Thanks for your comment, I’ll keep my mind up for more opinions and experience with this lens.

Hi UHH mates,
Any one have experimented this lens, I’d like you opinion about the qualities of this lens and the picture results.
Thanks!

Being a Film photographer, why don't considering a small camera with great features, great price and wonderful picture quality as the Olympus or Lumix cameras, lens are really good and unespensive today,
OM-D EM-10 or EM-5 are very good to start

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Hi, I owner 3 Sony A series. A7R 2, A9 and A6300. I use the 2 FE for professional photography that require high level quality, but for my every day and travel my choice is the A6300, think about the weight and size of lenses and they cust much lens then G lens. My choice for travel are the Sigma 18-35 f/1.8 or Sony G 18-105 f/4 and Sony FE 70-200 f/4 the quality is pair with the A7 series and you will save a lot money.
Good luck with your choice and enjoy your travel.

I have the de 24-240. I bought this lens 2 years ago to use with my A7m2 as a walk around lens. The quality of this lens is very good based in price. It's a bit slow in aperture but do the high in good light. Picture quality is comparable to the Zeiss fe 24-70 f4, after 150mm lost a bit, and this lens is water and dust resistant.
I live my copy of this lens.
Good luck with your choice.

Try the Sony fe 24-240mm, I have this lens all the time in my A7r mk 2

Thanks for everyone! But, someone has experience with G7?

I am a hobbyist photographer, I did like to buy a second camera as backup,
actually I have Oly Em1 Mk1 and several lens:
Oly 12-40 f2.8 Oly 14-150 f2.8 Oly 60 f2.8 Oly 25 f1.8 Oly 45 f1.8 Oly 75-300 pana 20 f1.7 and flash Nissin Di700
I would like to buy the Oly Em1 mk2 but it is out my budget.
I did like to know a opinion from you Hogs.
BRAND NEW PANASONIC G7 $487 or a used OLYMPUS EM1 MK1 $450,
what you think will be better for me, by the way,
I am a street amateur photographer!
I Attach some Photography that I did last week...

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Hi, I really like my canon system until I get a Sony a6300 and a7 mk2. I don’t see any delay in the electronic view Finder. The a6300 have a refreshing rate of 120mhz. Both cameras have a excelente noise reduction for JPGs and the RAW are exceptional for editing. Low light perfomance also are excellent, only point I don’t like in the system is the G lens size and price that sometimes are more priced that Canon. But I will not go back to Canon.
Also, I have a Olympus Om D Em 1 with the pro lens, this is my system that I love. I have Olympus in my bag all the time, I my travel pictures are made with Olympus. The size of lens are very comfortable to carry inside my travel bag with 3 lens and a flash. Pictures are excellent. Very good noise reduction direct from the camera for JPGs, and range for RAWs are excellent too. If you want a good system with low weight, go to Olympus Em 1 mk2 or Panasonic G9 you will not regret you decision, they do not have delay in EVF.

Hi, I really like my canon system until I get a Sony a6300 and a7 mk2. I don’t see any delay in the electronic view Finder. The a6300 have a refreshing rate of 120mhz. Both cameras have a excelente noise reduction for JPGs and the RAW are exceptional for editing. Low light perfomance also are excellent, only point I don’t like in the system is the G lens size and price that sometimes are more priced that Canon. But I will not go back to Canon.
Also, I have a Olympus Om D Em 1 with the pro lens, this is my system that I love. I have Olympus in my bag all the time, I my travel pictures are made with Olympus. The size of lens are very comfortable to carry inside my travel bag with 3 lens and a flash. Pictures are excellent. Very good noise reduction direct from the camera for JPGs, and range for RAWs are excellent too. If you want a good system with low weight, go to Olympus Em 1 mk2 or Panasonic G9 you will not regret you decision, they do not have delay in EVF.

I suggest you buy a Olympus omD to Sony e-mount, than you will be able to use all your legacy lenses with a great results. Sony a6000 have the focus pic, that works very well and the sensor is aps-c with the crop factor 1:1.5.

