{"id":1231,"date":"2009-03-03T02:57:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T02:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2009-03-03T02:57:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T02:57:19","slug":"new-sony-lenses-announced-at-pma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"New Sony lenses announced at PMA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/Sony_Line_Show-13.jpg\"><br \/>\n(disregard the EXIF data; this was obviously a photograph of a slideshow at PMA. Credit to CNET News.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13580_3-10186271-39.html\">http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13580_3-10186271-39.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t quite match what I&#8217;ve heard, but they apparently are:<\/p>\n<p><b>Full frame:<\/b><br \/>\n1) super telephoto<br \/>\n2) 28-75mm F2.8<\/p>\n<p><b>APS-C only:<\/b><br \/>\n1) 50mm F1.8 DT<br \/>\n2) 30mm F2.8 DT Macro<br \/>\n3) 55-200mm F4-5.6 DT (probably restyled)<br \/>\n4) 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 DT<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;d rather there be a 30mm or 35mm F1.8 DT lens to give the same angle of view as a 50mm lens on full-frame&#8230; quite like the Nikkor AF-S 35mm F1.8G. The only downside to that lens is its minimum focus distance of 30cm &#8211; the previous Nikkor AF-D 35mm F2.0 had a minimum focus distance of 25cm and a maximum magnification of 1:4.2x, the biggest of any Nikkor &#8220;normal&#8221; prime which was not a macro! Of course, the Nikkor AF-D 35mm F2.0 doesn&#8217;t autofocus for the Nikon D40\/D40x\/D60&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and&#8230;<br \/>\n<b>Sigma 18-50mm F2.8-4.5 DC OS HSM and 50-200mm F4-5.6 DC OS HSM for Sony!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is what DPReview says:<br \/>\n&#8220;<i>This lens features a new Optical Stabilization unit which Sigma claims will work on Sony and Pentax bodies with in-body stabilization systems.<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/0903\/09030304sigma18mm50mm.asp\" target=\"_BLANK\">http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/0903\/09030304sigma18mm50mm.asp<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/0903\/09030303sigma50mm200mm.asp\" target=\"_BLANK\">http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/0903\/09030303sigma50mm200mm.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sigma 18-50mm F2.8-4.5 DC OS HSM is also internal focus and internal zoom! <\/p>\n<p>Both aren&#8217;t as spectacular in minimum focus distance (MFD), though, with the Sigma 18-50mm F2.8-4.5 DC OS HSM having a plain 30cm MFD instead of the fantastic 20cm MFD of the Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-4.5 DC and Sigma 18-50mm F2.8 DC. Even the Sony 55-200mm F4-5.6 DT bests the Sigma equivalent at a 95cm MFD.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the Sigma 10-20mm F3.5 EX DC HSM is the brightest ultra-wide DT lens we&#8217;ve ever had. Sigma seems to be going back to 82mm filter sizes though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(disregard the EXIF data; this was obviously a photograph of a slideshow at PMA. Credit to CNET News.) http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13580_3-10186271-39.html This doesn&#8217;t quite match what I&#8217;ve heard, but they apparently are: Full frame: 1) super telephoto 2) 28-75mm F2.8 APS-C only: 1) 50mm F1.8 DT 2) 30mm F2.8 DT Macro 3) 55-200mm F4-5.6 DT (probably restyled) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}