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The Zeiss 35mm FE cut in half at CP+ Sony booth (Source: Matthew Allard).

Well, Sony decided to literally skip the CP+ show and is as far as I know the only major photo company not having announced a new camera or lens. But also the other companies kept a low profile (Read Engadget articles about that). Canon’s 5ds will ship in June only and all other manufacturers did show many prototypes and much less “real” production cameras.

Just like it happened with the A7II launch Sony seems to prefer to launch major stuff off the big show to get more publicity. And here is the question to our SAR readers:

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At Cp+ Canon is Pokes Fun on Nikon and (indirectly) Sony because their new Canon 5ds has more Pixels than the D800 series and Sony A7r. Well, I refuse to make any comments on this :)

P.S.: Canon even showed a new 120MP sensor prototype (Mirrorlessrumors).
found via CanonWatch.

Newsshooter at CP+ Tokyo 2015- Sony Distagon T* FE 35mm F1.4 ZA First Look from Matthew Allard ACS on Vimeo.

Reminder: Without a single word Sony decided to postpone the FE lens launch. Back at Photokina the first shipment was “targeted” to be in February. And even their current Sony Japan site advertise the new lenses. But at Cp+ Sony decided to not answer any question about that. Anyway, the real pricing and shipment announcement should come very soon as reported by DC.watch.

The Sony FE lenses at the Sony booth:

Newsshooter writes about the Zeiss FE 35mm f/1.4 lens:

The new lens felt very solid in the hand and although not a light lens it did not feel unbalanced on a Sony a7. The lens features a 72mm front and comes with a nice lens hood. From the limited time I had using the lens I was left with a positive impression. It is very sharp, produces nice bokeh and seems to have good control of chromatic aberration and vignetting.

Newsshooter also posted a Sony 28mm f/2.0 Hands-on video and writes:

The build quality is fair, but not in the same class as the 35mm F1.4 FE ZE. From my quick play with the lens, it optically looked pretty good. It also had pretty close focus ability that I estimated to be around the 30cm mark. Once you put the adapters on expect a drop in optical performance. The Ultra Wide Adapter had quite a lot of barrel distortion and definitely looked a little softer in the corners. The Fish Eye Adaptor does produce minor vignetting in full frame mode.

Newsshooter at CP+ Tokyo 2015- Sony FE 28mm F2 lens and Fish Eye and Ultra Wide Converters first look from Matthew Allard ACS on Vimeo.

UPDATE: Newsshooter also posted a 90mm macro hands-on video and writes:

I had a bit of hands on time with the lens at CP+ and was very impressed by the optical performance. It is very sharp and the OSS definitely makes a big difference when shooting any type of macro work. Even when not used as a Macro lens the 90mm looked to provide nice separation between your subject and the background. Build quality was very nice and was right up there with any of the FE ZE lenses on offer.

Newsshooter at CP+ Tokyo 2015- Sony FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS First Look from Matthew Allard ACS on Vimeo.

DC.watch posted a new set of images. Click on them to enlarge:

Image from the Sony CP+ conference. Courtesy of Matthew Allard.

Back at Photokina Sony said they would launch the four new FE lenses in February (24-240mm FE) and March (rest of the lenses). Well, they cannot keep up with the promise. Sony said the release date and price will not be unveiled at CP+ but sometimes later. But at least according to DC.watch the final announcement will come very soon. Sony is officially the only company not showing ANYTHING new at CP+. And I guess it has to do with their new strategy to announce stuff off the big shows to get the full spotlight (just like they did with the A7II announcement).

I will try to get info about the exact announcement date the next couple of hours…

Reminder: This was the original shipment plan back at Photokina:

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— Matthew Allard ACS (@mattallardACS) February 13, 2015

Matthew Allard from Newsshooter is following the Sony Press Conference right now. He will keep us posted about the Sony news! Follow him on twitter or reload this page on SAR to get updates.

UPDATE: No new info about the FE lenses. And DC.watch reports price and release will be announced soon…but not here at CP+