Thanks. Or general availability at any place would be good to provide a general idea if you know? How long did it take for your one to arrive after ordering?
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Thanks. Or general availability at any place would be good to provide a general idea if you know? How long did it take for your one to arrive after ordering?
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I'm surprised by how negative some of the responses to the review have been, to me it looks like a perfectly good just not exceptional lens?
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I got mine on a whim at the photography show before most people soooooo I’m an bad example.
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Yeah I have had 3 of them, and kept the best copy.
Do you know any other e mount zooms that are as small, quiet and cost about 80-100 quid? The lens is very quiet ime.
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every manual zoom is quiet. The AF is quiet on 16-50mm also. The zooming is not so quiet.
18-55mm costs a little less but its not PZ.
I am planning to sell my A7iii next week as soon as I receive my A7Riii... If any one is interested...
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May be but depends on the price of course
Probably £1700. I will confirm when I put it up on the for sale page.
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I put the mc-11 adapter on my A7R3 with the Sigma 150-600C tonight and I’m not impressed, AF was problematic as was stabilisation.
I had bought the 100-400 thinking that the 1.4 tc from Sony would be a formality to obtain but no such luck. It doesn’t seem to be available anywhere in the world. 400mm is just too short for my purposes so until Sony manage to produce the TC I’ll have to try and get on with the Sigma.
I had bought the 100-400 thinking that the 1.4 tc from Sony would be a formality to obtain but no such luck. It doesn’t seem to be available anywhere in the world. 400mm is just too short for my purposes so until Sony manage to produce the TC I’ll have to try and get on with the Sigma.
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I'm very happy with my latest lens 
The walk to the shops on a lovely hot sunny day...
It's sharp enough at 100%.
It's nice enough for a cheap old lens. Pound Shop solar lights
This might be my last Sony related buy for a while as I can't think of anything else I want. Maybe I'll get a nice compact AF 35mm f1.8/2 if one comes out.
The walk to the shops on a lovely hot sunny day...
It's sharp enough at 100%.
It's nice enough for a cheap old lens. Pound Shop solar lights
This might be my last Sony related buy for a while as I can't think of anything else I want. Maybe I'll get a nice compact AF 35mm f1.8/2 if one comes out.
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Im glad you agree with my initial comment then....
...fast silent AF for video. I never said the manual zoom wasn't noisy.... the lever zoom isnt to bad.
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yes the AF is silent but zooming is which kinda defeats the point of PZ doesn't it?
Its quite a nice lens especially on A7 series for 4k video in super35. hmm... may be I should just keep mine
yes the AF is silent but zooming is which kinda defeats the point of PZ doesn't it?
Its quite a nice lens especially on A7 series for 4k video in super35. hmm... may be I should just keep mine
What are you filming, studio documentaries? If you zoom that much in video you're doing it wrong anyway.
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You’ll always get the amateurs shooting pictures of their cats who think that buying anything other than the most expensive option will mean they won’t get the results they want.
Having watched a few reviews and looked at the output I think the Tamron looks like an excellent option at a price that’s more realistic.
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My brief experience with the PZ is you can’t zoom smoothly, so near on useless for video (unless you don’t zoom)
I keep forgetting I can zoom with it, I’m too used to primes.
No quite, you have multiple focal lengths, just because you have a zoom for video doesn't mean you zoom constantly while shooting the clip. It is pretty smooth, I just tried it again, I have the a5100 which has a more sensitive/smoother zoom lever at the shutter.
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I always just used it for what it is, a very small general purpose kit lens. It’s got middle of the road variable aperture and a reasonable APS-C zoom range. It’s never going to deliver shallow depth of field portraits or long tele photography but it’s a <£100 general purpose lens.
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A7_00769.jpg by Rizvan Hussain, on Flickr
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steve the purple in the sky,is that how it was?
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How've you uploaded these Steve as they look very pixelated like bad jpeg artefacting on my screen, are they really low res?
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They look fine here.
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It was a blue sky and it looks blue here? Have you checked your screen calibration? :0)
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you may have a point Steve,does anyone else see the purple in the blue and white
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They’re images exported from Flickr then massively compressed by the forum uploader through the app.
https://flic.kr/p/zJCc91
https://flic.kr/p/yPUQp7
https://flic.kr/p/zJD8j5
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You’re not using a Samsung phone to view them are you? The white balance of every Samsung I’ve ever seen is considerably more blue than white.
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night and day difference,look fine from those links,no im using a mac
Any opinions on the Loxia 21mm on a A7R2.
Only downside is it is manual focus only which i have not tried before as all my previous camera`s lenses have been AF
I see Cameraworld have it at £1,099 at the minute which seems to be the cheapest.
Only downside is it is manual focus only which i have not tried before as all my previous camera`s lenses have been AF
I see Cameraworld have it at £1,099 at the minute which seems to be the cheapest.
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Dunno how good that lens is but accurate MF is easy if you have time with the magnified view.
If you want AF Tokina do a MF 20mm f2 that's received good reviews and an AF version is available to pre order at some places but I don't know when it'll be in stock, maybe Google it for more info.
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There's a touch of magenta in the left part of the sky on the two uploaded files which isn't visible on the links, but I can't see purple.
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The ones on here doe have purple 'blotches' and as I said they look pixelated/blocky like a really poor quality file. But I agree with Snake, they look fine on flickr. I'm using Mac too, and yes my screen is calibrated
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The ones on here doe have purple 'blotches' and as I said they look pixelated/blocky like a really poor quality file. But I agree with Snake, they look fine on flickr. I'm using Mac too, and yes my screen is calibrated
It will be the app compression on upload. I’m on my phone so it’s hard to get the BBCode from the Flickr app instead. I was only uploading them to show that the kit 16-50 wasn’t a bad walkabout lens!
@woof woof Thanks for the info