FE 28mm F2

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S$ 639.00

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4.6 based on 48 customer reviews

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Ease of Use

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Most Helpful Positive
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Great value lens

Lens Only 13 January 2016 by Russtafab (United Kingdom)

I initially had my doubts about this lens. Since purchasing my Sony a7Rii camera I have spent a considerable amount of money on E mount lenses which cost far more money that this FE28mm F2 lens. I love this lens and it really fits that specific niche for me. With the recent price drop of the Carl Zeiss Vario Tessar T* FE 24-70mm f/4 which is next on my list, I will still be using this 28mm lens a lot. I am not a professional but merely a keen photographer. What I really like with primes is that I have to "work hard' to get the shot and this often captures much better images for me. Also the Sony a7Rii is a really great Video camera. I work in Post Production and will be using this 28mm quite a bit for shooting video. Great lens, do not underestimate it, nor think less about it just because it is cheaper than most of the other E mount lenses. Really recommend this lens, always has a spot in my "kit bag"

Picture Quality

Good

Design

Good

Ease of Use

Good

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Most Helpful Critical
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Reasonable

Lens Only 13 October 2021 by Kees Woestenenk (United Kingdom)

A reasonable lens, but with much distortion and not so reliable autofocus

Picture Quality

Average

Design

Average

Ease of Use

Average

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48 Customer Reviews

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Great little lens.

Lens Only 02 December 2022 by Derrick9 (United Kingdom)

Lovely little lens, light weight, crisp sharp pictures ideal for indoor, landscape and around town.

Picture Quality

Excellent

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

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As I expect

Lens Only 30 August 2022 by MT2161 (United Kingdom)

It's good for take photo in day light such as building. It will be best lens size during traveling around.

Performance

Excellent

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

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OK lens

Lens Only 07 May 2022 by Jono12 (United Kingdom)

It's an OK lens, one of the cheaper options, I've since spent more on a better lens

Picture Quality

Good

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

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Response From Sony support team
09 May 2022

Hi Jono12,

Thank you for your feedback.
We're glad to hear that you're enjoying your Lens.
We hope you will continue to enjoy it for many more years to come!
We would like to know more if you have a specific opinion or constructive ideas about the lens, you can contact us using this link: https://bit.ly/2NwYLXL.

Hana @Sony support UK

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Reasonable

Lens Only 13 October 2021 by Kees Woestenenk (United Kingdom)

A reasonable lens, but with much distortion and not so reliable autofocus

Picture Quality

Average

Design

Average

Ease of Use

Average

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Response From Sony Support Team
03 February 2022

Hi,

Thank you for your review.
We're sorry to hear that you're facing distortion on the lens.

This can always be adjusted through the camera body you're using with it with the correct settings, and if you need help with that, feel free to reach to us with the camera model you're using with it, and we'll try to assist you: https://bit.ly/2NwYLXL.

Also, rest assured, we'll pass your feedback to the relevant channels for future consideration and development. And once more, we're sorry about any inconvenience.

Sawy @ Sony UK

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Excellent value for the cost.

Lens Only 06 May 2021 by Ohio Man (USA)

I bought this lens one year ago and I have no regrets.

Picture Quality

Good

Features

Good

Design

Good

Ease of Use

Excellent

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Simply a great lens

Lens Only 05 February 2021 by Vespasian (United Kingdom) Verified Purchaser Verified

My main interest is street photography and this lens fits the bill perfectly, it's lightweight but great quality. A great buy.

Picture Quality

Excellent

Features

Excellent

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

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Love this little lens!

SEL28F20 10 April 2020 by DickeyPhotos (USA)

I just bought this lens to add to my collection and I simply love it. It's a tiny bit soft in the corners, but for the size, quick and silent auto focus and portability you can't beat it. I was a little worried about the 28mm focal length, but it ends up just wide enough (and fast enough) for perfect indoor shots of my kids. I shoot with an A9 because I need something as fast as my kids and I rarely miss a shot with this lens attached.

Picture Quality

Good

Features

Good

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

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Quality with a price for an amateur

Lens Only 08 March 2020 by PlPlJns (USA) Verified Purchaser Verified

Very fast focusing and excellent in low light. Great photos even when I use the digital zoom on my Sony a6000 and a full frame lens using a APC sensor. Small size which fits in my bag. If asked I will recommend this lens.

Picture Quality

Excellent

Features

Excellent

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

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Response From Sony North America Customer Support
08 March 2020

Hi PlPlJns,

Thank you for the recommendation and enjoy your lens.

Regards,
David

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Great everyday prime Lens

Lens Only 27 January 2020 by Mike1881 (United Kingdom) Verified Purchaser Verified

Bought this Lens a month ago and I love it great depth of field and good everyday prime.

Picture Quality

Good

Features

Good

Design

Good

Ease of Use

Good

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Fantastic little lens.

Lens Only 21 January 2020 by Aberdeenshire (United Kingdom)

I bought this in MArch 2018 and love its size and low weight along with excellent image quality.

