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Subject: [Leica] Sony 55 Sonnar question
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 03:13:21 -0500
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For once, Mark and I agree on something.  The Sony Zeiss 24 - 70 f4 is a 
fine lens.  If you?ve been noticing, I?ve been using it as my daily driver 
for several weeks.  

SonC



Sonny Carter
http://www.SonC.com/look


> On Oct 23, 2018, at 1:33 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
> I agree on fixed focal length glass as lacking flexibility. But if a fixed 
> lens was flexible it would be doing its job!
> If this was me shooting with one lens with a Sony I'd shoot it with a 
> Vario-Tessar T* FE 24-70 mm F4 ZA OSS which is gorgeous and takes licking 
> and keeps on ticking I'd not leave home without and I'm not really 
> kidding.!
> When I look at the focal lengths I shoot with my new zooms this year I'd 
> never have thought those focal lengths were what I'd be using in these 
> situations.
> It's always what you don?t think. So a zoom has you not locked in and has 
> you covered.
> So if you're not walking around with a camera bag with a complete set of 
> wide, normal, tele lenses I'd for sure have a standard zoom on that anti 
> vibration camera.
> And in this case what could be more perfect than an F4 fixed zoom?
> It?s the glass which is way we should be buying our cameras. And this 
> glass for this system seems very exciting.
> I?m using Nikon VR zooms for the most part it's not all that original but 
> I'm excited by it.
> I?m getting a 50-200 VR DX as I'm getting a D500 fast DX camera body for 
> my birthday in a few weeks. 
> Ten frames a second and be there.
> VR means Vibration Reduction.
> 
> My favorite lens now is my AF-S VR 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5G ED  for my D750 I 
> just got I use it way more than my wide or tele zooms.
> I'll soon be using it on my DX D500 which makes it a 35-125mm which I may 
> like better and is what I used for my road trip moving here from the west 
> to east coast.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Vario-Tessar T* FE 24-70 mm F4 ZA OSS
> SEL2470Z
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photographer
> 
> ?On 10/23/18, 2:07 AM, "LUG on behalf of Philippe via LUG" 
> <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at 
> leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
>    Hi Douglas,
> 
>    what I question is not the lens itself whatever the brand, but its FL 
> and the lack of versatility a fixed lens provides.
> 
>    Well, you know the details more than I do after all.
> 
>    Good luck with the shooting
> 
>    Amities
> 
>    Philippe
> 
> 
> 
>> Le 22 oct. 2018 ? 23:42, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> a ?crit :
>> 
>> I've an assignment which involves a day's shooting in an office 
>> environment with my Sony A7ll, and will need to use flash more than a 
>> bit. I'm not overly thrilled with the kit lens that came with the Sony, 
>> so am thinking of going for 55mm 1.8 Sonnar as it is designed for the 
>> camera and flash. I have a perfectly good Elmar 50 2.8, but it won't give 
>> me the response times I will need for this task.
>> 
>> So the question for the Sony shooters out there is, have you got this 
>> lens, and are you happy with it? Of course, I have looked at reviews, but 
>> it's good to hear real world experiences.
>> 
>> Douglas
>> 
>> 
>> 
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