Price performance and Verarbeitng 1A

I bought this lens at a reasonable price recently and did not expect me not much.
The outer packaging is rather simple and the inside only also cheap plastic, but who buys a lens after the appearance of the package, I do not at least.
Lens out of the box and onto the Sony A77, it was also on a A99, but more on that later.
The lens has a bayonet made of metal, is easily installed and fits well. The rest can be fully convinced of the processing, not a game and the same common turning the iris and the focus ring no problem. Since when focusing only the lenses are moved inside, there is no change in length during operation.
The aperture can be infinitely from 3.8 to 22 change, from aperture 5 obtains crisp images with enough detail, including more bit dull but usable.

Now the downside despite the low price: For distances from 5m let the details (even with an aperture of 5.6 to) and the distance scale should take just no way. The proximity towards skin well, but at a distance of about 4m, the image is sharpest with the distance setting of approx 0.7m and approximately 10m I had the best score between 1.5 to 3m on the scale is infinitely probable actually infinite. I do not want to transmit this "problem", which is none for me on all these lenses, may not fit with my only adjustment. However, I also come along well with this problem and have already shot many very interesting pictures. There is one drawback, the lens is not equipped with a chip and thus does not transmit data such as iris of the camera also.

I'm curious though it came for APS-C also developed the A99 (full frame). Despite the shadow created by the non-removable sun visor came about great pictures, with a little additional perspective as a crop camera. Slightly reworked and should then have shown about 10-11 mm.
Beginners and Ewigautomatikfotografierer be with this lens probably do not have all too much joy, but if one is familiar with the function of the diaphragm and is not afraid of manual focusing, you get a pretty decent and especially very solid objective for little money.