007 is spot on, while A6000 fails
Concern troll #2
as per sony tidbits I was really disappointed reading at this sony raw compression article http://diglloyd.com/blog/2014/20140212_2-SonyA7-RawDigger-posterization.html
Why a7x do not have real 14 bit uncompressed format instead interpolated of 11+7 ?
It’s the same of weatherproof: specification looks not real.
It can be a concern, but in reality it rarely is, since dynamic range of close points in a picture is different by 4-8ev usually (in the mean), noise is coming into play and RAW converters like LR use interpolation, making things less obvious. If you have very large differences in dynamic range (12ev, like star trails vs. black sky or trees against the sun) it is possible to detect it (after pushing clarity…). But an option to choose would be nice.
Concern troll.
If such nonsense really disappoints you, you might as well stop shooting.
Must be scraping the barrel today. That water ingress article is from April……
I’m sure I’d be much less convinced if it were a Japanese man in a lab coat
The german accent really hammers the point home, his grandfather worked on the V2 rocket engine during the war.
Environmental testing is fun, ran thousands of these tests and there is no better way to isolate design flaws. It’s also expensive and is usually only performed on prototypes as validation of design and then lot samples from production to validate build processes. Performance tests are performed before and after each phase of testing. It’s surprising to see this level of testing performed on consumer products, my guess its that very few manufacturers actually spend the money and time to perform these tests.
Love to see some crap Sigma lenses runt through the same tests. My Sigma was already soft on the sides when it came out of the box.
“I was very disappointed with their upgrade which took over 4 years to come”.
BS and deception in every single word.
Such testing of stress in space…yet such no rain sealing on earth.
1910: Knock, knock!
Zeiss: Who is there?
1910: It’s me, I want my focusing system back!