Product Reviews

I bought this a couple of months ago and it was the first lens I got for my SONY A7III. It's perfect for portraits as well as landscape photography. Its low light performance capability is immaculate. If you are to use it with videography, it does a really good job to that price point. The only drawback I see is it's slow focus breath

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I bought this two weeks ago, and I am happy with the performance of this little lens!

Really please with my t purchase

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It’s such a great lens for a beginner. The value of this lens is unmatched

I used Canon for 25 years, one day I tried a Sony camera (a7RIV) and never looked back, sold all my Canon gear and am now 100% dyed in the wool Sony. The Sony 50mm f1.8 is a little gem of a lens, light, sharp and inexpensive. What’s not to like …. 5 ⭐️ …. 10/10

I bought it a month ago together with my dream camera the sony A7IV. So far, I’m loving the lens and the quality that can produce on my work.

I bought the lens for landscape and portrait. Very happy with the outcome.

Lovely for portraits and learning to set up compositions with one view point.

I bought this sony 50mm f1.8 lens month ago and i am already in love with it. Extremly fine and good picture quality.

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I’ve read a lot of mixed reviews about the lens and was expecting very ordinary images. But I’ve been very pleased with the results I’ve had. Expect that autofocus is slow and the barrel is plasticky. It’s a low cost lens after all. But the image quality is quite good for a day to day amateur photographer - i.e. 95% of photographers.

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This lens easily captures a group of +20 with limited space. When the aperture is open it makes for an easy edit to brighten up the scene. Very affordable and light weight!

Months ago I bought this lens & camera So happy that I did

Great len, working so great the only thing you can't zoom. But other than that len did it's job.

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I bought the lense and was supposed to receive it on a Wednesday; either SONY or the shipping company sent me the wrong item, but I never received the lense. I contacted customer support as soon as I got the incorrect package and was told that it would take approx. 2-3 days for customer support to review my case and send me a replacement. It has been ONE week, and I have only gotten a call stating that the review is in process, nothing more! I am out the $200; a replacement hasn't been sent. Customer support has taken their sweet time. Other companies would usually refund you instantly or send you a replacement asap. SONY doesn't.

The little nifty fifty really lives up to its name, it has been a very versatile and amzinging little lens, while it does not have stablization built into it...it has a manual focus ring which really allows you to get hands on in manual mode. And if you reverse the lens in front of your camera you actually get a macro lense too....I would not use this feature outdoors as you don't have that tight seal as you would when you attached lens right way, but inside getting those close shots it's a cool feature. But all in all its an amazing lens that captures great portrait style photos and makes you move around and get into your environment and makes you work. And it does amazing black and whites. Thanks sony for a great little prime lense.

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I use this lens on my Sony a7R Mark II and I love it, it's a Full Frame Lens with a nice clarity that produces great pictures. At F1.8, this lens is capable of taking good images in low light conditions and also produces a lovely background blur when taking pictures at full aperture, especially on portraits. This lens is also great for video, it has a "low breath" when focusing, it's not fast, at least on my a7RII, but it will do the work, with almost zero out-of-focus images when doing a high fps shooting.

I had this lens for a few weeks now and it is a pretty good budget lens. the autofocus is really nice and the aperture is really good for portrait photography. The background blur from it is great. Overall Great budget prime lens

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Glad i bought this due to lightweight and great depth of field achieve

Easy to use super sharp no problem at all amazing for car Photography

I use this lens mainly for interior shots, churches, cathedrals etc. the wide aperature is great and the definition is very good. Very pleased with my purchase.

People go on and on about “if you don’t need to shoot sports this is a hidden gem”. Don’t believe them. This is the actual worst first party lens I’ve ever used. Not only is the autofocus non functional (as in it hints on a static object, like a building, in full daylight) but when it does “lock” it’s wrong. I took 35 autofocus photos. Not one was in focus. You may say.. wait a building, trust me I tried everything including half a building with a blue sky behind it. For those long time experienced Sony users. My original rx-1 focuses at least three times faster than this lens on an a7iv. So fortunately I also decided to test sharpness. So I set it to f11 and focused about a a third if the way into a scene inside the DOF - awful. I focused directly on a few objects, awful. It’s less sharp than a 2010 nex kit lens. It hunts in broad daylight, it locks out of focus on a building even, it’s cheaply built, it’s not sharp, no weather sealing, bad manual focus feel, there is nothing redeeming. Again, and I really can’t stress this enough, it’s the actual worst first party lens I’ve ever owned across 5 major camera brands. Don’t buy it. Mom shocked they’re still putting this out there, it’s an absolute stain on their reputation. Everyone has a nifty fifty. None of them are this bad. Let’s see if Sony accepts this review.

I bought this over 8 months ago and had not become serious about shooting. I've since learned my camera and I'm an apsc shooter. So it shoots like a 75 mm. I love the clean beautiful look. I am big fan of sigma, but I love this lens.

You’ve sent me a lens for £159 that’s broken, does not zoom in or out. Also I’ve already sent over a email with this issue and still no reply.

Overall a good low cost prime, your classic nifty fifty. Everything put together while for the price but would have liked a pouch to keep it in that you get with other manufactures like Viltrox 20mm. Biggest issue is motor noise, its loud and audible on video