{"id":4541,"date":"2009-10-08T15:09:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T13:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/en\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2009-10-01T19:14:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T17:14:01","slug":"sony-zeiss-16-35mm-f2-8-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/2009\/10\/08\/sony-zeiss-16-35mm-f2-8-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Zeiss 16-35mm f\/2.8 first impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got a Sony Carl Zeiss 16-35mm f\/2.8 ZA SSM zoom (Mfr# SAL1635Z) and I wanted to share with you my first impressions.<\/p>\n

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Sony Carl Zeiss 16-35mm f\/2.8 ZA SSM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Obviously, this is a pro-level mechanical design. You immediately notice the weight of this zoom lens (at no less than 1.9 lbs (860g), this is not a cheap plastic lens). Some photographers may even find it too heavy for ease, but if you tend to use your wide-angle zoom on a tripod, you won’t notice it and it will bring some additional stability to the SLR Alpha-series camera body.<\/p>\n

The bulk of the objective is in relation, but it offers several noticeable advantages:<\/p>\n

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  1. The lens length does not change when you zoom<\/li>\n
  2. The front lens does not rotate when zooming or focusing (since you need very fine polarizers on such a wide-angle, it’s better that way)<\/li>\n
  3. the focus and zoom rings are wide, well located and easy to reach<\/li>\n
  4. The AF-lock button on the side is well located<\/li>\n
  5. The depth-of-field window is large and quite readable<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now, if you start playing with the lens, as I did on a Sony Alpha 700, the operation is very smooth. Obviously, the presence of the SSM motor is helping a lot and AF operation is nearly totally silent, while very fast.<\/p>\n

    Now, I could not yet evaluate the image quality (the lens is announced as having a high IQ), and I will provide some more info when I will be able to play with it (probably during my trip to Nepal next week).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I just got a Sony Carl Zeiss 16-35mm f\/2.8 ZA SSM zoom (Mfr# SAL1635Z) and I wanted to share with you my first impressions. Obviously, this is a pro-level mechanical design. You immediately notice the weight of this zoom lens (at no less than 1.9 lbs (860g), this is not a cheap plastic lens). Some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[132,108,641,107],"class_list":["post-4541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sony-accessories-lenses","tag-lens","tag-review","tag-sony","tag-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}