I consider photography as a hobby and do not do it professionally. I purchased this lens because it is a Native lens to the Sony System and learned it was good for portraits. Although this is a Full Frame camera lens, I use it on my Sony A6100 APS-C camera. I have achieved great portraits and wonderful bokeh. I'm still experimenting with portraiture picture taking but I can say I am really happy with the results so far.
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It's a small and lightweight lens for 85mm f1.8. The copy I got however had a lot of chromatic aberrations (magenta tint) around all edges, from corner to corner and was relatively soft in the corners. It's not a "bad" lens, but even stopped down at f4, those issues persist. For some shooters, I am sure they won't see a difference, but for my applications, it was just not practical.
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There are two versions of this lens. One is the old version, which was made in china, and the other, newer one is made in vietnam at tamron's factory. The older version which has "made in china" near the rear element has been the best for me. Quality control at the tamron factory was or is not as good (i've had the same experience with pentax (tamron) zoom lenses made in vietnam and tamron's OSD primes), so multiple copies I tried exhibited uncharacteristically severe longitudinal chromatic aberrations and slight decentering. The older chinese made lens, however, was good and this aligns with the timeframe when this lens received the most positive reviews. This lens will exhibit some focus breathing and very mild chromatic aberration in out of focus areas, but nothing severe. CA is gone entirely upon stopping down to f2 and doesn't affect 90% of photos. Autofocus is fast and quiet in AF-C, and only hunts a little in AF-S mode. Bokeh is smooth at every aperture owing to the 9 rounded aperture blades, color rendition is excellent, and flare is minimal and handled gracefully. There is almost no distortion and points of light in the edges and corners retain their shape well from f2.5 on. The lens is decently sharp corner to corner from wide open to f11 and very sharp in the center from f2.8 to f8. If you have a 62mp camera, you may be more critical of its performance. Overall its a good lens, if it says made in china on the back and doesn't look like it spent a week in the amazon, buy it.Read full review
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- it makes it a much better value .. however, im still not used to the way the focusing works on this - it is tuned to autofocus in a jiffy - the manual focus seems to jump into place .. i havnt got the hang of it yet ... the OLED display is nice - though i havent had a chance to make use of it shooting any video yet ..
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This is probably the greatest value in the entire Sony lens line. This Price Vs Quality is unmatched in Sony Brand Lenses. If you are looking for a great short portrait lens and low on Cash, this is your BEST OPTION!
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Sony 85mm f1.8 is affordable, Pics are sharp,crisp and bokeh is cream .In short telephoto range of prime lenses this is the best prime lens for its price.Very light and durable, It is not weather sealed.It performs well in dim light and indoor -outdoor portraiture photography. BE AWARE on EBAY some sellers from other countries are HIKING up the price . If you have patience you can find a very good deal on a new one on ebay within a week or two. Best lens should be in every sony e mount full frame shooters arsenal.
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