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On the 19th of January, 2006, Konica Minolta made an announcement that it was selling a portion of it's SLR camera operations to Sony and getting out of the photo and camera business.
Minolta introduced the a lens type mount in 1986, first identified as the A-type Bayonet which was the planet's first autofocus camera system. As a consequence, nearly all Minolta AF camera lenses mount on Sony DSLR cameras, and a large number of Sony
lenses also operate on Minolta film and
DSLRs. In 2006 during the initial announcement of the a system, Sony revealed 19 lenses, plus 2
tele-converters, with the majority being Konica Minolta lenses rebranded as Sony.
Jan 30, 2011
• G – Sony’s “Gold” series of lenses. These are top-shelf professional quality lenses offering excellent image and build quality with extra features for additional creative control.
• MD – Minolta manual focus lenses. They don’t work on the modern Sony bodies.
• SAL - Sony Alpha Lens
• SAM – Smooth Autofocus Motor. Lenses using a SAM focusing system feature smooth and accurate focusing. SAM is not equivalent to SSM, and does not have a clutch in the focus ring to enable DMF override.
• SSM – Super Sonic Motor. Lenses employing SSM feature quiet, fast, smooth, and accurate focusing. All of Sony’s SSM lenses also feature direct manual focus override, allowing a photographer to fine-tune focusing without using the AF/MF switch by simply turning the focus ring.
• ZA - "Zeiss Alpha", manufactured and designed lenses by Carl Zeiss specifically made for Sony Alpha cameras.
| Sony Nex Mirrorless Camera Lenses |
Mount Sony Alpha Lenses on
Nex Cameras and Retain Autofocus
 Although misplaced in the uproar of Sony’s astounding new camera announcements was a tiny announcement of the Sony LA-EA2 A-lens mount adapter, This impressive lens adapter allows you mount the entire Sony Alpha stable of DSLR lenses onto NEX mirrorless camera bodies without losing autofocus functions by employing a translucent mirror with an autofocus system onto the adapter itself!
Announced Aug 26, 2011
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 Sony
SEL16mm f/2.8 Alpha E-Mount Lens for NEX - The Sony Alpha E-Mount SEL16mm Wide-Angle f/2.8 Lens gives the opportunity to delve into your creativity. It's light in weight and compact and styled to match your NEX camera while being exceptionally transportable (it even fits in your pocket). This 16mm lens contains an internal stepper motor for effortless, precise, and very quiet AF for both pictures and movies.
Typical internet price $249. 
Announced May 11, 2010
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 Sony
SEL 18-55mm f/5.5-5.6 Zoom Lens for Alpha NEX -
created to be used on Alpha NEX E Mount cameras. it's a standard zoom lens that acts like a 27-82.5mm lens on a 35mm SLR camera.. Covering viewing angles from 76 through 29 degrees, it's wide through medium zoom lens that is great for a wide diversity of subjects including landscapes and portraits. And, with such a short focusing space of just 9.7" (0.25 m), it lets you get in really tight for attention-grabbing close-up photos.
Typical internet price $299.
Announced May 11, 2010
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 Sony 18-200mm F3.5-6.3
Alpha E-mount an 11 times 35mm equivalent 27-300mm
zoom that can take care of everything from broad landscape images, portraits,
sports, fast action all the way to wildlife photos using the telephoto range as
high as 300mm. While the outcome will be accomplished, with Extra-low Dispersion
(ED) glass which minimizes flare and vastly reduces chromatic aberration.
Typical internet price $799. Announced May 11, 2010
May 3, 2011
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Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* E 24mm F1.8 ZA - Opens up new horizons to NEX camera owners. The acting like 36mm in 35mm SLR or full-frame format, the lens is a
flexible wide-angle medium focal length featuring a magnificent Zeiss Sonnar optical layout. The big wide f/1.8 maximum aperture is just right for photographing in poor-light situations, and by means of the seven blades which form a nearly-circular aperture, it has the ability to produce images with a pleasant shallow field-depth (by providing a powerful feeling of space).Typical
Internet price $999.
Announced Aug 24, 2011
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 Sony
E 30mm F3.5 Macro Lens
The number four Sony lens for the NEX cameras, the Sony E 30mm F3.5 macro lens. Promoted as the lightest macro in the world for exchangeable lens cameras with the capacity to produce life-size 1:1 magnification, it employs internal focusing to accomplish a minimum working space of less than one inch from the tip of the lens. Sony also assures quiet AF for both still photos and video images. you will be able to get it in October at a
typical internet price of $250.
Announced
June 8, 2011
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 Sony
E 50mm f/1.8 OSS - The Sony 50mm f/1.8 OSS E has the new title of the
quickest optically-stabilized camera lens for interchangeable lens digital
cameras in existence, be they mirrorless or SLR. Don’t be bamboozle by the
apparently bland header title. It's not a warmed over SLR lens, on the contrary
it's an all-new fabrication in every possible way. Although the lens in itself
is identical in size to the standard kit 18-55mm zoom, and additionally the
build quality is nearly similar. A rather deep lens hood plus a 49mm lens cap
are included.
