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Improve the image quality of your photos with this SONY E 55-210mm lens. The built-in OSS stabilizes moving images while ED glass elements improve contrast, resolution, and color. Telephoto zoom on this SONY E 55-210mm lens offers up to 3.8x zoom, and an internal focusing mechanism provides fast autofocus.
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Great stabilized telephoto zoom for Nex system
on October 1, 2012
Posted by: UBet
from Portland, OR
I've owned this lens for about 2 months and love it. It's sharp, has good contrast and color. I wish I had bought it earlier!
This is a great companion lens to the 18-55mm kit lens that is typically packaged with the Nex system. The extra focal length is immensely useful for shooting outdoors, but also indoors where you are force to be further away from the subject (e.g. gymnastics class, volleyball game, etc). It's also great for portraits, where you can get further away physically and zoom in for more flattering perspective of faces (and good blur of backgrounds, too).
The extra physical size of this lens as compared to the 18-55mm kit lens is noticeable but not a problem for me or for my wife. The lens feels solid, the built quality is good, but at the same time it's quite light for it's size.
It hunts a bit for auto-focus in low-light when zoomed all the way to 210mm, but I would think that most lenses of this type would do the same. I just zoom back out a bit (which allows a lower f-stop) and then crop the photo down later in post. This lens is also a bit prone to flaring in bright sunlight, even with lens hood attached, but not the majority of the time by any means.
What's great about it: Practical and high-quality upgrade for Nex system
What's not so great: Hunts a bit for auto-focus in low light at 210mm
I would recommend this to a friend!
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