Compact, superbly built standard prime lens
This standard prime lens packs the high image quality and beautiful bokeh of the G Lens into a compact design with superb build quality and intuitive operability. It's the ideal lens for shooting casual portraits. The fast, precise, and quiet AF is ideal for shooting both stills and movies, ensuring capture of those vital moments.
Compact and precision 50-mm F2.5 prime lens
A matching set of portable primes This is one of our G Lens primes (sold separately), offering different focal lengths but the same external look, 49 mm filter diameter, compact design, and layout. They're compact enough to carry all three, so you're ready for great shots across a range of scenes and subjects, and the similar weight even makes gimbal rebalancing easy.
FE 50 mm F2.5 G Photo Gallery
Intuitive, metal design and clear optics The metal (aluminum) finish of the lens body and hood, plus the engraved focal length and aperture markings, emphasize a superb build quality. The ultra-compact lightweight design, the high image quality of the G Lens, the aperture ring, and Linear Response MF deliver intuitive operability that makes shooting a pleasure.
A matching set of portable primes
Compact and lightweight for constant carrying and comfortable shooting The mechanical design takes maximum advantage of state-of-the-art optics with an effective layout of three aspherical lens elements, and the short flange back unique to mirrorless cameras, to realize stunning compactness and a weight of only 5.8 oz (162 g). The lens is ideal for shooting scenery or snaps, or movie shooting with a gimbal, or selfie shooting using the wide angle of view. Mobility is delivered by the compact design that matches both full-frame and APS-C bodies.
Intuitive, metal design and clear optics
Beautiful natural bokeh A 7-blade circular aperture is provided, with precise control of the spherical aberration that affects bokeh, delivering the beautiful natural bokeh of the G Lens.
Compact and lightweight for constant carrying and comfortable shooting
Double linear motors for fast, precise, and quiet AF Two linear motors deliver fast, precise AF with superb tracking performance that maximizes camera body performance to capture vital moments in street snaps and the like. The fast, precise, quiet AF with superb tracking performance is ideal for shooting movies as well as stills.
Beautiful natural bokeh
Excellent close-up performance A minimum focus distance of 1.15 ft (35 cm) (AF) / 1.02 ft (31 cm) (MF) and magnification of 0.18x (AF) / 0.21x (MF) make the lens useful in many situations like table photography or shooting close-ups of flowers or small objects you find around town with a blurred background that makes the subject stand out.
Double linear motors for fast, precise, and quiet AF
High operability and reliability in a compact design Despite its compact size, the lens provides a focus hold button, focus mode switch, aperture ring, aperture click switch, and Linear Response MF for intuitive operability and comfortable shooting. The metal (aluminum) exterior finish of the lens body and hood contributes to reliability through increased strength and durability. The design is also dust- and moisture-resistant 2 , providing reliability in harsh outdoor shooting environments.
Excellent close-up performance
Impeccable Sony G Lens design emphasizes a graceful balance between high resolution and gorgeous background bokeh that can enhance the artist's vision. [1] Aspherical lens [2] ED (extra-low dispersion) glass
High operability and reliability in a compact design
MTF (Modulation Transfer Function) describes how well a lens can reproduce fine details, measured as the degree of contrast achieved between finely spaced lines. [1] Contrast (%) [2] Distance from optical center of lens (mm) [3] Max. aperture [4] F8 aperture [5] Spatial frequency [6] 10 line pairs/mm [7] 30 line pairs/mm [8] Radial values [9] Tangential values
Lens Configuration
1. Focusing ring / 2. Aperture ring / 3. Focus Hold button / 4. Aperture Index / 5. Focus Mode Switch
MTF Chart
6. Aperture click switch
Lens Controls
FE 40 mm F2.5 G Follow the link below for lens/body compatibility details.
FE 40 mm F2.5 G
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