Review on 📷 Sony SEL18200LE 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 E-Mount Lens by Trang Bach ᠌

Name: 📷 Sony SEL18200LE 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 E-Mount Lens
Item: 📷 Sony SEL18200LE 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 E-Mount Lens
Rating: 4

October 08, 2022

The right product for me, the price suited me.

I first used it on SONY NEX-5, where in the evening I shot only on manual focus, autofocus on a penny with him for some reason was weird.
A good everyday lens can be said from the experience of using the five.
Then I bought a NEX-6 - when I saw the new firmware on the camera and the lens was flashed to the latest versions - lo and behold, phase detection appeared and the focusing speed noticeably increased, to be honest, I use this camera + lens combination as a reportage, it’s quite decent, although it smears 6 decently , but for not having other lenses of this range, this one is good.
As a creative tool, I’ll give it a satisfactory or a stretch, I’ll put it well, because it’s more working both in terms of picture quality and other criteria.
When I took it for a nickel, I really wanted it, well, what do you want, the beginner didn’t fully understand the picture, but on the 6th I’ve already been in photography for 4 years and 1.5 years of reporting experience, in principle, everything suits the lens, except for jambs with focus at a long distance and jambs with camera accuracy.

Pros

18-200 mm - respectively, the latitude of focal lengths The quality of workmanship, does not fall out, does not play. Focuses quickly at a distance of 18 to 100 mm. Sharp over the entire range of focal lengths. After the firmware, I began to see the phase sensors of the camera.

Cons

Focusing from 100 mm to the end, you have to constantly poke on the shutter button, otherwise it loses focus, at the end it slowly moves from the bokeh state to the focus state in a couple of seconds. Expensive filters. The price is 36 thousand now against 23 for the TAMRON 18-200, although internally the SEL 18-200LE can only see the camera's phase focus sensors. I would like more, for example 18-250 or 18-275 mm.