|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Available Warranties for This Item
Frequently Bought Together
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Technical Details
- for All Sony digital SLR cameras featuring an APS-C-type sensor
- Sony's SAL-50F18 50mm f/1.8 is a great-value, lightweight lens, which lets you make the move from standard zooms to the world of portraitphotography.
- The SAL-50F18 50mm f/1.8 is designed for SLR cameras featuring APS-C-type sensors, and it boasts a 35mm-equivalent focal length of 75mm - ideal for taking portraits and superb shots of sweeping landscapes.
- The f/1.8 aperture produces circular, defocused effects that bring out details on faces, while the wide viewing angle means you get a fascinating perspective on cities, landscapes, crowds and special events.
- Plus, thanks to the SAL-50F18 50mm f/1.8's built-in smooth autofocus motor (SAM), you're guaranteed quiet, quick and precise performances when focusing with the automatic mode.
Product details
|
Related Items
- Most Popular
- Service & Replacement Plans
- Photography Filters
- Digital Camera Accessory Kits
- Camera Cleaners
- Flashes
- Flash Diffusers & Modifiers
- Camera Bags & Cases
Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
DT 50mm F1.8 SAM is a compact, lightweight, high-quality lens with a 50mm focal length (35mm format camera equivalent: 75mm) that is ideal for portraits and general-purpose photography. It is designed exclusively for use with a digital SLRs incorporating an APS-C type image sensor. The DT 50mm F1.8 SAM reduces the need to carry heavy gear when shooting, yet offers crisp, natural imaging that is ideal for everything from portraits to scenic photos and snapshots. It also boasts a large, bright F1.8 maximum aperture and a circular aperture mechanism for smooth background defocusing. Distinguished by ultra-sharp imaging across the focal plane, the DT 50mm F1.8 SAM also features a minimum focusing distance of 0.34m and a maximum magnification ratio of 0.2. In addition, a Smooth Autofocus Motor (SAM) is used to drive the focusing lens group.
Product Description
SAL-50F18 50 mm f / 1.8 Lens for All Sony digital SLR cameras featuring an APS-C-type sensor (Ref: SAL50F18)
Sony's SAL-50F18 50mm f/1.8 is a great-value, lightweight lens, which lets you make the move from standard zooms to the world of portraitphotography. The SAL-50F18 50mm f/1.8 is designed for SLR cameras featuring APS-C-type sensors, and it boasts a 35mm-equivalent focal length of 75mm - ideal for taking portraits and superb shots of sweeping landscapes. The f/1.8 aperture produces circular, defocused effects that bring out details on faces, while the wide viewing angle means you get a fascinating perspective on cities, landscapes, crowds and special events. Plus, thanks to the SAL-50F18 50mm f/1.8's built-in smooth autofocus motor (SAM), you're guaranteed quiet, quick and precise performances when focusing with the automatic mode.
Content:
Compatibility : Sony APS-C-type digital SLR cameras
Minimum focusing : 34cm
Filter diameter : 49mm
Included accessories : Front and rear caps
Dimensions : 70 x 45.2mm
Weight : 170g
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing pictures for the price,
By
This review is from: Sony DT 50mm AF f/1.8 SAM (SAL-50F18) (Electronics)
I just bought this lens for a friends wedding to take some nice portrait shots. It was a bit of an impulse buy as I bought it the day before the wedding so had no time to practice with it, and as this was my first prime lens I didn't want to splash out too much. Wow. I am so glad I got this lens. The pictures turned out beautifully. The f/1.8 worked brilliantly in the low light conditions at the reception and it remained very fast so there was no motion blur in the portraits; nor in the smoke from the cigars they were smoking!
Some of the other reviews have said about there being too much "Bokeh" ( the nice blur of the photograph out of the main area of focus ) and I disagree, I think there is a pleasing level of it and it makes for some lovely effects, but this is subjective. I do agree with another reviewer about it feeling plasticky, but it doesn't feel flimsy, but I wouldn't treat it any less carefully than any other lens because of it. Since purchasing this lens it hasn't been off the camera and I think I will have a great time learning the ins and outs of prime lens photography. For reference it's fitted to my Sony Alpha 300.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Solid performance at a reasonable price,
By
This review is from: Sony DT 50mm AF f/1.8 SAM (SAL-50F18) (Electronics)
When I bought this lens I was looking at doing some portraits of my other half and her sister. It turned out to be the right choice.
This lens is a prime lens which means the image quality is better than most zooms would be at 50mm focal length. CA, pincushioning, and vignetting are not noticable on my example (on a Alpha 500 body). The autofocus is very quick and accurate and works quite well in low light compared to most other lenses, and the lenses' overall low light performance is pretty good. You do not tend to get the 'hunting' focus problem so much with this lens. The aperture of f1.8 is good at focusing out your background which really helps if the background to your subject is cluttered or distracting. It also tends to soften the subject a tad but in a pleasing way as though you are intending to. This can be cured if it is not desired by moving the aperture to f2 onwards. On the downside on this lens the manual focus ring is tiny and doesn't lend itself too well to being used for that purpose which is a bit of a pity. Also, this lens has a diameter of 49mm which means if you have a Sony kit lens and you have some filters for it they won't fit unless you buy an adaptor ring as they tend to be 55mm diameter. This is a good performer for this price and I recommend it if you are planning to start taking portraits.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good lens, a little plasticky though,
By
This review is from: Sony DT 50mm AF f/1.8 SAM (SAL-50F18) (Electronics)
I've had this lens for about 3months now. This is a great lens at a rather good price. F1.8 is really fast, and satisfied my desires for a fast lens for low light and portrait shots.
Pictures are crisp and sharp, almost unbelievably so, especially if you've grown used to the kit lens. You'll find that F1.8 gives way too much Bokeh very quickly. I don't go below F2 nowadays, and its still quite fast. My only qualm about is the build quality. It's quite plasticky, and I'd recommend insurance on this baby. Mine is still great, but I handle it very carefully.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
Most Recent Customer Reviews |
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
|
