Sony SEL35F18 35mm f/1.8 Prime Fixed Lens

After clicking 3000+ photos with 35mm lens. Highly recommend this lens image quality is crisp and so clear. Color are so accurate. Great for low light with less noise level.I have 18-50mm f2.8 lens as well but this gives better quality then zoom lens.Lens is bigger than other brand lens and those are smaller and better performing in some aspects.since its 35mm lens you can't get zoom range but with a clear image zoom settings can get some extra range.Consider checking out other same range lens from other brands. You will same some bucks with no compromise on quality.

With two camera bodies at hand (Sony A-mount and Sony E-mount), it made sense for me to use Sony DT 35mm f/1.8 SAM (A-mount) as I could use it on both my Sony Alpha DSLT and Sony Alpha NEX (via LA-EA1 or LA-EA2 adapter). However, I was using that lens practically always on my NEX. With the decision to use shorter focal length, smaller lenses on NEX-6 and switch to all Full Frame (non-DT) prime lenses on A-mount, the Sony E 35mm f/1.8 E OSS was the obvious choice.The E 35/1.8 OSS is more expensive than the cheaper DT 35/1.8 and finished (build) accordingly. While both are small and light lenses (DT 35/1.8 also requires use of adapter whereas E 35/1.8 is native), the E 35 is more so. It also has optical stabilization and supports focal plane (on sensor) phase detect AF.I have observed the optical stabilization to be effective for four stops. The lens is sized well to allow good support for a more stable shooting (I prefer to support lenses rather than try one-handed shooting). The focus ring is not mechanical but is smooth and well weighted and quite useful. The lens appears to be quite sharp corner to corner, and very good wide open. The lens feels great without feeling heavy. Excellent job Sony. IMO, the lens is well worth the price that I paid for it, $398 w/free shipping.The A-mount 35/1.8 is of course cheaper (I had paid $165 for it), but the E-mount version handily beats it in build quality, and appears to be slightly better optically as well. Plus the stabilization (useful on Sony E-mount bodies). Being a small lens, the E 35/1.8 is an excellent walk around lens on any E-mount body (especially with 20mm f/2.8 pancake in the pocket for wider scenes).

EDIT #2: I have gotten ahold of and thoroughly tested the new Zeiss Touit 32mm f/1.8, with a review both here on Amazon and my website. Though the below review still stands, the Zeiss is overall an optically better lens. For handheld low-light and video applications, the Sony inches ahead.EDIT: As of February 4th, Sony has officially announced the release of a firmware update to the NEX-5r/6 to allow this lens (and many others) to function with the on-sensor PDAF. There is now even less to complain about on this lens' performance. END EDITOriginal Review:I've already written a rather extensive review of this fine lens on my website (look up Matthew Durr Photography if you want to read more detailed information), but let me distill down the lens' major high points and bottom low points:The Good:-Even on the NEX-7, the 35mm f/1.8 provides good to great sharpness at most apertures-The OSS gives about 3-4 stops of shutter speed advantage, depending on how steady your hands are-Out-of-focus areas are generally pleasing for a lens of this type, save for some busyness with complex backgrounds (tree branches, for example)-Extremely compact, focuses quick, and is a good value for the moneyThe Bad:-Even being a good value (the OSS is accounting for a majority of the lens' cost), $450 for a 52.5mm f/2.8 equivalent Field-of-View lens (on a full-frame 35mm sensor) is pretty high-Longitudinal chromatic aberrations at the wider apertures, mainly in the backgrounds, can be distracting (but can mostly be edited out)Okay, so why did I give it five stars with the above listed cons? It's simple. In nearly every shooting situation that calls for the 50mm field-of-view, this 35mm f/1.8 delivers. Low-light? OSS. Subject separation? f/1.8 Sharp landscapes? Shoot at f/5.6. Traveling? It's a compact kit!Ignore the naysayers griping about how it's not compatible with the NEX5r/6's PDAF yet, or that it's "just as good" as the kit lens at 35mm. For one, Sony will surely come out with an update eventually to allow the PDAF to function (though it isn't needed for anything besides moving subjects). Secondly, this lens lets in over five times as much light wide-open than the kit lens does at 35mm. This means that, all other image parameters made equal, a shot taken at 1/10 with the kit lens can be accomplished at 1/50 with this lens. Or, given the same shutter speed in a low-light scenario, the 35mm f/1.8 can shoot at ISO 400 while the kit lens' camera has to go up to over ISO 1600.Bottom line? The 35mm f/1.8 is a great lens that provides excellent image quality at the "normal" field-of-view that so many NEX photographers have been waiting for since the camera line's inception.