Over the last year Sony has really worked hard on updating it's E mount lens lineup. It's something that they seem to take very serious and if you're an owner of a Sony A7, A7r, or A7s you are very fortunate.
Since there seems to be a new lens every few months I've decided to keep a consolidated list of all available native full frame E mount lenses that I find hoping one day I'll be able to afford and test all of them. :)
I was about to update my metabones adapter to the MK IV, but now, I think that money would be better spent on new glass. We'll see. I'm not fully on board yet with selling all my Canon lenses as Canon will have to compete with Sony landscape shooters sooner or later.
Native Lens List For Sony A7, A7r and A7s E Mount Cameras
The quality of the Zeiss lenses by Sony is actually really good. I would say on a lot of the zooms it's up there with a lot of Canon's lenses. Although Canon's latest lens refresh has been blowing all the competition away.
Zeiss Primes - Full Auto
Sonnar T* 35mm f2.8
Sonnar T* 55mm f1.8
Zeiss Primes - Full Manual
Loxia Biogon T* 35mm f2
Loxia Planar T* 50mm f1.8
Zeiss Zooms - Full Auto
Vario-Tessar T* 24-70mm f4 OSS
Vario-Sonnar T* 16-35mm f4
Sony E Mount - Full Auto
FE 28-70mm f3.5-5.6 OSS
FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS
FE 28-135mm F4 G OSS
Mitakon - Full Manual
Mitakon 50mm f/0.95
Zhongyi Mitakon Speedmaster 50mm f/0.95 -
Samyang - Full Manual
Samyang 14mm f2.8
Samyang 24mm f1.4
Samyang 35mm f1.4
Samyang 50mm f1.4
Samyang 85mm f1.4
Samyang 135mm f2.0 - coming soon
What's Next?
Sony's Roadmap
FE 24-240mm F3.5-6.3 OSS
FE 28mm f2 G
FE 90mm f2.8 G OSS Macro
FE Ultrawide Lens Converter
FE Fisheye Lens Converter
Zeiss Distagon T* 35mm f1.4
Sony FE 90mm f2.8 Macro G OSS
Sony Lens Codes
To help understand what all the letters and numbers mean next to the Sony Lenses, I've compiled an index of lens codes.
OSS - Optical Steady Shot. Or IS if you're a Canon user.
T* - This is the code for Zeiss' unmatched multi-layer lens coating. Often referred to as T coating. If you're a Canon shooter this would be like their L lenses.
ZA - Mean Zeiss Alpha. Lenses by Zeiss for the Alpha cameras. Or E-Mount cameras.
G - This is the code by Sony to distinguish top quality in their lenses. Like the Zeiss T* or the Canon L. It basically means it's good.
FE - Full Frame E mount
Sony E Mount Lens Rumors
So far we're waiting on some more Zeiss lenses to become available for E mount. And we're waiting for Sigma to get on the train and give us some of those ART lenses in an E mount. They say they'll make something soon. They also said making high quality lenses for the E Mount is difficult because the mount is so small.
Zeiss 35mm to ship March 2015, Sony 28mm G to ship Feb 2015 and also in March the Sony 90mm and 24-240 should ship / be announced.
Expect to see an 85mm Sony FE Zeiss coming next Spring. Obviously more expensive than the 55 FE. Usually that's the case with longer lenses since they take more glass.
There should be a Zeiss large aperture prime coming next year. Something like a Zeiss 85mm f1.4. I imagine we'll see some more Distagons next year as well.
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