Zeiss Batis 40mm f/2 Review at Photographyblog: “outstanding short-standard prime lens”

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Zeiss 40mm f/2.0 CF lens preorder at Adorama and BHphoto.

Photographyblog posted the full Zeiss Batis 40mm FE lens review:

The Zeiss Batis 40mm f/2 is an outstanding short-standard prime lens. The novel 40mm focal length takes a little while to get used to, falling as it does between the more “normal” 35mm and 50mm focal lengths, but it quickly loses any real significance after you’ve used it for a while.

Sharpness is very high across the frame. Even with our A7R II test camera recording 42-megapixel images, detail is exceptionally sharp. Shooting at the maximum f/2 aperture does reveal a minor reduction in sharpness, but this is already resolved by f/2.8, and even at this aperture the lens is able to produce beautifully smooth bokeh.

Some vignetting is apparent when shooting wide-open at f/2, but quickly disappears as you stop down, while chromatic aberrations, distortion and flare are all very well controlled, and the bokeh is very appealing for this type of lens. The 24cm minimum focusing distance and 1:3.3 magnification ratio makes the lens versatile enough to shoot close subjects.

The Zeiss Batis 40mm f/2 proved to be a pleasure to use, thanks to its superb build quality, smooth focusing ring and innovative OLED display. When manually focusing, together with the A7R II’s excellent Peaking feature, the Zeiss Batis 40mm f/2 delivered a very high percentage of keepers, and it also proved to be very quick, quiet and accurate when auto-focusing.

There’s only one real drawback to the Zeiss Batis 40mm f/2 lens – the asking price. £1129.99 / $1299.99 / €1,299 is a lot of money to pay for a standard prime lens, even one as well featured and built as this.

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Urban portraits using a 50mm F0.95 lens | behind the scenes

Voigtlander 21mm f3.5 Color-Skopar Sample Images (Photographyblog).
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Ted Forbes and Matt Granger thoughts about the new Fujifilm GFX 50R and 100S announcements (MirrorlessRumors).
Will this be the Perfect Portrait Lens for the a6000 series? Sigma 56mm f/1.4 for Sony a6300 a6500 (Jason Vong).
Which 30mm or 35mm to Buy for APS-C? Sony a6000 Tutorial Guide (That1CameraGuy).

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Sony US offers the next superdeal: Sony A6000 with two lenses and tons of extras for $598

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Sony US has now launched the next superdeal that will run fro three days only: Sony A6000 with two E-mount lenses and free extras for $598 at FocusCamera, Adorama, BuyDig and Bhphoto.

Sony A7II superkit deals:
Sony A7II superkit at Adorama, Amazon, BHphoto, FocusCamera and BuyDig.

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New Sigma E-mount lens preorders:
1) Sigma 40mm f/1.4 FE lens at Adorama, FocusCamera and BHphoto.
2) Sigma 56mm f/1.4 APS-C E lens at Adorama, FocusCamera and BHphoto.

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October Full frame mirrorless share: Sony 67%, Canon 22% and Nikon 10%

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Now we know what impact the new Canon and Nikon Full Frame cameras had in Japan. BCNrankingy published the Full Frame mirrorless sales data for the month of October (for Japan only). With the introduction of the new EOS-R and Z7 cameras the Sony FF mirrorless share dropped from 99,5% (0,5% is Leica) down to 67%. Canon owns 22% and Nikon 10%.

This is a big impact also because Sony has not introduced any new FF camera at Photokina or Photoplus. It will be interesting to see if Canon and/or Nikon will be able to match Sony sales in 2019. What’s your bet on this?

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via MirrorlessRumors via Digicameinfo

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This is the new 7Artisans 60mm f/2.8 macro APS-C E-mount lens

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An anonymous source sent us this first image of the new 7Artisans 60mm f/2.8 macro APS-C E-mount lens. There is no info on the pricing and availability date yet.

Just recently 7Artisans launched the 35mm f/1.2 lens which is now in Stock at Amazon US, Amazon DE, Amazon FR, Amazon UK, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.

Note: The description above contains an erorr when describing the Lens construction. This is a screenshot from a beta page. So It is still under construction and mistakes will be fixed.

also via Mirrorlessrumors

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Sony Tidbits…

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A Wild Life – A story by Chris Schmid

Sigma 85mm F1.4 ART Lens – Sony E-mount Review | John Sison
Why I’m Getting Zeiss Batis 40mm f/2 and NOT Sony 24mm f/1.4 G Master (Jason Vong).
Sony RX100 VA Review (SonyAlphaLab).
Sony a7iii Dynamic range is nuts (David Oastler).
Magmod Magbox Review (Theoverratedphotographer)
Sony Cyber-shot HX99 Sample Images (Photographyblog).
New Sigma Lenses: Photo Plus Expo 2018 (Explora).

Personal photos and tests from SAR Admin Andrea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and 500px.

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