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Image Quality
Customers are extremely pleased with the image quality of this premium G Series Prime Lens from Sony. They praise its sharpness, good colors, and versatility for various photography styles and situations such as documentary, street, travel, and wedding shoots.
Aperture Ring
Customers are highly satisfied with the aperture ring feature of the lens, praising its functionality and ease of use, especially for those who prefer shooting in aperture priority mode. The ring's clickability is also appreciated by many users.
Focusing Speed
Customers are highly satisfied with the focusing speed of the Sony SEL40F25G lens. They praise its quick auto focus and ability to deliver sharp images even in low light conditions. Some customers have noted that while not super-fast, it is still fast enough for their needs and a great compromise between 35mm and 50mm lenses. A few customers have mentioned the lens hood as a drawback but overall are pleased with the lens's performance and build quality.
Highlights
Quality
This lens has all those, it's super sharp, well made, lets in lots of light ( f2.
The lens is light but solid and is really good in low light.
It's so small & light, it barely sticks out more than your fingers when holding the camera.
5 lens didn't even catch my eye, ‘what, not even an f2!
Price
At 469€, this lens was a steal!
Saved me at least £50-70 on used prices.
It cost me 450 euros, and it's worth it.
I managed to pick it up for 100€ less because of a limited time voucher.
Packaging/appearance
I happened to catch a great deal on this lens, it was like new from amazon warehouse for 394 with original box and i didn't hesitate.
However the box was not packed with any bubble wrap or similar, which meant it just was free to bounce around in the much larger box.
Only problem was the poor packaging by amazon, the lens is over £600 and the sony packaging gave good protection.
Competitiveness
There’s other cheaper options such as the samyang 18mm which is slightly wider, but i’ll come onto why i went with this.
As a long term sony shooter i have tried just about every incarnation of the 50 and 50 ish offerings from both sony and others.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I have this paired with an a7 iii and its so much lighter than if i had a tamron 2875 g2 attached
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I can mostly shoot with just one hand
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I read some comments where people were saying this is pretty much a gm lens but i dont have any knowledge of that
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The size of this lens is really lovely but the performance on high megapixel bodies like the a7r45 is a bit lacking
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It has brilliant resolution in the middle but sharpness falls of quickly leaving the edges somewhat lacking
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Stopping down has little effect
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Depending on what you are photographing edge sharpness is not necessarily a problem at all if you dont need perfect sharpness across the frame or you are on lower mpx body for example
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Glad i checked on amazon first as i definitely would have missed it
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