Picture Quality

Excellent

Features

Excellent

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

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Brilliantly Practical

Lens Only 12 December 2019 by Ashaz666 (United Kingdom) Verified Purchaser Verified

Very small and light so great for carrying around and outdoor work. The f2 is very useable and not as soft as some reviews suggest, though at the f20 and f22 end it does get a bit soft. Not so hot on starburst effects, I find. I will add a photo but once it's compressed as per the rules it's not really going to tell you anything.

Picture Quality

Good

Features

Good

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

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sweet lens

Lens Only 29 August 2019 by Fabro (USA) Verified Purchaser Verified

I bought this lens a few months ago for astrophotography and other and it does is remarkable for sharpness!! as far as astrophotography, I have shot just a few but am a beginner so I can't leave great photo's but a pro could get much better than myself!

Picture Quality

Excellent

Features

Good

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

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Response From Sony North America Customer Support
03 September 2019

Hi, Fabro!

I love this shot! You did great here using your Sony SEL28F20 lens. If you need more shooting tips, check this out: https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00206559. Thank you for choosing Sony!

Regards,

Vincent

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Great street lens

Lens Only 28 December 2018 by Bryank67 (United Kingdom) Verified Purchaser Verified

Small light fast aperture F2.0 fast focussing and sharp 28mm a little wider than what I would normally use but my 35 and 50mm are f1.4 big and heavy tiring to use all day this Sony is ideal very pleased

Picture Quality

Excellent

Features

Average

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

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Flyweight Champ

SEL28F20 14 September 2018 by MSC Photo (USA)

Very light weight makes it ideal for hikes. Quiet and super fast focus on the A7iii. Image quality is great for the cost, not as sharp as the Zeiss and Sony G series, but pretty darn good. Wide open aperture is a little softer, but by 2.8 its sharpened up. Good bokeh. Very good on the flare and coma. The only con - astrophotography is hard with this lens due to the in-camera manual focus (clutch). There is no way to find set point and mark it on the body, so you are having to fine tune it every time. I had to make a Bahtinov focusing mask to help speed up the process. I've attached some examples (no lens correction or noise reduction)

Picture Quality

Excellent

Features

Good

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Good

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Excellent Prime Lens

SEL28F20 10 September 2018 by Amriel (USA)

I purchased this product on the 15th of August to be a prime lens with my brand new AR7 III. I didn't have a lot of funds after purchasing the camera body and since I am using my camera primarily for video I decided the best way to get started was with a prime lens. I am extremely pleased with the results. Using an ND 8 filter, I am able to shoot almost exclusively in the F2 range never going beyond F2.8 under full sun conditions. This lens also kills in low-light situations. A few nights ago I was listening to a podcast on how to configure settings for my camera. I had the camera in front of me, and I decided to let it record as I was playing with the settings. The only light in the room was coming from my computer monitor. I started playing with the settings and once I adjusted the shutter speed the camera could clearly show what the rest of the room looked like including a resin statue with a lot of detail. The picture clearly showed the darkness along with everything in the darkness. I couple of classmates got to see this video, and they were like "Holy smoke your camera does night vision!" I recommend the following things to get more mileage out of this lens: 1. Invest in a UV and Polarizing filter (the lens is a 49 mm lens). 2. Get yourself a ND filter set: at least ND8, ND32, and ND 64. These will serve you well when you are shooting in full sun because they will let you keep your aperture open at its maximum setting. 3. Take advantage of the hood that comes with lens. 4. When shooting at night don't use any of the ND lenses, consider the Polarizing filter. 5. Definitely use a tripod, rig or gimble when shooting with this lens because it doesn't have image stabilization.

Picture Quality

Excellent

Features

Good

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

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Very good wide angle lens

Lens Only 03 April 2018 by PCPhil (United Kingdom) Verified Purchaser Verified

Bought in conjunction with the 21mm Ultra wide conversion and very happy. 28mm is one of my favorite focal lengths and this gives very pleasing results. The Ultra wide is a simple attachment for those specious scenes when required. Great price as well.

Picture Quality

Good

Features

Excellent

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

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Great lens for video and stills

Lens Only 30 November 2017 by wardenet (United Kingdom) Verified Purchaser Verified

This is a great lens i brought it mainly for vlogging and needed something that would be good enough to focus and also give good depth of field, i do use it every now and again for stills.

Picture Quality

Good

Features

Good

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

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Great for street photography

Lens Only 13 May 2017 by JRH46 (USA) Verified Purchaser Verified

Clarity across. I was disappointed at first until I realized that not all software reads raw images the same. ACDSee for example opens the raw image but the image is slightly blurred compared to the JPG that I thought I had a camera or lens problem. Then I used Capture One software for Sony Cameras and the images are crisp and clean and when converting from raw to JPG is excellent using Capture One. Just keep that in mind.

