Elegant appearance for NEX

The price of this jewel is almost double of what I paid for my Sony NEX 5N. Accordingly, my expectations of the Carl Zeiss 24mm 1.8 were quite high. Fortunately disappointed not Zeiss lens. As early as Aperture 1.8 image over the entire screen is sharp. From Aperture 2.8, the Zeiss 24mm lens leaves the 18-5mm Kit far behind and delivers very sharp images up to the image corners, before losing about 11 from aperture image by the unavoidable diffraction comes into focus. The vignetting is pleasantly low and the chromatic aberration hardly visible even without correcting themselves to large prints. If you want it nevertheless correct, can do this in Lightroom or Photoshop with the value of -27 the green / purple controller. Distortion is low and can not be seen even in architectural photography.

What is less pleasing that the length of the lens about the 18-55mm kit lens is the vergleichbbar. Pocket friendly is the NEX so by replacing the 18-55mm kit lens by 24mm Zeiss not. Furthermore, I would have liked at this price that the optics would have some diaphragm blades longer because especially at f 4 which is otherwise very nice creamy bokeh not quite as smoothly as it could be. Instead, you can easy stop sign shape of circles of diffusion in blurred lights pictured unfortunately rather regarded as suspect. Unfortunately, the automatic exposure control of the NEX tends just always take pictures with aperture 4. There is also no image stabilization.

Nevertheless, in my opinion a very strong buy recommendation for NEX photographers who really want to exhaust the sensor of your camera. Where the 18-55mm kit lens or 16mm pancake optics disappointed shines the Carl Zeiss 24mm.