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  1. So, what are my impressions?
    Practical small things first: it lacks a dedicated AE-L button, which is an important feature when you want to measure for the sky and recompose. This annoyed me but I used EV compensation instead.
    The shutter sound is loud, much worse than A7RV.
    EVF visibility in practical situations is not great. You really have to poke your eye in it in order to see the whole screen sharp.
    Lack of a joystick for moving the initial tracking lock point is annoying, but I compensated with the lower thumb dial. It works more slowly but it works. I might experiment with other AF modes, though.

    That's all for the problems. Other than those small hiccups, I had no problems focusing and framing, the lens range was great for what I wanted to shoot, and the image quality was absolutely stellar – sharpness, resistance to flare, no CA, no nothing. The 28-60mm sharpness at f/7.1-8 where I used it was the same as the 50mm f/1.8 at f/8 which Biljana had on her camera. Basically, that small zoom is as sharp as a good sharp prime, and has better flare resistance. That lens is turning into one of my favourites, simply because it's so optically good. The end results are the images that can be printed up to two meters in diagonal. I looked at the images in Lightroom at magnification and was just stunned. Also, that small lens has the fastest, quietest, most modern AF implementation Sony was able to make. The whole setup is just insanely good for nature/landscape photography, and also for street photography in daylight. What it's not good for is stuff that requires shallow depth of field and reach. But for normal focal lengths and compositions where you want everything to be sharp, I honestly think this beats all those small normal primes that seem to be in fashion. I was working in 35-50mm range for the most part, and that seems to be the sweet spot of usability for this kind of photography. A prime would actually have been worse.

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