Sony SELP1650 16-50mm Power Zoom Lens (Silver, Bulk Packaging)

This is the most useful "kit" lens for my camera, the Sony A6000. I broke the original SELP1650 that I got with my camera when I dropped it. The few weeks that I was without it really made me appreciate the lens. I leave it on my camera all the time, especially when I want to travel light. I also have the 50mm prime and the longer kit zoom, 55-210. The SELP1650 by far gets the most use. When I carry my camera around for "street" shots, it is ready for anything. This lens is the most versatile and handy to carry. Many of the A6000 accessories (cases and underwater housings) are made to fit the camera with this particular lens attached. The lens performs extremely well and is really inexpensive. Get it bundled with your camera or as "international packaging", you will save quite a bit. I have a small collection of 49mm filters. I got a cheap 40.5mm to 49mm step up adapter so I can just use the same set on the SELP1650.

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I’m glad I didn’t listen to all of the negative reviews. This is exactly what I wanted. The lens that came with my Sony A5000 suddenly stopped working. Everywhere I search this lens was bundled with everything I didn’t want or need and the price was over $200. Then I came across this. The lens was neatly packed in bubble wrap, put into a small box, and then shipped in a bubble envelope. It included the the lens cap and storage cover. No frills and no additional crap at the perfect price point. The lens works great and exactly like the original. Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention fast shipping cuz it came the next day I ordered it. I’m a happy customer!

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Funny how the kit lens for Sonys NEX-6 is one of the best zooms for the buck that you can get for Sonys compact E-mount cameras. This is also, I believe, the packed-in lens for the A6000, A6300 and A6500. That this lens has both a twist ring and a sliding switch that both control zoom by default is also a minor source of annoyance. However, the twisting ring can also serve double duty as a focus ring by changing a setting on the camera — at least, thats how it works on the old NEX-6. Image stabilization almost, but doesnt quite, make up for pretty mediocre low light performance, but it does buy a bit of wiggle room with the shutter speed. Finding good filters for the 40.5mm threads is tricky, but this is a flexible and compact lens that I never leave home without and Im usually pleased with my pictures.

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Got this lens for an original NEX-5, since it was purchased without one. I have used a kit lens from another NEX camera on this NEX-5. Sharpness is very similar between this pancake lens and kit lens. Size of this 16-50mm is just a tad over half of a kit lens. Widths between the two are about the same. This pancake lens is almost the size of 16mm f2.8 prime, only 4mm longer. Keep in mind when this lens gets powered up, it extends to nearly double its length. Not a problem for me. On older NEXs like original 5 & 3, there is a great bit of vignetting in the corners at the widest end of this lens. Thats a reasonable tradeoff for having a very wide angle. Some people, who do extensive measuring of lenses, say this lens is more like 14.7mm lens then a 16mm, but on compatible NEXs like NEX-6, the final image is slightly cropped to eliminate corner vignetting, which brings the image back to about 16mm wide. There is also some moderate distorsion, especially at the widest algles. Overall Im very happy with this lens, since positives far outweigh the negatives for me. I would encourage anyone looking at 16mm prime to save some $ & get this instead. ⅔ faster aperture is not worth being stuck at 16mm all the time, and this has OSS (Sonys optical image stabilizer), which the prime does not. Hoping Sony will make more pancake lenses in the future!

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Fabulous! My original lens dropped and was stuck in zoom mode, so I had to find a reasonably priced replacement that wouldnt break the bank. This did the job! I ordered a few days before leaving on a trip and it arrived safely and on-time. Everything is still working perfectly.

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Nice lens. No paperwork for lens. May be Gray market as it was "bulk packed". None the less, it works perfectly. Good replacement for the kit lens that came with my Sony A6000 and failed (camera would not "recognize" the lens when installed) just as it was out of warranty. (my other lenses worked fine). Sony quoted me $156.00 to INSPECT it once I sent it to an authorized repair facility !! Paid about the same for this new one and got it in just a couple days!! Thanks.

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Its even lighter than I hoped it would be and can focus on multiple points. It zooms and has optical zoom as well, and my photos came out just as sharp, detailed, and richly colored as with my other lenses. Its even easy to fit it for a lens hood and manually fine tune. This is an authentic Sony lens that was safely shipped to me, albeit it without the original packing. But it certainly arrived brand new with both lens caps. Im in love with this lens.

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I know theres a certain amount of risk to purchasing items that dont have the manufacturers warranty (such as this lens), but as long as you return it immediately should there be anything wrong with it, I dont see why anyone would ever buy the version with the manufacturers warranty. Sure if it goes bad in a year or two, I may regret it, but often times warranties expire before then anyways. Get this one over the full priced one; Im very happy with the amount of money I saved and the quality of this lens.

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I used to replace my 18/55 kit lens and it did the job well. Not sure it can fit in jeans pocket but its a lot lighter and more compact. Now I can blend in with the pretend hipsters with their little point and shoot because the kit lens was social suicide. Packaging wise I got mine in a mess. It seemed to be used or just not cared for. No dings or anything the front and rear of the lens were just filthy but it cleaned up well and works.

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Works just like my kit lens did! (It got broken so I had to replace it) It looks only a little bit funny because its silver and not black, but for a several hundred dollar difference, I would pick this lens any day over the black one. I love my Sony Nex-6 and this lens! Great for taking a variety of pictures in a variety of settings that look way more professional than any of the other non-professional cameras Ive had in the past.

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