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Sony SEL28F20 FE 28mm f/2-22 Standard-Prime Lens for Mirrorless Cameras

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Focal Length Description 28 mm
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  • A perfect match for α7 series, 35mm full-frame E-mount cameras, Outstanding optical performance in a wide 28mm focal length, Bright F2 maximum aperture
  • Angle of view (35 mm)75 °,Angle of view (APS-C) 54 °.Minimum Focus Distance : 0.96 ft(AF) / 0.82 ft(MF) (0.29 m(AF) / 0.25 m(MF)), Maximum Magnification ratio : 0.13x(AF) / 0.16x(MF), Focal Length : 28 mm
  • Dust and moisture resistant design, 9-blade circular aperture contributes to gorgeous bokeh, ED glass with multi‐coating reduces flare and ghosting
  • Compact and lightweight design matches a7 series beautifully, A linear actuator focusing mechanism for smooth and quiet AF, Compatible w/ ultra-wide and fisheye converter lenses
  • Mounting Type: Sony E

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Product Description

An excellent choice as a second lens, this full-frame 28mm wide-angle prime features a bright F2 maximum aperture and outstanding overall optical performance. Advanced optics and coatings with a 9-blade circular aperture deliver beautiful images. Internal focusing on a fast and quite linear actuator makes this lens ideal for both still and movie.

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FE 28mm F2 E-mount Prime Lens

An excellent choice as a second lens, this full-frame 28mm wide-angle prime features a bright F2 maximum aperture and outstanding overall optical performance. Advanced optics and coatings with a 9-blade circular aperture deliver beautiful images. Internal focusing on a fast and quite linear actuator makes this lens ideal for both still and movie.


Additional Features

Circular Aperture

When changing your aperture to defocus the background, the light sources appear blurred. This ‘bokeh’ effect of the blurred background can be enhanced with circular aperture blades used in this lens. Conventional aperture blades have flat sides creating unappealing polygonal shaped defocussed points of light. α lenses overcome this problem through a unique design that keeps the aperture almost perfectly circular from its wide-open setting to when it is closed by 2 stops. Smoother, more natural defocusing can be obtained as a result.

ED (Extra-low Dispersion) glass / Super ED glass

As focal lengths get longer, lenses built with conventional optical glass have difficulties with chromatic aberration, and as a result images suffer from lower contrast, lower color quality, and lower resolution. ED glass dramatically reduces chromatic aberration at telephoto ranges, and provides superior contrast across the entire image, even at large aperture settings. Super ED glass provides enhanced compensation for chromatic aberration.

Aspherical lens elements

Aspherical lens design dramatically reduces spherical aberration while also reducing lens size and weight. Spherical aberration is a slight misalignment of the light rays projected on the image plane. This is caused by differences in refraction at different points on conventional spherical lenses which degrade image quality in large-aperture lenses. Specially shaped “aspherical” elements near the diaphragm restore alignment of light rays at the image plane, maintaining high sharpness and contrast even at maximum aperture and can also be used at other points in the optical path to reduce distortion. Well-designed aspherical elements can reduce the total number of elements required in the lens, thus reducing overall size and weight.


Internal focusing

Only the middle groups of the optical system move to achieve focus, so the overall length of the lens does not change. Other important benefits include fast autofocusing and a short minimum focusing distance. Also, the filter thread at the front of the lens does not rotate, which is convenient if you’re using a polarizing filter.

Go even wider or fisheye with converters

For even wider perspectives an optional Ultra-wide Converter (SEL075UWC) and Fisheye Converter (SEL057FEC) can be added to increase the angle of view to 21mm wide-angle or 16mm fisheye with full 180° coverage, respectively. Corresponding EXIF data is generated when these converters are attached to the lens, making data management easy.1


1See SEL075UWC/SEL057FEC Product Information for further details.

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    Customers like the quality, sharpness, value, and image quality of the lens. They mention that it's a great all around lens, with excellent color rendition and sharpness across the frame. They appreciate the budget-friendly price and say that it produces beautiful vibrant images. Customers also appreciate the weight of the product, saying that it is light enough to use anywhere.

