Sony SAL 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 Sony A Fit Lens

Description

The Sony SAL 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 Sony A Fit Lens zoom Lens from Sony is designed for cropped ASP-C image sensors, 35mm equivalent of a 112.5-450mm telephoto zoom when used on these camera bodies its focal length. This lens is constructed of 13 elements in 10 groups which combine to deliver sharp, clear photos throughout the zoom range. It has a minimum focusing distance of 4.9′ and a front-end filter diameter of 55mm. This Sony 75-300mm ƒ/4.5-5.6 produces fairly sharp images. Wide open at ƒ/4.5 and 75mm, the lens gives excellent performance with a touch of softness in some areas of the image above 100mm, this softness increases, and by 300mm, which is the image is quite soft across the frame.

Closing down the aperture by just one stop improves this performance dramatically. In this case with most economy style lenses, optical performance is optimized towards the middle, most-often used apertures and focal lengths. This Sony SAL 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 Sony A Fit Lens, at ƒ/8 produces the most consistently good results across all focal lengths with more of an emphasis on focal lengths below 105mm. At 75mm and ƒ/8, you get a tack-sharp image, about as good as our test will measure, and it has would point to that as the optimal setting for this lens.

Chromatic aberration is well-controlled up to about 200mm, where light purple fringing becomes marked on edge sections in the image. To its gratitude, this effect is present more noticeably in smaller apertures than large, so using this lens at farther end of the telephoto spectrum may result in a trade-off between sharpness and chromatic abnormality. The focusing operation of Sony 75-300mm ƒ/4.5-5.6 is conducted mechanically.

Item specifics – Sony SAL 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 Sony A Fit Lens