I bought a A6000 with 16-50mm kit lens and 55-210mm zoom lens recently.
I cant get the same 'great feeling' of using Nikon D5100 with 35mm f1.8 prime lens for portrait and Sigma 10-20mm f1.4-5.6 for landscapes. As such, i plan to buy lens for portrait and landscape...

A friend recommended me to buy Sony Zeiss 24mm f1.8. He said this lens can use as wide angle lens for landscapes as well as for portrait.
Any recommendation from you all?

24mm on crop body isn't wide. Looks like you are stuck with E 10-18mm & E 50mm f/1.8, unless you are willing to get metabone.

Thanks for yr advice! I did survey these 2 lens. Im ok with the E 50mm f1.8.
E 10-18mm is a listed good wide angle lens for A6000 but it cost RM3000++ which is over my budget...
Do you have other recommendation with lower price?

If you don't mind Manual Focus, Samyang 10mm and 12mm will do the job as well. I think 12mm is going for under RM1500 brand new.

12mm is 1.4k, 10mm is 1.7k

@TS
http://shashinki.com/shop/sony-18mm-alpha-...ia-p-13645.html
2.6K for shashinki, you should be able to get it for around ~2.4K.

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Mar 24 2016, 12:01 AM

Thanks both for the advice. RM1.4k is within my budget hehe.
Samyang 12mm is with good review too but I worry on the manual focus, it seems need good skill to handle it... Hopefully it will be all right to me.

If you're shooting landscape with the samyang 12mm, most of the time you'll be shooting at f8 or above. Just shoot at infinity focus and everything will be in focus.

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This post has been edited by lwliam: Mar 24 2016, 10:45 PM

Hi TS.

Sel 24Zf1.8 is very nice for portrait and the details are stunning. BUT they will never give u any feeling come close with what your had with your Nikon. Sadly with budget limitation, else I would gladly advise to grab back the same range to have the same feel, for example of
Sel35f1.8 (I got it for rm800 last year. New during sony offer)
Just nice to get back the portrait feel, and it has OSS, which it's even easier to use compare to your previous d5100+35f1.8

Sel1018f4, UWA for landscape. Since landscape usualy steps down for max dof.

Another side option would be the mentioned 50f1.8 with oss... And the samyang 12f2 if you do Milkyway shoot.

Thanks for yr advice!

I think this is a very bad advice, encouraging TS to be lazy. The 12mm has so much potential other than just landscape.

Well of course it can be used for shooting other stuffs also. But I just want to give an idea that MF lens is very easy to use for shooting landscape since many people hold back because Samyang 12mm does not have autofocus.

Thanks for yr sharing.
Wow you are so lucky to get the 35mm f1.8 with rm800! The cheapest price I got for 50mm f1.8 is already rm888 not to mention 35mm f1.8!!
Yeah Sony 10-18mm f4 is a great choice as zoom lens for landscape, but the price is higher.... I tried to search for used set, but not really get it.

Thanks for yr sharing.
Wow you are so lucky to get the 35mm f1.8 with rm800! The cheapest price I got for 50mm f1.8 is already rm888 not to mention 35mm f1.8!!
Yeah Sony 10-18mm f4 is a great choice as zoom lens for landscape, but the price is higher.... I tried to search for used set, but not really get it.

I think Xiia0Ban is with good intention to advise me not to afraid of buying samyang 12mm.

it would be very difficult to hunt for a 2nd hand 1018, seldom people will let it go, since there is no other native UWA choice around...

Yeah i agreed with you. The cheapest price i got from a shop is rm2199 (new set) now but sold off.....

Hi All,

Thanks for all the comments. is informative for me. im new in photography and my previous model is G16. im considering a Mirrorless. thinking of getting A6000 tomorrow.

heard kit lens quality is so so. considering getting a better lens.

Hihi..good to hear that. Im also thinking to buy the wide angle and portraits lens.
Let's share and learn together!

Depends on your usage. If you want a kit lens replacement, the best will be SEL1670Z. The SEL1670Z is a versatile lens plus with Zeiss optics, the quality is splendid.

For portrait, I have the SEL50F18 as well. It's very nice for half body shots.

This post has been edited by raymondtong94: Mar 26 2016, 02:25 PM