- DT lens design for optimum performance
- Delivers excellent wide-angle and long telephoto shots
- Aspherical lens elements for wide-angle accuracy
- ED glass elements for sharp, accurate colors
- 35mm equivalent: 16.5 to 27mm
Product Description
With the capability to focus quickly and zoom from super-wide-angle to wide-angle, this lens captures interior scenes with greater flexibility and handles fast action in close environments. Its DT design is ideally suited for the APS-size CCD imager of the Sony alpha DSLR-A100 camera – and its 35mm-equivalent zoom range of 16.5mm to 27mm gives you wide latitude in framing and composition.
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Sony alpha DSLR-A100 Digital SLR Camera
J. Coates @ 9:49 pm
Great lens. Be aware that it is a DT lens and therefore will only work on APS-C sensors. Basically, if you are never going to shoot old Minolta 35mm SLRs or the upcoming A900 body ($2500+ probably), don’t worry about it.
Best Buy had this on sale, free shipping, for $400 early Feb. 2008.
So look for that number or lower on this lens for best price.
Avedon if only @ 10:44 pm
After buying an A-100 Sony I discovered just how exceptional the Sony 18mm-200mm lens is. I still have all my Minolta AF lenses, which was a reason to buy the A-100, but in fact I very rarely get them out of their cases. The 18-200 is very sharp to edge of frame at both ends of the zoom range, has very good colour rendition and contrast, has no barrel distortion or pincushioning and zooms smoothly. I travel all over the world with this camera and lens combination and have found I need nothing else.
However, when I saw the Sony 11mm/18mm wide angle zoom lens passing through Frankfurt airport, I thought it might be useful for the rare occasions when the 18mm is not quite wide enough. Fortunately I waited to buy until I returned to the US, where it cost 50% of the price in Euros. This is another exceptional lens, with quite astonishing performance. As with any super wide angle lens, there is a risk of distortion on straight vertical lines, but far less than I’d expected. The 11mm/18mm is now in my travel kit. It’s great.
Paul J. Adams @ 1:25 am
I read many user reviews and some “official” ones about the Sony 11-18mm lens, many of which were negative. Despite these reviews, I went ahead and bought the lens (through Amazon.com). I have had it for a few weeks now, have taken several hundred pictures with it, and I really love the results. It produces sharp images in my opinion and the super wide angle pictures are awesome. To me, it is well built. Whoever is reading this review, stop reading it, stop reading “official” lens ratings and resolution test results on the Sony 11-18mm super wide angle zoom lens and go get one, and you will not be disappointed. Note: I have been a photo hobbyist since 1968 and have owned and used many 35mm cameras, developed my own slides etc. I went digital about 5 years ago and have no plans of going back to film. I have owned the Sony A100 DSLR for less than a year and love it. It has tons of features that I like and use. The Sony 11-18mm super wide is a great addition to my digital photographic system.
M. G. Chisholm @ 4:15 am
Okay, typically bloke like, I bought a flashy camera (but not something mad priced) and then needed to add to the gizmos that one eventually builds up. I wanted a decent wide angle lense made for the Alpha digital camera for landscape and indoor use. This is the puppy. Feels beautifully made and I all but drooled over it. I’m not going to get technical because frankly I’m not into anoraks and this is still a learning curve for me. What I will say is that so far I’ve had some damn good photos using this lens having made the mistake previously of buying a wide angle Minolta lens. Which now having read a bit realise that it isn’t when on a digital camera because of the film frame size compared to the photsensitive chip used in digital jobbies. Made sense – should have bought the book first but you know that geezers and instruction books do not go together. Being English, I decided to buy this in America where it’s literally half the price – try nearly a $1000 for size, so the price to me made this the bargain of the year.
Olivier Douin @ 6:07 am
For a while, I thought that the 18mm of my Sony 18-250 (that I rated 5 stars too) were enough.
Then I decided to give a try to the ultra wide angle. Now, I have to admit I love it very much. The couple Alpha 700/Sony 11-18 is very fast. The pictures are sharp, the color are rather accurate (I get what I see) and there is no barrel distortion (depending how you compose the picture, of course).
My idea was to carry only one camera with a “standard” lens (18-250) and bring others lenses according to my needs. Well, I am afraid I got two “standard” lenses.