Sony SEL-55210 Pro Reviews

We already feared to publish poor results but the Sony E 55-210mm f/4.5-6.3 OSS performed better than expected on the NEX 7 with its difficult 24 megapixel sensor. The lens is surely not remotely capable of exploiting the potential of this sensor but the results are generally decent - at least from a real world perspective. In the low to mid range the lens is very sharp in the image center and pretty good at the borders when stopping down a tiny bit. The center is generally a bit softer albeit still very usable at 210mm. The outer image regions are fairly weak at f/6.3 but decent at f/8. This is probably Okay given the typical applications at this setting where the center is usually the priority spot. The lateral CA are a bit higher than average so it's certainly advisable to activate the CA auto-correction in the camera. Same goes for vignetting which is also visible at max. aperture. The distortion characteristic is fine for a zoom lens. The produced bokeh (out-of-focus rendition) is a bit on the rough side which probably originates in the extensive use of aspherical elements in the lens' design.