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Sony creates 10-18mm, 16-50mm power zoom and 35mm F1.8 for NEX E-mount

Published Sep 12, 2012 | dpreview staff

Photokina 2012: Sony has announced three extra E-mount lenses for its NEX cameras, a 10-18mm wide zoom, a 16-50mm retractable power zoom and a 35mm F1.8 prime lens. The 10-18mm F4 is a mid-level wide-angle zoom covering a 15-27mm equivalent range. The 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 power zoom offers a compact standard zoom covering the 24-75mm equivalent range. Finally the 35mm F1.8 is a bright 53mm equivalent normal prime lens. All three feature Sony's Optical Steady Shot image stabilization. The 10-18mm will cost around $850, the 16-50mm power zoom will cost around $350 and the 35mm F1.8 will be priced around $450.

Press release:

New Interchangeable Lenses for α E-mount Cameras

Sony E 35mm F1.8 OSS

Sony has also introduced three new lenses for its E-mount line of interchangeable lens cameras, adding to the system’s flexibility.

The new SELP1650 lens is an extremely light, compact 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 powered zoom model that measures only 29.9 mm thick (when fully retracted) and contains built-in Optical SteadyShot™ image stabilization for clearer handheld images. Additionally, it features a dual-function ring that controls both power zoom and manual focus, depending on the camera’s focus mode. With the camera set to AF the control ring adjusts smooth, high-speed zoom with small hand movements. With the camera in MF mode, the ring controls manual focus. A smooth power zoom dial makes the lens particularly useful for shooting video.

Sony E PZ 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 OSS power zoom

The new SEL35F18 lens is a wide aperture 35mm focal length model with a bright maximum aperture of f/1.8 and built-in Optical SteadyShot image stabilization. It offers excellent optical sharpness, clarity, and background defocus in both still images and HD video, and is exceptionally light and easy to carry.

Sony E 10-18mm F4 OSS

The new SEL1018 lens is a super-wide angle zoom with a maximum aperture of f/4.0 across its range of 10-18mm and built-in Optical SteadyShot image stabilization. Adopting the super ED (Extra-low Dispersion) glass which reduces color aberration, the lens is capable of producing dramatic perspective effects and is ideal for shooting landscapes and interiors.

Pricing and Availability

The SELP1650 power zoom lens will be sold separately in January for about $350, and the SEL35F18 prime and SEL1018 wide angle lenses will be available this November for about $450 and $850, respectively.

Tags: lens-news, nex, sony

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Olga Celle

I am encountering some weird and unexpected vignettingin my SEL10-18 that no software program can fix. It is like taking a picture from a tube. I am so distress! I wish some colleagues from this blog could help me, perhaps I am doing something wrong. After a series of 10 landscape pictures yesterday, I noticed that it had began giving me some vignetting. I opened it from f/16 to f/11 but the problem continued until the end...I do not know if it is the camera or it is the lens.

Apr 16, 2013permalink

sportyaccordy

I have a C3 with the original 18-55 kit lens. Worked great on my honeymoon. All I really need is a lens with the same zoom range but 2.8 max aperture. No need to mess with primes (most of them are pretty slow anyway)

Nov 26, 2012permalink

eastwestphoto

I use the Sony 16mm & the 50mm & a 30 yr. old a Tamron Zoom BBAR 70~210mm in m42 w/ adapter. I just came back from Italy, Croatia, Montenegro, Turkey and shot 637 exposures. The 16mm & 50mm were used with a polirizer filter and the zoom a sunshade. The results were staggering! Any fool that beleaves Nikon or Canon monster Digital cameras and Lenses are better should see what a Sony Nex 7 @ 24 Meg can really do! Even the photos shot at 263mm manual focus, exposure, are very sharp, contrasty and saleable. I would like too see Sony make a 300mm@F:4.5 in OSS as I need a longer telephoto in AF & OSS. I am shocked that photo writers untruthfully state the 16mm is a bad lens. Too this travel photographer that's a lie! Shooting with 16mm & a Polirizer allows be to crop the 24 Meg file for super composition maintaining sharpness also.

