Sony 135mm f/2.8 T4.5 STF

(3 customer reviews)

This camera glass produces a unique bokeh effect that is smooth and creamy, making it a popular choice for portrait photography. The lens elements are coated to reduce flare and ghosting, resulting in clear and sharp images. The build quality is excellent, which ensures durability and longevity. The resolution is impressive, making it a great choice for professional photographers. The manufacturing time is unknown, but it is likely that it takes a considerable amount of time to produce this high-quality photographic lens. Overall, Sony 135mm f/2.8 T4.5 STF is a great option for those who want to capture stunning portraits with a unique bokeh effect. However, there are alternatives available in the market, so it is important to consider your specific needs before making a purchase.

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Positives:
– Produces an impressively smooth bokeh that is unmatched by any other lens from any brand
– Has excellent corner-to-corner sharpness, making it one of the sharpest lenses around
– Comes with a nice hood with black lining and wrapped in a soft leather case
– Has two individual apertures that can be controlled separately
– Can serve as a portrait lens and even as a pseudo macro lens with a magnification ratio of 1:4
– Great build quality

Negatives:
– Wide open, the lens aperture permits an equivalent of f/4.5 aperture instead of f/2.8, due to the special element that reduces its transmissivity
– No focus confirmation or auto focus

Conclusion:
Overall, the Sony 135mm f/2.8 T4.5 STF lens is an awesome and unique lens that produces silky smooth bokeh that is unmatched by any other lens from any brand. It is also one of the sharpest lenses around with excellent corner-to-corner sharpness. Although it has some downsides, such as its reduced transmissivity wide open and lack of focus confirmation and auto focus, it still makes for an excellent portrait lens on full frame cameras and even a pseudo macro lens with its magnification ratio of 1:4. If you’re looking for a faster lens in this focal length, Sony’s Carl Zeiss 135mm/1.8 would be a better choice. Overall, this is a great lens to have in any vintage photo lens collector’s arsenal.

Optical design

Bright lens thanks to the high aperture value

Physical characteristics

Weights 730 grams so it is a heavy lens, consider using its own lens bag. 99 mm long, requires consideration if you want to carry in the camera bag.

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3 reviews for Sony 135mm f/2.8 T4.5 STF

  1. dyxum.com

    43 dyxum.com user rated as 4.86/5

  2. Ebay.com

    Ebay.com rated as 5.0/5

  3. Ebay.com Apr 03, 2012

    Awesomely Unique It will be an understatement to say that this lens produces an impressively smooth bokeh. Be it foreground or background, this lens does the job, and so well that there is no other lens I’m aware of to match it from any brand. And while this is the king of bokeh, it is worth pointing out that it is also one of the sharpest lenses around and that involves a corner to corner sharpness.

    The build quality is as expected, come with a nice hood with black lining and wrapped in soft leather case. It has not one but two apertures (and individual control for each). This is a specialty lens with minimum focusing distance of about 87 cm or less than three feet and can serve really well as a portrait lens, and especially on full frame cameras. It works well on my Sony SLT-A55 as well as Sony NEX-3. It has a magnification ratio of 1:4, making it a pretty good pseudo macro lens, given the sharpness and silky smooth bokeh.

    To achieve the qualities, this lens incorporates a special element that has a downside. This reduces the transmissive properties of the lens and consequently, wide open, the lens permits an equivalent of f/4.5 aperture even though the opening itself is f/2.8 (hence the designation, f/2.8 [4.5]. But this is a non-issue for most practical purposes, and if you’re looking for a faster lens in this focal length, Sony’s Carl Zeiss 135mm/1.8 will be a better choice. Another downside is that there is no focus confirmation much less auto focus. To me, those are actually upsides since I prefer to engage with my composition and the equipment instead of relying entirely on them to do the job. With Sony’s manual assist features (either via viewfinder electronic magnification or focus peaking, and in many cases both), manual focusing is a snap.

    Overall, a great lens.

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