Customer Ratings & Reviews

Loveee so much. Amazing quality. Highly recommend!

This was a great lens for the money. I have taken thousands of pictures with it over the last few weeks and love the lens more and more each time i use it. The pictures are crisp and quick. With the OSS built in it is very easy to hand hold shots even at the long end of the zoom. I bought this primarily for wildlife photography and videography and the metal quite luminous. But that is nothing a little camouflage self-adhesive tape couldn't fix. Great product.

[Employee of bestbuy] use this lens daily!! i love it so much, gets full range for different pics

Sure, it's a big lens, but it's nowhere near the size of my old DSLR zoom. It really is compact for its power, and I used it a lot. It fit into my jacket pocket, so I got it into the rock concerts I recently attended without an issue, and got great shots. I could take it to the parks in London, and the zoo, without a bulky camera bag. It's easy to mount quickly, which is important to me. The only thing is I wish the end cap would stay on easier. You only have to twist it a few degrees, which means it comes off easily in my jacket pocket.

Lens is ok but isn't as good in dark lighting but still good

Read numerous reviews that said this was the lens to complete one's needs for the Sony NEX. I got quality pictures with the lens with decent detail at 150' to 200'. The black "rubber" grip is useful.

I've gotten some great shots with this lens, and for the price, you can't beat it. The only downside is the aperture is a bit small, so it struggles in low light shots without a tripod. I've brought this on trips to Europe and have had a lot of fun with this lens.

This lens is absolutely perfect for what I needed. I take a lot of action pictures from a short distance, but from where I stand to get the pictures, its as if I'm right next to the object that I'm getting pictures of. I couldn't be happier with this! It's been about a year since I've purchased and it's still holding up very well and works great! Very easy to attach/unattach from the camera

This 55-210 lens gives me a full range for my Sony Nex6. It is very easy to use, sharp and clear. I am glad they changed their color to black. It looks good on the camera.

I was hesitant in buying this telephoto lens as it was for my daughter's camera that I was "borrowing" for a trip to Siberia. My own camera (a different brand was being repaired and would not be completed in time.I checked out the reviews and was pleasantly surprised by the price. The telephoto lens for my own was 3X the cost. It is simple to attach and detach, even when you are in brutal environments, which was a real benefit for me. The pictures looked incredible and crisp. I liked it so much that I bought the same camera for myself.

For an amateur photographer who likes the thrill of catching a bird in flight or a relatively crisp faraway shot of Mickey Mouse at Disney World, this is a fine lens. Instagram crowd: great lens. Professionals? Less likely to be looking at this. Most of the telephoto zooms considered “decent” to “really good” have much faster apertures at similar focal lengths, so they can pull off some great compression shots at long ranges that this will not be able to make, as well as take less noisy nighttime photos (this thing basically shuts down when the sun does). They also have noticeably cleaner bokeh - photos from this one even at f4.5 have background blurs that are only creamy if you squint. If these things were measured on performance alone this lens probably doesn’t belong in the competition. However, the very real tradeoff is that those lenses often cost 3x-4x as much as this one, and around 4-5 times as much if purchased used. Additionally, third party lenses that cover this range are not only more expensive, but they also lack in-lens optical image stabilization, meaning that unless you own the a6600, the highest end APSC offering from Sony, there’s a good chance your photos might end up pretty shaky/blurry. So considering that, it’s really important to ask yourself who you’re taking these photos for and what you want your telephotos to look like. If all your photos are going to end up on Instagram (like mine do), where they’ll be hilariously compressed and the details don’t matter much to someone viewing it on a 6” display, this is a great purchase. Composing shots well will take good advantage of the additional range and good composition in any circumstance will take you far. But if you’re going to print these out in large format, or if you still want a pretty creamy background blur in your telephoto shots, maybe consider renting it for a day from a camera store, as you may find that your photos may suffer from noise even in daylight due to the slow aperture. Otherwise, if you know what you’re getting into (and what you’re saving in the process), then go for it.

Good lens for Beginners. This came as bundle with my A6000 and I am glade they included it. It does a decent job with bird photograph. Since it's F4.5 don't expect too much with night photography. Overall I am happy with this lens.

Very easy to change. I could do it while walking on the volcano path. It was light weight to hold and great details in the photos.

Good lense for its price. I use it with sony a7r3.

Amazing lens! My daughter is thrilled with it! If you’re looking to upgrade, this lens is perfect!

It's a nice light weight lens. Easy to mount and I like the range on it

This lens is amazing! I've never used a camera like this until buying my new Sony NEX and this lens can zoom in from so far away and still give you amazing quality pictures! Very fun to play with and worked out awesome for those trips to Disney where you want a picture of something that may be too far away for the typical zoom!

Purchased this lens recently, unsure how it would perform being a kit lens. I am definateley surprised, fast and accurate. I took it for a spin and a youth sporting event with my Sony a6000, and WOW. The one thing I have an issue with when I purchased this camera was the limited lens selection, not a big variety when it comes to the e-mount series. I made the decision to get this zoom and thus far I am very happy, a great value especially for the price.

This is on my A6000 camera and is small and light yet the quality of pictures at distances is great. The lens removes easy and the lens cap is not tethered. The sun shade can be attached backwards to limit the space it takes while stored. Manual adjustment limits the parts that break and the speed at which you can zoom. Less moving parts is better.

I've had the Sony NEX for over a year but finally decided to buy the zoom lens for more flexibility. The lens is sturdy and easy to use. Had no issues attaching or removing the lens and the picture quality is incredible. Unlike other larger zoom lens where you loose some stability while taking pictures if you have zoom extended to maximum and quality of the pictures blur, this lens took excellent pictures, even in dimmer lighting. Highly recommend.