Sony 85mm f/1.4 GM II at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama. FotoErhardt, FotoKoch, Calumet, WexUK.

Kai tested the new Sony 85mm f/1.4 GM II lens:

Camera Mellow compared the size of the Lumix S9 with the competition like the Nikon ZF and Sony A7cII. But there is one “missing” part…the Sony ZV-E1 is actually even smaller if ultimate portability is your goal.

PetaPixelTV compared the three High Resolution cameras and the Sony landed…last in their ranking. What do you think about that?

USA: Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama
Europe: FotoErhardt, FotoKoch, Calumet, WexUK.

You can finally preorder the super compact 28mm f/4.5 FE lens on Indiegogo (Click here). Here is a first collection of review of the new lens:

SonyAlphaBlog concludes:

The Viltrox 28mm F4.5 (99$ / 109 Eur) , is a pancake with very good performances. Most of the package lack AF, or have bad quality, but this Viltrox is one of the first very good pancake I have really enjoyed to use : very good to Excellent sharpness, very good AF, low distortion, good color rendering, very nice sunstars and a very low price.
The main weak point would be the average resistance flare in difficult situation.

Philip Reeve concludes:

Designing a tiny pancake lens – and offering it at a very affordable $99 – means there must be some optical compromises. And with the pancake lenses I previously reviewed, there certainly were a lot of those compromises – and those lenses didn’t even feature auto focus.
Here some of those compromises are also obvious: fixed f/4.5 aperture, no manual focus ring, no filter thread, high vignetting. But in the field, you may not even notice these on a regular basis. The fixed f/4.5 aperture in fact proved to be less of an issue than I initially expected and I ended up enjoying my time with this lens – something I cannot say about most of the competitors.
So out of all the pancake lenses for fullframe E-mount cameras (I think I have used all of them) this is actually my favorite so far. The inclusion of auto focus also makes it appealing to a broader audience than a purely manual focus lens.

You can preorder it now at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, FotoErhardt, WexUK.

Here are the first youtube reviews of the new lens:

In German:

Our reader MooYoul (Thanks) just spotted the first unboxing pics of the new Samyang pancake lens. Samyang just delivered their 32mm pancake lens to their pre-sales customers and customers shared some photos on SLRClub (which is largest camera community in South Korea):

Product shots:
– Lens: https://www.slrclub.com/bbs/vx2.php?id=minolta_forum&page=33252&no=1125773
– Updated Lens Cap: https://www.slrclub.com/bbs/vx2.php?id=minolta_forum&page=33254&no=1125831
– Mounted: https://www.slrclub.com/bbs/vx2.php?id=minolta_forum&page=33252&no=1125774
– Mounted 2: https://www.slrclub.com/bbs/vx2.php?id=minolta_forum&page=33252&no=1125786
– Mounted 3: https://www.slrclub.com/bbs/vx2.php?id=minolta_forum&page=33252&no=1125796
Image samples:
– Sample 1: https://www.slrclub.com/bbs/vx2.php?id=minolta_forum&page=33252&no=1125788
– Sample 2: https://www.slrclub.com/bbs/vx2.php?id=minolta_forum&page=33252&no=1125789
– Sample 3: https://www.slrclub.com/bbs/vx2.php?id=minolta_forum&page=33252&no=1125791
– Sample 4: https://www.slrclub.com/bbs/vx2.php?id=minolta_forum&page=33252&no=1125794
– Sample 5: https://www.slrclub.com/bbs/vx2.php?id=minolta_forum&page=33253&no=1125797
– Sample 6: https://www.slrclub.com/bbs/vx2.php?id=minolta_forum&page=33253&no=1125798
– Sample 7 (Comparison with 85GM II in same composition, for just fun): https://www.slrclub.com/bbs/vx2.php?id=minolta_forum&page=33254&no=1125821

We don’t know yet if and when this lens will be sold outside South Korea.