Sony pushes back 85mm lens release to August, may also unveil FX9 successor and a 24-70mm f/2.0 GM lens alongside

[Redaktion]

Sony has delayed the release of its highly anticipated FE 85mm f/1.4 GM II lens until late August, hinting a broader product refresh strategy from the company. While details are still scarce, rumors point to potential new camera models and lenses, including a possible successor to the FX9 and a faster 24-70mm GM lens. Sony has confirmed that the A7V full-frame camera will not be released in 2024.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Sony-pushes-back-85mm-lens-release-to-August-may-also-unveil-FX9-successor-and-a-24-70mm-f-2-0-GM-lens-alongside.868018.0.html

[Matt Schmidt]

"original FE 85mm f/1.4 GM lens, which has been praised for its exceptional image quality"

Reading Sony PR too much?

This lens is known for lacking image quality, easily beaten by Sigma for half the price.

[John_Thicc]

So eventually Sony confirmed the bad effects of smaller size E-mount.

Sony can't make 85mm f/1.2 lens like Cannon and Nikon. Also their best G-master lenses suffers from heavy focus breathing (and if you compensate then you won't get the actual focal length shot and quality since it crops the image/video).

Cannon is also famous for it's cripple hammer.

Nikon is the only one whose lens category have fast primes (58mm f/0.95) designed especially to have very less or no focus breathing.