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Sony Zeiss wide angle lenses expectations???
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Chad Marek
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A little defensive, are we?
If the mount is to be successful in the long run, Sony users will have to drop attitude such as this and get used to the fact that there will be people who are legitiimately interested in dropping their current mount for what Sony has to offer.
To flame them for asking a question is counter productive.
Unless, of course, you think Sony has nothing to offer over the other mounts. Reminds me of a scene in the movie Road House. The lead character is telling the bouncers not to start fights. One of them asks "what if he calls my mom a whore?"
The answer: "Is she?"
chad
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Refusing to take pictures of my cats.
If the mount is to be successful in the long run, Sony users will have to drop attitude such as this and get used to the fact that there will be people who are legitiimately interested in dropping their current mount for what Sony has to offer.
To flame them for asking a question is counter productive.
Unless, of course, you think Sony has nothing to offer over the other mounts. Reminds me of a scene in the movie Road House. The lead character is telling the bouncers not to start fights. One of them asks "what if he calls my mom a whore?"
The answer: "Is she?"
chad
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Refusing to take pictures of my cats.
That is the true test for being competitve isn't it? It will be a good thing for all of us when Sony gets there.
LOL, excellent example!
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Greg Beetham
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James, I couldn't resist looking....(I've got a mouse with a button on the side that gives an instant on screen magnifier), but I couldn't find the deer...drat 
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Greg
Lol!!James, I couldn't resist looking....(I've got a mouse with a button
on the side that gives an instant on screen magnifier), but I
couldn't find the deer...drat
Greg
Greg on the hil at pretty much the center of the image is a white spot on this jpg. That is the doe. Full size it is quite distinctive but this is a down sized low res jpg.
Good luck!
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PhotoTraveler
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See the canon 4/24-105 and tell me if you think that lens and the Sony are anything similar?
The current lens is a variable aperture medium grade ultra compact lens. Not even remotely the lens some of us are looking for.
4/24-105 G SSM is what people are looking for. I had the 24-105 and sold it.
By the logic you put forth, the Sony 75-300 is all we need and the 70-300G is pointless since we already have the 75-300.
The current lens is a variable aperture medium grade ultra compact lens. Not even remotely the lens some of us are looking for.
4/24-105 G SSM is what people are looking for. I had the 24-105 and sold it.
By the logic you put forth, the Sony 75-300 is all we need and the 70-300G is pointless since we already have the 75-300.
Gregory King
Veteran Member
So, it has a bigger filter and a single telescoping element. Unless I were USING it, what else would I be able to say, short of comparing photodo charts?
"Not even remotely"? You said yourself:
"Perfect kit lens for A900, same as canon did with the 5D.
Much cheaper and lighter than a 2.8/24-70. More versatile and works great for FF."
Much cheaper and lighter kit lens, but the much cheaper and lighter kit lens is now too cheap and too light. You gotta watch your superlatives.
...and the 70-200 2.8. Yes, that's probably an god analogy, isn't it? Although, the pricepoint on the 75-300 is a bit lower than the 24-105.
But, I never said it was POINTLESS, I said it should be low on their list. I quote myself:
"Relatively speaking, in terms of resources allocated and market need"
It's called PRIORITIES. They just released the 24-70...why waste more time in that range when their prime lineup is full of gaping holes?
That's the sucky part about forum discussions. You can't escape the past (comments) ;-)
I'm also not one to focus on "midrange" lenses. Either I use a cheap and light one for cost and weight and size, or I take the 2.8. The middle lens has most of the cost without the speed, so it's last on my list.
Greg
BlackRockArt
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I am banned from posting at certain forums for saying certain things.
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Natural, the Way Photo Should Be
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It has LESS pixel density than the Canon 40D 10MP sensor (at 1.6x crop, the Canon sensor is smaller than the larger 1.5x Sony APS-C sensors).
That may be a good thing. My 40D seems to have a bit more noise, even at ISO 400, than my 40D. Give me big pixels (like my 5D) over megapixels anyday. Or at least until they solve the noise issue, LOL!!
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genotypewriter
Senior Member
Let's put it this way... first, it takes a really dumb person to say the Sony FF is better than a 40D in terms of pixel density because no one's going to think "hmm should I get a 40D or a Sony FF" even if it is... that's how dumb it is.
Secondly, compare it to a FF solution with a significantly lower pixel density which is good enough and even desired by most, like a D3 or a 5D or even a 1DsII.
And finally... at 24MPs, the Sony FF's pixel density isn't significantly different than a 40Ds. To give you an idea, the pixel density difference between the 10MP a300 and the 10MP 40D is much greater.
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Secondly, compare it to a FF solution with a significantly lower pixel density which is good enough and even desired by most, like a D3 or a 5D or even a 1DsII.
And finally... at 24MPs, the Sony FF's pixel density isn't significantly different than a 40Ds. To give you an idea, the pixel density difference between the 10MP a300 and the 10MP 40D is much greater.
GTW
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