Our Overall Score:
9.1/10
Thanks for checking out our Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens review. We’re here to give you the best reviews of this product and hopefully leave you confident in whether Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens is the right product for you, or if there’s perhaps a better alternative out there for a product in the Cameras category.
Latest price search at John Lewis & Partners: £599
The most important part of buying online can be to read reviews and that’s why you’re here. We’ve scanned the internet to find as many Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens reviews as we can, regardless if they’re good or bad as we want to give you the most truthful and realistic overview of just how good Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens is. In finding reviews, we discovered that the best and most informative reviews were from customers over at John Lewis & Partners, to read these review just tap on the View Reviews button now.
When it comes to buying products online, whether that’s a TV, clothes, Cameras or even a something like a sofa, there are a general set of guidance or advice that you can follow to help you get the best product for your needs and also the best for your budget. As you can imagine there are tons of different options in the Cameras category and even loads of options of products from Sony so it’s important to take the time to find the right one for you. The four areas that we want to delve in to a little more are the quality, the price of the product, what the reviews are saying about it and then finally we’ll look at an overall score which takes into account the other factors.
Quality of Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens
Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens scored an incredible 8.5/10 for quality.
As you’d expect with a lot of products, quality is a very important factor for choosing products in the “Cameras” category. But it’s even more important to consider and get a feel for quality when you’re buying online because you aren’t given the benefit of being able to see and try the item for yourself.
This is of course why we can’t stress enough the importance of reading lots of reviews, as it will really help you to get a good feel for how good the quality is. A top tip when reading the reviews is to use the search function on your browser and search for the word “quality” in the reviews that way you can skip straight to customers that have mentioned about the quality of Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens.
Once you’ve had a good look over the reviews you’ll have a pretty good indication of how good the quality of Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens is, but we also have the following factors that you should consider to get an idea of the quality of the product you’re looking at.
- Price: It probably sounds obvious, but there are links to the price you pay and the quality of a product. Try and set your expectations for the quality based on your budget. You wouldn’t expect a Rolls-Royce for the price of a Fiesta so bear this in mind when shopping.
- Specification: It’s a really good idea to look over the product description and specification section of the website, for Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens you can read the full details on the John Lewis & Partners website where it will give you all the detail you need. It’s useful as you’ll probably already have a good idea of the sort of specs that make good Cameras. Also compare these specs to other similar products that are in the same price bracket.
- Brand: Sony are obviously a strong and recognisable brand for making great Cameras, so you’d expect Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens to deliver to these expectations. But always consider the brand when you’re thinking about the quality of the product you’re going to buy, and where quality is an important factor to you, look only at those well known brands (of course only if your budget allows).
- Your experience with Cameras: You’ll no doubt have some history with buying Cameras, and you may have even bought products from the same brand, Sony, use this information to your advantage. You’ll probably have a good idea of how good the quality of the product was and any faults or floors you remember from it.
Price analysis of Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens
Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens scored highly with 9.1/10 for price in our review.
Price, a hugely important part of any purchase. Price becomes even more of a consideration when we’re shopping online because it’s so amazingly simple to compare the price of several retailers in literally just a few clicks. In fact you don’t even need to do that, we’ve run price comparisons for you in order to find the best price. The lowest price we’ve managed to find Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens for is just £599 over at John Lewis & Partners.
There’s a lot of geeky analysis to be done on price, but what we find most effective and informative is to look at 3 different figures when comparing products and that is the average price, the most expensive and the cheapest. This gives you a really good feel for what the normal product would cost but also giving you an idea of just how cheap you can find it or the opposite, just how expensive some are. It’s also useful to look at the average of the products that fit in the same category as well as products from the same brand. So we’re going to look in more detail now at the price of Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens.
Prices of products in the Cameras category
We thought it would be useful to spend a bit of time exploring the price of Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens and seeing how it compares to other similar products. And also seeing how much variance there are in prices of products in the Cameras category. To do this we looked at all of the products over at John Lewis & Partners, there were a total of 99 products in the Cameras, and of these 99 products the average price was £803.25, making Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens below average at £599. We also looked at the cheapest option in the same category which was just £19.95 whilst the most expensive was £3049.00. So you can see there’s a huge variance in the price of products in this category, as an indication there were 237 products less expensive and 184 more expensive than Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens in this category. So we thought it would be worth going into a bit more detail and looking at the prices of products from Sony.
Prices of products from Sony
So the average price of the 252 products available from Sony was £545.61, making £599 above average against the other products from the same brand. With the most expensive product from them coming in at £9999.00 and the cheapest at £7.99. We thought a good next step would be to look more specifically at products from Sony that fit in to the category of Cameras rather than looking at all their products.
Of the 19 products from Sony in the Cameras category, the average price is £730.89 making Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens below average at £599. Again we looked at how much price can vary and found that the cheapest product to fit this criteria was £169.00 and the most expensive was £1799.00 so there are again a lot of varying prices with the products. In fact to be precise we found 33 products from Sony that were more expensive and 31 that were cheaper.
Reviews of Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens
Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens scores 9.8/10 for customer reviews.
Reviews are really the most valuable part of your online shopping, they’re giving you the next best thing to being able to actually try the product for yourself. You’re not relying on a manufacturers sales description telling you just how good their product is, you’re getting genuine feedback from actual users of the product. We can’t stress enough how important it is that you spend some time reading the reviews of Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens over at John Lewis & Partners, click on the “view reviews” button now to read them.
Below is a video we found for Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens over on YouTube.
Overall score
Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens got an amazing overall score of 9.1/10 in our review.
This figure takes into account the various criteria that we’ve covered above, the price, the quality and the customer reviews, in order to give you an overall score. This overall score of 9.1/10 then gives you a really easy figure to use for comparison purposes if you’re then going on to read any of our other reviews of Cameras.
As you’ve already seen in the pricing section there are absolutely loads of different options from Sony so take your time to read the reviews, do your homework on setting a budget and seeing how the price of Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens stacks up against your budget and make sure you also set yourself a list of “must-haves” so you know that this product ticks all your boxes.
More info: Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens
- Brand: Sony
- Model Number: Sony SEL85F18 FE 85mm f/1.8 Telephoto Lens SEL85F18
- EAN: 4548736058354
- Description: Superb for portraiture, the SEL85F18 creates a stunning image of supreme sharpness and beautifully defocused background bokeh. This 85mm mid-range telephoto lens provides the clarity and versatility for finely detailed and elegantly composed subject depiction. Compact and lightweight for maximum mobility, its high performance optics and wide f1.8 aperture deliver outstanding visual quality. Key Features : The bright, wide aperture lens with 85mm fixed focal length is ideal for a wide variety of photography, excelling at portraiture. An f/1.8 maximum aperture allows creation of smooth background defocus effects (bokeh) – ideal for emphasising your subject. Double linear motor system means focusing is unobtrusive when shooting video. Highly suitable for atmospheric handheld portraits without a flash in low light settings. Advanced optical design achieves clear, high-quality images with minimal distortion. High corner to corner resolution with one ED (Extra-low Dispersion) glass element to minimise chromatic aberration. 9 aperture blades for natural background blurring. Direct Manual Focus disengages AF motor for precise, fine manual focusing control. Sealed dust and moisture resistant body. Compatible with E-mount cameras. Accessories Included: Lens hood ALC-SH150 Rear cap ALC-R1EM Front cap ALC-F67S
- Product ID: 8067536903
- Category: Electricals > Cameras & Camcorders > Camera Lenses
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