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    Customers are satisfied with the quality of the lens. They mention that it is a high-quality lens, well-built, and fantastic. They are happy with the results and say that it has no downsides.

    "...It’s a great all around lens with great build quality and I highly recommend it as a no-brainer purchase for starting to build your mirrorless kit..." Read more

    "...plastic construction, it feels good in the hands and is definitely not flimsy construction...." Read more

    "...Lens works great on Full frame and aps-c giving a 42mm equivalent which I like very much...." Read more

    "...Easy to attach and detach, and fairly well built for the price. Picture is softer with the adapter, but, amazingly enough, the distortion is lower...." Read more

    46 customers mention43 positive3 negative

    Customers are satisfied with the sharpness of the lens. They mention that it is really sharp across the frame, with excellent color rendition. They also say that it functions smooth as butter with their a7rii and produces very sharp results at a focus range that is perfect.

    "...The sharpness and color rendition is excellent...." Read more

    "In a nutshell: Nice sharpness and expanded capability for an excellent price.Sony got it right with this high-value lens...." Read more

    "...wise, the two lenses are right up there in terms of resolution, color and sharpess...." Read more

    "...For Milky Way photography it's acceptably sharp at f/2.8 but with significant coma distortion in the corners...." Read more

    43 customers mention38 positive5 negative

    Customers like the value of the lens. They mention it's a gem in terms of price / performance, and a good value for a wide angle lens. Some say that the quality is amazing at this price point.

    "...for starting to build your mirrorless kit because the quality is amazing at this price point." Read more

    "In a nutshell: Nice sharpness and expanded capability for an excellent price.Sony got it right with this high-value lens...." Read more

    "...This lens is exceptionally sharp for the price and colors look nice. It's about the same size as the Sony 50 1.8 OSS or the original Sony E 18-55...." Read more

    "...I highly recommend if you are looking for compact prime at a reasonable price." Read more

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    Customers are satisfied with the image quality of the lens. They mention that it is tremendous for day light street photography, produces sharp images, and is superb for close shots. It is also great for taking landscape photos and big scenes. It produces beautiful vibrant images and is good for portraits.

    "...Excellent for landscapes and big scenes. It's my go-to lens for street and vacation photos...." Read more

    "...overview:-A6500 + 28mm is tremendous for day light street photography (as good as it gets).-..." Read more

    "...taken lots of low light pictures with this and it does a great job in getting sharp images. I am very happy with the results...." Read more

    "...It is light and very solid at the same time, a perfect lens for street shooting also at low light...." Read more

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    Customers find the weight of the lens to be light enough to use anywhere. They say it's portable and makes a great walk-around lens for Sony FE system cameras. Additionally, customers mention that it'll make a good lens for travel and street photography.

    "This lens is incredible. I shot a ton of stuff on vacation in the mountains with this lens and the landscapes look beautiful...." Read more

    "...For it's weight, IQ, and speed, this has become my go-to walkaround lens on either full frame or crop." Read more

    "...It is incredibly sharp, nice colors, no aberrations or other. It is light and very solid at the same time, a perfect lens for street shooting also..." Read more

    "...It's light-weight, keeps my camera compact for the most part, and GREAT in low light situations...." Read more

    23 customers mention21 positive2 negative

    Customers are satisfied with the performance of the lens. They mention that it focuses fast and silent, has a fairly fast F/2 aperture, and is responsive. The AF is extremely fast and quiet. The lens is high performance and responsive, with a buttery smooth manual focusing ring.

    "...It's my go-to lens for street and vacation photos. It's fast enough to capture most hand-held low-light situations with the A7RII...." Read more

    "...For it's weight, IQ, and speed, this has become my go-to walkaround lens on either full frame or crop." Read more

    "...outdoors for street photography in an a6500: 5 starsfast AF, hood, dust resistant, no vigenting, no purple fringin (unlike sigma), great..." Read more

    "For it's price point, it's a very nice/fast lens...." Read more

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    Customers like the color of the lens. They say it has beautiful color, the bokeh is gorgeous, and the corners look fine. They also appreciate the creamy backgrounds and the lack of chromatic aberration. Some like the smooth yet firm focusing ring.

