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Love your images Bill, Cheers

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zug55 Loc: Naivasha, Kenya, and Austin, Texas

I have owned this lens ever since it was released almost five years ago. Even though I own a number of nice primes I take most of my shots with this lens. It truly is my workhorse. It is the perfect travel lens and the best all-purpose zoom you can get for Sony FE. The focal range is perfect, it is sharp corner to corner throughout the range, and at 105mm it has great compression and produces a surprisingly good bokeh, so you can use it for portraits. Color rendition is great, AF is fast and accurate.

At f/4, this is not a fast lens. But the OSS works great in tandem with IBIS. I routinely shoot handheld at ISO 6400 at 1/15 or 1/30 of a second, so you can take night shots or images of dark spaces, like church interiors.

30,000 shots later, I still love this lens. It has never disappointed me. I don't really have anything bad to say about this lens. It always is in my travel bag, together with my Zeiss Batis 18mm (you could pair it with your 20mm) for when I need a little wider. It has been on many trips in the US, Latin America, Europe, and Africa, and its versatility guarantees me great shots in every situation. It has taken quite some abuse on some of my trips, but it still works like on the fast day.

Here are two albums from earlier this year, shot almost entirely with the 24-105mm, the first in Malindi, Kenya, and the second in Berlin.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/zug55/albums/72177720300823447
https://www.flickr.com/photos/zug55/albums/72177720299162891

nervous2 Loc: Provo, Utah

Great shots! I can see I need to venture out more frequently with my Sony 24-105mm F4!

Dennis833 Loc: Australia

Happy Christmas.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Great lens and shots - not to mention your photographic eye 👀👀👀👀👀

gwilliams6

thanks,

gwilliams6

Well done, cheers

photogeneralist Loc: Lopez Island Washington State

Coming from Sony A 77II crop sensor A mount cameras to a Sony a7 IV. I had a variety of good A mount lenses. When I got my A7 IV it made sense to keep my staple of A mount lensess and adapt them to use the E mount body of the A7 iV through a LA EA 5 adaptor. My old sigma crop sensor 17 to 70 vignetted terribly on the full frame sensor of the a 7 IV. I chose to replace that lens with a Sigma 24-105 f/4 (full frame
A mount) because the Sigma could be had for about 1/2 of the cost of the Similar spec'ed sony E mount offering ($1098) and the reviews said that the Sigma gave still results as good as the sony. I have been very pleased with the Sigma Art 24-105;

If, like me, you have several A mount lenses and nare more interested in results per dollar than in brand name bragging rights, I would suggest that you look into a Sigma 24-105 A mount Art series lens ($899.00) (I got mine for $550) plus a $250 LA EA5 adaptor which together cost a bunch less than the Sony branded offering.
Note however the the LA ea5 adaptor does not allow autofocus when shooting video (or is it auto exposure?) I don't shoot video so I ignored the lack of video automation through the La a5. but want you to be aware. Also be aware that the La EA5 adaptor may not be compatible with all Sony e mount bodies.

zug55 Loc: Naivasha, Kenya, and Austin, Texas

In my humble opinion, it makes no sense to buy a lens with a different mount--whether that is Sony A-mount, Canon, or anything else. Plus the Sony A-mount has been obsolete for years.

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