Nov 7, 2012permalink

keepreal

The 10-18mm and 16-50mm are good news for NEX afficionados who like wide angles for landscapes and shoot JPEG.

But I also imagine they and the 35mm F1.8 will retain the absurd curvilinear distortion that I believe makes most Sony E lenses and many others for APSC and Four-Thirds a joke for serious work where you want to shoot RAW. I also insist upon a RAW developer of my own choosing, not SONY's because I am out for the best tone-mapping on the planet, IMO currently Oloneo PhotoEngine.

For that and want of a decent OVF since the NEX-7 EVF is also a bad joke, I will stick to my DSLR in spite of the size and weight which I admit is a serious nuisance.

By the time EVFs get up to 14 mb instead of the present 1.4 mb, maybe they will be able to distill electronically every last ounce of refinement and equal an optical viewfinder system. By if/when that ever happens, I will no longer be around, so who cares? Just get a caddy and keep to shooting through mirrors.

Sep 21, 2012*permalink

Marcin Moscicki

Are the specs available anywhere? I'm particularily interested in weight & dimensions and how they compare to their m43 counterparts.

Sep 15, 2012permalink

Rooru S

m43 aren't counterparts at all. m43 lenses will be always smaller and lighter because they are made for a smaller sensor. So APS-C lenses will have a tendency to be bigger.

Sep 26, 2012permalink

mic007

Why does the lens have power zoom when NEX cameras do not have zoom buttons like compacts?

Sep 14, 2012permalink

Rooru S

The zoom lever is on the lens so you can use it on every single NEX camera ever made. The only NEX-series cameras that does have a zoom lever on body are NEX-VG30, NEX-VG900 and NEX-FS700 but all those are for video mainly.

Sep 14, 2012permalink

peevee1

16-50 is OK. I guess depends on quality, E18-55 is incredibly bad for a modern lens.
10-18 and 35 are somewhat overpriced compared to SLR competition (Sigma 10-20 lenses are $480, Tamron 10-24 are $450 etc).

Sep 13, 2012permalink

twald

According to reviews, the E18-55 lens is on par with or better than most kit zoom lenses.

Sep 13, 2012permalink

Francis Carver

At US$350 list price, I am almost certain it is not going to be world-class leading optical image quality, you know.

Sep 13, 2012permalink

NowHearThis

Neither the Sigma or Tamron ultra wides offer OSS and neither are an fixed F4. I wouldn't be surprised if the Sony came out on top in IQ too.

Sep 13, 2012permalink

Rooru S

Do you realize that if they reduce the gap between the lens and sensor you end with a more difficult design? You should compare mirrorless lenses with other mirrorless designs and the only comparable design is the Panasonic 7-14mm f/4 zoom, that is priced higher (even with the time it has on the market) and doesn't have OSS (priced around $50 higher last time I checked it on BH).

Overpriced? Not. Constant f/4 aperture, OSS, smaller design overall (since it doens't sit far from the sensor) and you end with a higher priced lens. Pricey? Yes, but not overpriced given these reasons.

Sep 14, 2012permalink

Giao Nguyen

The E18-55 is pretty good. I have used the nex5 with E18-55 and many Nikon, Canon lens. I do not see any difference between them. Only Nikon prime like 50mm f1.8 really impressed me but it is a prime lens.

Sep 14, 2012permalink

peevee1

"According to reviews, the E18-55 lens is on par with or better than most kit zoom lenses."

I don't know what reviews are you talking about. Just look at SLRGear tests. Which modern 3x kit is as bad?

Sep 18, 2012permalink

peevee1

"Neither the Sigma or Tamron ultra wides offer OSS and neither are an fixed F4."

The Tamron 10-24/3.5-4.5 is in fact brighter than the Sony 10-18 in most focal lengths they share, and only a little darker where the Sony does not shoot at all.

Sep 18, 2012permalink

amolkolhe

If you come from a canon kit lens 18-55, the Sony E18-55 is a vast improvement :)

Aug 23, 2013permalink

Babka08

These seem like great lenses in terms of specs. I wonder if there will be a fast NEX telephoto ever? Something f4 or f2.8? (he asked, to nobody in particular)

Sep 12, 2012permalink

cangi

@ nemark. i have the 50mm f1.8 and the quality is very good. it is also small and light. nice lens!

Sep 12, 2012permalink

nemark

Probably the only Sony lens worth a penny. 16mm is disaster. And so on... I have non, so I talk according to what I read (Photozone.de, users etc...)

Sep 12, 2012permalink

tkbslc

They have 16, 24, 35, and 50mm prime now. Very nice. What doesn't fit is the 30mm f3.5 macro. If they had made that an 80 or 90mm f2.8 macro then it could have been the portrait prime, too.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Rooru S

Expect a 85 or 90mm f/1.8 next year (There is a Mid-telephoto lens on roadmap and since Sony advertise the 50mm f/1.8 as telephoto, it will be between those ranges). But so far, no additional macro lens for NEX-series.

Sep 14, 2012permalink

peevee1

Sony E 50 is only OK between f/4-f/8. f/1.8-f/2 is bad. Not us ugly as 16 mm if that helps. For what is a good lens see 4/3 Oly 50/2 or m43 Oly 75/1.8. :) Even Sony Zei$$ is nowhere near.

Sep 18, 2012permalink

eost

YES! 10-18/4.0 finally...

Sep 12, 2012permalink

nemark

Knowing the (POOOR) quality of Sony lenses, I`ll wait some practical results, tests and comments to create my own opinion. Nice collection of focal lengths and apertures, but discussable q. (Don`t confuse Sony with Zeiss-for-Sony.)

Sep 12, 2012permalink

jhinkey

Yes, the Nex-6 (for me) is perfect if they can pull off decent performance with their new primes and zooms. Let's wait and see. Could be an actual contender against m43 for a light weight kit to complement my D800 plus heavy (but stellar) FX lenses.

Sep 12, 2012*permalink

Giao Nguyen

Sony E lens are not all very poor. Only the 16mm is very poor. All others are pretty good. I have used my Nex5 with Nikon, Canon and Zeiss lens. I know Sony E lens is not as bad as some people say.

Sep 14, 2012permalink

amolkolhe

Yeah, agree. I tried the 16-50 power zoom in store today. While I personally like the 18-55 more because of its build quality, 16-50 has a better range (for me). Coming from Canon DSLR, the test shots taken with both of these seem so much better than the 18-55 on canon.

Aug 23, 2013permalink

Vitruvius

Nice to see a really wide angle zoom but I would have much rather had more aperture than the power zoom. Oh well. looks like lots of nice stuff coming out.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

mpgxsvcd

Everyone will claim that Sony will dominate the market after today. Then others will claim that Nikon will dominate after tomorrow. Then others will claim Panasonic and Olympus(m4/3s) will dominate after Monday.

The truth is that this next week will absolutely change the camera market forever. However, all 4 of those companies will probably keep similar market shares to what they had before. The difference will be that the consumers now have 4 very complete solutions from these different companies. Each option has it strengths and weaknesses but all of them can produce wonderful pictures and videos in capable hands.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Alec

Great point. More poignantly none of them will provide compelling pictures or videos in incapable hands or if kept idle.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

meanwhile

How dare you, mpgxsvcd. DPR is NOT a place for positivity and being sensible. Go not troll somewhere else.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Francis Carver

"How dare you, mpgxsvcd. DPR is NOT a place for positivity and being sensible. Go not troll somewhere else."

Yeah, I tend to agree. For those wishing to spread goodwill, reason and sense, kindly move elsewhere. We are fighting warriors here!

Sep 13, 2012permalink

Jon Ragnarsson

Finally an ultra-wide! Now the NEX system is a viable alternetive to m43.

(I still don't like Sony, but their camera designers are doing some interesting stuff these days)

Sep 12, 2012permalink

mpgxsvcd

Those are three nice little lenses. Good job Sony!

