UPDATE_2: The Zeiss 24mm for Nex is now back(!) in Stock at Amazon (Click here). Just click on In Europe the lens is already in Stock at Amazon UK (Click here), Sonystore Germany (Click here), Sonystore France (Click here), Sonystore Netherland (Click here), Sonystore Sweden (Click here) and in Japan at Amazon.jp (Click here).
Steve Huff (Click here) compared the new Zeiss 24mm for NEX with the just announced SLRmagic 23mm lens. The Zeiss in undoubtedly much sharper. Steve writes: “The SLR Magic is actually a very nice lens and the only weakness I found in my quick testing is the barrel distortion. When shooting straight lines or buildings this will be evident.” And there are some 100% blowups from the Sony Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 at Soundimagesplus (Click here).
That Zeiss lens is nice and I hope Sony will release more of such lenses soon!
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Man I can see the JPG artifacts on those pictures :S
Sony stores NL is 50 Euros more than the price in local shops. I never can understand that or the purpose of Sony having a webstore!?!
Man the distortion on the SLR Magic is absolutely horrid. :-/
it mentioned that lens has problem and take comparison for a grain of salt only
Distortion is the least important aberration to worry about…
I got the zeiss last week from the local shop in Switzerland just 810 chf, very good price
Wow! That is 300 Euros less! Care to post a link (if available)? Thanks!
That s a surprising I i got mine for 839 € :'( …
That (839 €) is a lot less than the Sony.nl’ s list price of 999 € or the store prices of 949 €! I think I will wait until it comes down a reasonable ~500ish €. These price variations are really appalling!
Where?
that’s is only 645 € !!!!!!!!! WHAT ????
Thanks for posting that the Zeiss 24mm was in stock on Tuesday; I was able to order on Amazon (UK) and received it yesterday.
I’m no expert photographer, but there seems to be a noticeable difference in the colours captured by my NEX5 – very beautiful.
Here are a few shots in case of interest (all shot RAW, then processed using DxOptics Pro 6 but without applying any changes).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19633433@N00/sets/72157628420004267/
when can we expect a price drop???or something?1000$ its really expensive 🙂
How does this compare to the A-mount Sigma 24mm f/1.8? 🙂
I found the Sigma on the A700 and A900 to be quite nice.
I work at a camera retailer in Canada and we just got a couple in today.
I don’t think I have ever fallen in love with a lens quite as fast as with this one. The colors, contrast, depth of field and amazing sharpness have swayed me. This lens really is a masterpiece from sony and zeiss. Even though this lens alone costs as much as a fuji x100 I really think the image quality justifies the cost.
Hey OP, Steve Huff updated that article about the comparison between the Zeiss and the SLRMagic Lens. Apparently SLRMagic sent him a bad lens, saying that it is supposed to be a lot sharper than what he took the pictures at.
Might want to update this post.
So Zeiss is sharper and more contrasty at f/1.8 than SLR Magic at f/2.8.
How much did you paid your Zeiss 24 mm 1.8 ?
ALMOST pulled the trigger until I noticed while it was in stock at Amazon US it was via the Cameta slime buckets and had a $100 mark-up.
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