The Zeiss 24mm E-mount lens acquitted itself excellently with a low-contrast subject. Let’s see how it does with a normal tone range. Here’s the overall image, made, like all the images in this post, at the lens’s best aperture of f/5.6 and ISO 100: The center, at two-pixel-for-one magnification, is commendably crisp: The upper left… [Read More]

In this and the next few posts I will give you an informal analysis of the performance of the Sony Zeiss 24 mm f/1.8 E-series lens. I will be comparing it to two other 24 mm lenses: the Leica 24 mm f/2.8 Elmarit ASPH, and the Leica 24 mm f/3.8 Elmar ASPH. I thought about… [Read More]

The day before yesterday, Lloyd Chambers published an alert about NEX-7 color shifts that vary with aperture. You can read it here Yesterday, he published an extensive set of photographs showing the effect for many M-mount lenses. To see the report, you’ll have to subscribe to his Digital Advanced Photography report. I recommend that you… [Read More]