Sony FE 50mm f/1.8 lens review with samples (Full-frame and APS-C)

WOW, It's Korean Ver. ~~

hahaha... GOOD EVENING.. Fooood alright??

For anyone still concerned about AF, Pav SV has a renewed review after installing updated firmware and found that it is now above average other lenses in the price point.

I just received this lens today, and, focusing in broad daylight, its shitty focus motor ruined some otherwise-good shots. I’m going to sell it and buy the Viltrox.

How much better is this than the stock kit lens for a6000?

Yes, thank you for this review. Long story: I make photos of my paintings. My kit lens of my new full frame camera was a bit blurry at the left side, but very sharp in the middle and good enough sharp at the right. I was worrying it could be my camera and not the lens. I decided to buy this Sony 50mm lens (after seeing this review) to check if the camera is all right. And the good news is: my camera is ok and this 50 mm lens gives great image quality of my paintings, also in the corners (tested at F10, manual focus). So it was the kit lens that is probably decentered, but also that lens is still useful for photos with blurry backgrounds at lower F values.

is one the photos taken at the botanical gardens in Wales UK?

What a great amount of detail! Great Video!

It could probably be half the length in it construction, i hope Sony work on that because it would be a proper pancake it would be very nice!

I bought mine for the A7c and am blown away. I have the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 S and either it is the camera with the sharpness or its the lens. Smaller compared to Nikon and I love it.

is this compatible with A5000 camera?

Purple flinging is pretty bad wide open.

Regarding autofocus, when this lens was tested, the 1.03 firmware didn't exist. It solved the autofocus question and made this lens a much better lens.

one of the best and reliable review ever found 😍

I wonder if Sony plans version 2 for this one. Just an improvement in focus motor would be good enough upgrade

Lastest update for the lens has made it faster and accurate on the autofocus side

Hello. Which lens has the better image quality/sharpness? The samyang 50mm 1.4 or the Sony 50mm 1.8 FE?

How about a revisit review in 2021? New firmaware, new AF in the Sony cameras. I loved this lens so much both on A6000 and now on A7II. I traded e for an 85mm f1.8 which is sharper but, doesn’t give me the same emotion. Thanks for your awesome review.

Just got this lens and have been using it on my A7 MK1. Both the camera and lens are fully updated. I haven't found autofocus to be too much of an issue. The lens is slow but it is accurate and has rarely hunted on me. Even in low light it has been good. The very powerful af assist beam on the A7 certainly helps. Coming from DSLRs the accuracy of the conbined phase and contrast detect systems has impressed me.

I did try the lens on an up to date NEX-3 out of curiosity and found it to be almost unuseable. The lens would hunt and fail to acheive focus most of the time though I did the NEX test indoors.