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Sony 12-24mm F2.8 GM Review

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The Sony 12-24mm F2.8 GM lens is a lightweight, versatile, and well-built lens that performs exceptionally well even in low-light conditions. The lens is capable of providing excellent sharpness and resolution across the entire focal range, making it suitable for both photography and videography.

The Sony 12-24mm F2.8 GM lens is a lightweight, versatile, and well-built lens that performs exceptionally well even in low-light conditions. The lens is capable of providing excellent sharpness and resolution across the entire focal range, making it suitable for both photography and videography.

Pros
  • Lightweight and easy to carry
  • Rugged build quality and weather sealing
  • Excellent performance in low-light conditions
  • Fast and precise autofocus
Cons
  • High price point

The lens features a rugged build quality and weather sealing, ensuring its durability and reliability. The wide aperture of f/2.8 allows for excellent performance in low-light conditions, providing sharp images with minimal chromatic aberration.

The Sony 12-24mm F2.8 GM lens is a versatile and well-built lens that is surprisingly lightweight and easy to carry around, making it suitable for various shooting scenarios. The lens features a rugged build quality and weather sealing, ensuring its durability and reliability. The wide aperture of f/2.8 allows for excellent performance in low-light conditions, providing sharp images with minimal chromatic aberration. The lens also excels in capturing three-dimensional, converging lines in tight spaces, making small areas look bigger and more spacious. Additionally, the lens performs impressively well with handheld shooting at higher ISOs, delivering excellent center sharpness wide open at 2.8 throughout the zoom range. The G master lens is equipped with XA elements, providing good optical quality corrections and minimal chromatic aberration.The lens's fast linear autofocus motors make it suitable for capturing fast-moving subjects with a shallow depth of field, making it ideal for a wide range of shooting styles. The lens also offers a minimum focusing distance of 0.28 meters, allowing users to get up close to their subjects and achieve a prominent, shallow depth of field. The lens is also suitable for videography, although it exhibits minimal breathing and slight focal length changes during focus racking. Overall, the Sony 12-24mm F2.8 GM lens is a high-performance, lightweight, and versatile lens that delivers exceptional results in various shooting conditions.

The lens is surprisingly lightweight and easy to carry around, making it suitable for various shooting scenarios. The G master lens is equipped with XA elements, providing good optical quality corrections and minimal chromatic aberration.

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