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