Our Overall Score:
9.0/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Lenses category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £179
You are here of course to read as many reviews of SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens as you can. We’ve searched the web to pull together a list of retailers that are offering SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens and have lots of good detailed customer reviews. Simply click the “View Reviews” button below to read those customer reviews.
There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Sony or alternative products in the Lenses category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens
SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens scores 8.4/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Lenses. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Lenses, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Lenses? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens scores 9.4/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Lenses category was £2799.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £99.00 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Lenses category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Lenses category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Lenses category. This was £691.46 from the 153 products we found in that category. So SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens actually comes in below average at £179.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £2799.00 and the least expensive, which was £99.00. In total we found that of the 153, 141 were more expensive and 11 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens.
Prices of products from Sony
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Sony. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Sony, which was £453.54 of the 318 products we found. So SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens price is below average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Sony was £6.99 with the most expensive coming in at £9999.00.
Prices of products from Sony and in the Lenses category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Sony that sit specifically within the Lenses category.
For this we found that the average price was £460.61, making SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens at £179 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £1399.00 with the lowest priced item being £119.00. In total there were 14 items that were more expensive and 3 that was less expensive.
Reviews of SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens
SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens scores 9.3/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens is.
Overall score
SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens scores 9.0/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Sony so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: SONY E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens
- Brand: Sony
- Model Number: f/3.5
- Ideal for macroCompatible with Sony E mountAperture range: f/3.5 – f/22
- EAN: 4905524796636
- Description: Take great up-close shots with the Sony E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens designed to work with their range of E mount compact system cameras.Sharp detailUse the 30 mm f/3.5 to take incredible shots with 1:1 lifesized magnification and add a new dimension to your photography.Shooting with this macro lens lets you get closer to your subjects with a minimum distance of just 9.5 cm, making the E 30 mm Macro Lens a great accessory for nature and highly detailed up close photography.Smooth defocusingFeaturing a seven blade diaphragm, the 30 mm Sony Macro Lens gives images a softer, more natural defocus or bokeh, which is particularly suited to macro photography.Gently blur the foreground or background of your compositions to artistically highlight different sections of your photos.Refined opticsComposed of seven elements arranged in six groups, the 30 mm Macro Lens features some impressive optics that help you to take beautiful images and video.With three aspherical elements and one extra low dispersion element, this lens paired with your NEX camera provides superior contrast and colour fidelity in a compact and lightweight body.The 30 mm lens features an internal focussing mechanism within the lens body so you can maintain a constant distance without disturbing your subjects.VersatileAn effective equivalent focal length of 45 mm means that as well as being an efficient and practical macro lens, the 30 mm f/3.5 can also perform just as well for conventional portraiture.The compact and portable dimensions make this lens an ideal all-day lens for street photography with an effective field of view and focal length of a standard prime.Easy to use and lightweight, the Sony E 30 mm f/3.5 Macro Lens is a great choice for versatile photography with your Sony NEX compact system camera.
- Product ID: 3418628203