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Abdallah II

there go's $1650 from my pocket to Sony .... counting the days to Nov

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Documensony

If only Sony had released these lenses with the first Nex-cameras ... so much critisism about the Nex system would have silenced.

Great stuff!

Sep 12, 2012permalink

kewlguy

Let's see if these lenses will be available in stores before 2013...

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Ace Disgrace

I LOVE THE BLACK COLOR!!!

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Cane

Ground breaking!

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Sergey Borachev

The 10-18mm f/4 lens is very interesting. Could be very nice when used on a camera with 24MP for landscape, if it performs.

10mm seems to me like it should be called ultra wide, and not just super wide. No?

"The new SEL1018 lens is a super-wide angle zoom with a maximum aperture of f/4.0 across its range of 10-18mm and built-in Optical SteadyShot image stabilization. "

Sep 12, 2012*permalink

Naveed Akhtar

Sep 12, 2012permalink

io_bg

Ultra wide angle = Super wide angle. It's the same thing.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

tkbslc

Ultraman could never beat Superman, though.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Richt2000

Boom. Suddenly the NEX system becomes the most attractive CSC.

Better AF and now a good selection of lenses.
24/1.8. 35/1.8. 50/1.8. With the later 2 having OSS...
And a wide angle zoom, and a pancake lens to shut up those who say their lenses are big.

Canon has a lot of catching up to do! With the smaller sensor, m43 has less to shout about now!

Sep 12, 2012*permalink

cgarrard

I don't think Canon will catch up or try too at this point. And I do think Samsung may consider throwing in the towel if they can't come up with something really fast. A half effort won't win this battle, Sony seems to have got that memo now.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

tgutgu

I don't see any change here. m4/3 stays by far more attractive as it has considerable more lens choices and more diversity in body concepts. The new NEX cameras still stick to the awkward, menu-driven usability concept: a no go for me. The stacking of the mode dial and the control wheel seems to be an error prone solution.

Sony NEX the most attractive CSC? No way!

Sep 12, 2012permalink

sadwitch

It's only attractive to prospective buyers that look for paper features and not shooting experience.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Andy Crowe

Phew, took them long enough! Sony's finally coming into their own, but I think m4/3 will keep a good share of the market as the lenses are still a fair bit smaller and very good quality, we'll have to wait to see whether these new Sony lenses perform as well.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Plastek

"more diversity in body concepts" - cause every reasonable person runs with 5 different bodies just to show that there's diversity.

lol. Yea, I get it: you bought m4/3 and think it's awesome. But for other people it's important to have 1 great body and few lenses they are interested in. It doesn't matter if there are 5 lenses or 5000 lenses available if their needs are met. Right now NEX meets the needs of most people easily, so I don't see much reason to whine.

Sep 12, 2012*permalink

HowaboutRAW

cgarrard:

Why would Samsung give up? Samsung still has better fixed focus lenses, with the exception of the Nex system Zeiss 24MM. You see Sony Nex glass doesn't have the greatest reputation. While much Samsung NX and Fuji X glass does.

Samsung has AMOLED tech, Sony doesn't

Samsung has very good sensors--like Sony.

The NX20 is excellent for video and image quality. Someday Samsung will fix the buffer.

Samsung NX menus are straight forward and consistent. Sony's often aren't.

In many ways with the Nex system, Sony is playing catch up to both Samsung and Fuji.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Rooru S

tgutgu

REALLY? Menu driven? You clearly haven't touched a recent NEX-series camera.. And I'm sure you didn't read about the Quick Navi now found on NEX-6.. geez..

But yes, m4/3 got the lenses (spec wise) That's the advantage of having many manufacturers share the same mount.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Francis Carver

Re. 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 powered zoom:

"It features a dual-function ring that controls both power zoom and manual focus, depending on the camera’s focus mode. With the camera set to AF the control ring adjusts smooth, high-speed zoom with small hand movements. With the camera in MF mode, the ring controls manual focus."

