Please enter discount code: AMPLIS52018DA in your cart.Sony’s mirrorless cameras have proven to be hugely popular with underwater shooters, giving DSLRs a run for their money. Great News! I can now offer a 5% discount on all purchases at Amplis Foto, Canada’s Leading Photographic Supplier. Visit my Amazon page for some of my gear of choice! Thank you for your support. You can also make a donation here if you would like. Purchasing your gear through B&H and these links helps fund this website and keeps the articles coming. Peak Design Leash Strap: Peak Design Store | B&H Photo | Amazon | Amazon Canada | Amazon UKīenQ SW271 4K Photo Editing Monitor – B&H Photo | Amazon | Amazon.ca | Amazon UKĪdobe Photoshop Creative Cloud 1-Year SubscriptionĮxposure Software X5 (Use Code “dustinabbott” to get 10% anything and everything) Purchase your gear at: B&H Photo | Amazon | Ebay | Make a donation via Paypal Visit Dustin’s Amazon Storefront and see his favorite gear Peak Design Slide Lite: Peak Design Store | B&H Photo | Amazon | Amazon Canada | Amazon UK Sony a7R III Camera: B&H Photo | Amazon | Amazon.ca | Amazon UK | Ebay Sony a7RIV Camera: B&H Photo | Amazon | Amazon Canada | Amazon UK | Amazon Germany | Ebay Purchase the Sony 90mm F2.8 G Macro OSS B&H | Amazon | Amazon Canada | Amazon UK | Amazon Germany | Ebay Sony a9 Camera: B&H Photo | Amazon | Amazon Canada | Amazon UK | Amazon Germany | Ebay 62mm filter thread is uncommon and unlikely to be shared with other lenses.Aperture blades don’t fully retract and bokeh highlights show aperture blade shape.Fairly expensive relative to competition.Better flare resistance than most macro lenses Cons:.Bokeh and color in many situations are very good.OSS is effective and allows for good success with handheld macros.Excellent resolution and contrast across the frame.DDSSM focus motor is quiet, fast, and smooth.Clutch mechanism works flawlessly and allows a true mechanical manual focus.Nice build quality including some weather sealing and premium materials.I don’t know that I’ve used a faster focusing macro lens ever, and I also give high marks for accuracy, too. The DDSSM focus motor delivers snappy focus results even with the full range of focus engaged, and you can get even faster results if you eliminate either the macro or distant focus ranges at the appropriate times. That’s very true of, say, the Sigma 70mm F2.8 Macro ART (a competing lens), which is quite slow and deliberate in focus.įortunately that’s not the case here. The point being that the sheer amount of focus possibilities in a macro lens often makes for a more deliberate autofocus experience. When I reviewed the Zeiss Makro-Planar lenses, I was shocked by how much focusing I had to do to go from minimum focus to infinity, and those were only 1:2 macro lenses, not 1:1 like this Sony. Macro lenses are not always the fastest focusing lenses for the simple reason that adding the macro range to the potential list of focus points dramatically adds to the potential workload required of the focus motor. Quality manual focus allows you more precision and control of focus at the razor thin depths of field you work with in the macro range, and I found the 90G Macro a joy to manually focus. There’s little reason to employ manual focus for the rest of the focus range unless doing video, but having precise manual focus ability in the macro range is incredibly important. There’s about 165 degrees of focus throw with most of the throw (appropriately) between MFD and one meter. ![]() The focus ring feels great, with smooth focus action, perfect damping, defined distance markings, and hard stops at minimum focus (0.28m) and infinity. ![]() ![]() Sony has cleverly solved this problem by using the clutch system which allows one to fully switch between the autofocus system (more on that in a moment) but then switch to a fully manual experience (a mechanical manual focus ring). What I’ve never seen, however, is a focus-by-wire system that compares with the focus experience of a well-executed manual focus lens. At its best, it is still an emulation of true mechanical manual focus and still has some of those limitations, though with better feel and no input lag. ![]() It often lacks “repeatability”, as there are no clearly defined focus points that you can prefocus to or quickly return to as a frame of reference, and the focus ring can spin indefinitely without any hard stops at either extreme. At its worst, it is a numb experience with lag between input on the focus ring and the actual movement of the elements by the focus motors. Typically mirrorless lenses employ a “focus-by-wire” manual focus system where input from the focus ring is routed through the focus motor(s).
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