Comments on: Sony E 18-135mm F/3.5-5.6 OSS Lens Review

By: JAYANTA KUMAR MITRA

JAYANTA KUMAR MITRA — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 16:09:19 +0000

Thanks for your article. I have a Sony a6400 mirrorless camera with 18-135 mm Zoom Lens & one 7artisans photoelectric 35mm f1.2
Prime APS-C Manual Focus lens. Now I want to have one & only budget telephoto lens for my Sony a6400 camera for outdoor shooting mainly nature, mountains, birds & scenic views from a distant range. I am not a professional, I am an amaeteurist. Would you please advise me which telephoto lens should I buy within a very tight budget?

I shall be ever grateful, if you kindly assist me in this regard.

Thanks & regards,

J. K. Mitra,
India

By: Jens

Jens — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 14:27:07 +0000

I love this lens. It has my Sony Nex 7 come back to life again. This is a very nice and lightweight combo. With very good iq. Owning several full frame cameras I never pixel peep the images I just know they are good enough.

By: David Kovaluk

David Kovaluk — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:34:28 +0000

One more anecdotal use case for this lens: I work in a local public radio newsroom. As our journalists are out covering stories, they are primarily interested in collecting audio for the airwaves. But the digital newsroom being what it is, everything goes up on the web and everything needs some kind of visual. For journalists already hauling around a bag of audio recording equipment, a camera with multiple lenses is less than ideal. Our aging Canon Rebels with 18-55mm kit lenses had proven too limited for many media coverage scenarios (along with just reaching their end of life). When it came time to upgrade the camera kits, I decided that the a6300 and this 18-135mm lens would provide the journalists with a lot of capability without adding much weight or bulk to their bags. They could grab wide photos of a crowd of demonstrators as well as get tight photos of our leaders from across the room in a fixed media pit. Pragmatism and flexibility over creative control. There is absolutely a need for these kinds of lenses, as unappealing as they might seem to those of us who crave total control over every aspect of the image (and consequently end up carrying ALL of our specialized lenses everywhere we go, ha!). The 18-135mm has proven to be versatile, robust, and an all-around good performer for us. Cheers!