Sony 16mm Lens - SEL16F28
The Sony SEL16F28
This is a prime wide angle lens which was released in 2010, it has basically the same optics (according to a shop assistant I spoke to...) as the narrower and more expensive 20mm (SEL20F28) but is obviously wider and silver in colour. It's a tiny lens which fits right in your pocket, it's mainly made of metal and has fine image quality as far as I can tell, and I've used it for photo and video. So far the auto focus has worked really well on my A7Sii. The camera compensates automatically to this lens, it zooms in to eliminate the massive vignetting due to the lens being 'APS-C' sized and camera being 'full frame' sized. It also auto corrects the chromatic abberation (green and purple fringing), distortion and vignetting (dark corners). A pretty comprehensive technical review can be found here.
I shoot weddings which are super fast paced and last for 12 hours so the main factors for me when choosing lenses are focal length and size and weight. The less times I have to change my lens the better, so I keep a 55mm (the excellent and small SEL55F18Z) on the camera for as much of the day as possible. Only when I want to get an external shot of the whole of a venue or the entire internal of a cathedral for example do I changes lenses. And this lens is perfect for that. It fits right in my pocket and is a great focal length for the shots I like, wide but not so wide that things look weird and distorted.
I've got a Hoya 49mm uv filter on this, in case I drop it the filter will break first, it makes no noticeable change to the image quality and it cost me £6 off amazon.
Note that the automatic crop the camera does on this lens means that the focal length is actually 24mm. (iPhone for scale is a 4s)
This is a prime wide angle lens which was released in 2010, it has basically the same optics (according to a shop assistant I spoke to...) as the narrower and more expensive 20mm (SEL20F28) but is obviously wider and silver in colour. It's a tiny lens which fits right in your pocket, it's mainly made of metal and has fine image quality as far as I can tell, and I've used it for photo and video. So far the auto focus has worked really well on my A7Sii. The camera compensates automatically to this lens, it zooms in to eliminate the massive vignetting due to the lens being 'APS-C' sized and camera being 'full frame' sized. It also auto corrects the chromatic abberation (green and purple fringing), distortion and vignetting (dark corners). A pretty comprehensive technical review can be found here.
I shoot weddings which are super fast paced and last for 12 hours so the main factors for me when choosing lenses are focal length and size and weight. The less times I have to change my lens the better, so I keep a 55mm (the excellent and small SEL55F18Z) on the camera for as much of the day as possible. Only when I want to get an external shot of the whole of a venue or the entire internal of a cathedral for example do I changes lenses. And this lens is perfect for that. It fits right in my pocket and is a great focal length for the shots I like, wide but not so wide that things look weird and distorted.
I've got a Hoya 49mm uv filter on this, in case I drop it the filter will break first, it makes no noticeable change to the image quality and it cost me £6 off amazon.
Note that the automatic crop the camera does on this lens means that the focal length is actually 24mm. (iPhone for scale is a 4s)