Now, that's what I call a smart zoom lens. When you are focusing manually, you cannot zoom at all. It's either zooming. Of focusing, your choice. Just not both at the same time, you see.

Pretty good for your non-zooming video shots.

I dearly love Sony, and I very much like their NEX cameras. But they also have the Alpha DSLTs, and those and the Sony/Zeiss and 3rd party lenses for them are so much better overall, it's not even funny. :-)

Sep 12, 2012permalink

peyotl

You can ALWAYS zoom in MF mode using PZ slider, although in AF mode you can zoom either manually or with PZ slider.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

meanwhile

"When you are focusing manually, you cannot zoom at all"

Of course you can, with the zoom switch. Read before trolling?

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Francis Carver

Bad lens design. You need one hand to focus on the lens, one hand to operate zoom switch/PZ slider on the camera, plus you need to somehow hold the camera and also operate the START/STOP button in video mode.

Of course, what can one expect for a lens list priced at only US$350, eh?

"in AF mode you can zoom either manually or with PZ slider."

This does not look like a proper MANUAL ZOOM to me. More like a servo zoom.

Sep 13, 2012permalink

Rooru S

Francis Carver said:
"This does not look like a proper MANUAL ZOOM to me. More like a servo zoom."

It's a power zoom after all! Geez.. And I'm sure, you can both focus and zoom with the same hand. The lever sits on the left side of the camera when the lens is mounted, so with your thumb you zoom, and with your index you focus. Or is it too hard for you?

Sep 14, 2012permalink

micahmedia

Well, this does certainly answer the folks who've lamented a lack of lenses for the E mount. How about some smaller primes now?

Sep 12, 2012permalink

abi170845

in good time my friend!

Sep 12, 2012permalink

toorude

I hope these lenses will be available before 2015. The mythical Sony SEL24F18Z Zeiss 24mm lens for NEX was announced about one year ago and is still not widely available. Sony? WTF!

Sep 12, 2012permalink

cgarrard

Perfect name for the commentary, I might add :).

You might want to consider that the Zeiss lens takes a bit more work to produce than regular consumer grade lenses. But you don't sound like you are open to other ideas.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

GregGory

Looking at the 24/f1.8 performance at SLRgear relative to the price, bulk, and no IS option - I understand they don't even bother with them..

It's a beautiful lens though!

Sep 12, 2012permalink

HowaboutRAW

micahmedia:

Compared to Samsung and Fuji, the Sony Nex system is still lacking good fixed focus lenses. But this 35mm helps Sony make the Nex system more serious.

Sep 12, 2012*permalink

supeyugin1

That's true. 16mm is a piece of junk, then we have 24/1.8 and 35/1.8. Those two look good, but the price is kinda high. I'd go with Samsung or Fuji instead. Considering that the price of Fuji is also high, then we have only Samsung left as an alternative with 3 good pancakes.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

headofdestiny

The Fuji 18/2 isn't exactly stellar at the edges, either. Fuji doesn't even have their 23mm lens yet, and the Sony 35/1.8 and 50/1.8 have OSS. Plus, the new Sony 10-18 f4 should be very good. How is Fuji ahead of Sony here?

Sep 12, 2012permalink

supeyugin1

Sony has 1 decent lense - 24. We don't know anything about the quality of 35., but let's assume it's good. So two lenses, and both are expensive. I'm sorry, but Samsung has a better selection. Fuji is also good, but expensive. The size of Sony lenses is gigantic too compared to others.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

HowaboutRAW

And then Samsung has the 85mm 1.4, expensive, but likely very good. Then the Samsung 60mm 2.8 macro is supposed to be very good.

Just adding to the list of good Samsung fixed focus lenses, not disagreeing with your basic point.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

goshigoo

35 f/1.8 is sweet!
it seems it is quite light and small (45mm in length only) and it has OSS where the 24mm Zeiss does not have

Price is another factor; $450 is very reasonble

and most importantly, it is all in black; not silver!

