Sony Alpha Lens

norrie rugger

Hi Guys,

Last year I picked up a Sony Alpha 200, as an xmas pressie, for my father.

This year I would like to get a good lens, to go with this. He seems to like taking landscape shots more than anything else. He has no photographic training, he just likes stopping the car and taking a pic, when something he likes catches his eye.

Any help would be appreciated

petercox

I'd say if you're looking for a good quality all-rounder that's better than the kit lens, but that won't break the bank, the Zeiss ZA 16-80mm f/3.5-4.5 DT is the one to go for.

Decent build quality, great resolution and a good walkaround zoom range, excellent for landscapes. Looks like Amazon is charging STG520 or so for it.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Peter

GavinZac

I have a Sony Alpha with a few different lenses but I virtually always use the standard kit lens for landscapes. It's good quality and relatively wide angled. Every now and then I'll get a winder angle by setting up a tripod and doing a stitch-together panorama in an image editor e.g. GIMP.

In these recessionary times what I've been doing is picking up old Minolta/Konica Minolta lenses from ebay - they've all be in good nick and definitely add to the the possibilities. My favourite purchase was a 20+ year old Sigma 70-200mm zoom lens; for €30 I can pop off the kit lens and take a completely different photo, be it of a detail in the landscape or throwing a nice focused effect on a portrait. I don't have any training either but the great variety of lenses available lets you experiment and learn by doing.

Any Minolta fit will work, theoretically, but for sanity's sake go for the auto-focus ones.

Mycroft H

Your options are - (smaller number = wider btw)

Sigma 10-20mm
Zeiss 16-80mm as mentioned
sony 11-18mm
tamron 11-18 (essentially a clone of the sony)

I'd go for the sigma if it was my money