    "...I also did a bunch of night time astrophotography and they all look gorgeous. The sharpness and color rendition is excellent...." Read more

    "...This lens is exceptionally sharp for the price and colors look nice. It's about the same size as the Sony 50 1.8 OSS or the original Sony E 18-55...." Read more

    "...(not a zeiss but I liked the lens color wise), I also saw no chromatic aberration... and the obvious distortion you will get can be easily fixed in..." Read more

    "...It is incredibly sharp, nice colors, no aberrations or other...." Read more

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    Customers like the compactness of the camera lens. They mention it's small and light yet still seems to be good quality. They appreciate the great balance of price, size/weight, and performance. They also say it makes the setup with the A7 relatively compact.

    "...It’s really compact on the body and makes a great walk around lens...." Read more

    "...I am very happy with the results. It is small and compact so if you are walking around with it, it is not prominent to be noticed as big DSLR's...." Read more

    "...combination of a6000 and this lens is probably as good as it gets, small set, very versatile and outstanding image quality!" Read more

    "...It's light-weight, keeps my camera compact for the most part, and GREAT in low light situations...." Read more

    Versatile small lens, sharp photos
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    Versatile small lens, sharp photos
    I've had this lens for a couple of weeks, and it stays on my Sony a7 more often than I expected. I'm not a rabid pixel peeper, but I work with full frame raw files in Lightroom and I know the difference between a properly focused shot and a fuzzy one. My photos with this lens are sharp and it functions smooth as butter with my a7. It's one of the least expensive Sony full frame e-mount lenses, and I decided to try it because of that. I have not been disappointed - to the contrary, it's exceeded my expectations - and I intend to keep it. I'm finding that I like this focal length for "all purpose" use, more than a 35mm or 50mm lens.I'm uploading some shots I took last week in a park. This is a versatile lens. Of course it's not a macro, but I was happy to get some good shots of individual flowers, under tricky lighting. Some of these photos are cropped; all have been very minimally processed including conversion from RAW to JPG files.
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    Duke
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beats anything at this price
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    This lens is incredible. I shot a ton of stuff on vacation in the mountains with this lens and the landscapes look beautiful. I also did a bunch of night time astrophotography and they all look gorgeous. The sharpness and color rendition is excellent. Like most lenses, a little less sharp and darker in the corners, but not too bad and can be mostly fixed in post. What really blew me away is how small it is. I’m new to mirrorless, so maybe that’s a part of it, but it’s still small compared to the Sony 85mm f/1.8 I also picked up. It’s really compact on the body and makes a great walk around lens. Wish it was a little wider though, such as 24mm often found on Canon, but I wonder if they couldn’t get it quite this compact otherwise. It’s a great all around lens with great build quality and I highly recommend it as a no-brainer purchase for starting to build your mirrorless kit because the quality is amazing at this price point.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Nice sharpness and expanded capability for an excellent price.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2015
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    In a nutshell: Nice sharpness and expanded capability for an excellent price.

    Sony got it right with this high-value lens. It's surprisingly sharp for the price and has very nice bokeh. Excellent for landscapes and big scenes. It's my go-to lens for street and vacation photos. It's fast enough to capture most hand-held low-light situations with the A7RII. While plastic construction, it feels good in the hands and is definitely not flimsy construction. I'm still getting used to the fly-by-wire manual focus on these lenses, but so far have found it to be quite usable. After also buying the 55mm super-sharp Zeiss glass, I find myself wanting just a bit more sharpness, but it's still leaps and bounds beyond my old equipment. Finally, my one gripe is that it wasn't packaged with a rear lens cap. Had to pick that up separately. Seems like a cheap addition to the package, but I wont let it tarnish the rating of this lens.

    Next, I'm picking up the Sony wide-angle adapter.

    No regrets at all with the purchase. Well worth every penny.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Nice sharpness and expanded capability for an excellent price.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2015
    In a nutshell: Nice sharpness and expanded capability for an excellent price.

