Photography by Peppy Doggett
This is a great lens but it’s a bit of a clunker. It is large and heavy. However it is one of the best ever made for Sony a-mount cameras. I use it on my Sony SLT A77V camera, as well as my Sony A7R cameras with an adaptor.
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TT Artisans 50mm f0.95
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Helios 44-2 58mm f2
Having heard alot about this popular collectors item I decided to get one for myself. It is an old (1976) Russian made lens with a great reputation. I found a good copy at a good price on ebay.
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Tair 11A 135mm f2.8
I read about this unique lens with some remarkable characteristics: made in the former USSR; known as a “bokeh monster”; small for a 135mm f2.8 (though still relatively heavy). It’s a novelty lens popular with photo enthusiasts and collectors. Intrigued, I checked it out on ebay and found a good quality copy for a good low price. So I bought it, and I bought an adaptor to marry the m42 screw mount to my Sony A7R cameras. From the serial number I understand it was made in 1988.
I have taken it down off the shelf several times for the fun of it. I would do it more often but the lens is clumsy and not so easy to use. It is manual focus only and the aperture adjustment is complicated by a limiter that has to be adjusted to move freely about the settings. There is no electronic transfer of information from the lens to the camera. I got use to these characteristics in time, and had some pleasant experiences testing out the capabilities and enjoying its features.
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Tamron 35mm f/2.8 Di III OSD
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Sony A7R3a
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Sony A7R2 — ILCE-7RM2
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Great lens! Affordable, sharp, well constructed, and light. Good for portraits and general use. I got some of my best portrait shots with this lens, as well as some favorite bird and butterfly shots. Dyxum users give the lens a 4.78 (out of 5) rating overall, and a 4.91 rating for sharpness.
Here is Sony’s promotional blurb:
There’s nothing like the sharpness and smooth bokeh of a well-designed mid-range telephoto prime lens for portraiture, and the SEL85F18 is a standout choice.
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Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III RXD
This lens is amazing. I have the Sony 24-70mm f4 and I thought it was a bit under-rated given my experience with the lens, which gave excellent results. More recently I got this Tamron lens, which really blows the Sony out of the water. The Tamrom is an inch longer than the Sony un-extended, as one might expect given the larger maximum aperature of the former. But in all other rpspects — build, performance and value — the Tamrom 28-75mm f2,8 is a superior lens.
Phillip Reeve says “The Tamron 2.8/28-75 Di III RXD is the first Tamron lens for mirrorless full frame cameras. The specs of the lens look spectacular and this holds true for the real lens. It is a f2.8 standard zoom lens that handles like the usual f4 counterparts.”
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