My second favorite lens is the Sony 24-70MM F2.8 GM.Įven if you can buy the Sony 85MM F1.4 GM lens for half the price, at $900 I still will discourage you from buying this lens. The lens is silent, it is light, it is sharp, it has amazing background blurr, and it is my newest and most favorite lens for portraits. The slight difference in F stop is inconsequentcial because I am now capturing every shot with perfect focus. At $550, it out-performs the 85 1.4 GM lens in every way. My freinds, the Sony 85MM 1.8 lens (its not even a G lens) is amazing. It is amazing! It delivers the GM performace at only $550. I started to watch channels from the Sony Ambassadors and then I noticed that they did not recommend the 85MM GM lens, instead, they indirectly stated that the $550 Sony 85MM 1.8 is the lens to buy and use. I lost faith in the lens, and lost faith in the you tube vloggers who gave it their top recommendation. With its grrr sound, and lack of focus (maybe 1 out of 3 shots were sharp), I gave up on it. It was at a birthday, I wanted to get the portraits from this lens. It is only a matter of time before the lens will fail. Friction will result in the premature failured of the component. As a person who studied engineering, we learn that this sound is caused by friction. All the while, the auto focus motor is grinding away with a constant and irritating GRRRR sound. My subject will be about 5 feet in front of me, and the lens can not find a focus in over half of the shots. When I add the Sony branded flash, it gets worst.
Maybe 30% of my pictures will be in focus. When I attempt to take several photo in a fast sequence, with a steady subject, then will still search for focus after each shot.
Even when the subject is not moving, the lens would serach and search for focus. It takes several seconds for it to find and lock into focus. Just because it is a F1.4 and weather sealed, does not make it "professional." In fact, this lens has poor construction in that it has terrible auto focus and a terrible auto focus motor.
#Bokeh lens fail professional#
I found that this is not a professional lens. After many disappointments, I started to question the intgrity of the youtubers. It started out as my professional portrait lens based on the youtube recommendations for the channels that I follow. This 85MM 1.5 lens was used on a Sony A7 iii for 3 years. With that out of the way, let me explain why I gave this a 2-star rating. if they give it a bad review, no more access to pre-production equipment, and no more youtube income. sony does not pay them to do the review, but without the early access to the lens, they can not make a video that generates their income. There is a lot of money to be made in a income-per-view platform, and the person with the first published video will get the most views, and views will result in income. They can argue that they can just "rent a lens at the local camera shop." But these youtubers are getting pre-production lenses and cameras so that they can get the scoop on the advertising revenue. They will not "loan" them any more lenses to review, and then they will not get the $5,000 from the youtube advertisers. If they do a bad review, then sony (along with the other manufacturers) will biycott their channel. The youtuber will say that they write their own content, and they can say whatever they want. the youtuber will probably get 200,000 views which might generate about $5,000 in income from youtube advertisments. Sony does not pay them, no money changes hands.
In Youtube, the lenses are "loaned" to the reviewer for a week, and then they will return it to sony. My reveiw is different than a youtube channel because I purchased the lens, and then used it over a 3 year period. With significant disappointment, I sold the lens for 60% of the purchase price and replaced it with the Sony 85MM 1.8. I purchased this lens in 2018, and used it for portraits over the last 3 years.
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