OK, I know it’s been a while, but I received my first Carl Zeiss lens a half month ago. Unfortunately, I didn’t have too much time to go out and take pictures recently because I’m a little busy with my new projects.

However, I did find a problem with this lens, that is, the focusing system doesn’t work well when using the wide-angle side. The camera will tell you it already focuses but it actually doesn’t. This occurs when the camera body focuses an object at the shortest length. I tried this with my A350 and new model A550, and three different 16-80mm lenses from three different stores, two of them are even SonyStyle stores, but the result is all the same. You need to step back about 1-5 centimeters to the object you are taking to make sure you won’t take out-of-focus pictures. I still don’t know why this happened, neither do the salesclerks.

Besides the only problem I found, this lens is still fine, it has a longer focal length than my previous one. The image quality is sharp from center to edge, and has nice color. More excited, it’s a Carl Zeiss lens!

I also bought a MC protector with Carl Zeiss T* coating, but I still have no idea about what does “MC” mean. Can anyone tell me, please? It would be appreciated.