I can suggest a Olympus Om-D Em-1 or Panasonic GH4/5 with a 14-150mm lens, it is affordable, totally sealed against the environment. Wonderful picture quality iN a small package. Is very affordable right now.

1) What is RAW?

RAW images, also known as “digital negatives” are truly “raw”, meaning they are almost unprocessed data coming directly from the camera sensor. Unlike JPEG files that can be easily opened, viewed and printed by most image-viewing/editing programs, RAW is a proprietary format that is tied to the camera manufacturer and sensor, and therefore is not supported by all software products. RAW files preserve the most amount of information about an image and generally contain more colors and dynamic range than other formats.

1.1) Advantages of RAW format

RAW files contain full JPEG Previews that were processed by the camera, using the camera settings you chose when you shot the image.
In addition to basic exposure information, RAW files also store other camera-specific data such as focus point, picture controls, etc.
RAW files are fully supported by their manufacturers and therefore work with camera-specific software packages such as Nikon Capture NX.
1.2) Disadvantages of RAW format

Not all software packages can open RAW files. If you have a brand new camera that just got released, you might need to wait for a while for software companies to catch up and update their software so that your RAW files could be opened and worked on, even on the most popular image-editing products such as Lightroom.
Because RAW files cannot be modified by third party software, your settings will have to be stored in a separate sidecar (XMP) file, which means more storage and tougher file management.
2) What is DNG?

DNG is also considered to be a RAW image file. It is Adobe’s proprietary image standard that was created to store image data in a generic, highly-compatible format, unlike RAW files that have specific formats based on manufacturer and camera type. Although DNG was invented by Adobe and is supported in all Adobe applications, there are other companies like Leica and Hasselblad that adopted this standard and use it in their cameras as their native RAW file format.

2.1) What are the advantages of DNG format?

No need to be worried about proprietary camera RAW formats – once a RAW file in converted to DNG, it will work with any software that can read the DNG format.
DNG files are generally smaller than RAW files and can be made even smaller if minimal or no JPEG Preview is stored within the file.
Changes to images can be written directly into DNG files without having to create separate sidecar XMP files to store this data. This simplifies file management.
DNG files are capable of storing full original RAW files and these RAW files can be later be manually extracted, if needed.
Adobe provides many ways to automatically convert RAW images to DNG format in such programs as Lightroom.
Unlike RAW files, the DNG format includes checksum information in the file to detect and prevent file corruption.
Adobe continues to work on the DNG format, enhancing it year after year and adding more functionality and features.
2.1) What are the disadvantages of DNG format?

Conversion from RAW to DNG takes extra time during the import process.
DNG does not work with all manufacturer image-processing programs. For example, it doesn’t work with Nikon’s Capture NX product.
DNG strips out some of the unrecognized meta data (such as Active D-Lighting and Picture Control) from RAW files, making it impossible to retrieve this data from DNG in the future.
Because all changes are written into the DNG file, you would have to back up the entire DNG file every time you make changes to it.
3) Should you use DNG or RAW?

I personally prefer to use DNG for the following three reasons:

Compatibility – it doesn’t matter what camera I use today or tomorrow, my files are preserved in one highly-compatible format that is here to stay.
Simplicity – all changes are written into the same file and I do not have to worry about having one separate file per image just to store my post-processing settings.
Size – that 15-20% of extra space does make a difference when you have tens of thousands of pictures. Why should I waste space by storing information in RAW files that I do not need?
Sure, it does take more processing power and time to work with DNG images compared to RAW, but the above advantages far outweigh the problems with RAW for me. I do not use Capture NX and within the last two years, I haven’t had a need to go back to my original RAW files. My backup process is actually simpler and smoother now, because I do not have to worry about selecting only sidecar files for backup – I just backup whatever photos I work on.

As far as whether to preserve or not to preserve the original RAW/NEF files, I personally keep my RAW files until I back up my photos to at least two separate hard drives. Once I am absolutely positive that everything is fully backed up, only then do I purge my old NEF files to save some space.

Look at those pics with e 30mm f/3.5 https://flic.kr/p/KgYz6p