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Description

The Sony Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* DT 16-80mm F3.5-4.5 ZA Zoom Lens is an exceptional addition to the Carl Zeiss lineup, offering an extensive zoom range while maintaining a lightweight and compact design. This lens combines the renowned Carl Zeiss optical performance and handling, rivaling prime lenses at various focal lengths. The circular aperture blades enhance the 'bokeh' effect, creating a smoother and more natural defocusing of the background. Aspherical lens elements reduce spherical aberration, resulting in a smaller and lighter lens, maintaining high sharpness and contrast even at maximum aperture. The Advanced Aspherical (AA) elements provide significantly improved image accuracy and quality. The Carl Zeiss T* (T-Star) coating eliminates lens flare, internal reflections, and light scattering, ensuring outstanding image quality with high contrast and resolution. The distance encoder is crucial for ADI flash metering, offering high-precision flash metering unaffected by subject or background reflectance. Internal focusing allows for fast autofocus, a short minimum focusing distance, and a non-rotating front filter thread, making it convenient for polarizing filter use. In summary, this Sony Carl Zeiss zoom lens provides an extensive zoom range, exceptional image quality, and user-friendly features, making it an ideal single-lens solution for photographers seeking versatility and superior optical performance.

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birdbird

03/18/2013

4

Carl Zeiss quailty
It's a good zoom lens. 16mm is certainly wider than 24mm. As a result, you get more in your shot. It's enough for establishing shots. If the aperture was 2.8, it would be a perfect lens. But the price would not be the same.

cptab

09/01/2012

5

Nice Lens
I'm a complete novice and new to the DSLR world, but decided to splurge before going on vacation. I was hoping it would improve the likelihood that I'd take some better pictures. The lens did not disappoint. The images were crisp, I didn't notice distortion, or aberrations (terms that seem to be tossed around camera and lens review websites, but in all honesty, I don't know much about those things), and the images appeared bright and well defined.

ElGueroMasLoco

10/30/2011

4

Perfect walk-around lens
This should be a mandatory upgrade from the kit lens that comes with the alpha cameras. Image quality is far superior, and the versatility takes you from wide-angle interiors and landscapes up to 80mm portraits and closeups. I do get some vignetting (darkening of the corners), when using the lens wide open, but stopping it down to around f8 eliminates the problem, which is only occasional.

tcabrales

06/12/2009

5

Very Impressed
I really tried to do my research before I made the leap for this lens. I read some good reviews, but also read some bad reviews on it. After finally buying it and using for my last 5 photo shoots (weddings and engagement), I am sold. I use this with my a700 and get crystal clear shots everytime. The colors it produces are vibrant and rich. It is a bit heavier than any other lens I've worked with, but it's also a lot mor sturdy and well built compared to other lenses. Very glad I purchased this lens.

pulseHEAD

03/16/2009

5

Great lens for the price
This is a great general purpose lens. Since I picked it up it's rarely been off of my camera. The pictures are almost always sharp, and look pretty good even at wide-open apertures. It's a much better build quality than the kit lens, and is a good upgrade to the < $300 lenses offered by Sony. The optical quality is excellent. My only complaint is that the f/3.5 aperture is only available at the absolute widest zoom, and it gets up to f/4.5 pretty fast, but for a 5x zoom lens at this level of quality for $700, you can't beat it.