 Fariel Ms |
About SONY Lenses I am in the market to purchase the SONY DSC H1. Any advice would be appreciated, and could someone give me more info on the Carl Zeiss Lens, and would it be compatible with the SONY DSC H1 camera? And where can I find reviews on the SONY lens? Thanks.
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Jon Close |
Found a review here: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Sony/sony_dsch1.php. The DSC-H1 has a permanently mounted lens (not Zeiss trademarked). There are accessory lenses by Sony that will screw onto the front of the lens to give greater telephoto or wider angle. You can also use similar accessory lenses by other makers, so long as they are designed to attach to DSC-H1's 58mm diameter adapter ring.
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Fariel Ms |
Thanx!
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doug Nelson |
Carl Zeiss has been dead for 190 years. He and such people as Ernst Leitz developed optical formulas that are the basis of lens design today. All lenses are based on these formulas, and enhanced with technological improvements such as aspherical lens elements. The quality of today's zoom lenses would be beyond their wildest imagination. Given the state of consumer information available on the Internet, no manufacturer can get away with making a truly crappy lens. I'd like to see a direct optical test of "Zeiss" vs. other-than-Zeiss, or the "Leica" lenses used by Panasonic, or the "L" lenses on higher priced Canon digicams and their house branded lenses. Unless some review mentions noticeable distortion at the edges of the frame, get what you can afford and enjoy it.
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doug Nelson |
Whoops, my bad. He died in 1888. Here's his picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss
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Will Turner |
Here's another piece of news: "Sony China Ltd has suspended sales of several compact cameras after they failed quality tests carried out by China's National Camera Quality Supervision and Inspection Center, according to a report by Interfax China. Nine Sony cameras were selected for inspection and six failed. The affected cameras are the DSC-H1, DSC-L1, DSC-P200, DSC-W7, DSC-W5 and DSC-S90. Chinese consumers who purchased these cameras can return them to Sony for a refund. There were also 13 cameras from other manufacturers that failed quality tests."
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doug Nelson |
Good piece of intel, Will. It'll be interesting to see how Sony and its retailers respond to this, what other makers have these problems, and whether the problems are optical, electronic or mechanical. How do we get access to information like this? The internet does its job as long as we know where to look.
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