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Sony 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 OSS E-Mount Zoom Lens

MFR# SEL18200LE
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E 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 Zoom Lens

From sweeping landscapes through portraits to sports and wildlife, this lens will cover it all. In 35mm full-frame format terms the 11x zoom range of this lens goes from 27mm wide to 300mm telephoto, with superb image quality all the way thanks to an advanced optical design and Optical SteadyShot image stabilization. That's heavyweight performance in the lightest and most compact 18-200 mm zoom in the E-mount lineup. The perfect travel lens.

Circular Aperture

When changing your aperture to defocus the background, the light sources appear blurred. This 'bokeh' effect of the blurred background can be enhanced with circular aperture blades used in this lens. Conventional aperture blades have flat sides creating unappealing polygonal shaped defocussed points of light. α lenses overcome this problem through a unique design that keeps the aperture almost perfectly circular from its wide-open setting to when it is closed by 2 stops. Smoother, more natural defocusing can be obtained as a result.

ED (Extra-low Dispersion) glass

As focal lengths get longer, lenses built with conventional optical glass have difficulties with chromatic aberration, and as a result images suffer from lower contrast, lower color quality, and lower resolution. ED glass dramatically reduces chromatic aberration at telephoto ranges, and provides superior contrast across the entire image, even at large aperture settings. Super ED glass provides enhanced compensation for chromatic aberration.

Aspherical lens elements

Aspherical lens design dramatically reduces spherical aberration while also reducing lens size and weight. Spherical aberration is a slight misalignment of the light rays projected on the image plane. This is caused by differences in refraction at different points on conventional spherical lenses which degrade image quality in large-aperture lenses. Specially shaped “aspherical” elements near the diaphragm restore alignment of light rays at the image plane, maintaining high sharpness and contrast even at maximum aperture and can also be used at other points in the optical path to reduce distortion. Well-designed aspherical elements can reduce the total number of elements required in the lens, thus reducing overall size and weight. Advanced Aspherical (AA) elements are an evolved variant, featuring an extremely high thickness ratio between the center and periphery. AA elements are exceedingly difficult to produce, relying on the most advanced molding technology to consistently and precisely achieve the required shape and surface accuracy, resulting in significantly improved image accuracy and quality.

Lens-based optical image stabilization

Gyro sensors built into the lens detect even the slightest movement, and the stabilization lens is precisely shifted to counteract any image blur that might occur. The use of precision, quiet linear motors and technology inherited from high-end Sony professional camcorders results in exceptionally quiet, effective image stabilization that contributes to high-quality movies as well as stills.

Additional Features

Internal focusing

Only the middle groups of the optical system move to achieve focus, so the overall length of the lens does not change. Other important benefits include fast autofocusing and a short minimum focusing distance. Also, the filter thread at the front of the lens does not rotate, which is convenient if you're using a polarizing filter.

  • Advanced Features

    • Image Stabilization : Optical SteadyShot
    • Color : Black
  • Optics/Lens

    • Lens Mount Type : Sony E-mount
    • Lens Stabilization : Optical SteadyShot
    • Minimum Focus Distance : 19.68" 0.5m
    • Lens Groups-Elements : 13 groups, 17 elements
    • Filter Diameter : 62mm
    • Lens Type : High Magnification Zoom
    • Lens Weight : 16.3 oz (460g)
    • Aperture (Max.) : f/3.5 - 6.3
    • Aperture (Min.) : f/22 - 40
    • Aperture : Circular
    • Maximum Magnification : 0.27x
    • Focal Length (35mm equivalent) : 18-200mm (35mm) 27-300mm (APS-C)
    • Aspheric Elements : 4 aspheric, 2 ED
    • Aperture Blade : 7 blades (Circular aperture)
    • Angle of View : 76o - 8o
  • Weights and Measurements

    • Dimensions (Approx.) : 2-3/4" x x3-7/8" (68 x 97.1mm)
    • Weight (Approx.) : 16.3 oz (460g)
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