Review on 📷 Sony SEL90M28G FE 90mm f/2.8-22 Macro G OSS Lens: Ideal Standard-Prime for Mirrorless Cameras, Black by Hideo Kawae ᠌

Name: 📷 Sony SEL90M28G FE 90mm f/2.8-22 Macro G OSS Lens: Ideal Standard-Prime for Mirrorless Cameras, Black
Item: 📷 Sony SEL90M28G FE 90mm f/2.8-22 Macro G OSS Lens: Ideal Standard-Prime for Mirrorless Cameras, Black
Rating: 4

September 13, 2022

The product is really good, I'm glad I bought it.

When buying, you need to clearly understand - you pay 80-110 thousand for a specific macro lens. Using it as a "regular" portrait lens is complete nonsense. For this there are: Sigma 56mm Contemporary, Sonya 55mm, Sigma Art, more expensive Sonya, etc. etc. It all depends on the wallet. But this glass is a 90mm macro glass with practically no autofocus and only for a certain range of tasks. If you already have “standard” glasses for landscapes, portraits, widths, but you have an extra plus or minus 90 thousand in your pocket and you don’t know what else to please yourself with, you can safely buy this glass. But if you only have, for example, a 55mm prime for portraits and 23mm for landscapes, then it's better to buy something other than this glass. And this glass - later, when you have at least 5-6 other glasses on the shelf. This is an addition to your collection, but not its main player. Learn it.

Pros

A high-quality, branded Sonyevsky, but a very, very specific and narrowly focused product. Branded Macro lens from Aunt. Still, whatever you say, but just as Microsoft leaves its secret back-door chips for its proprietary programs, so Sony's branded lenses "better than all other third-party" ones are screwed onto Sony's cameras. Fact. And this glass is a proprietary macro lens for Sony cameras. Sharp - yes, very.

Cons

Heavy. Very shallow depth of field. Well, it's just very small. Kick-Ass, like a little. Straight, Kick-Kick. The much-praised super-feature of switching AF/MF by shifting the ring on the tube is complete rubbish in practical life . It would be better to add another regular switch at the end of the tube, as well as turning off and on OSS and focus range. And now everything is in order . Heavy - yes. Combined with the fact that it has a very shallow depth of field and to pull it out it is necessary to cover the aperture to 8, 11, 16 or even 22 - it takes a lot of light to stay at such a focal length (90mm) at an acceptable shutter speed to ensure sharpness. . As a fact - even with OSS it is almost unrealistic to take it off your hands. So. He needs a lot of light. As a rule, this is leveled with a tripod. This is not f1.4 for you . If you shoot some flower on the windowsill at f2.8 at home, then the stamen will be in focus, and its base will already go almost into bokeh . Turn the aperture up to 16 - the result is slightly better , but the whole flower still does not fit into the flu . As a result, a tripod, add. light, aperture 16 and other delights . He also makes noise. As soon as it was wound up and turned on the fotik. Autofocus noise starts, it's really annoying. It's like a motorcycle inside accelerates and tries to start abruptly from a traffic light. Not as much, of course, as a motorcycle at a traffic light, but at one moment you realize that this lens jester is starting to strain you. And most importantly - autofocus. Rather, so - AUTOFOCUS - SUCKS ! We can say that it has practically no autofocus. This is a lens with manual focus and with a formal non-working autofocus option. If it's a little dark (and it's always like that for him - it's always dark), damn it, he will focus on you. Doesn't focus at all. Or it will focus, but float. Or not focused. Or it will focus, but then it will float, then it will focus again, but it will float again. In the end, yes - you understand - autofocus in it is complete guano. You will have to use manual autofocus.