FE 135mm F1.8 GM

The length of lens is 127mm and the maximum diameter is 89.5mm. which is slightly longer than FE 85mm F1.4 lens, it has a good weight balance and is stable when shooting.

Only the lens itself weighs about 950g and the total weight of the lens including the front cap, back cap, and the lens hood is 1,060g.

The filter size is 82mm large caliber. There is no change in length depending on shooting distance with lens that supports inner focus.

The mount used metalic material, rubber seal is also applied to prevent impurities from attaching the camera.

The front focus ring is finished with rubber material for a good grip during operation and The rear is equipped with an aperture ring. On the side of the lens, there is an AF/MF converting switch, a lever for adjusting the shortest shooting distance, and a focus fixing button.

A mechanical type of aperture ring is supported to adjust the aperture value intuitively.

The focus fixing button on the side of the lens can be used by assigning the function user want in the camera's custom key setting menu. There are two buttons on the top and side, considering the horizontal and vertical shooting, but they operate with the same function. A AF/MF converting switch also provided to quickly change the focus mode from lens, the shortest object distance can be selected from Full, 0.7 ~ 2m, 1.5 ~ infinity.

In addition, chief note is that it applies aperture ring in the lens's main tube and it employs CLICK function so you can adjust aperture as non-click. This function is practical while shooting films when you have to change the aperture value and this fact shows that designed in consideration of being used for shooting films. If you turn OFF the CLICK, you can change aperture without bothering.

FE 135mm F1.8 GM lens is fluorine coating on the front objective lens to protect the lens from fingerprints and dirt.

FE 135mm F1.8 GM lens is sealed off the mount area the lens's main parts and using intergral barrel chassis of the magnesium alloy material provides solid and light weight.

Aperture Blade adopts circular aperture of 11 sets which is more advantageous for bokeh expression than the general 9 sets aperture

The lens name is embossed on the top, and the lens information, manufacture country, serial are printed on the bottom of the back of the lens.

The lens provides snap-on front cap and the back cap

ALC-SH156 A cylindrical hood is included as standard, the internal part of the hood is finished with velvet to minimizes diffuse reflection. There is a lock button on the side of the hood so the hood doesn't turn or disassemble while using the lens.

The AF speed of a mirrorless camera depends largely on the performance of the motor mounted on the lens. The FE 135mm F1.8 GM lens is equipped with a new floating XD linear motor Providing quiet and fast AF focusing is the strength point of the lens. When the lens tested on Sony a9, shows very fast focus moves without wobbling, it was able to check that there was no noise at all and focus moved smoothly. This lens is very powerful for close-up shooting which makes the AF speed slower at close distance than long distance, but this is for fine focus detection and I was able to shoot without wobbling even when close-up shooting.

The new floating-structure dual XD linear motor applied to Sony's FE 135mm F1.8 GM lens is a lens motor made by using four groups of XD linear motors mounted on the FE 400mm F2.8 GM lens OSS lens in two groups achieved fast AF focusing while minimizing wobbling motion. It is also a large caliber lens, but with minimal movement. And it is featured minimized battery consumption which attractive technology for mirror-less camera users who are sensitive to battery efficiency.

When shooting films through wobbling control technology shows smoother focusing, so you can shoot images reliably. In addition, there is almost no noise when moving the focusing, which is very attractive to the photographer.

The SONY FE 135mm F1.8 GM lens is the 9th GM lens, with a focal distance of 135mm and a telephoto lens with a bright aperture of F1.8. In the case of Sony, the 85mm F1.4 ZA lens and the 135mm F1.8 ZA lens were very popular with DSLR lenses, so there were many users waiting for the 135mm F1.8 lens from the initial release. It finally came out with the GM lens and the latest technology of Sony.

135mm lens is a very popular lens together with a 85mm lens for a portrait lens. As a result, with the release of the FE 135mm F1.8 GM lens, Sony's portrait telephoto lenses group has become much richer, Because Sony has a unique lens called 100mm F2.8 STF GM OSS, the choice of lens is much wider for photographers who enjoy still-life shooting like flowers as well as portraits.

FE 135mm F1.8 GM lens is a telephoto prime lens with a diagonal angle of view of 18 ° from a 35mm full frame camera. It can be used for various purposes such as portrait, flower, and snap photography. As a telephoto prime lens, advantageous to express shallow depth and focused on the subject shooting.

This lens is a telephoto lens, but it has a full aperture of F1.8, which can be used to express shallow depth, and it is advantageous in terms of securing shutter speed when shooting indoors. It also has a circular aperture of 11 sets and a XA lens to show overall soft bokeh and background blur.

The shortest shooting distance is 70cm from the image sensor and the maximum shooting magnification is about 0.25 times and very good close-up ability. Because of its superb image quality and excellent detailing ability, it is a very attractive lens for photographers who want to shoot stills like flowers.

This lens is a type of telephoto lens and has a bright aperture value of F1.8, so you can get a very shallow depth of field when taking a portrait shooting. In addition, the background blur is smooth and it is also excellent in expressiveness of circular bokeh, so you can take entire soft picture when taking a portrait.

In the case of lenses equipped with a circular aperture, there are many cases where the bokeh is distorted, but The SONY FE 135mm F1.8 GM lens is a great advantage because it is a circular bokeh from F2.8 to the periphery.

The FE 135mm F1.8 GM lens is a telephoto lens with excellent image quality not only in the center but also in the periphery. It has high resolution and covers enough a7R3 of 4240 mega pixels, and Nano AR coating effectively removes reflections to create high-definition pictures. It has a good aberration restraint which large diameter semi-telephoto lens without a weak point even when taking pictures of metallic objects.

The shortest shooting distance is 70cm and It is also attractive for easy close-up photography because it maintains excellent image quality and high detail even when close distance shooting.

The ability to suppress flare and ghost is good, and there is no burden when shooting at night, and the aberration restraint is also excellent.

The ISO 12233 Resolution Chart which gave the clearest result of the aperture value is analyzed from Osram DULUX L 55W/954 (5400K, 3000LM), a set composed with 8 lamps.

The distortion factor is measured by shooting TV-Distortion Chart, made with the recommended standard of IGAnalyzer, the digital image analysis program