Sony SEL 10-18mm f/4 OSS Lens Review

Sony SEL 10-18mm f/4 OSS Handling and features

Build and design is typical of Sony's E-Mount lenses, with high quality black plastics with a glossy finish used for much of the lens barrel construction and the lens mount is metal. For a lens providing such a wide field of view, it is incredibly lightweight, tipping the scales at 225g.



Auto focus is reasonably fast but occasionally it can struggle to focus accurately. This is especially apparent with subjects of low contrast, or in dim lighting conditions. The smoothly damped manual focusing ring makes applying manual focus adjustments a pleasure.

Minimum focus is 25cm from the sensor plane, which is ideal for shooting in claustrophobic environments, or for making the most of the distorted perspective wide angle lenses provide when shooting close to your subject.

As focusing is performed internally, the 62mm filter ring does not rotate, which makes the lens ideal for use with graduated and polarising filters. A petal-shaped lens hood is supplied as standard, which attaches to the lens via a bayonet fitting.



The usefulness of having optical image stabilisation on a wide angle lens like this is debatable, even so, the feature does allow a little more leeway when shooting at slow shutter speeds. Typically, sharp shots are possible with shutter speeds as low as half a second around half the time at 10mm, and a quarter of a second at 18mm.

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