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> have since bought about a dozen FE lenses So... All of them? There are only about a dozen FE lenses released. The 3 Loxia lenses, the 2 Batis lenses, and the
by jychang 11y ago
> have since bought about a dozen FE lenses
So... All of them? There are only about a dozen FE lenses released. The 3 Loxia lenses, the 2 Batis lenses, and the Sony 28, 35/1.4, 35/2, 55, 90, and the 4 zooms.
That's basically the extent of the Sony FE system, which is still rather lacking compared to Nikon or Canon's 100-200 lenses.
- georgemcbay 11y agoI have 3 Rokinon/Samyang lenses and 2 Venus/Laowa lenses in FE mount. Also the Sony 35/2, 55, 70-200, 28-70mm, 16-35mm and the 28. When I do the specific count, "about a dozen" comes to 11. I still have and use a fair number of Canon lenses with my Sony gear (using a cheap but effective Commlite EOS->FE adapter), but haven't bought any new Canon lenses since the switch. Obviously I don't count these lenses in my "about a dozen" as they aren't native FE. I also use a bunch of 80s era Olympus Zuiko lenses with my Sony gear, some Nikon glass and a bunch of oddball Russian lenses. While the complaint that the FE system is lacking lenses is true in a sense, the short flange distance between the mount and the sensor on the Sony mirrorless cameras means that if you're willing to deal with manual focus (which is pretty damn easy to deal with given the focus peaking abilities of these cameras) you have a whole universe of lens options since you can adapt virtually any lens to these cameras. If you really need autofocus, you can still adapt a lot of Sony Alpha lenses with pretty decent AF performance via the LAEA4 adapter, and the A7R-II apparently allows for very quick AF with EOS lenses (my Commlite adapter for the A7/A7ii allows autofocus, but it is so slow that manual focus works better most of the time).