Sony’s new virtual tour of the PDN show stand. Zeiss says no plan to make an FE mount Otus 55mm.

October 25, 2013
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If you (like me) cannot attend the PDNshow in New York just click over at Sony’s newly launched virtual tour. And you can also watch some “real” videos from the Sony stand: RX10 on Vimeo. A7r On Vimeo.

Steve Huff was also at the PDNshow and reported that there may be a chance to see the Otus 55mm Zeiss for E-mount. But Zeiss answered on Twitter that this will not happen.

And a SAR reader reports from the PDNshow:

I have to say that the 35mm 2.8 feels really tempting now! It is small and also the fastest focusing lens there was to test (55mm, 28-70 and 35mm). It was really snappy, and image quality is great. I also liked the 55mm 1.8. Focusing speed isn’t super compared to the best MFT cameras, but good enough. However, I think it is the best normal lens image qualitywise that I have tested. Good contrast and sharpness, and bokeh is pleasing. Otus could be good too but I don’t count that. Ridiculously big lens.I tested Otus with metabones adapter, and it was quite easy to focus using the focus peaking. They also had a canon 24-105mm lens there to test with the metabones adapter, and it was really usable, I was surprised. For some reason auto WB produced a lot yellower results with metabones than the native lenses, though.

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