    Sony got it right with this high-value lens. It's surprisingly sharp for the price and has very nice bokeh. Excellent for landscapes and big scenes. It's my go-to lens for street and vacation photos. It's fast enough to capture most hand-held low-light situations with the A7RII. While plastic construction, it feels good in the hands and is definitely not flimsy construction. I'm still getting used to the fly-by-wire manual focus on these lenses, but so far have found it to be quite usable. After also buying the 55mm super-sharp Zeiss glass, I find myself wanting just a bit more sharpness, but it's still leaps and bounds beyond my old equipment. Finally, my one gripe is that it wasn't packaged with a rear lens cap. Had to pick that up separately. Seems like a cheap addition to the package, but I wont let it tarnish the rating of this lens.

    Next, I'm picking up the Sony wide-angle adapter.

    No regrets at all with the purchase. Well worth every penny.
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    Andrew Martin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great balance of price, size/weight, and performance.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2016
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    High performance and nice build quality for the price. Shooting raw, distortion is crazy, but this is easily corrected, and a non issue shooting JPG. Lens works great on Full frame and aps-c giving a 42mm equivalent which I like very much. This lens is exceptionally sharp for the price and colors look nice. It's about the same size as the Sony 50 1.8 OSS or the original Sony E 18-55. Build quality and weight are on par with the 50 1.8. Since purchasing this lens, I use my Zeiss 16-35 F4 and Minolta 35-70 F4 far less than I did before. For it's weight, IQ, and speed, this has become my go-to walkaround lens on either full frame or crop.
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    Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2015
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    Have this for four months now. Bought this to supplement Voigtlander 35mm 1.2 for when I need autofocus such as when shooting moving objects or video. Sharpness wise, the two lenses are right up there in terms of resolution, color and sharpess. I believe Voigtlander has a prettier bokeh rendering with a slight faux "leica halo" when wide open that the f2 can't achieve. There is notable distortion with both lenses. It's not worth fixing most of the time with the Voigtlander. And, it's very easy to fix with lens profile with the Sony.

    I also have the 21mm converter. Great attachment for the 28mm lens. Easy to attach and detach, and fairly well built for the price. Picture is softer with the adapter, but, amazingly enough, the distortion is lower. At the same time, distortion is harder to fix if you want it distortion free.

    I use this lens on both my A7II and NEX3N. They are just as sharp on both cameras. With the 21mm adapter, the NEX3N is sharper.

    My opinion, I can't justify getting the 35mm FE when you can get this lens. IMO, it's better in every way even if they were the same price.
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    3.0 out of 5 stars One of the worst landscape lenses (F16 performance) is also a perfect match for stabilized crop cameras for day walkaround
    Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2018
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    A good travel camera/lens combination should cover: landscape, street, low light (portraits, street, indoors)

    Tested on an a6500 but some conclusions are valid for Full Frame cameras as well.
    The main characteristic is the shallow depth of field it shows even at F8 and that makes it unusable for landscapes specially on a Full Frame camera.

    overview:
    -A6500 + 28mm is tremendous for day light street photography (as good as it gets).
    - For landscapes the 28mm F2 provides too much shallow depth of field even at F8.
    (28mm: 48 degrees for distant mountains like a 46mm on a FF) (21mm 2.8 conversion lens: 60 degrees fov like a 33mm on a ff): t
    - For low light street and indoors F2 is not large enough.
    - For portraits with flash it is excelent with some day light.

    Consequently:
    - We need 28mm 1.4 APSC (with no purple fringing) and 12-24 F4 APSC (flat and sharp at F8)
    (and obviusly a 16-70 mark II sharp corner to corner 40lpmm)
    - or for Full Frame street/indoors setup a 45mm 1.4 FF (sharp, no vigneting and Small, it can be a software corrected one) (to combine with 24-105 or 16-35 f4)

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    There are lenses that won't show shallow depth of fields even if you want them to (and pay a thousand dollars, like the Zeiss Sony F4 Zooms). This tiny thing however will blur what is out of focus like crazy. Is that a good thing? It depends:

    1) outdoors for landscape: 2 stars (48 degrees fov)
    (mountains at 2000 meters (camera to center)... distance of edge subject to center subject: 1500m) lens provides 48 degrees (around) of FOVin a crop camera (not the published 54) so the edges were not too far away, with the 21mm 2.8 add-on it'd be 60 degrees fov.

