Dpreview first impressions on the new Sony 85mm f/1.8 FE: “excellent sharpness wide open”

Dpreview posted their quick impressions on the FE 85mm f/1.8 lens:

  1. balances superbly on Sony’s a7-series bodies
  2. Focusing is silent and fairly quick
  3. excellent sharpness wide open
  4. Bokeh appears very smooth
  5. lot of purple and green fringing wide open

They also notices something interesting:

Of particular interest is our observation that this lens, currently, focuses wide open* on an a7R II (or, technically, opens up to F2 if you’ve selected an aperture smaller than wide open). This addresses one of our largest complaints with recent Sony lens releases that focus stopped down, often slowing focus in low light or forcing otherwise capable phase-detect AF systems to revert to contrast detect-only. It appears that, at least for now, Sony’s recent 100mm STF and 85mm F1.8 lenses address this issue, and without an image cost to boot

That’s a very good news!

New Sony FE lens preorder links:
85mm f/1.8 FE at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon DE. Amazon UK. Amazon IT. Amazon FR. Amazon ES. PhotoPorstNeuwied.
100mm f/2.8 STF FE at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon DE. Amazon UK. Amazon IT. Amazon FR. Amazon ES. PhotoPorstNeuwied.

Sony A6500 review by Max Galer, Tony Northrup and ePhotozine

We got two new A6500 reviews. On top you can watch Marc Galer’s video review. And ePhotozine posted the full text review and concludes:

Ignoring the price, the Sony Alpha A6500 offers a wide range of features, including excellent image quality, fast focusing and continuous shooting, all in a compact camera body, with good build quality. There’s also a good range of lenses available. We’re not really a fan of the menu system update, but saying that, there are worse menu systems out there, and it shouldn’t take long for users of this camera to get used to it. 

Sony A6500 at [shopcountry 55972]

And here is Tony Northrup take on the A6500

First Image Quality comparison between the Fuji GFX (Sony 50MP sensor) and the Sony A7rII


A7rII vs GFX ISO 100 comparison at 100% enlargement (Click on the image to see the orioginal size).

I guess you were all curios to see if the 1.7 times larger Sony 50MP sensor of the Fuji GFX can easily beat the Sony A7rII image quality. Well now you can use the Imaging Resource Comparometer to make all the comparison you want as they just added the GFX Lab shots. Imaging Resource writes:

“This camera produces the best lab shots we’ve ever come across. Detail is fantastic, and high ISO performance is excellent.”

Here are a couple of short links to some of the full size images:
100 ISO: GFX vs A7rII
1600 ISO: GFX vs A7rII

It really comes down to very personal professional needs if the GFX advantage justifies the very high price of the camera. If you ask me I would like Sony to make a medium format camera with 55x41mm sensor. I think the image quality difference with FF would be really make a huge difference. But so would be the price :)

Here is the 100% enlarged 100 ISO comparison with the Phase One XF100 that uses the 55x41mm Sony 100 megapixel sensor (Click on image to see full size version):

 

First full size image samples shot with the new Voigtlander 40mm f/1.2 and 65mm f/2.0 FE lenses

DSLmagazine shared the first set of full size image samples you can download here:

40mm f/1.2 FE at DSLR magazine (Click on the thumbnails).

 

Imagen tomada con Voigtländer Nokton 40 mm f/1,2 Aspherical a f/1,2 – 1/100 s – ISO 100 © Albedo MediaImagen tomada con Voigtländer Nokton 40 mm f/1,2 Aspherical a f/1,2 – 1/100 s – ISO 100 © Albedo Media Imagen tomada con Voigtländer Nokton 40 mm f/1,2 Aspherical a f/1,4 – 1/80 s – ISO 100 © Albedo MediaImagen tomada con Voigtländer Nokton 40 mm f/1,2 Aspherical a f/1,4 – 1/80 s – ISO 100 © Albedo Media Imagen tomada con Voigtländer Nokton 40 mm f/1,2 Aspherical a f/2 – 1/60 s – ISO 200 © Albedo MediaImagen tomada con Voigtländer Nokton 40 mm f/1,2 Aspherical a f/2 – 1/60 s – ISO 200 © Albedo Media

 

Imagen tomada con Voigtländer Nokton 40 mm f/1,2 Aspherical a f/2,8 – 1/60 s – ISO 400 © Albedo MediaImagen tomada con Voigtländer Nokton 40 mm f/1,2 Aspherical a f/2,8 – 1/60 s – ISO 400 © Albedo Media Imagen tomada con Voigtländer Nokton 40 mm f/1,2 Aspherical a f/4 – 1/60 s – ISO 800 © Albedo MediaImagen tomada con Voigtländer Nokton 40 mm f/1,2 Aspherical a f/4 – 1/60 s – ISO 800 © Albedo Media Imagen tomada con Voigtländer Nokton 40 mm f/1,2 Aspherical a f/5,6 – 1/60 s – ISO 1.600 © Albedo MediaImagen tomada con Voigtländer Nokton 40 mm f/1,2 Aspherical a f/5,6 – 1/60 s – ISO 1.600 © Albedo Media

 

65mm f/2 FE at DSLR magazine (Click on the thumbnails).

Imagen tomada con Voigtländer Macro APO-Lanthar 65 mm f/2 a f/2 – 1/80 s – ISO 320 © Albedo MediaImagen tomada con Voigtländer Macro APO-Lanthar 65 mm f/2 a f/2 – 1/80 s – ISO 320 © Albedo Media Imagen tomada con Voigtländer Macro APO-Lanthar 65 mm f/2 a f/4 – 1/80 s – ISO 1.250 © Albedo MediaImagen tomada con Voigtländer Macro APO-Lanthar 65 mm f/2 a f/4 – 1/80 s – ISO 1.250.  © Albedo Media

 

Imagen tomada con Voigtländer Macro APO-Lanthar 65 mm f/2 a f/2 – 1/80 s – ISO 125 © Albedo MediaImagen tomada con Voigtländer Macro APO-Lanthar 65 mm f/2 a f/2 – 1/80 s – ISO 125 © Albedo Media Imagen tomada con Voigtländer Macro APO-Lanthar 65 mm f/2 a f/4 – 1/80 s – ISO 500 © Albedo MediaImagen tomada con Voigtländer Macro APO-Lanthar 65 mm f/2 a f/4 – 1/80 s – ISO 500. © Albedo Media

DSALRmagazine writes that they like the bokeh and the contrast of the 40mm lens. The 65mm has beatiful bokeh but it has some chromatic aberrations.

What are your thoughts on these lenses so far?