Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 ZA lens

see also:

• Sony NEX E-mount camera system
• Sony NEX FX full frame mirrorless cameras
• 35mm full frame lenses for Sony E-mount
  • Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art full frame lens
• 50mm full frame lenses for Sony E-mount

• high end, expensive, relatively heavy Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 lens for E-mount full frame

Image courtesy of http://jorgetorralba.com

• 35mm f/1.4 full frame E-mount lens
• weathersealed
• de-clickable aperture ring
• DDSSM AF
• 72mm filter
• 112mm long
• 630g
• $US1600 / $AU2244

• https://www.dxomark.com/Lenses/Sony/Sony-FE-Carl-Zeiss-Distagon-T-STAR-35mm-F14-ZA-mounted-on-Sony-A7R-II__1035
  • T1.5
  • accutance at f/1.4 68% in centre, 61% at edge improved at f/2.8 to 82% accutance centre, 66% at edge
  • 0.5% distortion
  • 1.7EV vignetting at f/1.4
  • 4 micron lat CA
  • excellent bokeh but some onion ring
  • like most recent Sony lenses, focuses stopped down at your selected aperture. This means that autofocus performance steadily drops as you stop down, since smaller apertures mean less light, and more depth-of-field (less phase difference) for the autofocus system to work with. By F9, phase-detect fails altogether, and you'll experience significant hunting in AF-C.
• https://phillipreeve.net/blog/review-carl-zeiss-sonnar-fe-2-835-za-t/
• http://jorgetorralba.com/2015/04/03/a-day-with-the-sony-zeiss-35mm-f1-4-za/