Sony has opposite Tweakers.net confirmed that the new 16-50mm pancakelens a suggested retail price of 350 euro and that the short zoom lens from January is available. Previously, it was only the kitprijs of the lens with the NEX-6 is known.
Sony announced the retractable zoom lens on september 12, in combination with the new NEX-6-milc-model, during a press event in Iceland. Although the price of the kit with the NEX-6 with 16-50mm lens, 950 euros, reported, was the individual selling price of the lens in Europe is not yet known. Sony Benelux has now compared Tweakers.net confirmed that the suggested retail price of the lens 350 euros and that the pancake-zoom lens, starting from January in the Netherlands is available.
The new 16-50mm lens is not only as a kit lens for the NEX-6 is interesting, but can also be in interest of users that the current 18-55mm-kit lens from a previous NEX-unit want replaced. The 16-50mm lens has not only more wide-angle, at the cost of some tele range, but is in retracted position with a length of 3cm half as long as the 18-55mm lens and almost half in weight.
In contrast to the 14-42mm-pancake-zoom lens, Panasonic for its Lumix G m4/3 cameras has been released, the 16-50mm lens from Sony about a physical ring, which via by-wire technology, depending on the camera setting manually zoomed in or focus on.
