New Sony 85mm F/2.8 SAM review by Kurtmunger.com!
Kurt Munger posted a new interesting Sony 85mm F/2.8 SAM review. After long detailed testing he says: “Sony comes up with another winner in their high performance, low cost easy choice lens series“.
That’s a perfect lens if you want to carry a light lens. If you need a faster lens you have to get the much more expensive Sony/Zeiss 85mm f/1.4
We also found a comaprison between the Sony 85mm and the Tamron 90mm lens at Sonyuserforum.de.
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Comment from kevin: I suspect that those cameras with a plas...Comment from Eric N.: Acrylic lenses????? I would like to s...
Comment from ChenAlan: If those are your only reasons, I don't ...
Comment from Arthur: Plastic mount, acrylic elements, smooth ...
BMan
2 years ago |Afaik there was speculation that this is an old Zeiss lens design from the 60s.
Which would imply why it’s so good. And the price can be low, due to acrylic lens elements being used instead of glass.
acolyte
2 years ago |Does this affect the quality of the lens?
BMan
2 years ago |No, the image quality is as we see not affected.
However, the build quality suffers.
I have held this lens in my hands and I can confirm that you can deform it simply by squishing it. It does return to it’s normal state once released, but still, I find this rather disturbing, especially knowing that lens elements need to be aligned extremely well.
But for this price it’s unbeatable I guess.
I also wonder how well the acrylic will fare in the long term.
I think that first such lenses are now about 10 years old.
(Most of the 18-55 kits from Canikon, the old minolta 28-105 and it’s aps-c’ed clone 18-70).
My Canon 18-55 EF-S which I got with my 350D still works as new
Arthur
2 years ago |Plastic mount, acrylic elements, smooth focus ring, all the reasons to not use it on FF camera. It would make a nice portrait lens on an APS camera though.
ChenAlan
2 years ago |If those are your only reasons, I don’t see why I shouldn’t use it on my A900. The damn lens is so cheap anyway + I don’t intend to go out into the wilderness. XD
Eric N.
2 years ago |Acrylic lenses?????
I would like to see proof of that. Pretty sure those are glass elements.
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kevin
2 years ago |I suspect that those cameras with a plastic lens mounts might be kinder to the “Easy Choice” lenses (less erosion) than cameras with metal lens mounts. Still, it won’t keep me from enjoying this lens on my a700.