their new 18-110mm lens. This is designed as an all purpose video lens for users of

the fs5 and fs7. It gives you the standard focal lengths you need in everyday shooting,

so that you can rely on just one lens to cover you for most situations. Great for anyone

doing run and gun film making, documentary, news, weddings. Basically if your reacting

to the world around you when your filming rather than being in complete control, this

is a great lens for you.

To really understand this lens though, you need to know what came before it. This is

Sony's 28-135mm lens which was released along side the fs7 when it first launched two years

ago. It had some really great features, built in power zoom, optical steadishot the choice

of a clicked or declicked aperture ring and full manual focus rather than fly by wire

focusing which you fine on Sony's stills glass. It was also built to cover a full frame sensor,

which you would have thought would be a great thing. But actually, because the cameras its

used on are super 35mm cameras rather than full frame, it ended up a rather strange focal

length. 28mm at its widest end is just not quite wide enough on a camera like the fs7

or fs5 when your using the lens as a standard zoom. This meant that this lens actually works

better on Sony's mirror less cameras like the a7s, which is a combination no one really

actually used. Because, well, the lens is twice the size of the camera and it ends up

looking like this.

So fast forward to now, and Sony have given us this, the 18-110mm. The big difference

is that this one is designed for super 35mm sensors, hence the wider focal range of 18-110.

18 is significantly wider than 28mm and is a very common wide focal length to use. You

do lose a little on the telephoto end as it finishes at 110mm rather than 135mm, but after

actually using it the difference isn't as much as you might think. So this focal range

is much more convinient when your using an fs7 or fs5. Making this the best standard

zoom in Sony's range for those cameras.

The focal length isn't the only thing Sony have changed here though. They have also added

some pitch gears to the focus ring so that you can use a follow focus if you want. Plus

the manual zooming has been completely overhauled. On the older lens when you zoomed manually

it had to use the servo motors, giving you a smooth but slightly slow and unresponsive

response. On this lens however, when you flip that switch from servo to manual it completely

disengages the servo motors and gives you actual manual control. Its a small change,

but it does make the lens so much nicer to use.

Sony have designed these lenses for use in video and so have done their best to minimise

any focus breathing, axial shift, technical elements like that. In my brief tests I did

notice a little breathing, but its very minimal, perhaps slightly better than the older 28-135mm

lens but they are both pretty good to be honest. They don't hold up to true cinema glass, but

they are certainly a long way better than still lenses are.

For me, this lens is better in every way than the older 28-135mm if your using it with an

fs5 or fs7. Sony really have upped their game and given us a very serious contender for

people looking for an all purpose standard zoom designed for video. So what do you think

of the lens? Let us know in the comments section below, and make sure to like the video and

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