Thought I’d quickly share this. Wanted a fast, compact lens with autofocus as a daily lens, and found this for 100 EUR shipped with VAT. I couldn’t find that much about it, but what little I found was that it had good build quality, good autofocus performance, and acceptable optical performance.
Have only just unpacked it, and I am very pleasantly surprised with how well it’s built, a very smooth and dampened focus ring, and autofocus that is definitely fast and silent enough. It’s pretty much exactly the same size as the classic tiny Sony 16-50mm kit lens. It has a thin weather sealing gasket, but I noticed there’s a gap in mine, sadly. On the other hand, I don’t know how reliable it might have been if it was complete.
As a daily, size is going to be most important, as long as it’s at least decent as far as optical quality goes, and so far it seems like an excellent find.
I’ve got a Nex3n that I bought for 25 EUR a couple of years ago, one reason it was so cheap was that the flash doesn’t work. Sadly it’s of a boxy design, so despite it being one of the absolutely smallest aps-c cameras, it ends up pretty bulky. Autofocus is nothing to brag about either, but at least slightly better than that of my EOS M.
I found that 7artisans have released a definitely diminutive ultra-wide in their new manual focus 10mm f3.5, so maybe the Nex3n with the 10mm will reside in my left jacket pocket, and the SG image 25mm on another body in the right pocket…
Quick test tells me you can expect some vignetting up until f4, barrel distortion. Bokeh looks all right, but there are cats eyes in the periphery. Contrast and center sharpness is decent at f1.8. It’s going to be a good EDC lens for taking pictures of friends and family, stuff like that.
