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1680Z A-mount digital camera lens High quality wide angle standard zoom lens by Carl Zeiss DT 16-80mm F3.5-4.5 ZA Vario-Sonnar T* lens
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
Competing with the big boys!
By Ugly1
Let's pretend that you do not have unlimited funds. Let's pretend that you want to buy a selection of lenses that cover all of the options, or as close as your finances will sensibly allow. Let's make the further assumption that you want to produce the very best quality photographs that you possibly can. You will undoubtedly want to buy a zoom and this lens from Sony is an excellent place to start. Some would say that given these boundaries and the limitation of available lenses for the Sony range, it is the only place to start if you have a tight budget.It says 'Zeiss' on the lens and to the best of my knowledge 'Carl Zeiss' hasn't put his name to any 'stinkers' so far for DSLR's are concerned. 'Carl Zeiss' makes optics, good optics, up there with the best and for that of course you pay a premium. It is a similar story with Sony's 'G' range.This lens is the cheapest 'Zeiss' for a DSLR. Do I care that is not made out of metal? I do not. The lens looks and feels good. There is nothing inferior about the construction or materials in this lens, it just is not metal that's all.If you don't have a full size sensor, (I am talking to the people in the cheap seats here, the owners of 200's 300's 700's and 500's) you need to get as many pixels on the page as possible. That means getting as much as you can right in the camera to avoid death by cropping. You also need good glass. This Sony lens is undoubtedly good glass! I have found that it produces good results throughout its whole range. But stay away from using it at maximum zoom and the results from its widest aperture to F11 and the results are scalpel sharp and really quite amazing with minimal anomalies. If you set your camera up properly with a shallow depth of field and focus carefully, the difference between razor sharp and the drift away to soft focus is extraordinarily pleasing. Only good glass produces this kind of effect and makes it soft and satisfying. Makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside when you get it right!This was the first lens that I purchased that produced results with my A350 that made me think that I might actually be able to compete with the big boys, talent permitting. After a few months of use, I wouldn't change a thing. Auto focus is fine, manual focus is a little heavy as is the zoom adjustment, but I am used to that now and wouldn't want to change it. All things considered, I think this lens is utterly brilliant and a bargain!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Great but not perfect
By popo
Optically this is what standard zooms should be. It is sharp throughout the range. Negatives include some chromatic aberration at 16mm, and also at 16mm it is prone to vignetting if you use filters.Physically it feels solid. At the price it is a shame they used the slotted screw system to drive the focus instead of their SSM system, but it works fast enough.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.Never mind the quality - look at the pictures.
By nevalti
Construction and appearance are not particularly impressive. When zoomed out the front is free to wobble slightly which is rather disconcerting.Fortunately these two factors do not influence the results which are pretty impressive. Apart from being a a little soft at the 80mm end it is satisfyingly sharp. You can of course use that slight softness at full zoom to your advantage for portraits. I guess though that most people will buy this more for the wide angle than the 80mm end where they have probably got an overlapping zoom anyway. At the wide angle end, there is a usefully large difference between 16mm & 18mm (24mm & 28mm equivalent). 16mm has significantly greater depth of field and, verging on extreme wide angle, allows more creativity than 18mm, in my opinion. But I'm still saving up for that Sigma 8-16 zoom!If you don't want the 16mm end perhaps it is not worth spending all that extra money but I'm glad I did. Apart from the drawback that it is rather heavy compared with the standard lens it is far more useful for my kind of photography and I rarely change to any other lens now. Not quite 'macro' but it focuses down to roughly one foot and can therefore record a subject about 3" across. That covers most subjects for most people - I guess.The price is a bit steep but I think it is worth it, especially if you can find someone to sell you a body without a standard lens. My problem is, what do I do with my completely unused 18-55 Sony lens?
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