Review on 📷 Sony SELP1650 16-50mm Power Zoom Lens (Silver) - High-Quality Bulk Packaging for Enhanced Photography Experience! by Stanisaw Lipowski ᠌

Name: 📷 Sony SELP1650 16-50mm Power Zoom Lens (Silver) - High-Quality Bulk Packaging for Enhanced Photography Experience!
Item: 📷 Sony SELP1650 16-50mm Power Zoom Lens (Silver) - High-Quality Bulk Packaging for Enhanced Photography Experience!
Rating: 5

July 04, 2023

I like the product very much, fully consistent with my expectations.

Good lens. For a mirrorless camera, it’s almost perfect whale (oncompeting systems there are only Panasonic H-PS14042 and Samsung S2050NB, but the first is too expensive, and the second is plastic and without a stabilizer).
Photos from it and other lenses on the NEX-6 can be viewed here: 
In the tags, I noted which lens I shot with.

Pros

Compact. Not much protrudes beyond the palm rest. With it, a mirrorless camera is comparable in size to a medium-sized soap dish. Stabilized. Helps when shooting in bad conditions. Cutting. Although under certain circumstances it can be written down as a minus, but fans of pixel hunting will like it. Comes with NEX-6, NEX-3N and NEX-5R (the latter has RL and RY trim levels). Outwardly, it looks great and the metal case pleases to the touch.

Cons

Fully mechanized. The focus ring is not very convenient to work due to delays. Focal changes rather slowly. At a wide angle, there are noticeable distortions that the camera itself corrects if it "knows" the lens. The first generations of NEX (3, 5, C3), as far as I know, did not receive a firmware ate: they will have to edit the raw ones. With it, the camera starts for a long time: about 2 s (until the pipe crawls out). In terms of aperture, nothing outstanding, but no failures either. Here is the gradation of the maximum aperture by focal length: 16-18mm-F3.5, 19-23mm-F4, 24-29mm-F4.5, 30-35mm-F5, 36-50mm-F5.6. Focal 50mm on crop 1.5 is not enough. Often not enough. Solution: either crop the picture on the computer, or hold the second lens (SEL55210).

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Jnis Gailis ᠌

July 04, 2023

Got pros: Great lens that comes with the kit. As a general purpose lens it is very good. Very compact. With its cons: Dark, but this is a whale zoom. Can't get used to digital zoom. Not for portraiture. No bokeh.