Exclusive on SAR: Pictures of all new FE lenses from the Sony booth!

Sony A7 with the new Zeiss 28mm f/2.0 FE lens..

Here is a long set of pictures of all new FE lenses and converters and Loxia lenses you can see at the Sony booth (Thansk Lars). You can download the full size images (282 MB!) at Dropbox. Feel free to use and post them were you want and please be kind to mention “SonyAlphaRumors.com ” as source. Thanks!

Preorders, price and specs (Click on store name):

Zeiss 16-35mm FE at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Sony Store US.

Zeiss 16-35mm FE in Europe at Sony DE, UK, ES, IT, FR, CH, AT, NL, BE, FI, SE, NO, PT.

28-135mm powerzoom in Europe at Sony DE, UK, ES, IT, FR, CH, AT, NL, BE, FI, SE, NO, PT.

Sony FS7 4K camcorder at Adorama.

HVL-F32M Flash at Adorama, BHphoto.

HVL-F32M Flash in Europe at Sony DE, IT,

Sony RMT-VP1K Wireless Remote Commander & Receiver Kit at Adorama, BHphoto.

Sony XLR-K2M XLR Adaptor Kit (with microphone) at Adorama.

Sony LCS-PSC7 System Bag (Black) at BHphoto.

Loxia at BHphoto:

Zeiss Loxia 35mm f/2 Biogon T* Lens for Sony E Mount (Click here).

Zeiss Loxia 50mm f/2 Planar T* Lens for Sony E Mount (Click here)

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The updated Sony FE lens roadmap (and a few additional notes).

Sony.net is now displaying the new Sony FE lens roadmap PDF file. A couple of thoughts I wanna share:

1) The “Large Aperture prime” is likely the rumored 85mm lens. Should be f/1.4. If it’s f/1.2 I will jump for joy and then cry because of the many $$$ Sony will charge on it

2) I expect the Large Aperture prime lens to be announced early 2015. But all other Six lenses (see grey lines) are likely to be available between end of 2015 and early 2016

3) Finally a Zeiss f/1.4 lens to come. This will quite down those people who were worried that FE lenses would always be 1 stop slower than their A-mount counter part

4) Among the six 2015 lenses there will be certainly tele primes and tele zooms.

5) Note that Zeiss will announce more Loxia manual FE lenses during 2015. These are not(!) included in the roadmap! And I heard of at least three more Loxias to come in 2015!

The lens I like most is the 35mm Zeiss f/1.4 But also the 24-240mm could be a n interesting lens for everyday use or travel (although quite big).

Preorders, price and specs (Click on store name):

Zeiss 16-35mm FE at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Sony Store US.

Zeiss 16-35mm FE in Europe at Sony DE, UK, ES, IT, FR, CH, AT, NL, BE, FI, SE, NO, PT.

28-135mm powerzoom in Europe at Sony DE, UK, ES, IT, FR, CH, AT, NL, BE, FI, SE, NO, PT.

Sony FS7 4K camcorder at Adorama.

HVL-F32M Flash at Adorama, BHphoto.

HVL-F32M Flash in Europe at Sony DE, IT,

Sony RMT-VP1K Wireless Remote Commander & Receiver Kit at Adorama, BHphoto.

Sony XLR-K2M XLR Adaptor Kit (with microphone) at Adorama.

Sony LCS-PSC7 System Bag (Black) at BHphoto.

Loxia at BHphoto:

Zeiss Loxia 35mm f/2 Biogon T* Lens for Sony E Mount (Click here).

Zeiss Loxia 50mm f/2 Planar T* Lens for Sony E Mount (Click here)

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The A-mount frustration post! What should Sony do?

The A-mount future slide showed by Sony last yer (the hidden camera was the A77II)

Sony just like every company has a roadmap of products already planned for the coming 1-2 years. And usually only minor changes can happen in between. It’s not an easy task, but my job is to get tidbits about that roadmap. The strange thing that happened this year at Photokina is the following: The same kind of trusted source that told me correctly about the FE lenses like the 16-35mm Zeiss, 90mm macro, QX1, Loxia lenses the 85mm lens (on new roadmap as large aperture prime) also told me there would be updated A-mount lenses at Photokina.

Of course I am surprised to hear this didn’t happen. Now, obviously you can believe the 2-3 sources who shared the A-mount info were simply wrong. And I hope that’s the case. But it’s my believe for now that something must have happened in those last two months. Something that lead Sony to “freeze” the A-mount lens announcement.

Now, fact is, last year Sony said they are fully committed to the A-mount system. Also a Fact is they are pushing E-mount now and they did not mention one single time A-mount during their 1 hour Photokina press conference. And they now mix the A and E-mount stuff under the same “Alpha Lens” brand which is pretty confusing. I think it’s time for Sony to clear things out about the A-mount future. They have two options:

1) Make a clears statement pro A-mount with a proper lens/camera roadmap to really convince us about that.

2) Just confess they will focus on E-mount and maybe offer all A-mount camera owners and E-mount camera in exchange with adapter for free.

You readers tell me if I am right on that. Write down all your frustration in our comment system!!!

Note: Here are a couple of pro A-mount statement from Sony:

September 2013: “Rest assured that we will further develop the A-mount system together with the E-mount,” (SAR reader Brad)

October 2013: Sony UK’s Alpha product manager Takahiro Hirata, said: ‘We will not quit A-mount product lines. We will have both product lines.’ (Amateur Photographer).

October 2013: “Sony are still committed to the A-mount system.” (Photographyblog).

November 2013: Kimio Maki is Senior General Manager at Sony’s Digital Imaging: “for A mount we can realize superior image quality with better new technologies” (Dpreview).

To end a good news: The BIG Sony January announcement is 100% confirmed.

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Real world images of the new FE lenses!

If you want to see the first hands-on images with the new FE lenses jump over at Photographyblog:

16-35mm hands-on

90mm macro hands-on

35mm 1.4 hands-on

24-240mm hands-on

Those lenses do look quite big in a lady’s hand!

Preorders, price and specs (Click on store name):

Zeiss 16-35mm FE at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Sony Store US.

Zeiss 16-35mm FE in Europe at Sony DE, UK, ES, IT, FR, CH, AT, NL, BE, FI, SE, NO, PT.

28-135mm powerzoom in Europe at Sony DE, UK, ES, IT, FR, CH, AT, NL, BE, FI, SE, NO, PT.

Sony FS7 4K camcorder at Adorama.

HVL-F32M Flash at Adorama, BHphoto.

HVL-F32M Flash in Europe at Sony DE, IT,

Sony RMT-VP1K Wireless Remote Commander & Receiver Kit at Adorama, BHphoto.

Sony XLR-K2M XLR Adaptor Kit (with microphone) at Adorama.

Sony LCS-PSC7 System Bag (Black) at BHphoto.

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Reminder: Sony announcement in a few hours at 15:00 London time.

In a few hours at exactly 15:00 London time (16:00 in Köln at the Photokina) Sony will introduce new lenses. As usual you can follow the event here on SAR where I will give you all links to reviews, news and preorders for the new products. By the way 15:00 London time is:

7am in San Francisco

10 am in NYC

23:00 in Tokyo.

What can we expect? The Zeiss 16-35mm f/4.0 for sure. And Sony will also likely show more new (pre)production A and E-mount lenses and an updated FE lens roadmap.

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