Image on top: The Tamron 18-270mm lens for Sony.
The weekend is coming but I am not done with SR5 rumors 🙂
According to trusted sources Sony will announce new A-mount lenses in early 2013. One of the new lenses that will be announced in Q1 is the new 18-270mm DT lens. This will be Sony’s version of the Tamron 18-270mm lens ([shoplink 15847 ebay]here on eBay[/shoplink]).
We will also have the new Zeiss 50mm f/1.4 and the new 70-200mm f/2.8. What I don’t know yet is if all these lenses will be announce together or one after another on separate days. We can also expect new E-mount lenses. I am working to get the specs…stay tuned on SAR…I will hopefully post the coming weeks! Subscribe the RSS feed (Click here) and Twitter (Click here) stream and the Facebook fan page (Click here)!
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P.S.: I don’t know the price of the lens but we have many Zeiss 50mm lenses for different mounts and I thought it would be nice to give you an overview:
[shoplink 14186 ebay]Zeiss Normal 50mm f/1.4 ZE Planar T* for Canon (see auctions on eBay)[/shoplink]
[shoplink 14187 ebay]Zeiss Normal 50mm f/1.4 ZE Planar T* for Nikon (see auctions on eBay)[/shoplink]
[shoplink 14188 ebay]Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 50mm f/1.4 50/1.4 LTM (see auctions on eBay)[/shoplink]
[shoplink 14190 ebay]Zeiss Normal 50mm f/1.4 for Contax (see auctions on eBay)[/shoplink]
[shoplink 14189 ebay]Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/50 ZF 50mm F1.4 Nikon Ai-S (see auctions on eBay)[/shoplink]
As you see the price range is soemwhere between $500 and $800. Of course these are all manual focusing lenses and do have a different design. But I hope the price will be a bit below the $1.000 mark.
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Reminder (SR = Sonyrumor):
SR1=probably fake rumor
SR2=rumor from unknown sources
SR3=50% chance it is correct
SR4=rumor from known sources
SR5=almost certainly correct!
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New E-Mount lenses, too? Yeah!
Looking forward to 50za & 70200 II. Budget planned, hope the price won’t be surprising too much
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My current 70-200G still working well…. 🙁
Why the sad face?
No one says you have to upgrade.
I am not planning to upgrade to the 70-200 II but I love my current version.
I should have bought one years ago. It is so much better than the tamron
70-200 f2.8 that i use very little now. I recently shot close ups of cast members
of a play while they performed. Of the 600+ shots I only discarded 2 for misfocus
and no shots required any post for color corrections of skin tones with the a57
even with difficult lighting. I also think the clear zoom feature in that camera works well. Having the reach of over 600mm with ssm is great. A week later I shot a choir concert held
on the same stage with the tamron just for comparison and the sharpness and colors
was unacceptable.
I often read the comments of people crying for more lenses from Sony but I am
very happy with the results I get from my go to four. The 16-50 f2.8, Cz 24-70 f 2.8,
70-200 g, and the cz 85. I think that lens are more important than the body. In the
Studio I am still very pleased with the look of a a700 with the cz 85. I know it is that
lens that really makes the difference.
Will Sony ever release a new version of the beercan? An affordable, reasonably fast, 70-200mm F4 would make many people happy.
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While the 18-270 is very unimportant to me (and is no real improvement over the 18-250) the CZ50mm could be nice. But what is really needed is a f4 24-105 or 24-120mm G or CZ lens.
an F4 24 120 G SSM will be an absolute must and will be the right bundle to the a99 body. Actually the 28 75 is a badass choice…
I always wonder why only Nikon has a 24-120mm F4.
That lens would be great even for APS-C shooters.
Ditto for 24-105/24-120 f4 type of lenses. I don’t understand why Sony
discontinued the 24-105 without making an upgraded version.
it’s a great new… the problem is that the price will be humongous … such lenses target only the rich or pro … a normal budget person can not afford them … all what he or she has to do is to admire and hope to be able to find a second hand affordable G lens… the sad thing is that there is plenty of nikon or canon pro lenses that are affordable:
you can find easily a 70-200 nikon or canon for ~700-900 while the sony or minolta equivalent is no way to be less then the double amount stated…
i hope that they try to sell something great with affordable money!
cheers all
peter
I’d really like to see a quality, fast super-wide zoom in the 10-24 range for full frame. As for the new 70-200, it’s wait-and-see, but at least there could be a flood of used ones coming to ebay. Anybody selling?
