The night time images are superb, really great detail and no noise and they have that certain something that expensive primes have, very very nice....BUT the day time shots suffer the same as the 16mm in that they kinda look gritty and lack fine detail and sharpness. OK I am pixel peeping which is not a good thing to do but there is something about the daytime shots that i don't like. It may be too much contrast, i dunno but they all have something about them that put's me off a bit. I guess recording the images in RAW is going to give the best chance but it is a shame that they are way off what can be achieved by a £35 manual prime.
The sharpness across the entire shots on those first two color ones I showed is actually pretty amazing to me when I have it full size on the monitor - some weird fragments or something when I exported it for Flickr, but the originals are SHARP. That said, those are both taken at f6 or faster, so they don't speak at all to your concerns at larger apertures... I'm very happy with the IQ, but I'm notoriously unconcerned about the kinds of details others fret over...
No Idea when it's due but back in early Feb they said 2-3 months for full details so i guess there's still more time to wait. 24mm on the Nex (x1.5 crop) is equiv to 36mm on FF which for me is pretty spot on. I went out with the Voigtlander 25mm and that was pretty damn close to ideal focal length for me too when out and about. When i had my Canon 40d I had the 24-105mm f4L which was brilliant! I do sometimes like a bit of zoom action!
Ah, I was thinking it was 24mm in 35mm equiv... 36mm sounds more appealing.
Hurah, I found the lens correction profile, thanks for the tip
He's definitely working those daytime images very hard with the post-processing, probably at the expense of fine detail.
That wasn't me, but I'll jump in. There's been so much speculation about this lens' price - I guess we'll know when we know. The least expensive Zeiss I know of is the 16-80 A-mount, which is a sterling lens but evidently is subject to a good bit of sample variation - I knew one guy who didn't get a good one until his third try but then it was about his favorite lens. I had one for a few days and was blown away by its clarity. That one is about $750, that US dollars, so about 450-460 UK pounds? A lot of speculation that a 24 prime aimed at the Nex market wouldn't be more than that. Then again, if its top of the line Zeiss, it could be MUCH more than that. I know I'm gonna want either that or an X-100. If I can get an X-100 I'm gonna give it a good workout and see if I like it as much or more than the Nex for street shooting. If so, I'll keep it and hope the Zeiss 24 costs a lot to make the X-100 easier to rationalize.
(yes, my motives are purely selfish.) If the X-100 viewfinder doesn't work for me as well as the Nex tilt-screen, I'll sell it (probably get pretty much all money back out of it, if I get a reasonably early version of it) and get the Zeiss 24 for the Nex and probably figure I saved a few hundred dollars. Either way, I've got this decision down to about a $200-$500 swing, which makes it all sound much more palatable.
Still a huge amount of money just for a lens though.
Great lenses are never cheap. Assuming it is a great lens.