Announced Aug 24, 2011
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 Sony
SEL55210 - 55-210mm F4.5-6.3mm Lens
The Sony 55-210mm F4.5-6.3mm Sony Lens delivers the world to NEX camera owners in a big telephoto zoom lens. It acts like an 82-315 mm lens on full-frame DSLR or 35 mm SLR cameras, It has a all-round short-through-long telephoto zoom range. The wide spread is
terrific for reeling your subjects in nearer to you, Typical
internet price $350.
Announced
Aug 24, 2011
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| Sony DT Alpha Lenses |
 Sony DT 11-18mm f/4.5-5.6
Aspherical ED
- for Sony Alpha DSLRs .
The Sony DT SAL-11-18mm f/4.5-5.6 Lens gives you the capability to quickly focus while zooming from a super-wide-angle up to wide-angle. it can acquire interior scenes with super flexibility and take care of fast action in tight situations. The DT design is engineered specifically for the APS-C CCD sensor of almost all Sony alpha cameras, while it acts like 16.5mm to 27mm SLR Film lens giving you lots of latitude in layout and composition. Typical internet price $430.
Aug 29, 2011. Announced Jun 15, 2006
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 Sony
DT 16-50mm F2.8 SSM -
Sony A-mount compatible lenses are growing like weeds. the newest Sony lens is the quiet, but bright DT SSM 16-50mm f/2.8 standard zoom lens with a 16mm wide angle capture which is ideal for both portraits and day in and day out shooting.
The high-performing lens encompasses a moisture-and
dust-repelling layout, while offering an approximate 3x zoom
range range at a constant full f/2.8 aperture opening.
Announced
Aug 24, 2011
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 Sony SAL16-105mm f/3.5-5.6
- Specially engineered for APS-size CCD image sensors such as the Sony® Exmor sensor. An amazingly condensed premium zoom lens offers superior all-over performance. Its has resembles a 35mm SLR 24mm wide-angle through 157.5mm telephoto length excels at acquiring far off subjects, sporting events, melodramatic landscapes and informal close-up photos. Typical internet price $ 474.
Aug 29, 2011. Announced Sep 6, 2007
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| Sony DT 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 SAM - Typical internet price
$199 - Announced May 18, 2009
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DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 DT Aspherical ED Lens
The Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6(D) is a condensed, wide-angle through mid-telephoto AF zoom lens especially created for Sony Alpha and the Minolta D SLR camera bodies. Optics have been computer optimized for an APS-C smaller diameter imager circle to properly function with an APS-C CCD sensor employed on DSLR
cameras.
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Aug 29, 2011. Typical internet price $130. Announced Jun 15, 2006
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DT 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DT Aspherical ED
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The Sony AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 becomes a convenient, all-in-around compact zoom for flexable and convenient subject choices for both indoor or outdoor images. Especially created for Sony Alpha and the Minolta DSLR camera bodies. Ideal for acquiring far off subjects, sporting events, bold landscapes and close-up views.
Aug 29, 2011. Typical internet price $530.
Announced Jun 15, 2006
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 Sony
DT SAL 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3.
The Sony SAL DT 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 Lens is a condensed, wide-angle through long-telephoto autofocus zoom made in China espically designed for Sony Alpha and the Minolta Digital DSLR
camera bodies. This long range zoom translates into a huge
14x zoom ratio. The lens is relatively compact, while the
lens optics have been computer optimized.
Aug 29, 2011. Typical internet price $579.
Announced Sep 5, 2007
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 Sony SAL 20mm f/2.8 Wide Angle Lens,
a wide-angle autofocus lens featuring excellent accuracy and
exceptional depth of field. It dispenses an ultra-wide 94°
viewing angle, corrects visual irregularity from around 10
inches on to infinity, and dispenses extreme field depth for
intricate photographs that preserve their crisp focus in
close in foreground and far off backgrounds.
Aug 29, 2011. Typical internet price $ 600.
Announced Jun 15, 2006
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 Sony
DT SAL 28mm f/2.8.
The Sony SAL 28mm f/2.8 AF Lens, a compact, economical and lightweight (6.5 oz) wide-angle. Featuring precise optics and a wide 75° viewing angle this lens is a
terrific selection for crisp, high-contrast photos when you're shooting indoors, with groups of people, or for s and urban scenes and landscapes when you're looking a panorama or inclusive photo with plenty of detail.
Aug 29, 2011. Typical internet price $240.