Sep 12, 2012permalink

iudex

Yes, colour is a crucial factor for a lens ;-) (just kidding, I did not like the silver ones too).

Sep 12, 2012permalink

raizans

the 35/1.8 is image stabilized?! did i die and go to heaven? =)

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Rooru S

sweeeeet...! High price for the SEL1018...but searching for a small Ultrawide zoom with constant aperture and Optical Stabilization...the other comparable lens is the Lumix G 7-14 and the price is quite similar, so I don't know what people are whining right now. Remember, the SE1018 includes OSS, others not.

With the SEL50F18 being priced at 300 USD I would have prefered the SEL35F18 being priced at 375 USD...but sadly, Sony knows people wanted this lens so much that first, they're going to get some profit for a looong time. What I really want to know is...with the SEL16F28 discontinued, what wide prime lens do we have then? Only Sigma 19mm f/2.8 but that's bigger than Sony 16mm f/2.8.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Jun2

The only disappointment is no distance scales on these lenses for manual focus, especially 10-18mm. Hope they can displace distance info in the viewfinder and/or LCD

Sep 12, 2012*permalink

nagi603

That is because all e-mount Sony lenses have focus-by-wire: no mechanical linking between the ring and the actual focusing mechanism.
That said, I also would have liked a mechanically coupled focusing ring with them.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

NowHearThis

Loved my Nikon 351.8 when I had my D40. Now I could have one again, and have OSS as well.... so very tempting.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

sharkfeeder

I was just whining about this on a different thread. It seems Sony has heard my prayers and responded. I'd prefer an f/1.4, but the 35mm f/1.8 means that my Sigma 30mm f/2.8 goes up for sale, along with that odious Sony 30mm f/3.5 macro. And at $450, if the 35mm f/1.8 is a decent piece of glass, it's likely to cut deep into the sale of the Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 (which is perpetually out-of-stock anyway). Okay, maybe not "deep," but unless you absolutely need a 24 on this kind of camera, why pay more than twice the price. Good work, Sony. Now, let's see if you can actually deliver it in November, as stated, and not make us wait until 2014, which wouldn't be a huge surprise if past history is any indicator.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

viking79

It won't do much to the Zeiss sales I imagine, it is totally different focal length. Wide vs standard, it might get a few that just want an f/1.8 lens, but they have the even cheaper 50 mm f/1.8 for that. I think I would have preferred $300 for this lens, but if it performs well it will be nice.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

rockjon

I would have also preferred that price. However, 35mm lenses are typically more expensive than 50mm ones.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

itsastickup

Nikon managed $199, and the Sony SAL35F18 35/1.8 is about the same. Perhaps this one is FF.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

spacegoret

This one has OSS.

Sep 13, 2012permalink

HopeSpringsEternal

prices are too high. The 35mm f/1.8 needs to cost around $250 at most.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

thx1138

Well normally I would agree, but these have image stabilisation in lens, so IMO the prices are reasonable. That 35 f/1.8 for $450 would be very nice. Also UWA lens are very hard to design if you want good performance and are usually expensive anyway, so again with OSS included (not sure why though) for $850 it's not ridiculous.

I assume street prices will be cheaper anyway. I can get Olympus lenses far cheaper than MSRP, so hopefully the same here.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

nawknai

Why "$250 at most"?

What world do you live in?

Sep 12, 2012permalink

RacingManiac

I think part of the high price is that these are stablized....For DSLR at least, lenses in this range are typically not stablized...Granted that problem does not exist for Sony's own A-mount....

Sep 12, 2012permalink

abi170845

I've been waiting for the 10mm zoom!finally! F4 but it has inbody image stabi for the nex7? 850 RRP, I hope the street price is lower, just like my fav 10mm EFS, it was about the same price when it came out. but now I can get a mint second hand for about 520 U.S

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Jun2

still cheaper than the launching price of Panny 7-14mm f4. If it's good, It will be worth it.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Rooru S

the 10-18mm f/4 has In Lens Image Stabilization. The Panasonic 7-14mm f/4 doesn't have Image Stabilization and it's priced even higher. And haven't seen other ultra wide with constant aperture and OSS this small... so the price seems about right.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

abi170845

Exactly, very excited, of course we are never satified, NEX with FF in one year? hehehehe

Sep 12, 2012permalink

abi170845

I'd definitely get the 10mm zoom, and wait for the NEX body to go down in price. Always good idea to invest in lenses!

