Photozone tests new lenses on the NEX-5!

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Image courtesy: Photozone.de

Photozone has fallen in love with the new Sony NEX camera :)

They reviewed 4 third-party manual focus lenses in few days. And Photozone will not stop here: “We’ll test most of the Voigtlander lineup plus a few [shoplink 3255]Zeiss ZMs[/shoplink] & Leica Ms.”

Read the following four reviews:

1) [shoplink 3987]Leica Summarit-M 50mm f/2.5[/shoplink] on Sony NEX (click here to read the review).
Photozone writes: “its execution is next to perfect and you can feel that it was made with passion” and “In optical terms it is certainly an impressive lens“.
Check out price and availability of the lens on [shoplink 3987]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]

2) [shoplink 3990]Voigtlander Heliar 50mm f/3.5[/shoplink] on Sony NEX (click here to read the review) .
Photozone writes: “In technical terms it is still a very good performer and roughly comparable to the Zeiss and Leica 50mm lenses“.
Check out price and availability of the lens on [shoplink 3990]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]

3) [shoplink 3991]Voigtlander Ultra-Wide Heliar 12mm f/5.6[/shoplink] Aspherical II on Sony NEX (click here to read the review).
Photozone writes: “The lens is extremely sharp in the image center and still good in the image borders/corners.” and ” The primary weakness of the Heliar is the heavy amount of light fall-off combined with a slight color shift in the image corners.”
Check out price and availability of the lens on [shoplink 3991]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]

4) [shoplink 3992]Zeiss Planar ZM T* 50mm f/2[/shoplink] on Sony NEX  (click here to read the review).
Photozone writes: “The center resolution is on a very high level at large aperture settings and the borders are pretty good here.”
Check out price and availability of the lens on [shoplink 3992]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]

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Sony A33 preorder at Adorama (+ more US deals)

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A quick list of new US deals:

1) UPDATED: The Sony A33 is available for preorder at Adorama (Click here)!

2) Again Adorama is taking preorders of the new 18-200mm E-mount lens (Click here)!

3) Time to get your NEX5 with both 16mm and 18-55mm lenses: BHphoto is offering the kit for $799 after instante rebates (Click here and than scroll down to see the deal)

4) After BHphoto also Adorama has the A55 available for preorder (Click here)!

5) Amazon says the NEX-VG10 Full HD Interchangeable Lens Camcorder (Click here) will be back In stock on September 30.

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(SR3) New Zeiss lens to be released at Photokina?

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Following rumor is not from our sources so take it easy! It could be true it could be wrong!

At Dyxum forum member with the nickname “boyanphotography” affirms that “Today I talked to the Zeiss guy at IBC, and he told me that at Photokina they will launch the full MF line of lenses for A-mount (18mm all the way to 100mm (including the 50 1.4), they start with bringing the [shoplink 3962]100 macro[/shoplink] on the market at beginning 2011).

Also, he said Zeiss/Sony will release a new lens at Photokina (besides the 24)!!!
He said he couldn’t tell me what lens, though he said it’s a very big one .
Could this be the CZ 200mm?”

We remind you that those are the current Manual Focus lenses from Zeiss:
[shoplink 3960]Distagon T* 3,5/18[/shoplink]
Distagon T* 2,8/21
Distagon T* 2/28
Distagon T* 1,4/35
Distagon T* 2/35
Planar T* 1,4/50
Makro-Planar T* 2/50
Planar T* 1,4/85
[shoplink 3962]Makro-Planar T* 2/100[/shoplink]

In the meanwhile Kurtmunger noticed that the new Zeiss 24mm lens “does not appear anywhere on their site as of 21:44, 9/12/10 EST. Apparently, Sony’s US website was down on Saturday for maintenance(?)  As I was trying to update some links to the CZ 24mm F/2 lens I noticed it was gone on the Carl Zeiss lens page.  Could it be a mistake?  Or is Sony having troubles again?  Since last week, Sony has very quietly pulled the A560, A580 and CZ 24mm F/2 from their US website, I’m not sure about other places.  Very strange actions here.  I remember the date when the CZ 16-80mm was promised, and it ended up being released six months late. ” BHphoto is still taking preorders (approx. arrival November)

UPDATE: The Sony 24mm lens in available for preorder in all other worldwide sonystyle stores. Very likely it’s just a Sony US mistake…

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New Sony Alpha NEX-3 / NEX-5 review at Cameralabs

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Sony Alpha NEX-5 sample movie – indoor handheld from Gordon Laing (Cameralabs) on Vimeo.


Cameralabs is one of my preferred websites and they just published the new Sony Alpha NEX-3 / NEX-5 review (click here). The first line of their conclusions says: “The Sony Alpha NEX-5 is one of the most impressive, exciting and enjoyable cameras we’ve used for a long time.” :)

One more NEX news: David Kilpatrick tested the NEX-5 live sound (Click here to read the article at Photoclubalpha)

If you don’t own a NEX camera use those shop links to check for price and availability:

NEX5 (Click on store name): Amazon.com / Adorama / BHphoto / eBay

NEX-3: Amazon.com / Adorama / BHphoto / eBay

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Sony TidBits (+Sony A560 delayed and A580 coming to US market)

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Sony A55 fast lens video autofocus test from FIRR on Vimeo.

Via Imaging Resource: “Proving just how quickly plans can progress in the photo business, the company has now reversed that decision, and announced its intention to ship the Sony Alpha A580 in the USA from November 2010. The Sony A560, meanwhile, has been delayed until the first quarter of 2011, with the company citing unanticipated levels of demand for its NEX-series single-lens direct view cameras.”

[shoplink 3000]Sony NEX-3[/shoplink] Review (PhotographyBlog)

First Sony A55  unboxing ritual at C-Tec

Supeardeal at Amazon: Sony A550 (Body Only) for $499.99

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