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I am interested in the upcoming NEX 7, but am awaiting real world reviews.

In the meantime, anyone know of any decent wide angle lenses for the NEX system? I am familiar with the stock zooms, but they apparently have some pretty bad geometric distortion. Yuck.

I would ideally like something that falls near the 28 mm equivalent category, and be as distortion-free as possible. Is this doable, or just wishful thinking?

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
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And that has made all the difference.

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DGF said:
I am interested in the upcoming NEX 7, but am awaiting real world reviews.

In the meantime, anyone know of any decent wide angle lenses for the NEX system? I am familiar with the stock zooms, but they apparently have some pretty bad geometric distortion. Yuck.

I would ideally like something that falls near the 28 mm equivalent category, and be as distortion-free as possible. Is this doable, or just wishful thinking?
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With the 24megapixels you are waiting for you'll get some ability to crop. For a decent, not super, 28mm I would use the cheap but not bad at all Sony E-mount 16/2.8 and crop away the corners as you see fit.

This will also give you a little more leeway with composition in case you need to straighten an image, or stretch it somewhere.

Ah, I'm sure you already have thought about this - I mention it as it is what I am planning to do, and do with my plain model 5 while waiting for everything to clear up.

regards,

Jonas
 
Jonas B said:
With the 24megapixels you are waiting for you'll get some ability to crop. For a decent, not super, 28mm I would use the cheap but not bad at all Sony E-mount 16/2.8 and crop away the corners as you see fit.
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I'm mainly interested in landscape photography. Cropping is possible, but not exactly desirable. One reason I am interested in the NEX 7 is it's high resolution, which makes for larger prints.

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-Robert Frost
 
DGF said:
DGF said:
With the 24megapixels you are waiting for you'll get some ability to crop. For a decent, not super, 28mm I would use the cheap but not bad at all Sony E-mount 16/2.8 and crop away the corners as you see fit.
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I'm mainly interested in landscape photography. Cropping is possible, but not exactly desirable. One reason I am interested in the NEX 7 is it's high resolution, which makes for larger prints.
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I see.

Then I guess the best thing to do right now is to wait. Considering the WA images taken with the Nex-7 we simply don't know what lenses will perform, as in really perform. We can guess the Zeiss Distagon 18/3.5 will work - but there may be other less expensive (and with less wavy distortion) options working as well.

regards,

Jonas
 
You can get the EA2 adapter and the Sony A-mount 20mm F2.8. That will give you and effective focal length of 30mm. On the NEX 7, the zoom lenses have their distortion corrected. This will be different from what you might have read before with older NEX cameras.
 
I doubt that A mount lenses are corrected for distortion, anybody has facts about it ?
 
DGF said:
I am interested in the upcoming NEX 7, but am awaiting real world reviews.

In the meantime, anyone know of any decent wide angle lenses for the NEX system? I am familiar with the stock zooms, but they apparently have some pretty bad geometric distortion. Yuck.
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Hi, this may be an off-the-wall suggestion but Sigma makes a rectilinear 12-24 zoom in Alpha mount. I guess it could be mounted on NEX with the fancy adapter that's coming. Hmm, glad you brought this up, I might try that combo too :) It's a huge SLR lens but I imagine the results would be cool.
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