{"id":2147,"date":"2015-12-22T20:25:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T12:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitetrefoil.com\/blog\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2015-12-22T20:25:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T12:25:57","slug":"just-got-my-loxia-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitetrefoil.com\/blog\/?p=2147","title":{"rendered":"Just Got My Loxia 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

I slowly realized only in recent years that SONY \/ Zeiss’ new lenses usually ship earlier in China than US & EU…<\/p>\n

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\nVery very impressive slogan.<\/p>\n

Since there are a lot of similar tests \/ reviews around internet, and I’m not even an amateur level tester, I’m not going to do any detail test \/ review.<\/p>\n

But since what I do care seem to be different than many others, I’m going to share some of my first impressions, in case there’s somebody similar to me.<\/p>\n

1.It’s small but quite heavy, a little bit heavier than my expectation. It will be a little too heavy for wristbands, but quite acceptable for common straps.<\/p>\n

2.Focus ring seems a little bit looser than Loxia 35 & 50. I like it.<\/p>\n

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3.Because of the much closer closest focus distance, even with a 90deg of rotation angle, the DOF ruler is still much tighter than ZM lenses. I feel I need some time to be familiar with it. I’ll be much happier if it’s 180-270deg.<\/p>\n

4.Actually the whole barrel (include the glossy part) above the DOF ruler is the focus ring.<\/p>\n

5.I saw somebody said the aperture ring is too loose and very easy to be operated mistakenly. I feel it’s indeed loose but since I’m used to rotate the front part of lens, I rarely touch the aperture ring mistakenly, at least till now.<\/p>\n

6.It’s really pretty. But if without the hood, it will be a little uglier. Anyway, it’s still prettier than many other lenses (to me). And I won’t use the hood unless in rain.<\/p>\n

7.The hood will cover almost 1cm on the barrel. Although it’s not officially declared to be weather sealing, with the hood and the nice blue sealing ring, I feel confident to bring it into rain (not too heavy). Actually it’s now raining in Shanghai, so my Loxia 21’s first mission was in rain.<\/p>\n

8.BTW, since the barrel feels like a piece of solid iron, I guess the rubber sealing ring may become the first part to break…<\/p>\n

9.And about the distortion, although the official whitepaper declares a terrible -2.0 distortion (that even curve appear all around internet are with in-camera correction set to ON), it’s quite acceptable to me. It’s much much much better than the FE28 “Fisheye”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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