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Subject: [Leica] Leica Lenses on Sony A7 body
From: alal at poly.edu (Akhil Lal)
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 13:31:54 -0400 (EDT)
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I did not mean Compact Prime TM (movie) lenses. I wrote compact prime 
(as in small, fixed focal length) lenses, e.g. the size of the 55/1.8 and 
35/2.8 FE lenses.

At PhotoExpo, the CZ product manager gave the impression that 55/1.4 sized 
lenses were not in the cards for the FE mount. To use the 55/1.4 or any of 
the manual focus CZ lenses on FE mount bodies he suggested ordering the 
EOS (ZE) mount versions and adapting them to the A7 with the smart 
metabones adapter. The A7r + 55 + metabones set was floating around in 
Sony's stand but I did not get to try it. BTW, that's why I asked if 
anyone had used it.

I found the 55/1.4 virtually impossible to focus on a digital Nikon 
screen, may cancel my pre-order and get the new 58/1.4  Nikkor instead. 
I was told that the next lens in this series will be an 85mm.

The Sony A7/7r bodies were the most intresting new products I have seen 
for several years. Too bad the 7/7r don't have in body anti-shake, 
otherwise my order would have been placed already. If Nikon and Canon want 
to keep their market shares, they'll have to release small FF mirrorless 
bodies of their own.



On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Henning Wulff wrote:

> Zeiss' 'Compact Prime' lenses are compact in the sense that a Hummer is a 
> 'compact truck' and a storage container that a large truck delivers to 
> your house and removes it after you fill it is 'portable'.
>
> They are the cine versions of their regular lenses.
>
> They might?? produce truly compact lenses, but their focus lately has been 
> much more on higher quality than size restraint; eg, the 55 Distagon.
>
>
>
> On 2013-10-25, at 6:13 AM, Akhil Lal <alal at poly.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I had posted this link earlier.
>>
>> Early reports on using RF wideangles - based on pre-production bodies, I 
>> assume - are not promising, let's see how production samples of the A7/r 
>> fare with these lenses.
>>
>> CZ will be releasing lenses for the FE mount, they will not say which 
>> ones. My sense is that they may be leaning towards a new line of compact 
>> prime lenses. In the meantime, the current range of ZE lenses will fit on 
>> FE bodies with the metabones adapter.
>>
>> If anyone on the list has the metabones EOS -> NEX smart adapter, please 
>> let us know how well  AF confirmation works.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Frank Filippone wrote:
>>
>>> I do not know who the guy is or if his reputation and results should be
>>> trusted, but here are some first images of the Leica lenses on the A7 
>>> body..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.ronscheffler.com/techtalk/?p=224
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Frank Filippone
>>>
>>> Red735i at verizon.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>
>
> Henning Wulff
> henningw at archiphoto.com
>
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