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Tony Northrup reviews the new Sony 16-25mm f/2.8 G lens, a great walking-around, travel and video/vlogging lens that gives you super-wide angle, fast f/2.8 performance for great low-light images, with a lower price and light weight that makes it comfortable to carry around all day.

Tamron and Sigma have competing lenses, and they're both a little bit longer: 28mm vs 24mm. That extra length can really make a difference; using this lens I constantly found myself wanting to zoom in further. However, the Sony lens does have some advantages, including a physical aperture ring and the ability to support up to 30 FPS on the Sony a1 and 120 FPS on the Sony a9 III... on the Sigma & Tamron lenses, Sony artificially limits their performance to 15 FPS.

0:00 Introduction
1:01 Adorama Promo
1:44 Sony 16-25mm vs Sigma 16-28mm vs Tamron 17-28mm
2:21 It has an aperture ring
3:03 Build quality
3:25 Why you want f/2.8: Better low-light performance
4:33 Should you get a 16-35 instead?
4:57 Video performance (vlogging)
6:18 Autofocus & FPS
6:45 Sharpness vs Sony 16-35 f/2.8 GM & Sony 24mm f/1.4 GM
8:20 Starburst
8:59 Summary