Picture Quality

Excellent

Features

Excellent

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

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Great but has a clunk noise to it when focusing

Lens Only 30 March 2017 by PhillyPho (USA) Verified Purchaser Verified

I use it on my a6000 and the pictures are sharp but there is a noticeable clunking noise. Not sure if that is normal but the images are great.

Picture Quality

Excellent

Features

Good

Design

Good

Ease of Use

Excellent

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Sony FE28mm f2.0 lens

Lens Only 22 February 2017 by Altrekkie (United Kingdom) Verified Purchaser Verified

I bought this over a year ago to fit on my Sony A7m2

Picture Quality

Good

Features

Average

Design

Good

Ease of Use

Excellent

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Cracking lens

Lens Only 14 February 2017 by Jacko Jackson (United Kingdom) Verified Purchaser Verified

This is the first lens I bought for my A7ii and I am very, very pleased with them both. The lens is very quick to focus the images are very sharp. The wide F2 gives me great control over focus. I really love the 28mm focal length. What I particularly like is that it gives me the right size frame to use a landscape as a background for someone that is near to me or something that is happening near to me. There is plenty of space to capture a subject right in front of me but I still get plenty of background too. The above coupled with it being small and light means I can take it running in the hills to capture the action & the hills! Awesome value, high quality lens, takes cracking pictures.

Picture Quality

Excellent

Features

Excellent

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

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LIGHT, SMALL AND SUPER SHARP

Lens + Ultra Wide Converter 01 August 2016 by chrisraph (United Kingdom) Verified Purchaser Verified

SUPER SHARP, FAST - EXCELLENT great value for money

Picture Quality

Good

Features

Excellent

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Good

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FE28/2 - small light and able

Lens Only 06 April 2016  (United Kingdom) Verified Purchaser Verified

Bought a few months back, great little lens to keep in the bag

Picture Quality

Good

Features

Good

Design

Good

Ease of Use

Excellent

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Very Sharp

Lens Only 03 April 2016 by Notginvok (United Kingdom) Verified Purchaser Verified

Very happy with this lens, good allround performer and nice sharp results even wide open.

Picture Quality

Excellent

Features

Excellent

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

10

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Excellent lens

Lens Only 13 February 2016 by Lesann (United Kingdom) Verified Purchaser Verified

Excellent additional lens to my Sony A7, great wide angle

Picture Quality

Excellent

Features

Excellent

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

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Great value lens

Lens Only 13 January 2016 by Russtafab (United Kingdom)

I initially had my doubts about this lens. Since purchasing my Sony a7Rii camera I have spent a considerable amount of money on E mount lenses which cost far more money that this FE28mm F2 lens. I love this lens and it really fits that specific niche for me. With the recent price drop of the Carl Zeiss Vario Tessar T* FE 24-70mm f/4 which is next on my list, I will still be using this 28mm lens a lot. I am not a professional but merely a keen photographer. What I really like with primes is that I have to "work hard' to get the shot and this often captures much better images for me. Also the Sony a7Rii is a really great Video camera. I work in Post Production and will be using this 28mm quite a bit for shooting video. Great lens, do not underestimate it, nor think less about it just because it is cheaper than most of the other E mount lenses. Really recommend this lens, always has a spot in my "kit bag"

Picture Quality

Good

Design

Good

Ease of Use

Good

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28mm f2 full frame e mount

Lens Only 28 November 2015 by Seba84 (United Kingdom) Verified Purchaser Verified

Worth every penny, quick autofocus, crisp sharpness even wide open, you do not gonna be disappointed.

Picture Quality

Excellent

Features

Excellent

Design

Good

Ease of Use

Excellent

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Great for street photography

Lens Only 27 November 2015 by Dr Paddy (United Kingdom) Verified Purchaser Verified

I've been using this lens for the last couple of weeks and find it great for street photography. Though Raw files show a lot of edge distortion, Lightroom sorts it out very effectively. Once shut down to f8 or f11 it's very sharp throughout. Very good value for money.

Picture Quality

Excellent

Features

Excellent

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

5

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Excellent Value and versatile lens

Lens Only 15 October 2015 by Chezjj (United Kingdom) Verified Purchaser Verified

Just acquired this lens 10 days ago. Little usage but pleased with performance, handling and ergonomics.

Picture Quality

Good

Features

Excellent

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

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Beautifully crafted piece of kit.

Lens Only 11 September 2015  (United Kingdom) Verified Purchaser Verified

The quality of the images are outstanding and it meets all my expectations.

Picture Quality

Excellent

Features

Good

Design

Good

Ease of Use

Good

5

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Such good value for money

Lens Only 22 June 2015 by Sydney2 (United Kingdom) Verified Purchaser Verified

I own the FE55 F1.8 the FE35 F2.8 and the FE28 F2 completes the trio Although the FE28 F2 is not a Carl Zeiss it has the image and build quality to match my two other primes. I now use these 3 lenses with the A7R to shoot weddings.

Picture Quality

Excellent

Features

Average

Design

Excellent

Ease of Use

Excellent

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