    Testing with the 28mm only:

    F16: What a poor performance this lens provide! you can get comparable detail from a Point and shoot at 3.5 than with this FF lens on an APSC camera at F16: Horrible for landscapes!

    trying different appertures:

    F5.6: Extremely sharp in the center ! wow! It resolves the high pixel density of the a6500 in the center! however the edges (that are very sharp too) will be out of focus due to the distance and totally blurred to 30% of the sharpness of a point and shoot (nothing new here, 5.6 is not for landscapes)
    F8 Extremely sharp in the center (25% less sharp than at f5.6) edges still out of focus but extremely blurred same as 5.6 ... picture looks flatter due to the center being less sharp.
    F11: already too much loose in detail

    there are some who take landscapes at F2 with this lens and a7rii: Do not! This is absolutely not the lens for it! you may say what you want but when your landscape is not all-in-focus you didn't use the correct tool.

    veridict: not good for landscapes ... I had the 21mm 2.8 conversion lens too... I Totally and firmly discourage anyone thinking on this lens for landscapes be it on a crop camera or even more on a FF !

    (I could process raw files and extract plenty of detail and I liked the colors (not a zeiss but I liked the lens color wise), I also saw no chromatic aberration... and the obvious distortion you will get can be easily fixed in Phase One (not in other free raw processors like uraw, etc)... so you need propietary software with profiles.. free version in my case)

    2) outdoors for street photography in an a6500: 5 stars
    fast AF, hood, dust resistant, no vigenting, no purple fringin (unlike sigma), great colors, adaptor to 21mm 2.8 (comically large on the a6500 and so will be on a A7x camera), intense shallow depth of field at any aperture, makes it an absolute match for the a6500; It'll provide the FOV of a 45mm (ish) mounted on a full frame, so five stars!

    3) Flash portraits: I take very pleaseant portraits with 28mm F2 and a6500 and pop-up flash with bouncing cards at base iso: 5 stars

    4) No Flash Portraits in indoors: I take good portraits with no flash at iso 2500 but they are too shallow for my taste and too slow of a shutter: 1/20, and higher iso would only increase the noise: 3 stars.

    5) Does it make it for a perfect travel lens with a6500? No!. Rating: 3 stars
    The reason is that the aperture is not large enough so not very good for low light (1.4 is better, but the sigma offering has got a lot of puprple fringing). Also you would loose plenty of photograph oportunities because of the shallow depth of field at F8 and the inability to produce an all-in-focus and sharp photograph at F16, even at close distances F8 doesn't produce a flat picture. I don't know what good options might there be for crop sensor cameras for zoomed in landscapes (maybe 24-70 F4 zeiss? the 16-35 F4 is shallower than the 16-70 F4 apsc and that one is not sharp on the edges... I think you'd need rokkinon manuals all over the place for capturing far distance object in a landscape, maybe 14mm ff, 21mm apsc (they still have problems with the right/left edges?), 35mm apsc )... For A7x: landscapes with 16-35 F4, street photography with 1.4 Minolta manual .. if you want AF in a 50mm for full frame and shallow depth of field I think you have to buy the very expensive 50mm 1.4, yet again too large for stree photography!...

    so there it is: there's no sony to do it all for travel, that is: landscapes, street, low light:
    ARE YOU LISTENING SONY? YOU HAVE NO GOOD TRAVEL CAMERA/LENS COMBINATION FOR TRAVEL WHATSOEVER!
    The perfect thing would be, either:

    - an FF A7x (24 MP or less) with a 45mm 1.4, that is no larger than the 55mm 1.8, paired with the existing 24-105 F4 (narrow landscapes and high ISO walkaround) or the 16-35 F4 fo wide landscapes.
    - or an apsc camera with a 28mm 1.4 apsc (APSC not FF) with perfect AF and no purple fringing (like the 28mm f2) and a 12-24 F4 apsc (APSC not FF)

    veridict: 28mm F2 plus 21mm 2.8 adapter Returned to Amazon for full refund

    Advice:
    - Do not buy this lens for apsc unless you will use it for day street photography only (and that is a perfect combination)
    - Do not buy this lens for FF cameras: too much shallow depth of field at F8, unsharp at F16 (FF FOV 75 degrees)
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