I sold mine and bought the Sony 10-18. That lens is AMAZING!!!

thank you for the comparison! I going to buy the kit lens still but I did the sony 35mm, super excited to start using it!

I bought the 16mm lens with my a6500 and sold it soon after as the corners were so soft. I thought it was my copy of the lens but after watching your review I feel vindicated. Love your reviews and looking forward to the next one.

Thanks for doing this video, very informative. This lens was always on my “possible lens to purchase” list, but after seeing this I won’t bother. Especially because I have the kit lens. Sony needs to make a better wide angle (that is affordable :p)

This is one of my favourite and most used lenses. Especially at night! Makes the A6000 super light and small and you get great shots at lowlight.

Love your videos, but please consider when you compare sharpness, lenses can be focused in different places. This is what this looks like to me. So I think the 16mm is overall better and the way to check it definitely would be to shoot a flat control image (poster, etc.).

The 16mm should be corrected in camera if you have lens corrections turned on. The kit lens is so badly distorted at 16mm that Sony turn on corrections automatically for it, in fact I don't think you can turn them off with it attached. My 16mm is pretty much unusable below f8 but just about okay there and at f11. Amazingly with the wide angle (12mm) and fish eye (10mm) adaptors, it improves and is quite usable. To be honest I only really use it with the fish eye now as I have the 10-18mm which is far superior.

I have both lenses and even though the SEL16 has its issues I enjoy using it, especially with the adapters. Bought the lens and adapters all used. If I would've paid full price I probably wouldn't be too happy with it. I've recently found out that in Capture One 11 with Diffraction Correction photos shot with this lens look better than in Lightroom (that might be able to do the same, but I couldn't find it). At one point I might get the SEL20 as well and the adapters are compatible with that as well.

Thanks for the review! Best channel for sony a6000/a6300/a6500 on KZfaq.

The pancake lens has a nice central focus range, but the blurring on the edges and the blur transitions is not even/smooth. You always continue to make great lens videos and all the ones I have now are thanks to your comparisons. Keep up the great work!!

Cant wait for your review of the Sigma 16mm f1.4

I just found the 16mm/2.8 at the flea market for $3 and bought it immediately.

Thank you so much for such a thorough and honest review. You rock, bud!

mid 2021, these 16mm go for $50 used and at that price they are just fine for street photo. leave it at f5.6 (the sharpest f for apsc), and i'll be a great combo on $80 nex5n, it'll be as compact as x70 but at 1/4th of the price, and corner softness is fine for street, personnaly i always add i little of bit darneking vignette to my street stuff...

Thank you so much! So, in conclusion if I already have the kit lens (16-50mm) is not a really good idea to buy the Sony 16mm because there is not much difference? (Quality, sharpness, etc)

Hello from Russia! Please try Sigma 16 mm on the Eye-AF. Will this lens use all hybrid AF points? Or only in the central "square" as 30 mm DС DN? How Sigma 16 mm AF work in video mode with face tracking? Thank you! Very interesting channel.

the 16mm F2.8 w/ the Sony VCL-ECU1/2 Wide Angle Converter can provide better image quality at the edges!

Great evaluation! Saved me a lot of time, money and avoided future frustation :)

Sony 55-210 please!

Great video and nice comparision to the lens kit. It seems Sony never updates old lenses (like Canon does with II and III). They just keep selling the lenses even if they are not that good. Would love to see a review of the Sony 85mm 1.8 in the future to see if it is worth it compared to the 18-105. I know primes are supposed to be better and sharper, but like this video proves, with Sony is not always the case. Keep up the good work.

Thank you for this comparison. But for me, there is no need for the Sony 16mm or the Sony 35mm, having the SELP1650.

What this review misses about the 16mm quality is that it's that soft only focused far or close to infinity; selfies, portraits andd close stuff is a lot better, this (and the 20mm) are basically vlogging lenses and they have compromised the quality of far focusing. Peoblem is this and most reviews test these lenses like they were landscape lenses, which is not correct, both in usage and expectations.

Thank you, I’ll continue with the Kit 👍

request for a Rokinon 12mm vs Sigma 16mm battle!

Thanks for your comparison. I was thinking that this lens is not to useful but after your video I'm still more convinced on that. Fine thanks.

Finally a decent review of this lens!

Great review as always. I picked this up for the native AF shooting some video, but I'm looking forward to the Sigma 1.4 soon.

I got the Sony 16mm f2.8 with the fisheye converter and the 18-55 for 180usd. Do you think it is a good deal ? Would you recommend other lens for that price ? Thanks for all your videos

Exc video. Could you compare sony 20f2.8 vs 16-50 kit lens and samyang 12mm vs canon 10-16mm, please.

can't wait for your sigma 16 dc dn review, thx..espacialy if you could compare FOV, sharpness and low light with the rokinon 12. I'm looking for a great landscaper, and astro wide lense. ;)

Love your reviews! Can you also review the 20mm pancake?

Recently saw this same lens only difference I could tell was the one I saw had Hasselblad branding. Couldn’t find any reviews of the Hasselblad one.

Should go with this or the 20mm ??

Wide angle adapter do not fix the problem of the sharpness in the eges 😉. I have the 16mm f1.4 and I am wating for your opinion. You must test it by night. I make some shots with 8 seconds on f2.8 and there are amazing sharp...

Hey love the shots! were they all shot using Auto mode?

Please do the 20mm/F2.8, I heard it's much better then 16mm

Great review! I reviewed this lens on my channel and even did a 4K video test on the a6500. I can’t wait for the Sigma!!

i think you should use manual forcus, seems when comparing the forcus point are not same... btw, I also buy sigma 16f1.4, big expectation for that...

