Neewer 35mm F/1.7 Large Aperture Manual Prime Fixed Lens APS-C for Sony E-Mount Digital Mirrorless Cameras A7III,A9,NEX 3,3N,5,NEX 5T,NEX 5R,NEX 6,7,A5000,A5100,A6000,A6100,A6300,A6500

This is a great lens for the price. Its sturdy and heavy (made of metal, which surprised me) and clicks into my dinosaur NEX 5TL easily, no wiggling. The manual aperture and focus does take a bit of getting used to, but since I prefer shooting in aperture mode and fine tune my focus with other lenses too, it wasnt a huge leap for me personally. This isnt even a bad thing, because it forces you to be more conscious of your photography. And with focus peaking, its not even a real struggle. Its great for portraits (of humans and animals) and a decent camera for food photography. I find that its great in low light situations. My biggest struggle is probably that if I try to hold something with one hand and photograph it with the other, it takes a few tries getting the object in focus, since I dont have the help of my left hand. The loss of one handed photography is probably my biggest pet peeve. The aperture ring and focal ring are both really smooth, which is great, but frustrating with the aperture ring since it can be changed a little too easily. There is a bit of distortion at the edges, but the image at the center is really sharp. I appreciate the tiny F-stop of f/1.7 (with Christmas approaching quickly, I anticipate that the bokeh from the fairy lights will be great with this lens) and I also like that its not too clunky on my camera. I have mixed feelings about using this lens in video, since it cant help you focus. But if its set up on a tripod, it isnt too bad. And you can do that cheesy cinematic thing where you go in and out of focus on an artsy perspective on a bunch of objects lined up at an angle, which isnt my cup of tea, but some people love that. Overall, a decent product, especially at its price point.

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This is a good budget lens for a beginner and will give you quite good results. Pros: -Bokeh effect is great -Indoor pictures came out quite good with 1.7 -Rings to manual focus and aperture are easy to use. - Sharpness is good around the centers on 1.7. For this price, I think its pretty good. Cons: -It takes some time to get used to the manual focusing after using the kit lens with a6000 and its superfast Continuous AF. -With moving kids, its hard to lock in focus and snap since its manual. So, I would not recommend you getting this lens if you want to primarly stake kids pictures(I have to return it for that reason).But , for anything else, this is a good alternative to the expensive sony 35mm/1.8 OSS and as long as you are okay with manual focusing ,which is easy with the peak level feature in the sony a6000.

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Last year my a6000 with my lenses was stolen from my car. I was an "affordable photographer" with lots of clients who thought I should charge more for my work. In all honesty looking back I was sort of a lazy photographer as I relied a LOT on auto focus. I decided with buying another a6000 before I allow myself to buy another auto-focusing lens I wanted to master the whole manual focus bit especially when it comes to bokeh and DOF. I took a photography class and I majored in Multimedia so I know how to do it if I just put the time into it. I found myself very happy with this lens especially for the price! It does require work to get use to it as it can very easily get messed up shots. I get less perfect shots then I do get what I want which is probably more my fault. I feel like the sharpness is not nearly as good as my old reliable lenses, but this could be a matter of practice. However, my subjects lately has been my kids and a few friends kids - so patience is lacking there. Definitely worth the price though! My pictures are of course edited because I feel the colors in the a6000 are not the most vibrant - especially compared to my old T3i. Granted I have only had this lens for maybe a week. I will update as time goes by. I wanted to give less stars as I had ordered on a Tuesday with 2 day shipping and it didnt even get shipped out until day 2 which did not arrive on time for a photo shoot. I believe it cam on the 4th day.

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Well I was a bit nervous at first. Sometimes the price is to good to be true. But in the end it was more then worth it. So if you are a beginner, this is a nice cheap lens to get, and practice with. Be warned it though, as it will hold you accountable for your mistakes. Which is good because then you hopefully make less mistakes and become a better photographer. But at the same time you might have missed a great shot. This is a fully manual lens without autofocus. This can make things a bit tricky when shooting portraits of children. (Hint: Use a faster shutter speed.) I use mine mostly for automotive photography. It works great for detailed photos. Just make sure you adjust you white balance once you have set the lens apertire on the lens, and try not to move the aperture ring after that, or you might end up with some really strange lighting in your photos.

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