Thom Hogan review of NEX-7

Sony E 10-18mm F4 OSS

• One lens to cover those ranges, plus OSS. 

Sony 16-35mm F2.8 ZA SSM Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T*

• LA-EA2 Required, but IQ will be stellar.

Sony Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* E 24mm F1.8 ZA

• I'd rather use just this lens, the can't think of a situation where +/- 3-4mm is going to matter that much (plus I could put on the OSS 10-18 if I need wider).

Sony E 35mm F1.8 OSS

• Not a 1.4, but 1.8 is fast enough for me, plus the OSS will be useful too, especially for video.

Sony E 50mm F1.8 OSS

• Nice and sharp, only 2/3rds of a stop slower, plenty for me.  OSS is nice for video too.

This makes 0 sense, have 2 lenses, same focal length and have one that's slower than the other???

Sony 85mm F1.4 ZA Carl Zeiss Planar T*

• LA-EA2 Required, but IQ is excellent.  Personally I'd like Sony to port over their 85 F2.8 but with OSS  - it would be cheaper than the 85 F1.4 anyway. 

Sony 135mm F1.8 ZA Carl Zeiss Sonnar T*

• LA-EA2 Required, I'd put good money down that you'll never see anything like this on NEX. This will be your only option.

Sony 24-70mm F2.8 ZA SSM Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T*

• LA-EA2 Required

Sony 70-200mm F2.8G

• LA-EA2 Required

Sony 300mm F2.8 G SSM II

• Or you could get the older one for a bit less too.  And yes you'll need the LA-EA2 either way.

The new 35 F1.8 OSS is quite small, 45mm long.  Only 2cm longer than the Panasonic 20mm.

That's great, but the vast majority of the buyers are average consumers, who can't drop Twenty one thousand dollars on the lenses or similar equivalents you've listed.

But it's tailored to a different crowd than most of the NEX line of cameras/lenses are.  Fuji doesn't make a single lens (of the 5 that they have) that costs less than $600; While Sony, on the other hand, has 7 lenses under $500 (9 lenses in total under $500, if you want to include the 2 Sigmas as well).

There are dozens, perhaps hundreds of photographers, shooting with great Legacy glass that would disagree with you.  With the new EOS to NEX adapter there are more opportunities to use more great glass with NEX.  I'm not going to tell you to go get a Fuji, personally I the X-E1 (a lot more than the OMD), I also like Fuji's glass except for the zoom.  A 16-80 with the same speed would be more useful, but I'm sure someone will come up with one eventually.  Anyway, I think you'll see NEX come out with more lenses, not just to compete with Fuji, but Oly/Panasonic as well.

They've only been making E-Mount cameras and lenses for 2 1/2 years, why don't you cut them a bit of slack.  And during that time there was a nasty flood that decimated one of their factories.  In that 2 1/2 years they've produced 8 versions of the NEX cameras and 11 different lenses.  Not a bad start when you stop and think about it.  Oly has been around for  a year longer and only has 13 lenses.  (16 if you could triplicates of the 14-42 and duplicate of the 40-150.

The need to keep doing what they're doing which is to continue to grow their lens line up.

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