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Bring Jack back!
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- Houston, Texas
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- Jack
Another size comparison:
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Serhan, are you secretly working for Sony? You are causing way too much GAS in me!!
Another size comparison:
Nice!
Serhan, are you secretly working for Sony? You are causing way too much GAS in me!!
Hadn't thought of putting Zeiss manual glass on it. If it works. I could give house-room to an A7 and a Zeiss Distagon 21mm.
LouisB
The Voigtlander 20mm f3.5 is another option for a small fullframe wide lens.
The camera looks great but will probably be way out of my price bracket.
I'm kind of in wait and see mode too, but for me it's gonna hinge on how well I'd get on with manual focus lenses. Flash isn't an issue for me, but fast wide lenses are. Sony doesn't look like that's a priority to them, but there are some very nice and affordable Voitlander's and others, from 15-28 that should work really well with this body. With no crop factor, these will be truly wide angle alternatives, unlike with APS or m43 bodies. It's not tough to focus a wide angle to begin with, and with Sony's excellent focus peaking setup, it could be kind of fun. I'm certainly gonna check one of these out, but whether I'd buy one is a question I don't think I'll be able to answer for a while... But I could envision it if I really like it. Sony full frame for the wide end up to about neutral, m43 for the longer stuff, and the Nikon A for street shooting. May not happen, but it's plausible to think about...As I said on the Sony RX1 shooter's FB page, I really like what Sony is doing with some of the features here. The EVF, the huge resolution, weather sealing right out of the gate. But, there's also a few things that are really going to hold me back from being an early adopter (if ever), mainly the Sony flash support and lens selection (or lack thereof). After experiencing such a lousy time getting my RX1 to play nicely with simple off camera flash I'm not exactly eager to expand my Sony camera collection
Fora any system, I need fast lenses and wide lenses, and the 55mm is just such an odd choice for a first prime. I am definitely happy to see this developing and I'm curious to see where the lens selection goes in the future but the decision to go with yet another lens mount and start from scratch on lens selection really handicaps the system for me. Granted there's apparently at least an E mount to A mount adapter coming, but that's hardly ideal.
As much as I love full frame sensors and mirrorless, I'm in a definite "wait and see" mode for the A7 so far.
I'm kind of in wait and see mode too, but for me it's gonna hinge on how well I'd get on with manual focus lenses. Flash isn't an issue for me, but fast wide lenses are. Sony doesn't look like that's a priority to them, but there are some very nice and affordable Voitlander's and others, from 15-28 that should work really well with this body. With no crop factor, these will be truly wide angle alternatives, unlike with APS or m43 bodies. It's not tough to focus a wide angle to begin with, and with Sony's excellent focus peaking setup, it could be kind of fun. I'm certainly gonna check one of these out, but whether I'd buy one is a question I don't think I'll be able to answer for a while... But I could envision it if I really like it. Sony full frame for the wide end up to about neutral, m43 for the longer stuff, and the Nikon A for street shooting. May not happen, but it's plausible to think about...
Looks promising to me. About the size of the RX1 with the EVF in place, with the menus and controls of the RX1, and with a grip added. None of the lenses give me a reason to go this way, but if it works well enough with legacy lenses, I could see sticking a couple of Voitlander lenses on this bad boy (I"m thinking the 15 and 24. I'm sure I'll check out a loaner of this and if I like it with manual focus, you never know. But the AF lenses they're talking about so far do nothing for me...
-Ray