Sony isn't the first manufacturer to talk about making a large-sensor mirrorless camera for compact users but it is the first to actually follow the thinking through with a system designed from ground up for the 'point and shoot' crowd.

Small; innovative designs that are still comfortable to hold; High resolution sensor with excellent High ISO performance (in PASM modes; Good JPEG output quality; Great build quality (particularly NEX-5; Metal barrelled lenses feel impressive compared to peers; Tiltable high-resolution screen,

High ISO capability (a major advantage of its large sensor) unavailable in iAuto mode; Constant overexposure of images wastes highlight capabilities (and no exposure compensation to correct it in iAuto mode; Consumes battery quickly if you use the screen a lot between shots; Poor shot-to-shot times

Sony E 16mm f/2.8 was one of the three lenses that Sony officially announced with the release of its new NEX system. Along with Sony E 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6, it was also offered as one of the kit lens options for the original Sony NEX-3, NEX-5 and later NEX-C3 and NEX-5n.

The SEL16F28 16mm f/2.8 Wide-Angle Lens ($249.99 direct) is currently the smallest lens available for Sony NEX cameras -its diameter is only 2.4 inches and its depth less than an inch.

I always buy from Best Buy, but had to buy this one elsewhere since Best Buy hadn't started carrying it yet. I have had it for about a 1½ months now and am very happy with the performance. This is the perfect lens if you buy the Sony NEX for its size.

Great lens for video; good for low light shots; good price

49mm filters that Best Buy doesn't carry

Really not bad at all. The 5N does very nice with this one, even with the WA attached. The NEX 6 does even better. Not the best for brick/walls or any other flat surfaces. But this cheap pancake records scenery much better than expected. Using the WA or FE adapters adds great use to the kit.

Compact; light; at F8 very sharp; price with WA is 200

not very sharp corners wide open

I have had the lens for about 3 years. When I first got it, the lens was okay. Not perfect by any means but it was small and a bit faster than the kit lens at 16mm. Trouble is the lens started to die a few months after the warranty expired.

This lens, in tandem with a Sony NEX camera, has produced excellent portrait and close-up photographs of people and products. With the optional fish-eye attachment, it takes cool group photos, and image quality is superior.

This 16mm was the first lens I purchased together with my NEX-5 about 14 months ago and was always a disappointment, a great focal length that fails to deliver on sharpness. The optimum aperture for sharpness turns out to be 6.3 or 7.1 and is still not great, which is a shame because Sony has...

Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Compact Design; Easy To Use; Improves Picture Quality; Interfaces Well With Camcorder

Faster would be nice

At the price I had to pay in bundle with NEX-5 it is a bargain. However Panasonic shows that it could be made way better with it's Lumix G F1,7/ 20 mm

produces a slight amount of pincushion distortion (~0.6%) which is usually not objectionable in field conditions; At f/8 it is working very good all over the image field

the corner performance is rather poor especially at f/2.8 and f/4; The fairly heavy amount of lateral CAs isn't helpful