Enhance your photos with pro-quality close-ups and tight detail shots with this compact ... more
Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 24-70mm f2.8 zoom lens featuring quick and silent auto focusing and reduced lens flare.------High-performance Carl Zeiss large-aperture z...
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Enhance your photos with pro-quality close-ups and tight detail shots with this compact ... more
Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 24-70mm f2.8 zoom lens featuring quick and silent auto focusing and reduced lens flare.------High-performance Carl Zeiss large-aperture z...
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Smooth, silent AF operation using high-torque SSM (Super Sonic wave Motor) No. 17 lens elements in 13 groups, including two aspherical elements and two ED glass ...
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No. Very high quality, wide aperture zoom lens covering wide angle to medium telephoto No. ... more
Smooth, silent AF operation using high-torque SSM (Super Sonic wave Motor) No. 17 lens elements in 13 groups, including two aspherical elements and two ED glass ...
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Very high quality- wide aperture zoom lens covering wide angle to medium telephoto ... more
Smooth- silent AF operation using high-torque SSM (Super Sonic wave Motor) 17 lens elements in 13 groups- including two aspherical elements and two ED glass el...
Sony has joined forces with Carl Zeiss to bring you animpressive range of products, which ... more
includes this ground-breaking 24-70mm f/2.8 SAL-2470Z zoom lens. This lens comes with a fixed f/2.8 aperture forjaw-dropping brightness over the entire focal ra...
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Sony has joined forces with Carl Zeiss to bring you animpressive range of products, which ... more
includes this ground-breaking 24-70mm f/2.8 SAL-2470Z zoom lens. This lens comes with a fixed f/2.8 aperture forjaw-dropping brightness over the entire focal ra...
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Advantages: Build quality. Finish. Range. Fast maximum aperture. Disadvantages: Image quality not as good as expected. Chromatic Aberration.
no less than 18 elements (in 15 groups), including 2 ELD (Extra Low Dispersion) ones, this is no surprise. A little surprisingly perhaps for such a fast (f/2.8) lens with a range of up to 200mm focal length, Sigma have managed to constrain filter thread size to a reasonably economical (over 82mm) 77mm.
The lens has a fairly moderate 3x zoom ratio and as such, the design shouldn't have presented too many problems. Accordingly, distortions are impressively low. There is still a small amount of barrel distortion at 70mm focal length, although nothing to worry about. This changes to moderate pincushion distortion at the longer end of the zoom range. Again, nothing to get too upset about.
Vignetting is not much of a problem when using the lens on cropped APS-C cameras, due to the sensor utilising only the central 'sweet' spot of the image ...
Advantages: Beautiful bokeh, tack-sharp, vibration reduction, easy to use, many useful accessories Disadvantages: heavy, expensive, slight vignetting, prone to flaring
their version, the so-called "vibration reduction", was the 80-400mmf/4.5-5.6 ED. An interesting lens to be sure, but Nikon owners really started to get excited at the announcement of the AF-S 70-200 F2.8 VR. This lens, a successor of a highly regarded line of professional lenses, turned out to be spectacular: the image stabila? sorry, the vibration reduction was possibly even more effective than Canon's and the image quality? Well, I am going to discuss that right now!
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The 70-200 VR is a tack-sharp lens, as you would expect of a lens in this price class. It is not even in the same ballpark as normal consumer lenses: the colours are vibrant, the details sharp, and the bokeh (the appearance of parts of the picture that our out of focus) is stunning. The lens is particularly famous for the silky smooth rendering of out ...
Advantages: Awesomely sharp. Wide Aperture gives great control. Great colour. Disadvantages: A little fragile. Would prefer with Image Stabiliser.
over a pound, but attached to any camera with two digits or less in its designation, it feels very right, and me marking it as "heavy" should not be seen as a bad sign. (In fact, the star ratings seemed a little odd, so you should focus on the "Excellent" rating.
The included hood is massive, but cleverly designed, since the lens "reverse extends". The lens is longer when zoomed to 24mm, and shortens as the zoom length increases. It's a good design. The filter thread is the standard for L zooms at 77mm, so any filters you've bought for other zooms will fit.
I own this and the longer 24-105 F/4 IS L, and they're both quite different lenses. The longer lens is a more versatile "travel" lens, whereas the 24-70 is perfect for indoor and outdoor portraits, at parties, weddings etc. I wouldn't be without it.
Except I am, because I dropped ...
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The SAL-2470Z Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar f2.8 24-70mm Zoom Lens is a brilliant all-around performer - with SSM (Super Sonic wave Motor) design for fast, silent auto-focus, pro-quality Carl Zeiss T coated optics to reduce lens flare, and 17-element design with two aspherical and two ED glass lens elements to minimize distortion and virtually eliminate chromatic aberration. It also benefits from the Super SteadyShot image stabilization built into every Sony's a (alpha) system DSLR - and its wide-angle to medium telephoto range and compact, lightweight design is ideal for a wide range of shooting applications.
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