Best lenses for sony a7 iv9/12/2023 If you’ve been following our Sony FE mount lens reviews, it will come as little surprise to see the Sony Zeiss 55mm F1.8 ZA head this section. The Sony FE 50mm F2.8 Macro and Sony FE 50mm F1.8 in fourth and fifth place respectively are accessibly priced and very good performers, but the latter’s peak sharpness on the A7R IV is a little lower than we had hoped for. There’s one third-party lens at $950-the Zeiss Loxia 2/50, which comes in at second place, but it is manual focus only, which will limit its appeal. Sony has this category well covered, with lenses ranging from $250 for the Sony FE 50mm F1.8 up to $1500 for the Sony Zeiss 50mm F1.4. Fortunately that’s really only visible in the corners and would likely be easily removed with profile correction, either in-camera or when using software. The Sony 28mm F2 is a solid performer in our tests, though its peak LCA of 17 microns is quite high. Even the Sony Zeiss 35mm F1.4 has higher levels of LCA (measured at 8 microns at its highest) at the wider apertures, which although very good, is still a little higher than we expected. ![]() The Batis also has the lowest levels of lateral chromatic aberration (LCA). Indeed, our tests reveal that it is at the same levels as the Sony Zeiss 35mm and considerably lower than the Sony FE 28mm. Although it has the highest and most noticeable vignetting of the five, measured at up to –2.5 stops in the corners at the maximum aperture, distortion is low. The Zeiss Batis performs exceptionally well in other areas besides sharpness, which is why it has the best DXOMARK score of the group. ![]() At f/8, however, astigmatism is no longer an issue, and all three share practically indistinguishable profiles in terms of sharpness. The best overall performance in terms of sharpness is at f/5.6–f/8, though there’s some astigmatism in the 35mm at f/5.6 that may be noticeable in images. Surprisingly, the Sony 28mm is almost as sharp at f/2 than the 35mm in the center, but It drops off a little in the corners. At f/2 (shown in the Acutance profiles above), the Distagon has very high central sharpness, but it’s still not on the same level as the wider 25mm Batis, which has very high central sharpness and high corner sharpness as well at its initial aperture. On the plus side, though, it has consistent sharpness across the field right out to the corners even so, we expect higher levels on a modern lens like this. Wide open, the Sony Zeiss Distagon isn’t all that strong a performer in terms of sharpness, at least in the center of the frame (indicated by the 0% field position). At just $450, it’s a great performer for the price, but as always with lenses, it’s well worth taking a closer look at the performance at different apertures. Per its higher DXOMARK score, the best all-round performer is the $1299 Carl Zeiss Batis 25mm F2, but with only one more point, it is more or less tied with the $1600 Sony Zeiss Distagon FE 35mm F1.4. And although in last place, the Sony Zeiss 35mm F2.8 is also an excellent performer, though $800 isn’t exactly cheap for a f/2.8 lens. Among those is the 21mm Carl Zeiss Loxia while understandably not one of the top three best-performing models that we’re going to look at more closely, it easily matches them for peak sharpness, so it shouldn’t be dismissed. We have five lenses in this category, with prices ranging from $450 up to $1600. However, other lenses did very well, too, making them ideal companions for the A7R IV. The best performers are the Sony FE Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 55mm F1.8 ZA and the Sony FE 85mm F1.4 GM, which both scored an excellent 49 points. We updated a total of 15 prime lens reviews using the Sony A7RIV Sensor test results. Hopefully this will give you a better idea of which lenses work best on the A7RIV and help you find the right model for your specific style of photography or project. We have separated the primes from the zooms in the following sections and categorized them into wide-angle, standard, and telephoto lenses. The list includes prime and zoom lenses from Sony and Carl Zeiss and covers focal lengths from 21 to 400mm. In this article, we use the data from the A7R IV Sensor tests to recompute the results for a total of 25 Sony-compatible E-mount lenses so that you can now select the Sony A7R IV as a camera option when browsing our lens database and making comparisons. ![]() The Sony scored an excellent 99 points, securing a top-ten position in our Sensor ranking. In November 2019 we published our Sony A7R IV Sensor review.
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