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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alright, this is not an in-depth review because this lens hasn’t even reached the stores yet.\u00a0 It come out in early November.\u00a0 But it has already destabilized my photographic equilibrium with its compelling mixture of desirable features and the stellar reviews the experts are giving it.<\/p>\n<p>So just to put my own spin on it, here are the features I find most exciting.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Fast autofocus.\u00a0 Okay, probably not blazingly fast because no macro lens can be.\u00a0 There’s just too much focus racking needed in a macro lens for that.\u00a0 But its four XD Linear AF motors make it orders of magnitude faster than my current Sony 90mm f2.8 macro.<\/li>\n<li>1.4X magnification.\u00a0 That compares with the 90mm and its standard 1.0X magnification.\u00a0 This is a big deal.\u00a0 Filling the frame with your subject is what makes for better macro shots.<\/li>\n<li>The reviewers stressed that the Optical Steady Shot (OSS) system actually did seem to work very well on macro shots.\u00a0 That’s always been a sore point for me with the 90mm lens.\u00a0 There’s nothing steady about the image unless I’m on at least a monopod.\u00a0 If this pans out it will be a major upgrade to my macro experience.<\/li>\n<li>The reviewers also stressed that the images when using a 1.4X or 2X teleconverter were still very good which if true means that 2X and 2.8X magnification would be achievable.\u00a0 I’m most skeptical of this claim.\u00a0 Whenever I’ve used Sony teleconverters I’ve always noticed a very significant image quality degradation (especially with the 2X unit).\u00a0 If this turns out to be true it would be a very nice benefit.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Okay enough hyperventilating.\u00a0 So let’s give some of the bad news.\u00a0 It’s fifteen hundred bucks!\u00a0 And I’ve checked the resale value of my 90mm lens ($450).\u00a0 So I’d be forking over an extra grand or so.\u00a0 Gack!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the pain, the pain.\u00a0 Well, Christmas is coming up.\u00a0 And I do have some rarely used lenses hanging around maybe I could shrink that grand down to five hundred bucks.<\/p>\n<p>It’s funny just a few months ago I think I was saying how glad I was that I no longer obsessed about camera gear and lenses in particular.\u00a0 Sure I’m always interested in descriptions of the new odd-ball super-macros that the various Chinese lens manufacturers seem to create constantly.\u00a0 But I’m never too excited because these lenses tend to be not of the highest quality.<\/p>\n<p>But here Sony has dropped this thing in my lap with basically everything I wanted except a 200mm focal length (and that would be compensated for if it actually does work as well as they claim it does with a 2X teleconverter).\u00a0 And here I am with my mouth hanging open, desperate to get my hands on this piece of photo kit.\u00a0 They truly are evil geniuses sitting there in Tokyo (or wherever the hell their corporate headquarters is in Japan) and saying, “Now we’ve got photog right where we want him.”<\/p>\n<p>And they do.\u00a0 Damn them!!!<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when I think I’m immune to lens lust Sony drags me back in! 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