Customer Ratings & Reviews

Bias for Sony products only right to get the lens.

This lens work well. Not quite what I was looking for but gets the job done.

Not really worth the price in my opinion, especially in this day and age, I ended up selling it after I had bought it because it just wasn’t right for me

Great quality for the coast, only drawback is the AF speed.

Very sharp, autofocus is hit and miss some, compared to new lenses, so forget sports, but good for portraits/group picture and some candids. Color rendition is excellent but not magical like the old traditional Japanese brands, is like a good iPhone picture with lots of pixels. There is not a nice coating and the glare you get if you take with sun in background is really bad. I recommend this for everything else, I like it but not in love of it. Perfect price to get a new focus length prime.

I like the lens , only thing i dont like is that its plastic

This is fe lens for full frame but only works very closeup (Portraits) and in dusk .. this is not the lens to use in hot sun, below average pictures of landscape. I dont recommend it to use with Sonya7rii, had to buy Zeiss 24to70mm next day.

I have had 50mm lens before when shooting with a different brand DSLR, and never really had much reason to use that focal length. I bought this new 50mm lens from Best Buy, specifically to photograph my new grandson, Of course, if I had a couple of grand to buy the 50mm f1.2, how fun would that be. But at a tenth of the cost, I am so far loving this lens. With its minimum focus distance of 18 inches, it's perfect to move in close and fill the frame. I also like the 85mm f1.8 lens from Sony, but its MFD is nearly 3 feet, Both lenses have their purpose and I do own both and use them both. I was genuinely surprised to find out how sharp the 50mm f1.8 lens really is. In post processing images taken with this lens, I don't need to touch the sharpness slider even the tiniest bit when editing in Photoshop. The color is perfect and I find the bokeh pleasing. At f1.8, the depth of field is razor thin, so I can't imagine how thin it must be when shooting with the f1.2 lens. An aperture of f1.8 is more than enough for my needs. The lens does make a bit of a soft whine when focusing compared to most lenses, but I knew this when I bought it, and I don't find it to be an issue to complain about. It focuses quickly and accurately, and that's really what matters most. Sony does have some firmware upgrades that you should install. It's done with the lens attached to the camera. The firmware can be downloaded from Sony's website. It's currently at version 03 and from what I understand, it has eliminated most of the earlier complaints about this lens. Being mostly plastic, it's probably not a lens than can take a lot of abuse, but I baby my gear and the 50mm should outlast me. Overall, I am very pleased with this lens...more than I thought I would be, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a fast standard 50mm prime lens and on a budget. The fact that it is a bargain only make it that much better of a deal.

Feels like plastic but it well built. Perfect for portraits.

Lens captures great pictures. Mounts quickly and great focus.

50mm is a great lens for testing the waters of photography

The lens takes sharp images but the auto focus is a bit slow.

Great product for beginners. Takes great pictures.

I really like how my pictures come out. Very good quality

The autofocus on this lens does not unleash the speedy and accurate power of my A6000 and A7. It is annoyingly loud, inaccurate and continually seeks too far beyond a sharp focus leaving you waiting for the next pass. The image quality is OK but not great and there is still too much vignetting to be acceptable. Bokeh is adequate but not beautiful in any way. I would never trust this lens for an important shoot because of the inaccuracy. Forget using it for video as well because it is noisy and fails to lock a sharp focus and will often go way beyond before dialing back to your subject. It's just awful.

This lens is excellent for indoor and outdoor use.

This is a decent all-around lens. Doesn't do well of creating depth of field, but that is typical for any 50mm. Overall, this would be a great casual vacation lens if space is limited and functional needs are diverse.

I didn’t really like this lens, The focus mechanism takes time to focus.

The performance isn't up to today's standards. I apply latest updates to the camera to see if it's performance will improve but it didn't. I would love to have a standard 50mm Sony at this price.

Focusing took way too long. Was not happy with this.