Sony E 11 mm f/1.8 review - Summary

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Sony E 11 mm f/1.8

2 June 2022

Maciej Latałło

11. Summary

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Pros:

moderate dimensions and low weight for offered parameters,
excellent image quality in the frame centre up from the maximum relative aperture,
good image quality on the edge of the frame,
practically zero longitudinal chromatic aberration,
slight lateral chromatic aberration,
moderate astigmatism,
sensible out-of-focus areas,
good performance against bright light,
silent, quick, and accurate autofocus,
good price/performance ratio.

Cons:

very high vignetting,
huge distortion for RAW files

Not so long ago, in the summary of its test, I was gushing over the performance of the Sony E 20 mm f/1.8G. I never expected that I would have to write a similar puff piece for another ultra-wide angle Sony lens.

A puff piece? I use this term deliberately. What can be done – the Sony E 11 mm f/1.8 certainly deserves that and more. You deal here with a fast ultra-wide angle lens which is small, shapely, and lightweight, sensationally sharp in the frame centre and satisfactorily sharp on frame edges even at the maximum relative aperture.

If it wasn't enough, its suggested price during the launch is 600 Euro – not high, taking all the possibilities of the tested instrument into account. I don't doubt that the Sony E 11 mm f/1.8 will find many happy users very soon.