Customer Ratings & Reviews

It has great clarity for the zoom range. I have enjoyed taking pictures of wildlife and sunsets!

i hav some nice pics with this lens. I would recommend this lens for beginners

Had chip on glass and It appears u see the sun light in photos.

I have had many different Sony NEX, Axxxx, and A7x models over the last 4 years and keep buying, selling, regretting, and re-buying this lens. I think I'm on my 3rd copy now. It's just a good one to keep around. No, it's not as sharp or versatile as the original 18-200, the FE24-240 blows it away (obviously made for full frame, so a different beast), and a prime like the 50 f1.8 (SEL50F18) will give better results, but if you want a telephoto zoom to add to the kit zoom that came with the camera, this is a great place to start. Especially if you can get it as part of a kit deal, or purchase separately as an open box or find it used, this one is great. I would not pay retail for it, but they've been around awhile, there are many on the market already. It's light, small (for the focal length), and has great glass for the price. Sure, it's going to hunt in low light and is not professional quality, but you would probably not be reading a review of this lens if you needed that. For outdoor bright light sports, I love this lens and my a6000, it's so light and AF is fast. I think I could use it all day and not get tired. Same camera with the FE70-200 and my back is going to ache after an hour.

I’ve been using the Sony 55-210mm f/4.5-6.3 Telephoto Lens for several months, and it has truly impressed me for its price and performance. The lens is lightweight and compact, making it easy to carry for outdoor shoots, travel, and everyday photography. The zoom range is versatile, offering great reach for wildlife, sports, and portrait shots. Image quality is sharp, especially in good lighting, and the built-in Optical SteadyShot stabilization helps achieve clear images even when shooting handheld at longer focal lengths. Autofocus is quiet and reasonably fast, making it suitable for both stills and video. While it’s not a professional-grade lens, it delivers excellent value and results for hobbyists and those looking to expand their kit without breaking the bank. Overall, the Sony 55-210mm is a fantastic telephoto option for Sony E-mount users, offering flexibility, reliability, and great image quality for the price. Highly recommended for beginners and enthusiasts alike!

This lens is fully capable of getting good, sharp shots. It is a zoom so you have to understand the limitations of longer(than kit lens) zooms, even $$$ ones. Took to beach on first day to just try it out...was happy when I got home to see what it could do....a very nice compliment to the 18-55 kit that came with my a3000. I shoot landscapes, and found that with good camera settings I could get usable shots even at sunset lighting levels. Not as bright as $$$ lenses, but will get the job done with a little patience. I decided to brave getting an 'open-box' lens and it works perfectly. Saved LOTS of $, and am very happy to have lens. FREE shipping got it to me next day somehow... was very surprised and glad. Still in TEST mode for this lens, but it looks promising for my needs.

the Sony 55-210mm lens offers a versatile range that makes it an excellent choice for photographers looking to capture everything from portraits to distant landscapes. One of the standout features of this lens is its Optical SteadyShot image stabilization, which significantly reduces blur when shooting handheld, especially at longer focal lengths.

This lens is pretty solid, For a 200 it is on the cheaper side for a Sony Alpha a7iii which is what I purchased it for. The quality is obviously lesser than a more expensive lens, The overall use that I have gotten out of this lens is still amazing and recommend this lens for its great price. You can make tons of use from this lens.

This is a pretty good lens for what you pay for it. It gives good clean pictures as long as the lighting is good and you're not as concerned with the bokeh. It is a very good lens if you're just starting out and gives a great range of shooting. For a telephoto lens it is light and compact making it fantastic for travel.

I bought this lense in hopes for more zoom power- this lense is great for things far away, but not good for things within even 10-15 feet. It will be too close up and things will get cut off. I used this while visiting Glacier, it did not disappoint for that purpose.

My son plays football and it capture good shoots on the field and in the stands. As well as videos.

The product is so good. I recommend to buy this product

This product is great! If youre into long range photography save for the bigger lense but this is a must have!

excellent lens for any amateur photographer, but i will say it’s not the best if you plan on doing something like sports photography at night.

Great lens for getting pictures of wildlife in their natural habitat or a distant portrait shot.

Good focus and stability great for sports and landscape photography

This lens is an excellent addition to have in my camera bag. As a hobbyist photographer, I used this lens for outdoor shots and did some shots for a friend's graduation photos that turned out excellent!

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

Great lens. Works great even on my full frame. Don't hesitate to buy it !

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.