{"id":69241,"date":"2012-12-29T17:19:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T08:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=69241"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:42:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:42:59","slug":"sonnar-t-e-24mm-f1-8-za","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20121229\/blogs\/camera\/sonnar-t-e-24mm-f1-8-za","title":{"rendered":"Sonnar T\uff0a E 24mm F1.8 ZA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well\u2014it&#8217;s been just nine days since I got my hands on the NEX-7<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s turning out to be quite an excellent companion \u2605<br \/>\nWith year-end work and all, I haven&#8217;t been turning on my D800 lately<br \/>\nI bought just the body, so picking out lenses is another joy!<br \/>\nSince it&#8217;s for quick snapshots, I don&#8217;t need a zoom<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not even sure I&#8217;ll use it for half a year, so expensive lenses are out<br \/>\nI thought about using the NEX-NIKON mount adapter with my existing lenses<br \/>\nBut manual focus? That&#8217;s not happening.<br \/>\nThe lens costs more than the NEX-7 body, so dropping it would be a disaster \u2605<br \/>\nSo<br \/>\nIt just came out, and for now, well\u2026<br \/>\nI went with the E 35mm F1.8 OSS, model SEL35F18!<br \/>\nFor the price, I thought it was really excellent \u2605<br \/>\nI do place great trust in genuine Sony lenses.<br \/>\nBut the way I actually use it<br \/>\nThe minimum focus distance was closer than I needed, making it awkward to use<br \/>\nWhen I&#8217;m shooting food outside, I end up looking like a strange person\u2026<br \/>\nSo in the end\u2026 <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1517822_63714387_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Sonnar T\uff0a E 24mm F1.8 ZA, model SEL24F18Z<br \/>\nis what I&#8217;m switching to. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1517822_63714387_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Compared to the E 35mm F1.8 OSS, model SEL35F18<br \/>\nThe minimum focus distance is 0.16 meters\u2014about half\u2014which is perfect \u25ce<br \/>\nI&#8217;d guess I can focus down to about 60\u201370 millimeters\u2026<br \/>\nThe price is easily double the suggested retail price of 103,950 yen\u2026<br \/>\nSince I shoot indoors a lot<br \/>\nIt works great even on a desk where I can&#8217;t step back \u2605<br \/>\nEating out is easy too \u25ce<br \/>\nShooting while working is no problem \u25ce<br \/>\nThe downside is<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s about 20 millimeters longer than the 35mm<br \/>\nSo it won&#8217;t fit in my pocket anymore \u2605<br \/>\nI wanted to use a Zeiss Sonnar<br \/>\nNow I understand why people stick with the \u03b1 series SLRs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well\u2014it&#8217;s been just nine days since I got my hands on the NEX-7 It&#8217;s turning out to be quite an excellent companion \u2605 With year-end work and all, I haven&#8217;t been turning on my D800 lately I bought just the body, so picking out lenses is another joy! Since it&#8217;s for quick snapshots, I don&#8217;t need a zoom I&#8217;m not even sure I&#8217;ll use it for half a year, so expensive lenses are out I thought about using the NEX-NIKON mount adapter with my existing lenses But manual focus? That&#8217;s not happening. The lens costs more than the NEX-7 body, so dropping it would be a disaster \u2605 So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[68,55,72],"class_list":["post-69241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camera","tag-nex-7","tag-old-blog","tag-sel24f18z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}