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Review on πŸ“· Sony SEL18200LE 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 E-Mount Lens by Nguyen Tuan Bao ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

A good product at a good price, I advise you to try it.

I needed a travel zoom with universal focal lengths for the a6000. The choice for Sony with an E-mount is small. 18-105 and 18-200. My 18-200 is more suitable for photo and even video mode. Convenient manual zoom control. The trunk does not fall out. The clarity of the picture with a 24MP matrix occupies 70% of the frame, and at all focal lengths. I got a copy with good clarity in 90% of the frame coverage, but at the 200th end, all clarity fell sharply. Lathers around the edges at a level of 16-50. This is a signature style from Sony lenses, although Zeiss is not much better. The hybrid autofocus speed is good and is not inferior to the standard 16-50 on the A6000. The speed drops only in very poor lighting or a tightly clamped aperture, and even then only at the 200th end. This is manifested by a long transfer of focus from 1m to infinity. But even in this case, if he found the first frame, then the second one will be with instant AF. The stabilizer works well, allowing blur-free shots at the 200 end even at 1/15. But it is good only in poor lighting, when the picture quality is low due to the high ISO. In good light and short shutter speeds, its spontaneous trembling, even on a tripod, spoils the good clarity of the picture, leaving micro-blurs on it. If you want to get a great picture, then turn off the stub. The jamb of the stabilizer appeared on three copies that I checked. At the same time, there is no such excitement at 16-50. As a universal zoom, it works perfectly, but the stabilizer spoils the impression a little, which has to be constantly turned on and off under different shooting conditions. Someone says that this is the norm, but it's wild to me.

Pros
  • Compact for zoom convenience of communication.
Cons
  • Soap at the edges of the frame on a covered aperture. Arbitrary self-excitation of the stabilizer.