Sony DT 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 Aspherical ED High Magnification Zoom Lens for Sony Alpha Digital SLR Camera

D1) SONY DT 18-200MM F/3.5-5.6 ZOOM

Brand: Sony Model: SAL18200 Dimensions: 2.00" h x 2.00" w x 4.00" l, 1.50 pounds DT lens design for optimum performance Excellent wide-angle to long telephoto shots Fast internal focusing with no change in lens length 3 aspherical lens elements for wide-angle accuracy 35mm equivalent: 27mm to 300mm

A zoom lens with higher magnification for shooting effectively at greater distances. Specially designed for the APS-size CCD imager of the Sony Alpha DSLR-A100 camera, this is the standard zoom lens that brings you closer to your subject. With superior all-in-one lens performance for everyday shooting, its 35mm-equivalent range of 27mm wide-angle to 300mm telephoto excels at capturing faraway subjects, sports events, dramatic landscapes and intimate close-up views. Lens Features Internal focusing system Internal lens elements move, so the overall length does not change -- creating a lens that focuses more quickly and doesn’t change balance. Aspherical lens elements Three aspherical elements correct visual aberrations more effectively across the entire zoom range and help reduce weight. ED (Extra-low Dispersion) glass Two ED Glass lenses minimize flare and greatly reduce chromatic aberration, giving you sharp, clear shots even at full telephoto extension. Circular aperture Because aperture blades form a near circle at the wide openings used for low-light shots, spot-light sources have a pleasing circular defocused effect.

Most helpful customer reviews 60 of 65 people found this review helpful. Good selection for All-in-one by Hiram Grant If the Alpha 100, go, and you want a good, all-in-one, then look no further. Especially for digital, the Konica-Minolta 18-200 lens for Sony outdated, already included the design a little redesign. Visually, it is an outstanding achievement. This is not a technology, not the rigors of professional photojournalism, but it's small, lightweight, and give you an extraordinary range of zoom. Even with the dust of the Alpha technology, it is always best to keep the dust first. There is no better way than to minimize the change of the lenses. For other options, to mount the Tamron 18-200 for Maxxum (which Sony has adopted the Alpha mount) to search. Yes, the two lenses of the same amount! If you want to be more upscale line, look at the Tamron 28-300. The latter objective may be the best option if you have already taken with the Sony 18-70 kit if you order now, you will not need the "kit" 18-70 zoom, but make sure that the body only configuration. 19 of 19 people found this review helpful. The dream of a trip by photographer Beth HJ As a professional landscape photographer who feels compelled to carry a large variety of lenses, I found this goal has helped me continue to lighten my case. This is a versatile lens that offers stable quality in the most beautiful scenery. It replaces the 3 lenses that I used to wear on my travels. The playback quality I get from most extensions from my new Alpha 700 with this goal is high quality. As others note, I wish it were more robust material, but if it gets beaten up, it is relatively inexpensive to replace. If you add a set of macro filters, it does a great job on macro flora. You'll find that on most drives, you will probably help with this lens more than 75% of the time, to keep dust and dirt on the sensor when you change more often than I used to do. 42 out of 47 people found the following review helpful. By a hair, a $ 2,000 Nikon lens - the same holes from the John S. Bowling, I spent 5 hours yesterday to compare images from this lens (which I thought would be clearly worse) on a Sony A100 with them a friend's Nikon D200 ( $ 1400 today) with a 70-200mm F2.8 lens ($ 2,000). I had decided to sell my setup and made money from Nikon on the extra sharpness I thought it was and was just about to get the test to be sure. I'm glad I do because I get a surprise. We put the cameras one by one on the tripod itself, in the same position in the same lighting, shot the same object, both the use of controlled spot focus, ASA and aperture used auto shoot 70 mm and 200 mm, and then compare 100% crops of both images to compare 100% crops is an ordeal. A yield of 100% is to look at some of the image displayed on a monitor screen is allowed to move far away from the screen. Instead of looking for a picture at 3872 x 2592 pixels, compressed to maybe a 5 "x7" print would be very strong, you look at the picture in any screen resolution is set on the computer screen (to see the configuration of your right to an empty part of the desktop, choose Properties, Settings). Mine is 1024x768. That means I can use all the width of my monitor, which is 15.4 "diagonally and thus perhaps 13" in diameter, to display 1024 pixels. So the above picture would be displayed at a magnification of about 50 times "wide or seven of 5x7, a high magnification The result of all this is that most cultures, repeatedly at a resting to another and try to see the differences hair in the armor of a cushion, as photographed from across the room (no joke), were virtually the same. I am not professional, but I was in amateur photography for 45 years or more, and I tell you that for all .