Hi. What about the “UC” lens update that was due in short timeframe? Is it gonna happen? I’m in market for 135 STF.
Thanks
18-270
SAM-II or SSM ?
Versions of F4 affordable zooms are more Then welcome:
70-210 f4 FF A mount
16-50 f4 E mount
50-150 f4 E mount
I know that the 70-200 is a little ‘old’ but what kind of update would they do to the new version? Would it be optically the same?
They will add weather sealing at the very least.
and AF should be 2-4 times faster…
Wish for fullframe 50-135 high speed zoom…
35-135 would be better.
Yep, 35-135 in pair with 16-35 seems to be super handy =)
The super zoom is for crop sensors right and not for full frame?
Obviously – otherwise it would be the size of a bus.
Tamron once made an SP 18-200 f/2.8 manual focus zoom for SLRs. It was not too unwieldy. 🙂
SONY 18-270: Junk, don’t waster your money. Anything in this range will look semi mushy in the lower mm’s and tremendously mushy in the high mm’s. In fact, you’ll only get mediocre quality in the supposed sweet spot between 100-200. There’s a reason zooms in this range are only found on consumer crap. These slow varying f stops are pretty much worthless.
The rest of the supposed lenses sound like rehashes of already available focal lengths that we already like. WTF!
Sounds like Sony is just pushing out the last of the A mounts they had left on the drawing board prior to killing off the ALPHAs. Sad.
Tell me more about the NEX lenses, that’s where I’d put my money.
It’s obviously not a lens meant for you, it’s a BUDGET lens.
Sony can’t win here, they get constant complaints about the lack of lenses and then get constant complaints from people not happy about lens announcements.
I am happy that they release ANY lens for Alpha.
18-270? I thought Sony already understood that next to “no lenses at all” an “re-branded Tamron” is second worst thing we could get?
What’s wrong with Tamron?
nice~ 18-270 SSM?
Hey I use the Sigma 70-200mm f2.8 and my copy is sharp, sharp, SHARP! I love that lens… the weight being the only ‘challenge’ using it for a full day. Oh, and I usually manually focus mostly… but the AF on it is very quiet (though it will hunt around a bit from time to time).
I would not hesitate to buy another copy if mine fell out of an airplane or into a lava pit.
I seriously doubt a 50mm Zeiss with SSM will go for any less than $1200 US. I am thinking it will be somewhere in the $1200-1500 US range.
Sadly, I agree with you. Judging by the pictures of the prototype on the A99..it’s got a 72mm head, and some seemingly big glass, and along with AF ..definitely over $1000 USD. Probably closer to $1500. I have hopes that this lens will be on my A99 70% of the time or more. Imagine if by some miracle it was under $1000…it would sell like hot cakes!
but either way, it’s a good thing I’ve been saving 🙂
Give me a 135mm f2.8 like the old minolta one, a 100mm f2 and a new 24mm f2.8 please. I don’t care if they are essentially the same optical design as the old minolta ones, these were all wonderful lenses but with internal focusing motors be it SAM or SSM and work with AF-D would be great thanks! Oh and a decently priced 35mm f2 for full frame or even f2.4 as well (or update the 35mm and 50mm DT’s to be full frame – they already cover the whole frame and most focal distances).
Make the 24mm and 135mm ‘easy choice’ series and the other 2 standard series.
Just visited one of the major electronic shops yesterday I visit regularly and talked with a Sony rep in the store. Two items he commented to me about:
1. Tamron and Sony lenses are fundamentally all Tamron. Tamron OEMs to Sony under the Sony brand, and of course, Tamron lenses are from Tamron.
2. Full frame and NEX. I asked him that when will the full frame NEX be forthcoming (as if I already had some insight in this happening). He commented that it won’t be for about a year or two still. So, two implications here…. are they forthcoming? Probably yes. Are they coming any time soon? Probably not.