Earlier this week, Sony announced its FE 28-70mm F2 GM lens, its first constant F2 zoom. The company promised “prime levels of performance” and said the lens doesn’t rely on software corrections.
Our sample gallery shows how the lens performs in general use as a portrait lens and contains a few samples designed to show how it renders sun stars and its vignetting performance throughout its aperture range. There are also some shots designed to show off how it renders bokeh when wide open at F2.
A note on processing: our standard procedure for lens galleries is to export the JPEGs using Capture One, as it gives us more control over how lens corrections are applied than Adobe Camera Raw. However, we shot this gallery with the just-announced Sony a1 II, which currently isn’t supported in Capture One, so we reverted to processing these images using ACR. We’ve worked to use settings similar to our standard C1 recipe. No correction for vignetting or distortion was applied.
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