Looks like Sony is either getting serious about fixing its lens line woes, or else wants you to think it is. Dpreview is showing photographs of four beta samples of new FE lenses for the full-frame A7 lineup, all or most supposedly on the way for this Spring. The same mockups were shown at Photokina and then CES.
There's a macro lens, the FE 90mm ƒ/2.8 Macro G OSS (Optical SteadyShot, Sony's in-lens IS); one of those do-everything mega zooms toward which I have an untoward antipathy, the FE 24–240mm ƒ/3.5–6.3, also with built-in image stabilization; and an imposingly large- and heavy-looking fast 35mm, the Distagon T* FE 35mm ƒ/1.4 ZA.
But the most interesting is the compact FE 28mm ƒ/2 with not one but two matching bayonet-mount converters! The first is an o.75X, which turns the lens into a 21mm. The second converts the 28mm to a 16mm fisheye. Very neat. Nice to see Sony thinking outside the usual constraints and coming up with something cool.
Any by the way, converters have a bad rap derived from all-purpose cheapie aftermarket versions, but dedicated converters designed for the lenses to which they're meant to attach can be of excellent quality. A fun trio sure to draw attention and discussion (although I'm guessing just the 21mm converter will sell well). Here's a picture of the trio from Photographyblog.
Mike
(Thanks to Bernd Reinhardt)
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