![]() Samyang/Rokinon also produce several relevant products. Sadly, none are weather sealed, but some do come with the small size that will be desirable for hikers, namely the 11mm f/4.5, and 15mm f/4 macro. If you don’t mind manual focus, Laowa offers several wide angle lenses. In fact, even their zoom lenses for mirrorless are designed to be lightweight, and the 17-28 f/2.8 and 28-75 f/2.8 are very well regarded (see our reviews here and here). Tamron offers a superb trio of lenses which all share the same external dimensions, the same f/2.8 aperture and are all weather sealed: the 20mm, 24mm and 35mm (all of which cost $250 or less). Sony offers three lenses that I consider compatible with the spirit of the A7C: the FE 28mm f/2, Sonnar T* FE 35mm f/2.8 ZA, and the FE 50mm f/1.8. The beauty of the current FE-mount lineup is that it offers many options for compact primes, several of which come with weather sealing.īernard Dery | Light And Matter The A7c is easy to carry on-location Users who wish to keep their camera setup small will accept those compromises, and benefit from a lens with solid optical performance. Users who want a wider or faster zoom will have to look elsewhere and live with the bulk. In other words, the 28-60 is somewhat of a compromise. ![]() The lens is also not particularly fast, with a maximum aperture of f/4 at the wide end rapidly climbing to f/5.6 at the tele end, and 28mm is not a particularly wide focal length. It also focuses quickly and silently, and excels at subject tracking. The 28-60mm also resists flare and ghosting well, which will be particularly relevant for landscapes. The lens is weak for distortion and vignetting, but the camera takes care of these effects automatically. Bokeh with a relatively slow lens is never ground-breaking, but the lens still manages smooth out-of-focus blur without disturbing highlights. Sharpness is high, especially in the center, and contrast is well tuned, increasing the perceived sharpness. The good news is that the 28-60mm delivers pleasing results, well above general expectations for a kit lens. Catering to a Hiker’s Needsīernard Dery | Light And Matter Despite its limited zoom range, the 28-60mm is a versatile lens, especially coupled with the A7CĪ compact lens wouldn’t be useful if it weren’t able to deliver strong optical performance. However, there is another market segment that is ideally served by the A7C: hikers and, by extension, travelers. This allows the use of an external, hot-shoe mounted microphone with the screen facing forward. ![]() This association makes sense: the swivel mechanism does present an improvement for vloggers when compared to the one found on the A7iii (which swivels towards the top). Mainly because of its side-swiveling LCD screen, many people immediately associate the A7C with vlogging. ![]() Given that the A7C retains most of the characteristics of the A7iii, how does the camera fit in the Sony lineup? Bernard Dery | Light And Matter In other words, the A7iii and its successors will continue using more traditional ergonomics with a larger, centered viewfinder and more external controls, while the A7C will cater to people looking for full frame in a smaller form factor. ![]() Sony claims that this camera is the first in a new product line. The Sony A7C camera is, in many ways, a blending of two current product lines using the Sony E-mount: it has most of the internals of the two-year-old full frame A7iii, but a body more closely resembling the APS-C A6600.Īs such, the A7C should not be seen as a replacement for the A7iii. ![]()
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