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Larnus

I knew the 10-18mm was coming, but I didn't want to miss the whole summer without an ultra-wide lens for my NEX C3.

Bought the Tokina 12-24 instead (Nikon G mount). It's pretty large, but manual focus is the norm at this focal range. It even has better/comparable performance to the Sony Alpha lens. It's pretty awesome - so sharp, contrasty, sumptuous colours, v. useful range etc..

Very relieved I did - since it's less than half the price of this e-mount!

Sep 13, 2012*permalink

RStyga

Sony photo gear, especially above-average lenses, are very expensive.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Plastek

You obviously didn't compare it to Canon or Nikon.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Rapidshare

I want the 16-50 mm and the 36F18 Lense, but black lenses don't look very good on silver bodies, do they?

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Fortunately, the NEX-7 and NEX-6 are both black.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

viking79

Not the best, but not bad either. I much prefer the look of the black lenses though, they aren't so darned shiny.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

spacegoret

The 16-50 power zoom will also come in silver.

Sep 13, 2012permalink

FTW

850$ for a 10-18 and only F4. they are kiddding. So, again the lens one waits for will be out of price for the normal user. The 16-50 seems ok to me, at least. So, I will stick to the Tokina 12-24 F4 with adapter. She performs great on NEX-7, despite being much bigger and half the price of this Sony lens. Seems to me that the NEX will get pocketable with the 16-50, was great time that Sony moved there backs and made something.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

viking79

Not bad really, a Nikon brand 12-24 mm f/4 is around $1000. It is expensive, but typical for a name brand lens in that class. A Tokina is of course a nice cheap substitute.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

NowHearThis

Nikon's 10-24 and Canon 10-22 cost about the same. Panasonic's 7-14 costs even more. I'll wait to criticize the price of this lens until I see how it performs optically. As it is, this lens is high on my WANT list.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Larnus

+1 for Tokina 12-24. At F4 16mm mine is much brighter than the SEL16mm 2.8@F4 - weird since it has so many more air-to-glass surfaces. Could even be brighter than this new lens.

In reviews - the Tokina pretty much neck-to-neck with the Nikon - so it's perhaps a bit more than a substitute!

Sep 13, 2012*permalink

Peiasdf

The price for the prime is a bit steep. f/1.8 for $450? Should be $300 and f/1.4 $500~600.

Oh, and too bad 35 f/1.8 is covered by a $1100 lens. If it is $400, 35, 50, 85mm would be fully covered by f/1.8 primes.

Sep 12, 2012*permalink

FTW

f/1.4 ?????
The prices are too high, that is Sony's typical price policy. The 10-18 at 500-600 and the prime at 450 would be ok. I match your price ideas here. Let's wait first what the pictures tell us. But, at 850 the 10-18 is out of range for me. I can afford it but do not see any utility to buy it. I get a high valued Voigtlaender 15 mm for 400$ in 39 Leica mount and same for 500$ in M-mount, new in the box.

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inazuma11

I need to know the weight of 10-18mm

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Charrick

It won't be long now before it will get hard to criticize the NEX series for having a poor E-mount lens selection. Remember, you have to start somewhere. And Sony has started.

Sep 12, 2012permalink

Combatmedic870

Yep.....as long as these three lenses are optically good then all they need is a small 85mm F2 and they are good to go. IMO.

An optically good, small 55-200 power zoom would be good as well.

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Marcelobtp

WOWOWOW very good ones, lets see how they perform!

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futile32

35mm F1.8 sweet

Sep 12, 2012permalink

cgarrard

Yup. I'll be getting one with my NEX6 I just pre-ordered :)

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