My concern with the Sony was the weak performance wide open, which is sort of counterproductive for a fast lens. Dpreview is the only review I have seen of it. They did feel that it was comparable to the others, when stopped down. The problems with it seem to be exacerbated when using a full frame digital" >From Dpreview "Having reviewed four other 50mm F1.4 lenses of similar design over the past few months, we weren't expecting any major surprises from the Sony version. And in broad terms it's not hugely different from its Canon, Nikon and Pentax equivalents; as befits a quality prime it gives excellent image quality when stopped down, but struggles somewhat when used wide open, showing common problems such as corner softness, halation, bokeh chromatic aberration, and vignetting on full frame."
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Adam Maas <a...@mawz.ca> wrote: > 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. > -- Jeffery L. Smith New Orleans, LA -- 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.
