Sony SEL90M28G FE 90mm f/2.8-22 Macro G OSS Standard-Prime Lens for Mirrorless Cameras

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I own this lens although I didnt get it thru Amazon since they now hit me for North Carolina state taxes but it is, no doubt the absolute sharpest lens I own for my Sony a7 II. I also have the 55 f/1.8, the 70-200 f/4 and the 16-35 f/4. For anyone in doubt about getting this lens, look closely at the attached image I shot this AM:

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I have used some of the best glass on the market... and this Sony Lens is comparable to a much more expensive Zeiss lens. Sony got this 90mm lens right. The Sony SEL90M28G picks up even the finest details, and left me breathless. Used this lens for over a year, and I couldnt find a single issue with it. Great for macro shots as well as portraits. I primarily used this lens to capture small animals in the park near my house: squirrels, ducklings, swans... I have attached two photos taken with my Sony AR ii, using this lens to show you the capacity for detail that it holds. A really great buy, and you will not regret it.

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Ive only had this for a few hours but so far am loving it. This was my first attempt at exploring macro photography - luckily it was snowing when the package came and I went onto my back porch and tried to shoot snowflakes. Great quality build, easy to use manually with a tripod, sharp, and excellent images. The image attached is cropped at over 600% of the full photo.

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Holy smokes! The reviews are correct....this IS the sharpest FE lens that Ive used. I own the 35 and 55 Zeiss primes, the Sony 24-240 zoom and a 150-600 Tamron zoom. Im shooting with the new Sony a7rii and am amazed by its performance as well. Size adjusted pics with this 90mm lens are as sharp as my tele pic at 240mm. It is large and heavy...slightly longer than my 24-240. Too bad they didnt leave out the OSS to save some heft since it is superfluous for the a7rii owners. Macro function, focus hold and cool manual/auto focusing ring work impeccably.

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I was looking for a lens for my A6000 that can do great macro while also doubling up as a portrait lens. I will say this: I dont think I could have done better. The lens is INSANELY sharp. The details preserved are incredible. Ive done 2:1 crops, and still been left with usable images. The bokeh is very pleasing. At close distances, even at f16, you get nicely blurred backgrounds, which just melts away. The colors pop. Im pretty sure some Minolta magic was added to this lens, because the colors are very like some great Minoltas. Build quality is excellent. It feels very good in the hand, and the push-pull AF-MF changer is the best there ever can be. It is incredibly intuitive, and VERY useful for macro work. The focus hold and OSS ON/OFF switches are great too, and truly make this lens very user friendly. The ribbed focus ring is a pleasure to use, and is damped differently in AF or MF modes. MF mode has hard stops at CFD and infinity. It is technically focus by wire, not mechanically coupled, but it doesnt feel that way. I usually set my camera to DMF for macro work, then adjust focus by shifting between AF and MF seamlessly. Focus tends to be accurate, but speed is all over the place. With a good subject-background separation, theres no issues at all. But without that, theres a lot of hunting, especially at the macro range. Perversely, the focus limiter adds to this. You can limit focus so the lens only hunts in the macro range, but this slows down focus a lot. Ive had quicker macro focus acquisition by setting the range to full. Yes, I know macro lenses dont have great AF anyway. But the fact that the focus limiter hurts, rather than helps, is troubling. Theres a reasonable amount of focus breathing when doing macro work. Ive grown to be able to predict it, and it doesnt bother me too much. All said, if you have an E-mount body and need to do macro work, you cant go wrong here, and not only because this is the only legitimate option.

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Super sharp, and great for those willing to use manual focus most of the time. I bought this mainly to photograph herptiles on SW desert roads. Ive been using a Canon 100mm IS macro for this purpose but read about the sharpness of this one and decided to give it a shot. I focus on often-moving snakes and other small herps using a very bright headlamp, generally with spot autofocus, always with flash. With the Canon the focus has been near-instantaneous--necessary because the darned critters wont stay still (also why I shy from using manual focus). With this Sony macro, there was constant hunting under these conditions (I even tried it in hotel room lamplight and got the same result). Didnt matter which distance-restriction setting was on, it did the same thing regardless. I got a few tarantula and toad shots that were very sharp, though it "pumped" focus the entire time but somehow zeroed in at the last second before firing. Many other images were unfocused, though, something that virtually never happened with the Canon macro. At home I mounted the Canon macro on my Sony A7RII, using an off-market adapter, and the focus was actually faster and more accurate with that setup. So despite the amazing sharpness of this lens, and its ability to take advantage of the 42mp Sony camera, I sadly had to return it. Actually the Canon is plenty sharp for what I do anyway, so though disappointing, this was no huge loss for my work. Your results with this lens might be very different--I know it gets great reviews overall. Just didnt function well enough for what I do.

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Ive had this lens for several weeks now. I have been repeatedly impressed by its sharpness. The sharpness makes me wonder I ought to be upgrading some of my shorter focal-length lenses. The lens controls (Auto-focus vs. Manual Focus; focus lock; Auto-focus range [Short only, All, or Long to medium]; and manual focus) are all easy to get at and to remember. I debated whether spending this much on a lens made sense for me as I am an amateur. This lens is money well spent.

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When I decided to make the move to the 2nd generation full frame Sonys (7RII and 7SII) from my Canon 5D Mk III, I made a post at dpreview forum stating that I had the better (399 dollar) Metabones adapter and would be using my Canon lenses. I wanted to get a few First Party Sony FE (Full Frame) Native lenses that people there felt were the best of the bunch. Despite the standard responses from mean people, there were some very helpful people who said to check out this lens (Sony FE 90mm) as well as the Sony 55mm F1.8 FE Prime. This was excellent advice and Ill totally ecstatic with both lenses. Thanks to the advice of the "nice people" in their Sony Lens forums I bought two of their sharpest lenses that dont have the autofocus hunting problems or lack of sharpness that some of the others are reported to have. I own Canon Macro lenses in a similar mm and was very happy with the Macro functions as well as the fact it makes an excellent portrait lens. (Good for a slight compression effect on faces that even very thin people enjoy, they just make everyone appear better). Im very happy with both and would recommend them to anyone whos budget includes them.

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Spectacular! You would never know this is not a Master Series lens. + Build quality is superb + Adjustable range focus right on the lens for easy and fast focusing speeds + Solid and secure connection to the camera body + 90mm is perfect focal length for macro photography + Tack-sharp edge to edge + Fast 2.8 aperture - A bit long and heavy when paired to a Sony A6000/6300/6500

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Words are not enough to express my joy with this lens. It is simply the sharpest lens I own and the bokeh at macro distances is simply butter. It works well also as a portrait lens, but is not going to give you the best bokeh, its nice but cant compete with the Batis f1.8 and the new Sony 1.4. For AF I use this and the 28mm for 90% of my shooting.

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