Playmemory App “Lens Compensation”
Sony A58 review at Imaging Resource.
Sony NEX-7 w/ Voigtlander 15mm F4.5 – Sample Images at Photoheadonline.
Sony 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 DT SAM II tested at SLRgear.
Sigma’s 18-35mm f1.8 Gets Converted Into a Cine Lens (ThePhoBlograhper).
Sigma 30mm E-mouny lens test at DxOmark.
ony NEX-3N Compact ILC Review (Steve Digicams).
An unfair comparison Review of the Sony Alpha a58 and OMD – An enthusiast perspective (13thfloorphotography).
Sony NEX-5T test at Pcpop.
Sony NEX 18-105mm f/4 PZ G OSS Lens Hands-On Preview (ePhotozine).
Carl Zeiss 16-70mm f/4 E ZA OSS Lens Hands-On Preview at ePhotozine and Mobile01.
Sony Stacked Sensor Cross-Section (Image Sensor World).
Rokinon 300mm f6.3 ED UMC CS on Sony NEX (ThePhoBlograhper).
Sony 50mm f/1.4 ZA SSM Carl Zeiss Planar review (CameraStuffReview).
New Lens correction APP at Playmemories.
Upcoming Dual Review- Sony Alpha A58 DSLT and 18-55mm SAM II Lens (Photographic-Central).
A300 analysis by Quesabesde.
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In-camera firmware support for barrel distortion and vignetting is a pretty positive omen for manual lens users.
Positive Omen? That’ an oxymoron.
then say positive augury!
Looks like the biggest value of this app could be the option to note focal length and ƒ-stop when using manual lenses.
Is the first picture, which was compensate with playmemories app, taken with a fisheye !!! lol 🙂
What a huge distortion !!!!
if i remember correctly it was the 16-50mm pancake o_O not 100% sure where i read that from though
16-50mm pancake @ 16mm
Incredibly, Sony didn’t bother enabling this application to add any lens information to EXIF data.
Thanks for nothing, Sony!
A300 ??
Interesting comparisons and comments in the A58 review at Imaging Resource. A competitive jpeg engine, which according to them even beats the competition in its class. Looks like Sony has finally caught up in this department, especially if you realize the A58 has that small but undeniable beamsplitter handicap affecting noise.
Imaging resource have “gone soft” on review lately raving about just about every model it’s a real shame as they used to be more objective and critical (even with the latest pointless 700d review). Anyone who’s used the A58 knows it’s a far less rounded appealing camera than the A57 in almost every respect, it doesn’t offer any better high ISO performance or DR, despite the protests of some determined to try to “sell it” to potential buyers.
IR are not comparing Jpeg engines with the NR at the lowest, no Alpha camera is competitive with rivals with NR off on other makers
You’re free to share your comparison between the A57 and A58 at the lowest NR setting.
I purchased the A3000 (ILCE-3000k, PAL version) today. I couple of initial observations:
Build quality is great
Grip is super chunky and well moulded
Camera fits in hand very well, reminds me of my 5D2 I owned
Light but well balanced
Card slot is on the side, much preferred
LCD is bright, contrasty and well saturated but has noticeably less pixel density than my 5N
EVF is not completely useless, bit dark, it appears to be the same as the HX300
Lack of EVF activation sensor is annoying
Mode Dial completely removes Mode menu
Large slightly ridged base with metal tripod mount, no guide whole
No RAW only option, RAW+JPEG is best option
Recorded 29:59 minutes video clip without overheating
Lightroom 4.5 (whatever runs on Vista from Creative Cloud) can open RAW files
SEL35F18 results in nice amount of detail at f4
JPEG give nice results
No raw only option?!?
No and is noticeable how much extra space is wasted
At last a lens profile app! Now, how can we exchange a saved profile? If copying is available we could standardize them and make a publicly available library somewhere for all these vintage lenses.
Someone can explain why should I buy another application to do corrections that I can already do with LR? or with free software as Rawtherapie and the Gimp?
Explain first who is forcing you to buy it.
Right now, I’m a Canon guy who continues to be intrigued by Sony glass. Sony’s G lenses and Zeiss is the reason I follow this blog. Congrats Sony for taking a MAMMOTH step in the RIGHT DIRECTION FINALLY putting out DSLR’s with E-MOUNTS!! FINALLY! Thank you. Only one thing now, put COMPETITIVE VIDEO PERFORMANCE in these cameras and I’ll gladly switch. That’s 45 mbps h.264 and 50 mbps plus in IPB and ALL-I modes…that’s competitive. Canon’s got that. Panasonic’s got that. It’s a low spec now. The Blackmagic Pocket Camera does FAR, FAR BETTER than this with ProRes and CinemaDNG RAW. Have you seen Canon’s strides with Magic Lantern lately? You guys’re running out of time, PLEASE get serious about the video performance in your DSLRs. You’re being left behind and your window is closing.
