Roger Cicala finds innovation sealed inside the Sony 35mm F1.4 ZA

Sony FE 35mm F1.4 ZA teardown

We've already looked at Roger Cicala's teardown of the Canon EF 35mm F1.4L II, where he showed it to be a heavy duty design with extensive adjustability to bring it back to spec after a period of abuse. LensRental's look inside the Sony FE 35mm F1.4 turned up a lens designed with a radically different approach. It's easy to over-interpret the differences and start trying to picture the different use-cases they've been designed for, but even if you don't want to extrapolate so far, it's fascinating to see how unconventional Sony's approach is.

Read Roger's full article for a piece-by-piece teardown as well as his thoughts on Sony innovation and design