Overview
The Sony Sal55200 55-200mm Telephoto Zoom Lens is exactly what you need for perfect pictures and excellent photography. Covering the medium to telephoto stretch of the standard zoom range, this camera is a lightweight, easy-handling choice for shooting sports, wildlife and travel. This lens is perfect for a Sony digital camera and is now available online for purchase only on Snapdeal.
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Type of Lens
This Sony Sal55200 55-200mm Telephoto Zoom Lens has true zoom camera lens. A zoom lens is a mechanical assembly of lens elements for which the focal length and angle of view can be varied, as opposed to a fixed focal length (FFL) lens. A true zoom lens also maintains focus when its focal length changes. They afford the user the convenience of variable focal length, at the cost of complexity. Zoom lenses achieve this convenience through compromises on image quality, weight, dimensions, aperture, autofocus performance (both speed and accuracy), build quality, and cost of manufacture.
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Lens Best Suited For Sports, Wildlife and Travel Photography
The Sony Sal55200 55-200mm Telephoto Zoom Lens is the perfect lens for sports, wildlife and travel. Built into the lens, the Smooth Autofocus Motor (SAM), is significantly smoother and quieter than conventional camera-coupled autofocus drive systems.
Aperture
The Sony Sal55200 55-200mm Telephoto Zoom Lens has a 9-blade circular aperture for attractive defocusing. Diaphragms with rounded apertures and many blades produce a circular hole with nice round highlights. The aperture shape shows up most easily in highlights but it is not just highlights that get projected as the shapes in the image. It is all points of light not in focus with the detail and contrast in the background yet one gets a rough look with straight aperture blades, instead of a sea of tiny circles.
Bokeh
The Sony Sal55200 55-200mm Telephoto Zoom Lens, instead of having a standard polygon-shaped lens aperture, features a 9-blade circular aperture for more natural, rounded defocusing or bokeh. Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. You can deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions.
Compatible Camera
This lens is compatible with 35 mm Full Frame 2, or APS-C format A-mount cameras and is the perfect choice for getting closer to details in both natural and urban environments which are lost in a larger view. Their broad flexibility coupled with a desire to zoom-closer than a standard kit lens makes a telephoto model the natural choice when people want to combine excellent photography experience with amazing natural photos.