Be serious who’s going to put Zeiss glass on a body like the A3000?
E mount has sod all lenses for it natively v A mount (which has a vast number of lenses in comparison)
Many of us couldn’t care less about NEX, it’s awful ergonomics/interface, they’re just not products enthusiasts want to buy. It had potential but the ILC market is shrinking rapidly and a lot of us care a lot more about A mount that boring E mount. I for one am sick and tired of NEX news, when A mount badly needs some work on it
A3000 isn’t going to even scratch Canikon DSLR sales not a hope in hell
ok, let me be serious 😉
“Be serious who’s going to put Zeiss glass on a body like the A3000? ”
> Me. To be more specific, I bought the A3000 2 days ago as a second body and I use the Zeiss 24mm 1.8 and the Zeiss 12mm 2.8 Touit. I don’t feel the performance of the lenses is worse than on my NEX-7. The grip is so nice on the A3000, it’s a pleasure to use ALL lenses, in particular the 18-200 fells much better balanced. The fact that the body is cheaper than these lenses doesn’t bother me much as it’s really nice quality.
“E mount has sod all lenses for it natively v A mount (which has a vast number of lenses in comparison)”
> There are already more E-Mount lenses today than A-Mount APS-C lenses. Only the range of 300mm is still missing, no problem for the most of us I guess. If you want to use the expensive FF lenses on an E-mount body, you know you can always adapt them as well.
“Many of us couldn’t care less about NEX, it’s awful ergonomics/interface, they’re just not products enthusiasts want to buy.”
> NEX-7 and NEX-6 are the enthusiast models and many of us care a lot! Once you set up these cameras for your needs, you almost never have to go to the NEX-Menus again. But I agree Sony can still improve the menus as it’s the biggest complaint about the NEX overall.
“It had potential but the ILC market is shrinking rapidly and a lot of us care a lot more about A mount that boring E mount. I for one am sick and tired of NEX news, when A mount badly needs some work on it.”
> ILC-market is shrinking where? E-mount is the future, face it. I don’t say A-mount is dead, but E-mount is just much more flexible.
A3000 isn’t going to even scratch Canikon DSLR sales not a hope in hell
> A consumer looking for a cheap entry into ILC-Cameras couldn’t care less of how an A3000 affects Canikon DSLRs. He will get a nice package with a mount that will have a great future for around half the price of a comparable DSLR. Don’t forgot that DSLR will probably die in some years as the mirrors become more and more useless, so als Canon and Nikon will need new mounts and new lenses and strat from the scratch. Sony will be already way ahead then.
Yo another a3000 owner, beyond the really nice grip how are you finding the camera. It is about, if a little under, what I excepted in performance but I have yet tried it in sunny conditions, so I’m reserving my judgement
I care about e mount, if I had a Zeiss lens I would use it on my a3000
Denis, you said you don’t care about NEX because of it’s horrible ergonomics…hmm. Didn’t I pat Sony on the back for imparting a DSLR form factor to an E-mount body ? Clearly we agree on NEX’s form factor being bad. Where’s the disagreement here ? Since your post isn’t a real counterpoint to mine, except that you favor Sony’s aging A-mount system, I can only assume your merely being provocative and trying to stir the pot, as you’re not making a real point. BTW, you know who thinks highly of E-mount ? CARL FREAKIN’ ZEISS, who’s making a boatload of lenses for the format. Now what ? You know, you need to read postings more closely. I was addressing the relative VIDEO PERFORMANCE or lack thereof in Sony cameras compared to competing brands. You didn’t even take that up. Not everybody in this forum is in the business of making FANBOY POSTS. Some of us are deeply and sincerely concerned with the direction this company is taking with some of our favorite products. We write cuz’ we want INPUT. We want to weigh in before Sony makes another ENORMOUS MISTAKE with it’s productline. A-mount isn’t going anywhere…I think you can calm down.
ROTFL! 7-8 years ago Sony developed superb lenses 16-80 and 16-105 that needed almost no compensation…
Well it’s easy to correct in digital, so it’s probable they decided to relax distortion in order to optimize some other parameter.
JiM I don’t think there issue here is compensation for Sony’s lenses but for 3rd party lenses. I agree it would be nice to be able to add to the EXif data for those lenses as well.
Will the output of this lens correction app show up in RAW files or only in jpeg files?