Distagon 24mm on NEX-5 is not as big...

as presented on this strange picture



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http://www.flickr.com/photos/nex-5_m42/

You are right, it is actually a very pocketable combo

And, probably a lot lighter as well!

It will be smaller, cheaper, would AF. The question is when it's coming in 2010. Sony should have been more specific about the dates.

it really isn't... it's one of my favorite lenses on the NEX. Got some pretty sick shots with it.

The NEX kit puts up a surprisingly good show against this Zeiss on an A700.

http://www.dpreview.com/lensreviews/widget/Fullscreen.ashx?reviews=97,86&fullscreen=true&av=2,4&fl=24,24&vis=VisualiserSharpnessMTF,VisualiserSharpnessMTF&stack=horizontal&&config=LensReviewConfiguration.xml%3F2
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A rose by any other name is still a chicken.

Nice, eventually I want to get this lens, its on the list of "big" purchases I hope to make in the coming years. Next year, or whenever the Sony a9xx FF replacement arrives I plan to go FF, but I need to also look at lenses to go with it. E-mount lenses are very low priority for me right now, I would really love to have an all purpose zoom like the 18-200 but really its very low priority, would just be nice to have.

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Greg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gkemp/

bodziu said:

Distagon 24mm on NEX-5 is not as big as presented on this strange picture
http://a.img-dpreview.com/lensreviews/sony_24_2_m15/images/onbody3.jpg

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In what way, exactly? Given that what you're looking at is a completely straight product shot, using a 100mm macro on APS-C and therefore taken from sufficiently far away for any foreshortening effects to be negligible. That picture isn't 'strange', and doesn't mislead viewers in any way.

The 24/2 is precisely that big on the NEX-5 - maybe it's just that the camera's quite small?

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Andy Westlake
dpreview.com

Andy Westlake said:

In what way, exactly? Given that what you're looking at is a completely straight product shot, using a 100mm macro on APS-C and therefore taken from sufficiently far away for any foreshortening effects to be negligible. That picture isn't 'strange', and doesn't mislead viewers in any way. The 24/2 is precisely that big on the NEX-5 - maybe it's just that the camera's quite small?

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By all means agree with you, just cought myself staring at this picture for quite a while and wanted to see if it's only me who thinks that if the nex power switch was in the centre of the frame, the picture taken from behind (without going into details why would one shoot from behind) or the hod off it might give a different perspective... camera is 11 cm wide the lens + adapter should be about the same, so maybe it's the hood what makes the difference here. Anyway I appreciate that nex is being used to demonstrate new top of the line lenses even if it's mainly to show the intriguing proportions And the picture as such is good, I would blame English as the 2nd language for 'strange'.

BTW, all the best for the new US office and wish you seamless move!

Andrew Westlake said:

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dpreview.com

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/nex-5_m42/

Two fleas come out from the cinema and one says:
"Shall we go home on foot,
or shall we take a dog?!?!

I would like to return to this subject as I have changed my mind over a year hands on experience with this camera.

After seeing all those over 200mm MF lenses attached to NEX body I still think it's not that big and the article was a tad over-exaggerated.

But who would not be a bit frustrated realizing that traditional dslr design proportion principles are oddly reversed and this process can not be stopped? Nor it can be avoided by someone keeping up with future camera performance benchmarks (or be simply a camera freak like you guys)...

I would imagine that development in lens area even with all those liquid prototypes is progressing much slower than general IT so the further miniaturized FF body will be accompanied by often impressively sized tube sporting high class 3 step prime as fast as 0.01f on the whole length...

Hehe... probably in 20 years all camera pictograms used in children books and standards will be replaced by a picture of a guy trying to lift a Wheelie Bin supporting it on his belly.

Look what happened to the bloody-awesome-proper-bakelyte-hard-core-pulse-dial-only phone which you actually had to D..... I... A. L......... in order to call someone.

Children are laughing or hopefully querying when seen in some books published not that long time ago...

And I am not taking about iconic handset itself ✆, which is doing surprisingly well... This though, is probably thanks to it's money-shot scene featuring this bloody depressive, torn-out cable, with ripped-off handset sadly hanging from the phone-box. BTW, did you notice that they are always bim-bombing like there was a bloody wind in the phone-booth and those tiny cables are coming out even if cut sharp.... an inevitable inspiration for masses of bored american kids;-)

Anyway, I hope that at least RF cameras will stay unchanged for long to assure that old fashioned pictogram will still be recognizable by teenagers, just like the ✆ is for the old fashioned telephone;-)

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/nex-5_m42/

Also matching my own non-scientific satisfaction with the kit zoom at 24mm. Here it is at its worse in some ways (JPEG, and lateral color uncorrected in post-processing which is quite easy to do) but wonderfully usable: