Review on Sony SAL16105: Versatile Wide-Range Zoom Lens for Stunning Photography by Kenta Saito ᠌

Name: Sony SAL16105: Versatile Wide-Range Zoom Lens for Stunning Photography
Item: Sony SAL16105: Versatile Wide-Range Zoom Lens for Stunning Photography
Rating: 5

November 30, 2022

Reliable purchase, guaranteed to be a good purchase.

Undoubtedly, the best lens for Alpha with APS-C in its category, while being versatile - you can shoot everything and everywhere. And wide-angle, and almost telephoto. I don’t know about the travel zoom - there you can use some seedy little 28-300 tamron with the mark “fifth grade, well, almost no marriage” - there HA so HA. And with SAL16150, you can work wonders, if your hands grow from where you need to.

Pros

The lens is ideal in its price category and it simply has no equal. Whoever talks about HA and distortion - apparently, they have not seen them on zoom lenses from other companies. Also, consider the very wide range of focal lengths. I just don't understand how SONY engineers did it. Aberrations and distortions are minimal even at a fully open aperture, you cover it by one stop - the picture becomes almost perfect. I'm not talking about f7.1 and above.

Cons

The focus ring travel is quite small, plus it rotates with quite a lot of effort. However, I almost always use autofocus on the desired area, so it's not particularly critical.