Your focal length is quite simply your field of vision when you place your eye in your viewfinder (for Sony mirorrless cameras, whenever you look through your EVF – Electronic View Finder).įor wide-angle lenses, it will be about focal lengths “wide-angle”, as the name suggests, which means short to very short. It can be only one number, such as 12mm, 50mm or 200mm, for a fixed focal length where you can’t zoom in, or two, such as 16-35mm, 24-70mm, where conversely a zoom option exists, allowing you to change your focal length. This is the number indicated in millimeters on your lenses. If you’re looking for a wide-angle lens, odds on that you’re already familiar with this term. You’ll rather get the equivalent of a 24-52mm…
However, Sony only offers few wide-angle lenses for APS-C format and you may consider switching to wide-angle lenses for full frame.įinally, you should keep in mind that a Sony 16-35mm f/4 lens (so, for full frame) mounted on an APS-C body will not be really wide angle considering the 1.5 crop-factor. However, you should keep in mind that they are often heavier, bulkier and more expensive. These can be mounted on an APS-C A6600 type camera.
Conversely, there are also Sony lenses for full frame cameras (“FE” range). These lenses can be mounted on a full-frame camera, but with an automatic image cropping (loss of field of view and Mpx). Regarding Sony wide-angle lenses (and associated third-party brands), there are lenses built for APS-C cameras, such as the Sony 10-18mm f/4 OSS or the Rokinon 12mm f/2. At Sony, things are quite simple as you have only two sensor sizes: APS-C sensors and Full Frame sensors (also called 24x36mm or FF). The sensor of your camera is the most important element of your camera body, the one collecting the light through your wide-angle lens. They can be very useful indoors as well, when you don’t have a lot of distance and want to shoot the whole scene in front of you.
Wide-angle lenses allow you to get wide fields of view and give to the scene in front of you an effect of grandeur, of immensity. We’ll focus here is on wide-angle lenses, particularly appreciated by all landscape and architecture photography enthusiasts. Some of these lenses are already in the article about mirrorless lenses, but I’ll go a step further here by offering you a thought that, I hope, will allow you to choose your Sony wide angle lens – the best one for you, according to your desires, budget and needs. I will therefore only mention Sony E-mount lenses, the one dedicated to the mirrorless format (and not the A-mount). Following these two articles, I’m going to focus here on the best Sony wide-angle lenses for mirrorless cameras. You will already find on our website two complete articles dedicated to the best Nikon and Canon wide-angle lenses, for both DSLR and mirrorless cameras. I’ve been passionate about photography for quite some time now, and especially about wide-angle lenses.