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Well the 24f2 was announced a long time ago; the other two seem like they might be interesting. Any idea who makes them or if they are unique sony/minolta designs ? I.e, will they have reasonable performance ? (Hard to see how they can mess up a 85f2.8 but the 35f1.8 is more interesting; bit surprise here Minolta had an excellent 35f2 wonder why they didn't just put it back into production).
Bleh just realized the 35f1.8 was DT. Very bleh. No clue what Sony is aiming for here.
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They are filling holes in their lineup.
Sony have been criticized for lacking a wide-angle Zeiss primes and affordable primes.
85f2.8 & 35f1.8 are for A2xx A3xx A5xx users.
35f1.8DT seems fine for that market, but I'm surprised that the 85 is only f2.8.
Well the 24f2 was announced a long time ago; the other two seem like they might be interesting. Any idea who makes them or if they are unique sony/minolta designs ? I.e, will they have reasonable performance ? (Hard to see how they can mess up a 85f2.8 but the 35f1.8 is more interesting; bit surprise here Minolta had an excellent 35f2 wonder why they didn't just put it back into production).
Bleh just realized the 35f1.8 was DT. Very bleh. No clue what Sony is aiming for here.
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They are filling holes in their lineup.
Sony have been criticized for lacking a wide-angle Zeiss primes and affordable primes.
85f2.8 & 35f1.8 are for A2xx A3xx A5xx users.
35f1.8DT seems fine for that market, but I'm surprised that the 85 is only f2.8.
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