Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/22

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Subject: [Leica] OT - Sony Alpha 7R
From: john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 05:58:31 +0000
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The bulk of them look to be Zeiss ;-) 10 Zeiss, 4 Sony G series and 1 Sony 
entry level ....

John

-----Original Message-----

John,

It is puzzling, when the Dpreview review states flat out:

 "Sony plans to have a total of fifteen FE lenses by 2015, including macro 
and ultra-wide models."

That's ten more than they  have now, if you count the soon to be release 
70-200.

Sonny

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 10:49 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> 
wrote:

> I do wonder how deliberate it was to allow the A7s to take (almost) 
> any FF lens? They did not excel in releasing lenses for the NEX and 
> not sure how well their A SLR lenses sold (some like the 135mm f1.8 
> are very well regarded), there were some rather exotic lenses in it AFAIR.
>
> john
>
> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of Sonny Carter
>
> Maybe so, Jay.  I'm just happy I got mine before they closed up shop.  
> I'm getting ready to order an adapter that will let me shoot my Konica 
> Hexanon f 1.2 lens on the Sony.  Just one of several interesting 
> lenses in my collection.
>
>


In reply to: Message from wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr) ([Leica] OT - Sony Alpha 7R)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] OT - Sony Alpha 7R)
Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] OT - Sony Alpha 7R)
Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] OT - Sony Alpha 7R)
Message from john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster) ([Leica] OT - Sony Alpha 7R)
Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] OT - Sony Alpha 7R)