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Yes....it's small, light, really well built and the image quality is quite amazing....at least if we look at the price tag...

 

When it was released I was sceptical about the adapters, but both of them work great...the AF works as it should and the image quality stays the same....

 

It really is a great lens!

 

I posted some shots in the 28 f2 topic, go check them out

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please offer a reference that details the differences between FE, E and A lenses. I recently converted from a long time Canon user to Sony; specifically the alpha 7 Mark II. Don't mean to sound presumptuous, but I have two questions: Is it best to use a Sony product as a RAW converter? And secondly if you were traveling to a game reserve or even Africa what lenses would you bring? Thanks in advance. 

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please offer a reference that details the differences

between FE, E and A lenses. I recently converted from

a long time Canon user to Sony; specifically the alpha 7

Mark II. ......................

It's this simple, boiled down:

 

1. "A" and "E" bayonets are completely different.

 

2. "A" lenses have a long/deep flange distance [like an SLR].

 

3. "E" lenses have a short/shallow flange distance [like M-leica].

 

4. "FE" lenses have enuf image circle for the 24x36mm format

but regular "E" lenses only cover the 16x24mm format. [The "F"

was added to the name to indicate "Full Format".]

 

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Fianlly, a sort of problem. "A" mount lenses, just like lenses

for Canons, Nikons, etc, include some lenses for 24x36mm and

some lenses for 16x24mm. This shouldn't bug you, since you've

already understood that with Canon SLRs and this is the same.

IOW, "A" mount is the Minolta Maxxum SLR AF heritage mount.

"E" mount is the mirrorless, akin to the Canon "M" mount.

 

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....... two questions: Is it best to use a Sony product

as a RAW converter? And secondly if you were traveling

to a game reserve or even Africa what lenses would you

bring? Thanks in advance.

Sony doesn't even use a Sony converter for RAW. They

bundle Capture One. As to Safari, my brother has done

a few, and found that he used his long lens SLRs only

as spotmeters. He took all his best pix with M-Leicas,

meaning longest lens is 135mm. I'm sure others will

argue that this is insane, however both my brother and

myself are retired career photographers [who think most

other "photographers" are insane].

 

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Sony doesn't even use a Sony converter for RAW. They

bundle Capture One. As to Safari, my brother has done

a few, and found that he used his long lens SLRs only

as spotmeters. He took all his best pix with M-Leicas,

meaning longest lens is 135mm. I'm sure others will

argue that this is insane, however both my brother and

myself are retired career photographers [who think most

other "photographers" are insane].

 

Capture One may be bundled with the Sony A7 line but I still find Lightroom does a better job with RAW conversion.  I find Capture One overprocesses Sony RAW files, i.e.: you lose detail in the end result as a result of its automatic noise reduction algorithm(s).  Yes, Capture One does remove noise from Sony RAW files but it takes some valid content with it.  Lightroom doesn't remove (as much) noise and leaves a much better starting point for postprocessing.

 

bwa

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