Announced Jun 5, 2006
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 Sony
DT SAL30mm f/2.8
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The Sony DT SAL 30mm f/2.8 AF Macro Lens, a highly portable and compact macro designed to familiarize novice photographers to the world of close-up image-creation. Its layout, price, and overall dimensions all lead the beginner to comfortably add to their existing kit lens, and embark on creating an optic library for their camera.
Aug 29, 2011. Typical
internet price
$200. Announced May 18, 2009
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| Sony 35mm f/1.4 G - Typical internet price $1,369
- Announced Jun 5, 2006 |
 Sony DT 35mm
f/1.8 SAM
- A member of Sony's ‘Easy Choice’ lineup, providing photographers at all skill levels exceptional value, condensed and lightweight, the DT 35mm f/1.8 weighs only 170g, a great addition to lens kit bag and taken with you with no noticeable weight increase.
Being similar to a 50mm lens (mounted on an SLR film camera) focal length mounted on a Sony APS-C
sensor body.
Aug 29, 2011. Announced: Jul 27, 2010
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 Sony
SAL 50mm f/1.4 an ultra-brilliant standard lens for
quick, precise shooting in available light. This lens
provides tremendous clarity and visual preciseness even
using a full open aperture when shooting indoors or in
poor-light and twilight situations. When mounted on a Sony APS-C DSLR camera body, this lens becomes a 75mm focal length midrange telephoto (similar to a 35mm SLR film camera), and
benefits from the Super SteadyShot image stabilizer system located in the camera body to diminish blurring from unstable hands.
Aug 29, 2011. Typical internet price $400.
Announced Jun 5, 2006
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 Sony
DT 50mm f/1.8 AF -
At the first look the Sony DT 50mm f/1.8 AF Lens resembles a standard prime, although as it's a DT lens engineered to cover only Sony APS-C image sensors, it should appropriately be thought of as a condensed telephoto lens. Its low cost, layout, and overall dimensions all lead the beginner to start comfortably accessorizing their camera bag, and begin developing an optic library for their photography.
Aug 29, 2011. Announced May 18, 2009
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 Sony 50mm f/2.8 Macro.
A multitalented as a traditional lens and
appropriate for all around photography. Featuring a minimum
focusing space of just 7.9", the lens presents a 1:1
magnification ratio (life-size) and employs a dual-floating
element layout to rectify aberrations. The focus-range
limiter plus focus-hold button provide reassure operation,
while the circular aperture supplies a natural appearing
background.
Aug 30, 2011. Typical internet price $530.
Announced Jun 5, 2006
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Sony
DT SAM 55-200mm f/4-5.6 DT ED
an ideal lens to go with the Sony 18-55mm lens that came as
a kit. This lens acts like an of 82.5 to 300mm on a 35mm SLR
film camera. Another way of saying it's an inexpensive,
short-through-long telephoto zoom lens for the up-and-coming
photographer. It's just right for and travel image and
nature photography while Its low cost, layout, and overall
dimensions all lead the beginner to start comfortably
accessorizing their camera bag.
Aug 30, 2011. Typical internet
price $200.
Announced May 18, 2009
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Sony
SAL DT 70-200mm f/2.8 G APO SSM
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A high-end telephoto lens that uses supersonic-wave motor (SSM) engineering for more silent, smoother autofocus. This zoom G-Series lens
encompasses a wide range of recurrent telephoto shooting conditions. it resembles a 35mm SLR film camera at 105-300mm, a big f/2.8 aperture zoom and nearly silent, quick-speed SSM (SuperSonic-Wave Motor) AF accuracy makes it perfect for far away sports and wildlife shooting.
Aug 30, 2011. Typical
internet price $1,799. Announced Jun 5, 2006
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Sony
DT SAL70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G SSM ED G-Series
- A medium-through-long telephoto with an in-lens supersonic-wave motor (SSM) for smoother more silent autofocus operations. This G zoom lens traverses a wide range of most frequent telephoto shooting environments. The lens resembles a 35mm SLR film camera at a 105-450mm focal range.
Sep 1, 2011.
Typical internet price $849. Announced Jan 30, 2008
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Sony
DT 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6
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The Sony SAL 75-300mm lets you get in extremely near to your targets from a secure distance, while you can also capture amazing close-up portraits and not make your subjects nervous.
This compact zoom brings you closer in to action targets or portrait subjects. The, 4x lightweight zoom is a good value and a great selection for
encompassing outdoor activities and action sports, even in big stadiums.
Sep 1, 2011. Typical internet price $249.
Announced Jun 15, 2006
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 Sony 85mm
f/2.8 SAM - The the very first lens designed for
full-frame cameras for the ‘Easy Choice’ line, so its
release is a major expansion of the line overall. 85mm is a
quite normal portraiture length due to the the native
perspective that it presents. Mounted onto an APS-C image
sensor camera, 85mm f/2.8 functions as an equivalent 127.5mm
telephoto lens.
