Sony E-mount

All of that stuff is... just way more advanced than the old Alpha line of Sony equipment that had been in the past.

But I'm really interested in the E-mount system.

And the Sony A7 or A7R, the Sony A9, that'd be really cool.

Even though I hear the Sony A9 overheats, like your iPhone overheats when you leave it on the sun on your dashboard.

But even then, there's a second option for you, right? It's kind of this semi-wide or whatever.

There isn't really an equivalent for Sony because, remember, this is an E-mount and an L-mount lens.

And so it seems like there's some movement in the L ecosystem to support, like, the S9.

Yeah.

Yeah, wouldn't even

know.

So I found it really interesting that of all of the E-mount lenses, like the bajillions of E-mount lenses out there, that it's just so strange that there wasn't really something as like a one-to-one parody of this.

Yeah,

The reason I ask is because when...

I decided to, you know, buy my a7 III and invest in all E-mount lenses.

A large consideration within that decision was the fact that at the time, the most recent adapter was the LAE A3.

And the downside of using that adapter, and this was so that I could, in theory, mount my A-mount glass onto my soon-to-be-acquired new E-mount body.

One of the downsides was that the LAEA3 would only give me 15 autofocus points and they would all be clustered in the very center of the frame where the camera with an E-mount lens has something like 397 autofocus points and they're scattered across the entirety of the frame.

So this was one of the reasons why I took the plunge to go with a whole new body and new set of lenses because I didn't see the point in spending good money on a brand new body like the A7 III was at the time and to then hobble it.

with an adapter that only gave me 15 autofocus points that were all clustered right in the center of the sensor.

Honestly, it should pair pretty well with the BF in terms of aesthetics if you get the silver version because it does have that retro appeal.

It's available in E-mount, L-mount, and I think X-mount.

I could be wrong on that.

Now, again, retro aesthetic with like a screw on lens hood and distance markers on the barrel itself, similar to like vintage manual focus lenses.

the closest competitor maybe to sigma because they do third-party lenses for manufacturers as well oh by the way i forgot to mention the sigma 50 to 120 is available for e mount x mount rf mount so and and the tamron uh tamron also announced a 16 to 50 mil f 2.8 And that's also an APS-C zoom with a constant 2.8 aperture.

And that will be available for E-mount, RF-mount, Z-mount and X-mount.

So that comes from for Z-mount to start with also from the beginning.

Actually interesting because this is almost competing head to head with the Sigma 18-50mm APS-C lens that we are using, or at least I'm using for, let's say, news coverage.

Godox...

Am I show direct connector? Well,

DJI also has the direct connector to Sony E-mount.

We do have.

Yeah.

They make a autofocusing adapter for PL that works with the E-mount, at least right now.

If there is a magical... coming together of a PL adapter that can autofocus a manual lens and it can have a drop in filter.

To me, that becomes like probably the closest thing out of the camera body outside of this camera body thing you're talking about that could actually like solve that issue because the, you know, it being in the camera body, I think could be cool.

I mean, if you're on Sony, this lens doesn't exist.

There isn't like a 50-140mm equivalent that I'm aware of on Sony E-mount for APS-C.

So you don't have like a small little, you know, travel, travel, telephoto zoom.

If you shoot APS-C Sony, which like they used to make a lot of cameras like that.

Maybe they could have joined

E-mount in the early days.

Samsung made its own line of lenses.

which is a brave thing to do at any point in time.

Absolutely, and when you [clears throat] I've compared some of these cheap ones against like, uh, less expe- uh, more expensive ones, and it's like there's not as much in it anymore.

I like most third-party companies, obviously Viltrox might be the exception with [laughs] your experience, but like 7 Artisans, when I first reviewed their E-mount, I think it was a, it was maybe the 24 millimeter F18.

I complained about the build quality.

There was too much play.

Ooh.

For Fuji, for Sony E-mount, and for Canon RF mount.

Canon RF mount?

Really? Canon-