Hi folks,
I know, it’s a shame I’ve been off this blog for such a long time.
Today I’m getting back to you with some quick full size samples of the brand new Tamron 18-200/3.5-6.3 Di III VC lens for Sony’s Nex E-mount.
You can look at them here!
They are all high ISO, ’cause I didn’t have a tripod at hand and it was getting sort of dark.
Cheers and merry Christmas to everyone!
Wolfgang
I wish you all a wonderful New Year. I’d like to leave you with a sweep panorama out of the Sony Nex-3 of the last sunset 2010, just a couple of hours ago (click to enlarge). See you in 2011. Thanks for reading!
Wolfgang
Another year goes by. There was hardly a day, when I didn’t take at least one picture. Looking through all the images I realise, it’s been quite a European year. Didn’t cross an ocean in the last 365 days physically and didn’t miss it.
Looking through the images I also realise, how many cameras I’ve been using this year. Some were cool (actually most of them were), some I couldn’t really relate to or get warm with and with some I fell in love as far as love for cameras can go.
I haven’t been writing a lot recently as you know. The reason is, after all that testing and reviewing I needed to take care of my photography instead of cameras and lenses. I found myself doing test-images and forgetting about the primary goal of this blog: the everyday, reallife-use of photographic equipment. I’ve been actually testing quite a few cameras and lenses in the meantime, but with an emphasis rather on their fun-factor than on their high ISO-performance or technical image quality. I’ll give you my impressions of such things as the Canon EOS 60D or the Sony SLT A55 in the next days.
For now I’d like to give you a short summary of which cameras caught my heart or mind and which ones didn’t. (Read on after the break!) weiter lesen
I’ve been a big fan of the Nikon D40 and D40x at their time. They had great image quality in 2007, were small and handy and it has always been a joy to use them. Their successors, the D60 and the D3000 never really caught my interest, since they didn’t improve very much over the older models.
Three years went by until Nikon introduced their new D3100 recently with an all new 14MP sensor, with full HD video and a couple of other improvements. You know by now, that I really grew out of big DSLR cameras, so the D3100 came in handy for a short review.
Before I got a review sample, I was handling the camera a couple of times at my camera store, but wasn’t too eager to try it. I have still a D3s laying around and the viewfinder of the D3100 was just too small to awake my lust to take a photo. Eventually I decided I’ll still give it a try. Here are my findings (read on after the break). weiter lesen
Being a 11x zoom lens I didn’t expect a lot, when I first put it on the Nex, but to say the least: I’m quite impressed of the image quality of this lens.
On a Nex this lens is big, of course. Its build quality seems very good, though zooming is not really smooth and easy. It takes some strength to handle the zoom ring. (Maybe I’m just a weak nansy-pansy 
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I’ve always been impressed by the great performance of the Micro Four Thirds cameras. When I first used a Leica Summilux-M 35/1.4 Asph. with an Olympus E-P1 I was stunned, how sharp and brilliant the pictures were.
In a couple of days I’d like to show you, what the Leica Elmarit-M 24/2.8 Asph. can do on the E-P1.
But for now, here’s a comparison of the Sony Nex with the Leica 24/2.8 vs. the Olympus E-P1 with it’s 17/2.8 pancake lens. weiter lesen
Since so many of you asked, here’s a more comprehensive realworld test of the Leica Elmarit-M 24/2.8 Asph. on the Sony Nex.
The lens looks and handles great on the Nex. Of course you have to focus it manually. Being a wonderful street shooting focal length, it’s not very fast to focus. You definitely need the LCD magnifying function to focus it accurately and I never got really fast doing that (maybe it’s my eyes…). Maybe that’s why there are so many still samples among my test pics. At f2.8 you have quite a shallow depth of field (which of course is the goal), but I missed the eyes of people quite often and got there breast hairs sharp instead… weiter lesen
Since so many of you asked, here’s a quick review of the quite affordable Voigtlaender Super Wide Heliar 15/4.5 on the Sony Nex. On the used market you get this lens for about 250 Euros. The newer P-Type lens, where you can even use filters on it, can be had for about 480 Euros new. I use a Kipon adapter to get M-mount lenses on the Nex, so the lens performance may vary among different adapters.
On the Sony the Voigtlaender becomes a 22,5mm lens. So you get a nice wideangle for landscapes or things.
I’ve been very impressed with this little lens on the Leica M8. It was brilliant, sharp and pretty much free of distortion. You got some dark corners, but that was easily fixed in post processing.
To give you an impression of the very nice performance on the M8, here are a couple of shots from a trip to Trieste in Italy last year (continue after the break!).
Just a quick look at this very nice lens, mounted on the Sony Nex with a Kipon adapter. It handles great on the Nex, though the smaller Summarit-M 35/2.5 is handier, but then it’s not a 24mm. Eventually I really hope for a nice, small and fast 24mm from Sony or even Zeiss for the E-mount.
When it comes to a compact combo, this is the way to go. The small leica lens feels great on the Nex, it feels much better than any other lens I’ve tried on that camera.
