Sony FE 16-35mm f/2.8 GM II Wide Angle Lens

The Sony FE 16-35mm f/2.8 GM II Wide Angle Lens is a high-quality lens designed for full-frame Sony cameras.  This lens is specifically designed to fit full-frame Sony E-mount cameras, ensuring compatibility and optimal performance. The wide aperture range allows for excellent low-light performance and depth-of-field control. It also enables you to capture sharp images even in challenging lighting conditions. The lens offers a versatile focal length range, allowing you to capture a wide field of view suitable for landscape, architecture, and interior photography, as well as creative wide-angle perspectives.

The lens provides a wide-angle zoom range, making it ideal for capturing expansive scenes and large groups of subjects. It gives you the flexibility to adjust the framing without changing lenses. The lens features four XD Linear AF motors, ensuring fast, accurate, and quiet autofocus performance. The floating focus mechanism maintains sharpness throughout the entire zoom range.

This lens is designed to be more compact and lightweight compared to its predecessor, making it easier to carry and handle during shoots. The lens includes a zoom smoothness switch that allows you to choose between a click-type or clickless operation for the zoom ring, providing greater control and flexibility in different shooting situations. It features a fluorine coating that helps repel water, oil, and other contaminants. It makes cleaning the lens easier and ensures excellent image quality by reducing ghosting and flare.

The lens construction incorporates XA (extreme aspherical) and Super ED (extra-low dispersion) elements, which effectively minimize chromatic and spherical aberrations, resulting in sharp and high-contrast images. It includes aperture de-click and lock switches, giving you the option to switch between smooth and step-by-step aperture adjustment. The lock switch prevents accidental changes to the aperture setting.

The lens's design includes seals to protect against dust and moisture, ensuring reliable performance even in challenging weather conditions.

Product Features in Detail

The world's smallest, lightest F2.8 wide-angle zoom
The FE 16–35 mm F2.8 GM II delivers dynamic wide-angle perspectives with superb resolution and bokeh while maximizing the speed and performance of advanced camera bodies. Unequaled AF performance provides significant advantages for stills and movies in a versatile lens that is also the smallest and lightest of its kind.

Breathtaking G Master resolution
High spatial resolution results in detailed rendering right out to the image edges throughout the 16–35 mm zoom range, even with the lens wide open. Five aspherical elements include three XA (extreme aspherical) elements, and aberration is effectively controlled for an outstanding blend of high resolution and gorgeous bokeh.

Extraordinary resolution and bokeh
Smooth, beautiful bokeh is made possible by a large F2.8 maximum aperture, innovative optical design, and an advanced 11-blade aperture unit. The FE 16–35 mm F2.8 GM II also offers amazing close-up performance with a minimum focusing distance of 0.22 m (0.73 ft) throughout the zoom range and maximum magnification of 0.32x. Get close for dynamic perspectives while deep bokeh adds extra expressive capability.

Refined for outstanding movie imagery
Reduced focus breathing, focus shift, and axis shift when zooming contribute to smooth movie imagery, while XD (extreme dynamic) Linear Motors and an advanced aperture unit reduce noise and vibration. A center of gravity that changes very little contributes to agile, stable maneuverability when shooting handheld, and eliminates the need for readjustment after changing the zoom setting when using a gimbal.

AF that is smooth, precise, quiet, and lightning fast
The FE 16–35 mm F2.8 GM II uses a floating focus mechanism that includes four original XD Linear Motors and precise lens control for up to approx. 2x higher AF speed. Continuous shooting at up to 30fps is possible with Sony's α1 body. It reliably acquires focus and smoothly tracks subjects, easily achieving the critical focus required for slow motion and 4K/8K movies.

The world's smallest and lightest in its class
Even though it is the smallest and lightest F2.8 16–35 mm zoom in the world, the FE 16–35 mm F2.8 GM II delivers extraordinary imaging quality thanks to XA elements and Super ED glass (extra-low dispersion) in an advanced optical design. Lightweight high-thrust XD Linear Motors further contribute to a low overall weight of just 547 grams (19.3 oz.). That's about 20% lighter than the E 16–35 mm F2.8 GM. Overall length is a compact 111.5 mm (4.5 in).

Professional control and reliability
A click ON/OFF switch and lock switch offer flexible aperture control, while two focus hold buttons provide convenient access for horizontal or vertical shooting. One function can be assigned to the focus hold buttons from the body menus. All seams feature structural sealing, buttons and switches are fitted with silicone rubber gaskets, and a rubber ring seals the lens mount for protection against dust and moisture.