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Sony has made some strong claims about its new G Master lens series. Unveiled earlier this week, the FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM is one of three in the lineup to make its debut, giving Sony’s full-frame mirrorless customers a fast, constant standard zoom for the first time. We had a few moments to shoot with the lens at Sony’s press event in New York, and while we only provide a small sampling of shots at this time, we will be updating this gallery as soon as we can.
Our initial impressions are extremely positive: sharpness appears to rival prime levels wide open, and there’s very little axial chromatic aberration to speak of. Sony’s claims may not be exaggerated at all.
We need to make a note about lens corrections: it seems that the camera we were handed had vignetting and chromatic aberration corrections turned on. The way this feature works is that these corrections are applied even in Raw mode (technically, vignetting correction is applied prior to writing the Raw file, while chromatic aberration correction information is embedded in the Raw and irreversibly applied by ACR).
The good news is that we’ve looked at Raw conversions from third-party converters that ignore the CA correction profile, and CA from this lens appears to be very minimal. Watch this space for more sample images, hopefully very soon.
Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
