Image courtesy: Photozone
There is a new Sony lens review at Photozone. They had the good idea to review the Sony 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 SAM DT lens which is probably one of the most used lenses. SO how does it perform? Photozone: “Optically there’s really little to complain about – the lens is very sharp throughout the zoom range and the subjective sharpness perception benefits from quite low lateral CAs (color shadows). There’s a bit of a focus shift issue at the wide end so it’s a good idea to double check your images in shallow depth-of-field situations here.” Click here to read the full test.
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probably they forgot to mention the hideous barrel-distortion at 18mm (just like with the 18-70mm), it´s softness at almost every focal lenght, except at 28mm, it´s plastic, dinky feeling and lensmount??? okay, it is a kitlens, so no need to complain, especially for this price, but to say that it is good? no way…
nice toy to start with, and after 2 months to throw it in the bin, or keep it, whenever you want to sell your alpha again..
Considering how awful some of the medium level Canon lenses are, this is pretty good for a dirt cheap kit lens.
Alex are you still here, delighting us with your contribution?
Sample variation is a major factor in quality of lens and the review did state that, however I really don’t believe you have used it at all. What I find amusing about your comment and I quote, “…okay, it is a kitlens, so no need to complain, especially for this price…” you STILL complain.
Perhaps you don’t know how to use the lens despite it been a kit lens, and simply cannot produce images of a photographer except that of a keyboard whinger.
I’m going on holidays, Alex I suggest you do that also and take photo’s instead of wasting your breath any further.
Which Alex are you referring to? There is another Alex that uses all lower case.
And I thought I was being positive and giving props to Sony for a good product?!?
Sounds like you had a bad copy.
You really get a hard-on criticizing Sony gear, don’t you?
Whinagra is very effective.
It is also a decent macro lens, it does a good job. Barrel distortion can be corrected in 2 minutes using photoshop. For entry level it’s a very polyvalent lens, I kept mine when upgraded to Zglass, it won my respect.