Thank you for the comparison, for me the contrast is more significant than the sharpness, I like my kit lens more for this matter.:)

Good review, I was looking at this lens.

which one is good for recording video , which one is oss, thank you

Love it... This is what exactly i was looking for👌❤️

I have the 16mm f2.8 pancake Corners at 2.8 soft 4.0 fair 5.6 very good 8.0 excellent

This lens only supports contrast autofocus. There is no firmware update to fix this. The old 18-55 kittens has V2.0 update and supports now phase detection autofocus. Hope this pancake lens gets an update to.

I see you repping Austin out there at the Oasis! Great video

The only reason I considered buying this lens is to have the Fish eye and Ultra wide adaptors. Is there an alternative option of Fish Eye/UW with another wide lens with great quality (like sigma)? Thank you!

Nice video, I did a Sony a6300 AutoFocus Review and I think you'll be surprised at the results, they are insane!

Please try out the Sony 85mm 1.8 Emount!

OK... had to watch it in HD after all because of sample pictures and my thoughts are like this: 16mm is not as soft as everybody describe but it's not good either. I had real thinking about what to choose to my small room where I'm recording and 16mm was one of the options. But... because of OSS which is deal breaker for me because I have only manual lenses and I probably would go with 16-50 cuz after all I was using F2.8 few months ago but now I have a softbox and LED light so I have that much light that I can record in my room at F5.6 and ISO 160. And... If you would want to sell your kit lens Mafia then I'm winking my eye to you ;)

I ordered the 7 artisans 25mm lens for my A5100 after seeing your video.. waiting for that to get it delivered☺

Hey guy, very interesting and appreciate all your review videos. Pls take a review for Sony 18-200mm and compare with Sony G 18-105mm, i think it will be useful for many persons who need a multi functional lens :)

thanks for sharing your findings ...I think I'll give this lens a miss

7:04 The 16mm doesn't capture the 3 cars in the middle, I'm going for the kit lens!

I'm bout to buy this lens, would you recommend me to buy this for bokeh

Can this lens be used for astrophotography?

Nice comparison!

Hey. I'm looking for a pancake wide angle lens. I'm not gonna buy the 16mm after I watched this video but will stay with the kit lens. But what about the 20mm ? Could you compare the 20mm pancake with the kit lens at 20mm. Is it wort buying it or is it as bad as the 16mm?

Thanks!

Does it works for fullframe

Do you post edit your photos before adding them to your videos?

Love my home! Georgetown, Tx!!

thank bro.

thank you for the comparison!

Thanks for a good review

is this aspen?

I own a 16mm for a few months and honestly it's the crappiest lens i've used for a while, except it's fast AF and lightweight, the pictures are not near usable, i don't recommend buying it at all except if you use it for holidays

Your ISO was different for both the lens. So you get different results on the brightness and how the final shot looks.

Hi, please please review sigma 16mm f1.4

i dont know if my kit lens is a one off. but it was horrrrrrible . anything shot with it is soft and foggy. when i got a 35 prime. i couldnt believe the difference

What about Sony 20 mm pancake?

did you ditch your a6300 ? if so why

Do the Sony 20mm 2.8..

Oh... almost forgot... You totally have to check Sigma 16mm F1.4. It was released like week ago and it's great! Heavily improved MF in comparison to 30mm F1.4.

I have a Sony a5100l . Would you suggest this in 2021? Cuz its price is really liw

very good review

What is the best pancake lens for my a6300? I want a lightweight prime lens for pics and videos. Thanks!

can use with A6400?

Worst thing I noticed about it was the bokeh wasn't smooth at all

Mushy edges outside of center. I hate mine. 20mm sony was meant to replace this.

I was sold sel16f28 and sel1650pz (low quality pics) and bought sel1670z... top lens

Hey how are you I have a couple questions about the a6000 just got into the hobby. Is there any email or way I can contact you?

review For video?

Sigma did what? 16mm F1.4??? that's crazy... My god, can't wait for the review.

Can i use it for capturing potraits with great bokeh ?

What shooting mode you use for your wife holding a guitar?

Why did you compare them at different ISOs for the wide open test? Makes no sense. Also don't understand why you didn't just use ISO 100 for every single shot since you're on a tripod. Shutter speed didn't matter for practically any of your shots.

Just a nitpick. Or maybe I'm wrong. But E 2.8/16mm makes no sense from what I understand. The diameter of the aperture is aperture = focal length / f-number (from f-number = focual length / aperture). So 16/2.8 actually means something in camera terms, but the inverse does not. And the aperture actually means something, the size of your bokeh balls should be the size of the aperture when filming a ruler against a point light in the distance. End of random rant haha. Thanks for the video!

Nice reminder about this lens, and it's mediocre performance. Can't wait for your Sigma 16 review!

How is it that the kit lens is sharper in this video compared to the 16mm? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hpxgg7t6y7i4p30.html

so worth it or not?

It is a shame there isnt a good Meike or Kamlan 16mm. I would love a good MF cheap lens at this focal distance.

what happens if you put this in a full frame sony lets say a7 iii

16 mm f2.8 have OSS?

The OG kit lens 18-55mm is way better that the new power zoom.

Sony 20mm f2.8?

This lens is just worthless...

This 16mm is terrible! I'm glad I ended up buying the 12mm samyang instead.

nice

Don’t get this lens, just use your iPhone! I wonder why Sony even bothers selling a lens like this...

Probably I'm too early here, that's why have to watch it in 360p... but doesn't matter.