Sony NEX-5r/6 news roundup (and first leather case for both).
Sony 10-18mm f4 OSS Lens Review
Let me catch up with some news related to the latest new NEX-5R and NEX-6 cameras!
NEX-5r:
Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 4.02 for apple iPhoto 11 and Aperture 3 now available on the Apple app store. Brings support for the NEX-5R, NEX-6 and A99
Amazon.co.uk just reduced the mex5r by £100 in the uk
Sony NEX-5r with 16-50mm zoom now preorder now available at Sony.de.
Speceman found the NEX-5R kitted with Silver SELZ16-50 at Sony Denmark.
Nex5r for just £499 plus £50 cashback at Currys.
A whole bunch of NEX-5r leather cases are now available on eBay (Click here)
Sony NEX-6:
New Sony NEX-6 review at Trustedreviews.
Sony NEX-6 16-50mm – Review and User Experience – Part 1 at Soundimagesplus.
Even more NEX-6 leather cases are now available on eBay (Click here). Ther eis also a full leather set for camera+lens+batteries (Click here).
NEX-6 body at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Wex UK, Wex Germany Sonystore DE-UK-FR-IT-ES-NL-SE-FI-CH and more links at Alphacameradeals.
NEX-6 with kit lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Jessops, Wex Uk ,Wex Germany and more links at Alphacameradeals.
NEX lens:
Sony 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 PZ OSS power zoom test at Soundimagesplus.
Lens price check at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Wex UK, Sonystore DE-UK-FR-IT-ES-NL-SE-FI-CH, and more links at Alphacameradeals .
Mitsu
6 months ago |This guy is cute
anybody know her name?
Gunnar
6 months ago |what a coincidence.. just today i tested this lens in the Sony store and did not buy it. in my opinion its too steep a price tag for what it is optically.
the built, size, handling and most of all weight are excellent but the images sadly were not.. i compared to the Alpha Samyang 14mm prime which is my workhorse, just very bulky. and the Sel 10-18 had lots more distortion very high CA, needed manual focusing and was noticably less sharp especially towards the edges.
i will wait for the 12mm Zeiss lens which hopefully will be only around a 3rd more expensive, but 24mp deserve a great lens. for now i´ll stick to the awesome Samyang.
Gunnar
6 months ago |i should mention i only tested wide open f4 to see the worst i could get.. compared to f4 on the Samyang (which is a f2.8 lens) ..so not the fairest test
as its zoom against fast prime.. also i shot with tripod and without oss
Mart
6 months ago |Nice video, is there any blog tibits of photo using kit lenses 18-55mm set to 24mm put to F8-F16, compare with photo quality of Carl zeiss T sonnar 24mm also shoot at F8-F16. Same area to of focus on a tripod just comparing sharpness and quality between the two lenses? Anybody know of any guys made any to share?
Flangad
6 months ago |about http://soundimageplus.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/sony-16-50mm-f35-56-pz-oss-power-zoom.html
No miracle! cannot get a very small zoom lense with top image quality. The 16-50 is clearly not as good as we could dream. Anyway:
- did you notice the RAW files are slightly wider than jpg? why? because the wide angle of this lense is not really 16mm, but rather 14mm… those 2 extra mm are clearly poor quality (soft, corner vigneting, strong distortion…), but they are not intented to be used as a part of the picture, but only to provide some required pixels for getting a proper 16mm after software correction! So, of course, if you consider the whole picture on a wide angle RAW file, you’ll be disapointed, but doing so, you are judging the lense for something that go beyong it’s official spécifications. Once corrected, the result is not that bad, and give a rael 16mm
- It’s not very fair to compare a prime lense (Voigtlander 20mm) and a zoom lense (especialy a pancake zoom). Of course the prime lense is sharper, that’s one of the 2 reasons why prime lenses still exist when we can build more versatile zooms (the other reason is max apertune)! It would have been more interesting to make a comparison with Sony or other brand 18-55 kit zoom, and with Panasonic 14-42X, that is not a very good lense too.
Mart
6 months ago |Thanks Flangad that was really a nice blogspot!! Some useful comparison!
alex
6 months ago |That’s very strange review ofcourse. Dude, used JPEG’s a lot for comparison and complained about blue case which is most likely a firmware correction for white balance. Yes, it’s off, but it does not have anything to do with the lense itself. You’ve already mentioned the obvious problem with oversized RAW for 16mm and ridiculousness of comparing a zoom with a prime. And yes, there’s a lense correction profile for Lightroom. Just google it, Mr. Reviewer. http://forums.adobe.com/message/4857562
Mart
6 months ago |Hoped to see some blog soon using 10-18mm set to 16mm to compare with the prime emount sony 16mm with the same F stop… or there is one already? Think there should be some bad prime and good zoom in the market…
FlowerBug
6 months ago |TrustedReviews.com has 18 different spyware sites tracking every reader’s move and computer settings. I suggest that with friends like this, you don’t need enemies.