Sony E 15 mm f/1.4 G review - Summary

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Sony E 15 mm f/1.4 G

1 June 2022

Maciej Latałło

11. Summary

Pros:

solid, weather-sealed mechanical construction,
moderate dimensions and low weight for offered parameters,
excellent image quality in the frame centre up from the maximum relative aperture,
good image quality on the edge of the frame,
slight lateral chromatic aberration,
properly corrected spherical aberration,
low astigmatism,
silent, fast, and accurate autofocus.

Cons:

significant vignetting,
very high distortion for RAW files,
a bit too high longitudinal chromatic aberration.

I am very happy I was given an opportunity to test this lens. First of all, a round of applause for the Sony company – they proved they treat the APS-C system seriously. If a company wants their customers to treat it seriously as well, they have to offer such instruments as the Sony E 15 mm f/1.4G.

In this lens you get everything you should expect from such an instrument– a shapely, lightweight device with a very good aperture fastness that is sharp across the frame up from the maximum relative aperture. There are some flaws but only in categories we expected them to be – distortion and vignetting. Also the lens could have performed better when it comes to longitudinal chromatic aberration; still it can't change our very positive assessment of the new Sony product.

The price tag might be a small spoon of tar in a barrel of honey. When writing these words the European price reaches 850 Euro – almost two times higher than the price of the rival Sigma.

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We hope it's not the last f/1.4 Sony lens designed for APS-C sensors and privately we wish to see even faster models released in the future. Anyway we are going to keep our fingers crossed!