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Absolutely Stunnng 90mm 2.8 macro Sony lens

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Straight to the center point of this post....I cannot find enough superlatives to tell you how good this lens is....I have the A7R and A7R11, 16-35 zoom and a super sharp 2.8 35mm and Tamro150-600 with alfa adapter plus a bunch of Minolta legacy lenses.

I could post some pics but you could never get a sense of the quality unless you got an original which I am not sure how to make available, Weight wise I don't notice any difference between this lens and the 16-35, of course they as with any lens a few minuses and the only soft minus would be the auto-focus appears a tad slower than I would expect but I have nothing similar to compare it to. I have eagles that daily sit on a tree at eye level on the bank about 70 feet in front of us and I am using the Tamron for the full frame close up but when I was out with the 90mm I just took a shot freehand out of curiosity to see what it would be like ...well when I cropped the result to equal tamron's bird size the 90mm was considerably better( when I cropped it in light room I brightened it a little but nothing else) The pics are not usable to judge quality they are just to illustrate what I am referring to..

Anyhow this is just to pass on to fellow A7 users what an incredible lens this 90mm is and with the A7R11 a brilliant combination that has me running around looking for subjects to use them on..

 

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Dieselhead, thanks for this post. I am currently on the fence between this lens FE 90mm f/2.8 macro and the Batis 85mm f/1.8. I know the Batis is smaller and lighter but with the 90mm macro and I do both Macro AND portrait. I may just order this one.

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Well Damo like you I was on the fence but I wanted something now not months away so cancelled the Batis and got the 90 in three days.

I see DXO rate it as the highest score ever on their testing, above all those $4000 lenses, also I really appreciate the slip ring to go between manual and auto... I really don't think you will be dissapointed.

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I'm enjoying my 90, and it'll do for portraiture until I get the Batis, whenever that may be.  It's worlds better than the 100mm f/2.8 for A-mount.  Shooting portraits with it, and my a7r2, the detail is . . . well, you can almost say it's too much.  I've never shot with such a combination, and it's going to take some getting used to.  I still have the Zeiss on order, and I wonder if the rendition will be a bit more flattering, and a bit less "clinical." 

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I can understand the enthusiasm of "dieselhead" on the Sony FE 2.8/90 G OSS Macro. I have it already assessed on the Dyxum page and it compared with: Minolta AF 2.8 / 100 mm Macro (D), Minolta AF 4.0 / 200 mm APO Macro G and the

Minolta M-Rokkor 4.0 / 90 mm. There I wrote on 07.18.2015:

 

Positive: Great handling, AF very quiet and fast, AF area limitation, focus hold button, fix total length, sealed, built quality, not realy heavy, sharpness!!!, bokeh!! Negative: Length and volume.

 

Comment: I have this lens for a few days and am thrilled. Compared to the Minolta AF macros 100 and 200 I see it settled on the sharpness performance between both. The advantages in handling but are convincing and the weight is just about acceptable (weighed by me 640 g with Cokin filter and hood). Besides sharpness like with the bokeh of 90 macros exceptionally well - it comes almost to the Bokeh of the 90 M-Rokkors! Conclusion: For me, a kind of "Swiss army knife" at the A6000 (an now on the A7 II).

 

I see my assessment by DXO rate confirmed!


 
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