Zeiss Loxia 85mm f/2.4 Review at Photographyblog

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Photogrpahyblog tested the new Zeiss Loxia 85mm f/2.4:

The Zeiss Loxia 85mm f/2.4 is a pleasure to use, thanks to its superb weather-proof build quality and wide, smooth focusing ring. When manually focusing the Zeiss Loxia 85mm f/2.4 delivered a very high percentage of keepers thanks to the A7R II’s excellent magnification and peaking features. Vignetting is apparent when shooting wide-open at f/2.4, but quickly disappears as you stop down to f/5.6, while both chromatic aberrations and pin-cushion distortion are very well controlled.
There are a few drawbacks to the Zeiss Loxia 85mm f/2.4 lens, though. You obviously don’t get auto-focusing, the 80cm minimum focusing distance is a little restrictive, it’s larger and heavier than its main rivals, and the asking price of $1399 / £1199 / €1399 is a lot of money to pay for a manual focus prime lens.

The lens is set to start shipping right before Christmas at BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama. In Eu at Amazon.de.

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This week SAR readers photos selection

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Uldis Plinte
today’s sunrise in birch grove
Sony A7 II + Batis 85mm @ 1.8 (3 vertical shot panorama)
1/1600sec | ISO 100 | 85mm | f/1.8

1) Submit your picture with a message and picture here: facebook.com/sonyalpharumors or on the SonyAlphaForum image section.
2) Like and comment the pictures from other readers here: facebook.com/sonyalpharumors/photos_stream?tab=photos and on SonyAlphaForum.
3) A selection of most liked pictures by the community and by me SAR admin will be posted weekly on SAR.

Note: When sending a pic feel free to also add a link to your site to promote yourself!

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Sony Tidbits…

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Quick a7s Tip: Significantly Improve Battery Life

Canon and Toshiba patented a special curved sensor design (Mirrorlessrumors).
A Photographer’s Guide to Packing for Holiday Travel (Explora).
Transforming Light Into Art (ALC).
An unpretentious test of 35mm on 8 lenses on A7S2. Primes and zoom, some Sony some legacy (Scatteredlightblog).
Sony a6500 touch autofocus skate park test – graded with Filmconvert (Newsshooter).

To write a guest post on SAR follow the instruction on that page.

David: “his is my little slomo clip using an RX100 IV. Happy to share it. https://youtu.be/efnXTOWEg7c“

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Deal of the day: Lexar 256GB SD card for $79 only at Adorama

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Today only you can buy the fast and capcious Lexar 256GB SD card for $79 only at Adorama (Click here). This is the lowest price ever on this card.

And Adorama (Click here) listed all current Sony deals on one page (keep scrolling to see them all)

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Sony deals:
15% back on Sony stuff by using the Amazon PRIME card at Amazon US (Click here to read the details). Click those links to see the full list of elegible cameras (here) and lenses (here):
$200 off on the Sony A7II at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$350 off on the Sony 6000 kit at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$300 gift card for free on the Sony A7sII sold by Bhphoto, Focuscamera and Adorama.
$50 off on the Sony A5100 at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the Sony A5000 at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the 24-240mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$50 off on the 50mm f/1.8 at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon.
$100 off on the 10-18mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$50 off on the 16-50mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the 18-200mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the 18-200mm PZ lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$50 off on the 35mm f/1.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$25 off on the lens 30mm macro at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.

Preorder start:
Tokina FiRIN 20mm f/2 FE lens at BHphoto.

 

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