Sony NEX-5N and exotic lenses (Leica-M, Leica-R, Zeiss ZM, Zeiss C/Y, Panasonic)
The until today unknown website dearsusans.wordpress.com (Click here) tested plenty of exotic lenses on the Sony NEX-5n. It’s a review full of details and image samples. And he tested some really nice lens you might be interested to buy for your NEX. Here is the list of all reviewed lenses:
1) Leica Elmarit-R 19mm/2.8 II (Click here to see lens specs and price on eBay): “This is a glorious lens for landscapes” but huge and suffers from flare.
2) Zeiss ZM Biogon 25/2.8 (Click here to see lens specs and price on eBay): “On the NEX-5N it looks at home. The size is perfect. Ergonomics are perfect, build quality is fantastic”
3) Leica Summicron-M 28mm/2 (Click here to see lens specs and price on eBay): “This lens is perfection. It combines the refinement and naturalness of my Elmarit-R 19 with the sharpness of the Biogon 25.”
4) Voigtlander Colour-Skopar 35mm/2.5 PII (Click here to see lens specs and price on eBay): “In daylight, it’s a street shooter’s dream come true. Tiny, unobstrusive and unassuming.”
5) Leica Summicron-R 50mm/2 (Click here to see lens specs and price on eBay): “It’s sharp a plenty, has good colour and reasonably nice bokeh. Build is to Leica standards, except for the aperture ring that feels a bit plastic and cheap”
6) Zeiss Contact Planar T* 50/1.7 (Click here to see lens specs and price on eBay): “Pretty convincing (read excellent) and so cheap.”
7) Leica Summarit-M 75mm/2.5 (Click here to see lens specs and price on eBay): “I really liked that lens! My only criticism would be the polygonal bokeh.”
8) Zeiss Contax T* Sonnar 135/2.8 (Click here to see lens specs and price on eBay): “The only real trouble with this lens is that it weighs a ton! Laaarge and heaaavy.”
9) Panasonic 14mm (Click here to see lens specs and price on eBay): “Perfect if you’re into weight lifting and like creamy bokeh.”
Alfonso Cuitiño
2 years ago |Wow did you pay attention to what he says in the latest post? I installed Chrome just to see if it was true, and it is! Chrome is bad at rendering JPGs
Alfonso Cuitiño
2 years ago |Boy it’s bad! pictures are grayish! I’m in shock lol
Alphasd
2 years ago |Good stuff, bad photographer
c.d.embrey
2 years ago |Meh! A lot of lenses I don’t own and have no interest in using.
z
2 years ago |I would love if everyone are just like you. That way, I can get amazing lenses for less than $10.
c.d.embrey
2 years ago |This isn’t a hobby for me. I use cameras and lenses as tools of my business. I could have bought Leica M and Leica R, but I chose Canon and Nikon because they built better cameras and lenses for what I shoot. YMMV. My NEX 5n is used strictly a video camera, but a NEX 7 will replace one my Canon DSLRs.
BTW maybe I’ll get an adapter made for E-mount to Toyo 4×5. Should be great for product hots, and I won’t have to wait for Sony to make a T&S lens.
Vlad
2 years ago |Thanks for sharing!
zstan
2 years ago |Weird. There’s a huge contrast in colours of the pictures on her website while using different browsers but the colours look the same for my blog irregardless of what browser you are using. Hmm.
redfern
2 years ago |I read something about this once, and if I recall correctly Chrome looks for an embedded color profile in your jpegs and if it doesn’t find one (or is not compatible with it), then its default color profile is used. And the default one is terrible. Firefox, IE, etc. all default to sRGB, I believe, and are much more accurate.
If you save your jpegs with an embedded color profile, though — preferably sRGB — then the jpegs will render the same in all browsers. It seems to work, as I only recently switched over to embedded sRGB in my workflow in Photoshop, and finally my jpegs are rendering properly across different browsers.
Again, that’s my understanding of the situation, but hopefully someone with more knowledge will chime in and correct me if I’m wrong.
Vlad
2 years ago |She has an embedded Prophoto RGB profile in her images. Chrome isn’t color managed, so it assigns to them the default target color space on the web – sRGB. (Safari is color managed, so it reads the profile and maps it to the screen profile and you get your colors).
You can try it in PS – download her photo, honor the tagged profile, then Edit/Assign profile and assign sRGB.
TR
2 years ago |This post reminds me again that I wish the NEX-7 had the 5N sensor.
D.Ortego
2 years ago |Well, I once owned the Leica Cron’ 28 and it was the best lens I ever had. Still, I wouldn’t buy it again to slap on a NEX but I’m sure it would be fantastic.
Ante Nimac
2 months ago |I think dhat i write to you im intereses four Lense 16-50….I thinck You are in USA?????