[Leica] Sony A7R and Zeiss FE 55

[Adam Bridge]

Alas, Jayanand, the 24-70 f4 is crap.

Well, okay, not CRAP, but it's deeply disappointing. Way too much distortion for me to like. When shooting wide the barrel distortion is bad. Even using the correction for the lens in Lightroom doesn't fix it.

The only advantage: it's stabilized.

I tend not to shoot wide very much any more - not below 35mm which my Leica 35mm sumicron does just fine. (Really, it does, honest.) 

I see Zeiss is coming out with manual focus but auto aperture lenses native to the FE mount. There are supposed to be more lens announcements later this month.

I've been shooting my 24-70 Canon f2.8L lens with a Metabones adaptor. The autofocus is slow and manual focus is a bit tricky because only tiny motions of the focus ring make for big focus changes, but it does work and it's vastly better than the Sony lens.

Wish I had better news.

Adam

On 2014 Sep 1, at 8:36 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:

> David,
> The A7S does not excite me, the Fujis (XPro-1 and X100s) and Nikons (D800E
> and D4) I normally use have more than adequate low light capabilities for
> me. I am interested in the flexibility to crop as far as the A7R is
> concerned. The point right now is that the 120 decibel THWACK of the
> shutter is putting me off big time. The lens is superb, even wide open, but
> I would need a normal zoom, so I have to check out the 24-70 f4 as well.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:19 PM, David Ching <davidhhching at yahoo.com.sg>
> wrote:
> 
>> Have the same combo, shot the moon handheld at 1/15 about 3 months ago.
>> 
>> Result about similar to the Oly EM-5 with a Pany zoom maxed to 300mm
>> (600mm equiv). Could see clearly the craters of the red moon then.
>> Amazing even wide open. And at a quarter the price of an Otus, of course
>> slower and slightly 'lower' performance. A must-have native AF lens. Pity
>> the noisy shutter though. And if noise matters, try the new D810. I am a
>> new convert. Traded in an instant my D800E. Don't let others tell you that
>> it is merely an evolution. The quieter shutter alone is worth the ticket.
>> Not to mention more than a dozen improvements. Check out the highlight
>> matrix metering and the new split screen level metering which now puts the
>> Nikon in the XYZ direction levelling (true 3D). And more.
>> 
>> If you haven't bought the A7R, please try the A7S and tell me what you
>> think. Perhaps the silent electronic shutter will tilt into its favour. Was
>> told by others that the low light performance is stupendous.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> David Ching
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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