Объектив Sony SEL50M28 FE 50 mm f / 2.8 Macro E-mount*

Overall this is a really nice lens. The size and weight are perfect for a Sony Alpha body and doubles as a really nice street photography lens. The real question for me was is it worth the money, and that's where the three stars comes from. Being that it's a plastic lens, aperture, and autofocus that's noisy compared to other Sony lens, plus slow and misses a lot when really close-up, it's hard to say it's a $500 lens.
I'd say it's better than half as good as the Sony 90mm FE macro which is twice the price, but in general I'd say Sony's lens cost a little more than they're worth. If this was say $350, or (or even like the 28mm FE) I might say it's more reasonable and a 4-5 star lens. No, you wouldn't ever shoot macro at that aperture, but it would definitely help this lens in the portrait and street photography area. Considering you can get the Sony 50mm which seems like it has the same AF motor and extension tubes for around $250, this is a hard sell at $500 regardless of how nice the photos are.
BUILD:
It's plastic, but feels durable. The real question is how well does the front seal keep out dust and moisture over time. The barrel sticks out quite a ways when fully extended which means a lot of chances for dust and moisture to get in to the lens. Though there's no lens hood, the front element is sunk far enough into the lens that the lens itself acts as a hood. I had no flaring issues when shooting in the sun and back lit photos, so it does it's job.
FOCUSING:
AUTO- When shooting portraits or objects more than a few feet away it actually is quite fast, and locks on almost every time. The closer the object is the longer and harder it is to get a focus, and when it misses it really misses, and the lens needs to fully focus out and then back which feels like an eternity, especially when I just got done trying the FE 90mm for a few days. The motor is pretty noisy compared to all the other Sony lens I have but nothing I'd consider unbearable.
MANUAL- Now this is probably the biggest plus to this lens in my opinion. Using fast turns it still takes two full turns to go from min to max focus. On a normal lens this would be really annoying, but for macro and trying to achieve tack sharp focus this works really good for me. The focal length also helps with this. That was my biggest complaint in the Sony 90mm macro was that the focus was very sensitive and hard to achieve perfect focus without working hard for it. (but that's macro for you)
Note- The closer to the minimum focus you are, the more light fall off you have, that is the darker the photo gets, so the more you need to adjust ISO, aperture, or shutter speed to compensate, so you need really good lighting or a ring light. The additional issue with this is that you're so close to your object at min focus that you're almost touching it with the lens so an on camera or even hotshoe flash is probably going to cause a shadow from the lens, though I didn't test this out. Thankfully I had good lighting at the time.
IMAGE QUALITY:
I think it's great. Bokeh looks smooth and colors and contrast are acceptable. Many of the photos attached have very little editing to them. Just white balance and a small boost in color. For portraits I really like it. I managed to get a lot of good handheld macro photos which would be a lot more difficult with a 90mm or 100mm macro lens.
Overall this is a good lens. If you're looking for a cheap Sony native macro lens that doubles as a portrait and street photography lens and are fine with the aperture, this could be it. If you're willing to use adapters for non-Sony lens, macro tubes, or want to be as far from your object as possible, this might not be the lens for you. Hopefully this review helps.
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a local Photography Day event and Sony had a booth there. Attendees were able to try out lenses so I tried out the new Sony FE 50mm Macro lens and fell it love with it -- so much so that I pre-ordered it and it came in yesterday. Today, a dark, cloudy day, I grabbed my tripod and set it up in front of a few flowers in my backyard. Along came a few bees and after fiddling around with my aperture, ISO, and shutter speed settings and taking a few dozen all I can say wow! I was about 7-8 inches from the bee and the clarity of the images was amazing!
While I have taken classes off and on and played around with photography over the years, I consider myself a newbie. Even so, this lens was easy to use both in auto focus and manual focus modes. In manual focus mode, it took me awhile to focus, as I had to turn the focus ring quite a bit (but I attribute that to user inexperience). In auto focus mode, it seems to take a little while to focus. But I'm comparing the focus speed to the E 16-50 OSS lens that came with my Sony A6000 camera, so I'm guessing slower focusing time for a Macro lens is to be expected.
At any rate, I have no complaints. It's a great lens at an affordable price (comparatively speaking) and, so far, I love it!
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