Read more: Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 G Master full review (opens in new tab) Image quality is spectacular in all respects: even when shooting wide-open, sharpness is simply phenomenal, throughout the entire zoom range.

There’s no optical stabilizer but this is only an issue with first-edition Sony mirrorless full-frame cameras that lack in-body stabilization. There’s no shortage of quality glass in the 18-element line-up, including one ultra-high-precision XA (eXtreme Aspherical) element, two further aspherical elements, one ED (Extra-low Dispersion) element, and one Super ED element.Īutofocus is blazing fast for stills and provides smooth and near-silent autofocus transitions during movie capture. The weather-sealed construction of the lens feels really solid and sturdy, and the lens features a customizable focus hold function, along with AF/MF and zoom lock switches.

And so it should be, costing about five times the price of the FE 28-70mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS kit lens. Leapfrogging the Zeiss badged FE 24-70mm f/4 ZA OSS, this G Master lens is as good as it gets for an own-brand Sony standard zoom.

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