Sony FE 40mm f/2.5 G (Sony’s Best Street Photography Lens?)

Sony FE 40mm f/2.5 G (Sony’s Best Street Photography Lens?) | Round Glass Review

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The Sony FE 40mm f/2.5 G is a great general lens that has solid chops for street, some product, some landscape, and portrait photography. As a general, all-around lens, the 40mm f/2.5 G finds itself on my camera almost all the time. I know many Sony photographers who would say the same thing. This lens stands as a testament to how good Sony’s optical engineering team is at lens design. The more that I use Sony optics, the more impressed I am at their result and image delivery.
But here’s the thing, the real takeaway you should have from this video, and frankly every video in this series: Lenses do not exist to photograph a test chart. Lenses do not exist to photograph graph paper and white screens and fairy lights. Lenses exist to record images that stir in us an emotion, a connection with the world and, in their highest and best use, other people. Nothing a camera or lens does is more important than the equipment’s ability to deliver an image that brings us closer to those around us. Period.
The Sony FE 40mm f/2.5 G allows us, as photographers, to, without any hindrance or compromise in interface or image quality, do the work that photography challenges us with. The best photographs humanity has ever created allow a photographer and subject to connect to a future viewer, an unknown person who will see that image in a day, year, century or longer and through that image come to better understand themselves, the world, or other people. That is our mission as photographers and all the stuff we talk about beyond that is secondary to accomplishing that goal.
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Video Index:
0:00 - Intro
0:11 - Sony 40mm f/2.5 G Round Glass Review
1:21 - Sony 40mm f/2.5 G Specifications
2:14 - Sony 40mm f/2.5 G Tips & Tricks
5:04 - Sony 40mm f/2.5 G Seidel Analysis
6:03 - Sony 40mm f/2.5 G Lens Diagram
6:35 - Sony 40mm f/2.5 G Video Use
7:16 - Sony 40mm f/2.5 G Strengths & Weaknesses
10:47 - Sony 40mm f/2.5 G Review
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@Andy-rk9mu 3 ай бұрын

9:23 - this is interesting. I will check on my copy

@seoulrydr 3 ай бұрын

TYVM for the vid. If Sony actually does introduce the GM 24-70mm f2 I hope you get a chance to review it. I want one. I'd want one if the zoom range was limited to 50mm.

@DavidHancock 3 ай бұрын

Definitely and it's been a while since I reviewed a zoom. The new GM does sound really interesting. I do have three Sony lenses planned for early 2025 (simply because this year's calendar is packed) and those are the Batis 18mm, 24mm f/2.8 G, and 100-400 GM.

@seoulrydr 3 ай бұрын

@@DavidHancock although the 100-400mm GM isn't perfect, I get a ton of use out of it. If they upgrade it, I will get a loan and repurchase it along with the 16-35mm f2.8 and 24-70mm f2 GM lenses. They can do all the heavy lifting i need.

@USGrant21st 3 ай бұрын

I don't think I will ever want 24-70/2, because the weight is going to be 2kg and price around $3000. I wish Sony would have made 18-50/2.8 lens. It's not many pictures I take at over 50mm, but wider than 24mm is a very useful range. For now I use Tamron 20-40, far from perfect lens, but more useful.

@Casey_Schmidt 3 ай бұрын

I usually don’t like modern lenses because they look too clean and therefore boring. But surprisingly I like the look of the images this lens produces, too bad I don’t have a Sony anymore!

@DavidHancock 3 ай бұрын

I was surprised by this one, too. I didn't expect it to be a lens I really liked, but it is and it's not nearly as clinical and sterile as I expected it to be. I like the Zeiss lenses because they're good and have image character and this feels more like that.

@USGrant21st 3 ай бұрын

Compare it with the new Viltrox 40/2.5 which is 1/3 of the Sony price.

@DavidHancock 3 ай бұрын

If I get my hands on the Viltrox, definitely.

@USGrant21st 3 ай бұрын

@@DavidHancock I've got one in z-mount today and took a few pictures. Optically it looks excellent, the AF is slower than native.

@cameraprepper7938 3 ай бұрын

I think Sony should make a more high end series of compact Lenses, fx "GMC"-series. A 40mm Lens is a good focal length, but 35mm focal length are much better, I have the excellent Voigtländer APO-Lanthar 35mm 2.0 Aspherical which is build like a tank and the optical image quality is at least as good as th Sony 35mm 1.4 GM ! I also have the Sony Carl Zeiss Sonnar 35mm 2.8 T* ZA which I go used for US $215 (taxes included), so it is cheaper than the Sony 40mm and it is more compact and light weight !

@DavidHancock 3 ай бұрын

That would be very cool.