Bought 24, 50mm lenses. I use both for street photography. These lenses are sharp, really sharp!. I find f2.5/f2.8 to be enough for night photography. On my a7iii these lenses give clear/usable images up to iso 8000.

I think sony finally go towards the right direction. We need small and high quality lens. The aperture doesn't need to be ridiculously large, however, the sharpness at max. aperture makes more sense to me. No need to stop down.

This is one of most honest and genuine videos I have found about the 50 mm. Thanks for helping me make my decision

Hi Dustin, I just ordered a good used copy of this lens partially influenced by your glowing review of it! Looking forward to trying it out on my A7C as an every day walk around lens. Thanks for all of your hard work in putting these gear reviews together- it is much appreciated!

The front of the lens seems a bit odd, any difficulty bypassing the hood and using filters directly on the lens?

I’ve been debating if I should pull the trigger on this lil lens and you just made up my mind, mostly for it’s size for travel paired w/ the a7c

Excellent, no-nonsense review. Only just discovered you. Will now subscribe.

So for the size and cost of this trio, it poses the question - do you go for the Sigma 24-70 f2.8 or these three taking up almost the same space in your gear bag?

Canon RF 50mm 1.8 vs. Sony 50mm 2.5, which would you choose?

Thanks for the reviews. I am very interested in small, high quality lenses, but these little beauties aren’t getting much coverage on KZfaq.

Hi. Really nice review, simple one yet I get quite the picture of this lens. Very informative to me. That I even cancelled my order of Samyang 45mm f1.8 for my old A7ii (which I think quite good lens) to replace with this tiny Sony 50mm. Quite large price gap with the Samyang but I think itll be worth it especially after watching this review. 😉

Hello Dustin, here I am asking again; I’d like to buy a lens between 40mm and 50mm and I’m torn among these options: Zeiss Batis 40 mm Zeiss Loxia 50 mm Sony 50 f2.5 My favorite one is the Loxia 50 because I already own the Loxia 21 and love it for its sunstars and, imho, for its colours; I find I have very little to do in postproduction with the images that it produces. The only drawback of the Loxia 50 is that it is manual focus; it’s a bit harder to use but I think it pushes to improve yourself.

Thanks for the review. How does the sharpness compare to the 55 1.8 zeiss. Debating between these 2.

How does this compare to the 55 1.8 Zeiss lens? Pros and Cons?

This review made me decide to purchase this particular lens. It's a baby gm lens. Has the same bokeh quality as the sel90m28g. The g (gold) lens series has a different look with the same sharpness as a gm lens.

Thanks for the great review. I am torn between Samyang 50 1.4 II and this one. What would you recommend for hybrid usage? It would be great to have a side-to-side comparison of those lenses.

This or the Loxia 50 for everyday use? You’ve spoken highly of both. Great reviews!

What do you think is better, this Lens or the Sony 55 1,8? 😊

Hi Dustin, can I get opinion on this lens for Astro Landscape work? Particularly for tracked astro panorma's. I know there's faster options but as I'm tracking, 2.5 is not a problem. From your review the quality looks to be there and them the size is a big plus.

Need your 1.2 review ASAP! Not sure if it’s worth the back order 🤔😂

Tossing up between the Sony 50 2.5 and Sigma 65 f2 for my new A7C - either focal length will work which do you recommend? or is there something else at a similar price that you recommend. Where I live these two lenses cost the same.

Hi Dustin, is it possible for you to do a review of the Sony a6400 combined with the Sony 200-600mm OSS lens as this is a combination I am thinking of getting as it fits within my budget. I appreciate all the reviews you do as they are very informative. Thankyou.

I do not know what to do now. Buy this sony or samyang 50mm f1.4 g2? will be sony good for portraits?

Hi, thanks for the great review. How would you compare this lens to the Zeiss 50mm 2 Loxia?

Fantastic little lens!

That MTF chart is wild *but*... if I'm going to get a slow normal prime I'd historically lean towards making it a macro lens with better edge sharpness wide open - something like Nikon's new, similarly-priced 50/2.8 macro for the Z-mount.

Hej! I mean, that trio is build for using on gimbals. The same weight, each is small and lightweight. My bye good AF? But too little Bildquality for that high price...

I like these little lenses

0.21x is about 1:5?

I order this lens when my wife order our next travel abroad. Then the trip will be fun wherever we go:-)

Would that lens look just as good on an A7III?

if you can only keep 40mm or the 50mm, which one would you keep?

Jesus Christ!!! That cat tail!!!! LOL!

8:12 I see what you did there

Not so small, and price... Some cheap pancake!