Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A wide aperture Standard Focal-Length Zoom Lens is a new design-concept for Sony. The lens offers the photographer the F2 wider aperture, normally only seen on prime lenses, but with the flexibility of using a zoom (eliminating the need to constantly switch focal length lenses). This will allow the photographer using this F2 G Master zoom, the ability to more easily create figure/ground separation or increased background blur (bokeh).
Designing an F2 zoom has added weight, over-and-above an F2.8 zoom, but Sony has managed to keep this lens to a fraction over 2 lb or just below one Kilogram in weight.
In this review I compare its optical performance with three of Sony's F1.8 prime lenses (stopped down to F2). This exercise demonstrates that it is possible to build a no-compromise wide-aperture lens that can out-perform a prime lens across its entire zoom range.
This review provides the photographer with the information so they can make an informed purchasing design and to choose a workflow that best suits their needs.
Album of Ultra High-Definition Images: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBRJr9
Purchase Link: bhpho.to/3Zh91tC
Purchase link to the Pilot 7L messenger bag: bit.ly/4fTkMvF
Purchase link to the Paratrooper Wrist strap: bit.ly/4cNajB3
00:00 Start
01:55 Competing Lenses
02:44 Size and Weight
05:16 Little or Large
06:49 Three in the Bag or One in the Hand
09:04 Lens Features
11:00 Specifications
12:50 Focus Breathing Test
13:28 No Compromise to F1.8 Primes
19:53 Close Focusing
21:44 Bokeh at F2
29:14 Filters
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A wide aperture Standard Focal-Length Zoom Lens is a new design-concept for Sony. The lens offers the photographer the F2 wider aperture, normally only seen on prime lenses, but with the flexibility of using a zoom (eliminating the need to constantly switch focal length lenses). This will allow the photographer using this F2 G Master zoom, the ability to more easily create figure/ground separation or increased background blur (bokeh).
Designing an F2 zoom has added weight, over-and-above an F2.8 zoom, but Sony has managed to keep this lens to a fraction over 2 lb or just below one Kilogram in weight.
In this review I compare its optical performance with three of Sony's F1.8 prime lenses (stopped down to F2). This exercise demonstrates that it is possible to build a no-compromise wide-aperture lens that can out-perform a prime lens across its entire zoom range.
This review provides the photographer with the information so they can make an informed purchasing design and to choose a workflow that best suits their needs.
Album of Ultra High-Definition Images: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBRJr9
Purchase Link: bhpho.to/3Zh91tC
Purchase link to the Pilot 7L messenger bag: bit.ly/4fTkMvF
Purchase link to the Paratrooper Wrist strap: bit.ly/4cNajB3
00:00 Start
01:55 Competing Lenses
02:44 Size and Weight
05:16 Little or Large
06:49 Three in the Bag or One in the Hand
09:04 Lens Features
11:00 Specifications
12:50 Focus Breathing Test
13:28 No Compromise to F1.8 Primes
19:53 Close Focusing
21:44 Bokeh at F2
29:14 Filters
Mark Galer is a Sony Alpha Ambassador for Australia.
Join Mark Galer on Patreon for the best Alpha Support and Guidance. A single $10 Membership fee includes access to over twenty 1-hour member-only seminars, 'over 20 downloadable' eBooks + cameras setting (CAMSET) files (there is no contract or commitment beyond the first month). patreon.com/markgaler
Mark's supporting website: markgaler.com
If you find Mark's work for the Alpha community helpful please consider making a donation to support the creation of new learning resources for Alpha users. Go the Donations link: paypal.com/paypalme/alphacreativeskills
#SonyAustralia #SonyAlpha #SonyAmbassador #SonyAlphaANZ #sonydigitalimagingambassador sonydigitalimagingambassador
