Top positive review
5.0 out of 5 starsBest affordable wide angle!
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2022
I bought this lens as a budget astrophotography and landscape lens for my Sony A7iii. Firstly, I had read a few reviews on various sites that the threading would give me trouble attaching it to the Sony A7iii specifically, but I had zero issues with that at all.
Secondly, the lens does come with both a rear and front lens cap as well as a lens hood, however the lens hood is fairly cheap. Despite this, the lens hood still helps with reducing flaring and glare in images.
There are so many pros to this lens that will outweigh the cons, especially for the cost.
Pros - Small/compact, sharp at f/2.8, very affordable, decent build quality, distortion is very mild, close focus distance.
Cons - Autofocus is a tad slow and fairly noisy, build quality is decent but at the end of the day it's still plastic, some vignetting at f/2.8.
For me, I do primarily photography on it, so autofocus noise is fairly unimportant as I'm not doing film work. A lot of my photos are also on tripods and manually focused anyways, so autofocus speed is less important to me as well.
I'd say the image quality I've gotten from this lens is easily comparable with lenses that are twice the cost or more! If you're on a tight budget but still want a full frame lens, go for it!
Given the price, this is easily 5 stars!
