On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith...@gmail.com> wrote: > I looked at the new Sony FF dSLR, and wasn't impressed by the specs in light > of the fact that its normal (50mm) lens is decidedly sub-par compared to the > competition. > > Jeffery >
The Sony 50/1.4 is as good as the Canon or Nikon 50/1.4's and almost as good as the FA 50/1.4 (which is IMHO the best of the 1st party 50/1.4's). Sony's 50/2.8 Macro is pretty much best in class for a 1st party normal macro. Their only weak spot for normals is the lack of a FF budget 50mm, which they share with Pentax (as neither currently makes their older 50/1.7 designs). While a lot of Sony types like to complain about the lack of a Zeiss ZA 50, there's nothing wrong with the current option other than it doesn't render similarly to the popular ZA primes. The best 50/1.4's on the market today are the Zeiss Planar (available in K, F and EF mounts, but not A mount) and the Sigma 50/1.4 HSM (available in all common mounts). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
