Is this real? Allegedly leaked image of the new Sony 28mm f/2.8 FE pancake lens

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A new source just sent me the image of an allegedly new Sony 28mm f/2.8 FE pancake lens with the following text:

Sony is about to launch a new full frame e-mount pancake lens to finally compete directly with the Canon 28mm f/2.8 and Nikon 26mm f/2.8 pancake lenses. This is a true pancake lens design (unlike the 24/40/50 G trio). It is not a G lens and will be priced very aggressively. They don’t want to lose sales to the recent third party Viltrox and Samyang pancake lenses and were very surprised with their popularity online and with the Sony alpha community wanting a pancake lens. Unlike the Viltrox and Samyang this will be a proper full featured FE lens with manual focus ring and adjustable aperture from f/2.8 to f/22 and high quality optics, sharp from f/2.8 with minimal vignetting.

This is coming from a new source so this could be total BS. I hope trusted sources can soon confirm if this rumor is true or not. If you happen to have some info about that please drop me a message using this contact box or at sonyalpharumors@gmail.com. Thanks!

Anyway, what do you think about this rumored lens. Would you love this to be true?

 

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First reviews of the new Viltrox 28mm f/4.5 pancake autofocus lens

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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.

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Phase one announced a new fixed lens camera using the Sony 150MP medium format sensor

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If ultimate Image Quality is your aim and you don’t mind psending 20k than check out the new Phase One XC 40 Camera. It’s a medium format camera with a fixed 40mm f/4.0 lens (25mm f/2.5 quivalent in Full Frame). It uses that crazy Sony 150MP medium format sensor that promises ton of resolution, dynamic range and color information.

You can read a small field report on this page.

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