Sep 2, 2011. Typical Internet price $259. Announced Jul 27, 2010
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 Sony 100mm f/2.8 Macro
A Telephoto midrange-telephoto lens that's very appropriate for portrait shooting, with macro focusing to a 1:1 magnification ratio is congruent with Sony A and Minolta Maxxum SLRs. Featuring a double-floating element layout eliminates aberrations and assures crisp, high-contrast images. Its circular aperture delivers native appearing backgrounds. Typical internet price $679.
Sep 2, 2011. Announced Jun 5, 2006
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| Sony 300mm F2.8 G - Typical internet price $6,299 - Announced Jun 5, 2006
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 Sony SAL-500mm f/8 Reflex
A unique lens in that it features autofocus in a telephoto reflex. Because of its space-economizing catadioptric
layout, it is compact, short, lightweight easily hand held
and ideal for wilderness and nature shooting. Situated on
the the lens barrel is a handy included focus-hold button
for fast and sure operation.
Sep 2, 2011.Typical internet price $1,433.
Announced Jun 5, 2006
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| SONY ZA Lenses for Full Frame
Cameras |
  Sony SAL-16mm f/2.8
Fisheye -
Mounted onto a Sony Alpha APS-C DSLR it sees a 110-degree viewing angle acting similar to a 24mm SLR focal length. The lens also provides integrated filters that may be chosen by simply turning a lens dial. Filters includes a normal, 056 for higher contrast in black & white images, A12 to adjust color by purging blue hues and B12 to adjust color by abolishing red tones. -Typical internet price
$799. - Announced Jun 15, 2006
Aug 29, 2011
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 Sony SAL16-35mm f/2.8 ZA.
This Carl Zeis lens, a professional-category bright zoom
lens expressly created for Sony Alpha DSLR cameras (also
mounts on Minolta Maxxum cameras). Carl Zeiss' optical
layout and anti-flare T* coating applied to this lens help
in reducing flare and increases contrast
Typical internet
price
$1,899.
Announced Sep 9, 2008
Sep 3, 2011
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 Sony
DT SAL 16-80mm f/3.5-4.5 Carl Zeiss Z Vario-Sonnar T
a 5x autofocus professional-grade zoom lens engineered for
Sony Alpha and Minolta DSLR cameras. The optics are optimized for the lesser diameter APS-C image circle employed on DSLR cameras.
If you're accustomed to and insist upon the quality of build
which goes hand in hand with the optical accomplishment of a
genuine Zeiss, pass this lens by.
Typical internet price $749.
Aug 29, 2011 - Announced Jun 5, 2006
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 Sony
ZA Distagon T* 24mm F2 SSM A full frame format lens which can be used both on the full frame and APS-C sensor DSLR cameras.
When mounted onto an APS-C sensor DSLR camera the field of view works out to around 36mm (equivalent to full format camera) so it handles like an average wide angle lens most often used for street photography. The f/2 aperture doesn't really qualify the lens as as an "ultra large aperture" any longer. Although we can thankful that the more
conservative aperture size the Zeiss is a little less expensive than the other
f/1.4 competition manufactured by Canon or Nikon and perhaps
more significant than that is it's a way simpler to
engineer. Typical internet price $1,249 - Announced: Jul 27, 2010
Apr 21, 2011 |
| Sony 24-70mm F2.8 ZA SSM Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* -
Typical internet price $1,599. Announced: Jan 30, 2008 |
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 Sony 28-75
f/2.8 SAM - a quality lens that encompasses a wide assortment of
focal spans from a wide angle through medium telephoto. The aperture is a
constant f/2.8 throughout its full zooming range, making it especially valuable
for controlling depth-of-field and existing light portraits. Typical internet price $799.
Sep 3, 2011
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 Sony SAL 70-400mm f/4-5.6 G SSM
- A huge 5.7x ultra super telephoto lens, especially created for Sony Alpha SLR cameras. When mounted on a Sony APS-C image sensor Alpha DSLRs,
this big zoom lens reaches an extraordinary 105-600mm
equivalent focal length. As a member of the Sony G series of
highest lens quality, the SAL 70-400mmG is engineered to
deliver exceptionally crisp performance across its big focal
length extent
Typical internet price $1,599.
Announced Sep 9, 2008
Sep 4, 2011
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 Sony
ZA SAL 85mm f1.4 Carl Zeiss Planar T Coated
- You can walk away with gorgeous intimate or poor-light portrait images, fashion images, and quick candid photos with superior visual preciseness, this professional portrait lens will leave the most demanding photographers with uncompromising demands
purely satisfied.
Typical internet price $1,369.
Announced Jun 5, 2006
Sep 4, 2011
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| Sony ZA 135mm F1.8 Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* - Typical
internet price $1,479 - Announced Jun
5, 2006 |
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