Over the past few years, we’ve seen the camera market shift heavily towards full-frame mirrorless systems. But there’s also a clear demand from users for smaller, lighter lenses. With the FE 16-25mm F2.8 G, Sony has aimed to address this by delivering an ultra-wideangle zoom in a relatively compact package that’s also reasonably affordable, at £1,250. In comparison, the top-end FE 16-35mm F2.8 GM II is almost twice the price.
With its wideangle view, the 16-25mm is likely to be interesting to photographers shooting subjects such as landscapes, architecture, or interiors. In effect, it’s a wider companion to the FE 24-50mm F2.8 G that was released a couple of months before. Both lenses are clearly targeted heavily towards users of Sony’s compact Alpha A7C-series cameras, but they’ll be just as much at home on the firm’s SLR-shaped bodies. In principle both could also be used on APS-C cameras, but the E 16-55mm F2.8 G would make a whole
