SELP1650 16-50mm Power Zoom Lens

I tried to use this lens on NEX-7 body and hated it - the vignetting, color fringing, and smeared unsharp corners made it unusable. I gave it along with my old NEX-5N to my daughter and forgot all about it. Then I sold NEX-7 (good riddance, it was truly an awful camera, as I now know!) and got the A7RII. One day I was looking for a small lens to take on a trip with me. My little girl suggested I take this lens. At first I brushed her aside - come on, I am not putting this thing on my precious A7RII! I'll be wasting more than half of that magnificent 42MP sensor, this thing will never live up even to the remaining 18MP, blah, blah, blah... But then I thought, what the heck, listen to the kid, she may have the right idea. She sure did! When I came back from my trip and examined the files, I almost fell off my chair - the images were absolutely superb! Tack sharp across the frame at every aperture, no vignetting, no color fringes, no distortion - just perfect! The color rendition and contrast is fairly close to my Zeiss Contax G 45mm F2.0 Planar. It left my wife's Nikon D3200 with Nikkor 18-140 in the dust. AF is silent and right on every time, the OSS is superb. This lens makes A7RII pocketable and weighs almost nothing. And as my little girl showed me, my sample of this lens works great on NEX-5N as well, definitely better than the original kit 18-55 lens with which that 5N came (make sure to upgrade your 5N firmware to the latest version available before using this lens on it). I could go on, but the bottom line is - for those times you can not or don't want to carry your professional gear, but still want to enjoy your A7RII and 18MP is sufficient for your needs, this is definitely the lens to take with you. Street photography comes to mind, or dusty/wet places where you do not want to change lenses often. It can easily be used for serious work anywhere, and because it is so compact and light, you can carry it in your pocket at all times - I do. It feels great on A7RII body and looks cool also. I wish Sony would bring out something compact and good like this in the 55-200 range.

I think this is a great little lense for taking just fun family photos and videos. I purchased this kit lens because my wife could barely hold up the A7RII with the 24-70 G-master. Just too heavy for her to take photos of me and my family. To be honest this lense was a lot of fun the first time out. The photos looked fine for just hanging out with family. Taking 4K video worked out great in Super 35 and enabling digital zoom you get a wide range of zoom. Of course in low light at 5.6 it may not perform as adequate as a 2.8 G-Master or fast prime. But for everyday good lighting situations this is a must have lense to use with the family. I am just a camera enthusiast and not a professional. I think for video this lense could probably be used professionally. It may seem weird to put this lense on an A7RII, but it turns your mirrorless professional camera into a really really high end point and shoot that is small and compact.

This lens fills an important gap in Sony's e mount selection, and is really what makes a nex camera worth the investment. It lives up to expectations and is an excellent lens with some caveats. I got a c3 with the standard 1855 kit lens and soon grew tired of the size and weight of the lens compared to the camera despite the nice metal finish. I also found out that the quality of the lens is really not very good and far below what the camera itself is capable of. When the 1650 became available, I did not hesitate long to get it, and it instantly turned my nex into a truly 'pocket sized DSLR' as I had hoped. The built quality is very nice with black metal exterior and internal metal mount, and a great look that complements the nex design line well. The combined zoom and focus ring works quickly and effectively after a short period of getting used to. Pictures in the 30 to 50 mm range are as sharp as is reasonable to expect - in my view, very sharp and clearly sharper than the 1855 - BUT as others have noted there is an important issue at low focal lengths where barrel distortion and vignetting become extreme. In new nex models, built-in compensation software adjusts automatically in jpeg, but in my c3 this is not the case, so be prepared to adjust in photoshop if you intend to use it on an older nex for wide angle shots. However, it is not difficult to get very good results when compensating for barrel distortion, and there is an automatic correction profile available for download for easy raw conversion in photoshop, which is what I use.

The lens is fine in a pinch, but the image quality overall is not that great and the mechanized zoom system is not my cup of tea. That said - for a kit zoom lens it gets the job done, just dont expect the best quality at the corners or any record setting sharpness.

I really like this lens as an all around general lens, but keep having problems with it. The first one I got came as a kit lens with a Sony Nex-6. It worked for 3 years before giving me an error that the lens could not be recognized and to reattach it. It was out of warranty so I tried some of the things suggested by others with the same issue, but it didn't fix it. I decided to replace it since the repair cost is almost as much as replacing it. The new lens came and was working fine at first. It was hardly used at all. I got a new Sony camera for Christmas and tested it on that body and it worked at first, but then gave me the same error my first lens gave me on the Nex-6 that said the lens could not be recognized and to reattach. I took the lens off the new camera and tried it on the Nex-6 and got the same error. It's barely 3 months old and used very little. There are several complaints with this same exact same issue so it seems to be a problem with this specific lens. It's unfortunate since it has so many great features. The lens was never bumped or dropped or damaged in any way. As it's the second lens of this model that I've had this same problem with, I cannot recommend it.

Para los nuevos en fotografía, no, este lente no es full frame si es que tienen una cámara full frame, sólo les va a quitar poco más de la mitad de megapixeles de su sensor. No cometan el mismo error que yo. Si tu cámara es APS-C (de la línea a6000 de Sony) es un buen lente kit en mi opinión. Tiene definición suficiente, los colores que produce no son los mejores, pero cumple muy bien con su propósito como lente de kit y su versatilidad.

Molto più leggero e compatto di quello in dotazione alla mia nex 5. Fa buone foto ed é veloce ad aprirsi. Lo zoom interviene sia col pulsante che con la ghiera, questultima é anche sensibile alla velocità di rotazione. Difetti: in grandangolo gli oggetti verticali all estremità soffrono di astigmatismo che conferisce loro un tipico effetto fisheye.

Abulta muy poco, muy ligero, zoom eléctrico y buena calidad.

Kit lens for my a6400, good mini lens for my a7R3 in crop mode. Very fast AF.

5 stars for delivery and amazon service plus the build quality and dimensions of lens. It is very good for me as I intend to use it with qx1 lens style camera giving me good overall portability. As my camera is still to be delivered I will write about performance quality in a few weeks.