Impressive lens
On the waiting of this lens I went through Minolta md 35 1.8, voigtlander 40 1.4 and 1.2 and Ultron 35 1.7. So When this one was out there I jump into it. Impressive sharpness at 1.8 already with very very good corners, a smooth blur background and the most important, beautiful rendering. As I told you I did use very nice glass before this one and I will choose the sony over the others, ok, yes, if one day Voigtlander nokton 40 mm 1.2 come out with an af version I will definitely trade the sony :). But that is very unlikely to happen. I also did considere the distagon 1.4 but as sone reviews out there show (mManny Ortiz for ex), is not as sharp as the 1.8, the blur is smoother yes... but The size and weight was also into consideration over the distagon 1.4.
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned