Sony E 16mm F2.8
$434.47 - $490.00
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14 years ago
great promotion great lens
high quality lens that complements the Sony Nex package. Was part of the Sony promotion.
Pros:
- Easy To Use
- Great Addition To Package
- Quality Construction
- Lightweight
14 years ago
Fast lens great for photos and video
I always buy from Best Buy, but had to buy this one elsewhere since Best Buy hadn't started carrying it yet. I have had it for about a 1½ months now and am very happy with the performance. This is the perfect lens if you buy the Sony NEX for its size.
Pros:
- Great lens for video
- good for low light shots
- good price
Cons:
- 49mm filters that Best Buy doesn't carry
9 years ago
"Good, low cost prime lens"
"It is not comparable to those $1K+ prime lenses, but it is good enough for overall shooting. If the goal is to go up one full F stop for better low light performance than the 16-50mm F3.5-56 kit lens offers, this is the cheapest way I know, to achieve it.
12 years ago
Very Poor Quality
This 16mm was the first lens I purchased together with my NEX-5 about 14 months ago and was always a disappointment, a great focal length that fails to deliver on sharpness. The optimum aperture for sharpness turns out to be 6.3 or 7.1 and is still not great, which is a shame because Sony has...
Pros:
- Only sharp in center
Cons:
- Edges blurry
14 years ago
Sony isn't the first manufacturer to talk about making a large-sensor mirrorless camera for compact users but it is the first to actually follow the thinking through with a system designed from ground up for the 'point and shoot' crowd.
Pros:
- Small
- innovative designs that are still comfortable to hold
- High resolution sensor with excellent High ISO performance (in PASM modes
- Good JPEG output quality
- Great build quality (particularly NEX-5
- Metal barrelled lenses feel impressive compared to peers
- Tiltable high-resolution screen,
Cons:
- High ISO capability (a major advantage of its large sensor) unavailable in iAuto mode
- Constant overexposure of images wastes highlight capabilities (and no exposure compensation to correct it in iAuto mode
- Consumes battery quickly if you use the screen a lot between shots
- Poor shot-to-shot times
12 years ago
It came with Nex kit.. and it is sharp centrally. It is light weight with full metal build.
Pros:
- Price
- size
- central sharpness
Cons:
- Uniformity of sharpness
15 years ago
Sony E16mm f2.8 SEL 16F28
Sony's so-called mirrorless cameras, the NEX-3 and -5, are impressively compact especially considering they house an APS-C size sensor and flip-up rear LCD panels. But like any camera system, compatibility with a wide range of good-quality lenses is crucial.
8 years ago
Avoid if you can.
I have had the lens for about 3 years. When I first got it, the lens was okay. Not perfect by any means but it was small and a bit faster than the kit lens at 16mm. Trouble is the lens started to die a few months after the warranty expired.
14 years ago
Sony E 16mm f/2.8 (SEL-16F28) - Review / Re-Test
The AF performance is pretty good for a contrast detection system (albeit highly dependent on the base camera). AF operations are basically noiseless. Manual focusing works "by wire" so the focus ring is not directly coupled to the focus gears but to the AF motor.
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