Some flaws

[Sympa]

My biggest gripe is that the lens does not remember the last zoom position. Overall IQ is very OK and the small size is great. AF is very fast.

 

[NoahBalboa]

I wish there was a focal length lock on these all electronic lenses.

I have the 18-105 and it would be nice to be able to lock the focal length either from the camera or the lense itself while the camera is on. But I guess that's what primes are for.

 

[Sympa]

Well, the camera obviously knows the FL of the lens. It is in the exif. And it could return to this FL on power up.

I had a Ricoh subcompact (I think it was the R4) where one could select the startup zoom setting in the menu. That would be an alternative to remembering the last setting.

Sony... given that your highest volume lens is this power zoom, please give us a simple feature like this. Pretty please...

 

[rube39]

The Ricoh R4 was a GREAT small, mid range zoom camera! I am still worry mine was killed in Habana by a rouge wave.

 

[DenverSteve]

As a 40-year professional photographer, I have never seen a lens "remember" anything from a prior shoot. Unreal expectation for a lens.

 

[Lars Luciano]

As a 40-year professional photographer, I have never seen a lens "remember" anything from a prior shoot. Unreal expectation for a lens.

Panasonic lx100 can do this, remember your lens focal length.

 

[geopapa]

As a 40-year professional photographer, I have never seen a lens "remember" anything from a prior shoot. Unreal expectation for a lens.

Well it doesn't have to be the lens that remembers, it can easily be the camera body. Not a big deal to program but a really nice convenience. But seems that they don't care.

 

[Sympa]

I noticed that if I set my Sony lens to some focusing distance, and turn the camera off and on again, the focus distance comes up where I left it.

But this is not so with my Sigma lenses.

This is not proof the lens remembers anything ( I could surely find that out by swapping lenses), but it is a remarkable difference.

 

[DenverSteve]

• It's an absolutely pointless feature. If your lens always opens to the same setting, you know where you need to go every time. If it opens to a different FL, because you're going to leave it at a different setting, you're never at the same spot.

 

[Sympa]

On one of my compacts I could select - 28, 35, 50 equivalent - as 'starting zoom'.

As for keeping the last setting - it makes sense, as it makes for quicker shots. Just set it to the position you think you need, then shut down.

 

[geopapa]

It is very useful, especially to street photographers. I wonder why this isn't default or at least an option to all cameras with power zooms