Zeiss 55mm FE review at Photographyblog and great pictures at SLRclub. Shipment info updates (Canada gets them first).

The first 200 Zeiss 5mm FE lenses went on sale on December 4th in Korea. For some unknown reason Sony picked up Korea as the one country that ships the new stuff first. As I told you the lenses were sold out in 2 minutes. Before to switch over to two new lens reviews note that the lens is set to ship…

…on December 10 already at Sonystore Canada.
…on December 22 in US at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and SonyStore US.
…on December 20 in [shoplink 23246 ebay]Japan (source eBay sellers)[/shoplink].
…and late January only in Europe according to Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT.

The new Zeiss FE reviews:

The Korean site SLRclub (Click here) posted the full lens review. As usual google translation tool doesn’t work but you can see plenty of great image samples and also many clear to understand tests like for example this one:

The tests show a top quality performance of the lens with the only visible limit the a bit high vignetting at wider aperture.

Photographyblog also posted the full Zeiss 55mm f/1.8 lens review and writes:

Offering fast and reliable auto-focusing, intuitive manual focusing and the usual Carl Zeiss levels of build quality that’s weather-tight too, this prime lens is a perfect partner to the flagship A7R camera, helping to extract bags of detail from its 36 megapixel full-frame sensor. Highly recommended if you’re about to invest in the fledgling 35mm full-frame E-mount system.

I have that lens already on my preorder list. But it’s pity we Europeans have to wait that much longer to get our lens :(

And here are again the preorder links:
USA/Canada: Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, SonyStore US and Sonystore Canada.
Europe: Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT