New Sony lenses, and in-stock items.
Sony introduces another pancake lens, this time it’s a 20mm F/2.8, painted black. This new design uses six elements (6/6) instead of five (5/5) on the 16mm pancake, so the image quality should be better. All the other specs like size and weight are about the same; the big difference is the …
Full review of the Panasonic Leica 45mm F/2.8 Macro lens.
The Panasonic Leica 45mm macro lens is pretty small, lightweight, built well, and has a good working distance of slightly less than 3″ or 70mm, that’s not bad for a short macro like this one. The center sharpness at F/4-5.6 is almost unbelievable, with the sides sharpening up nicely, …
Cool new toy, but not in my stable yet.
I could probably see myself with one of these, not because I can justify it for business use, (couldn’t use it anyways thanks to the new FAA ruling), it just looks like a blast! Since I have no RC skills, it might be the best thing for those cool…Updates and review schedule.
The lens reviews ‘to do’ list is getting quite lengthy. It looks like I may finish the Panasonic Leica 45/2.8 macro very soon. Following that will most likely be the NEX Sony 10-18mm and Panasonic 7-14mm, (the coverage is almost the same) possibly with a comp at the end of the review. Due…Panasonic 12-35mm and Sony CZ 16-80mm comp.
Check out the comps below, all are at the wide end, which is 12mm for the Panasonic, and 16mmDeal on new Sony NEX-5R, and used NEX-5R and NEX-7.
The price below reflects a free NEX 16/2.8 pancake lens when purchased together. I’d recommend this if you want a brand new NEX-5R, but here’s what I’d do after I bought it; ebay the 16/2.8, which should come in a retail box (making it worth …
Panasonic 12-35mm F/2.8 lens review.
The first lens review of the new year is a high performing zoom—only from the mind of Panasonic!! This time we check out the X Vario 12-35mm that sports a relatively fast constant F/2.8 aperture, and a zoom range with the equivalent of 24-70mm in 135 film format. At the wide end, this lens …