One of the things that I perhaps hear most often in the chatter in my YouTube video comments or in message chats is the desire for faster zoom lenses. Yes, of course, the uninformed would always love to have a 15-400mm F1.4 full frame zoom that costs $500 and weighs 500g, despite the unfortunate reality that none of this is physically possible. More realistic, however, is the notion of an F2 zoom, so long as you keep the focal ranger fairly constrained. We saw a good example of this with the Sigma 28-45mm F1.8 zoom earlier this year, and, of course, Canon was an early leader with the release of the RF 28-70mm F2L lens, a behemoth of a lens weighing 1430g and costing over $3000. Despite these factors demand has remained high for the lens. Sony has entered the conversation with their most recent lens, the Sony FE 28-70mm F2 G Master. They have managed to do a little better than Canon with a lens that is smaller (11%), lighter (36%), and cheaper (a still expensive $2899 USD). Is this new premium zoom worth getting? You can watch the video review below, by reading my text review here, or by just enjoying the photos in the galleries below.

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Thanks to Sony USA for sending me a review loaner of this lens. As always, this is a completely independent review. *The tests and most of the photos that I share as a part of my review cycle have been done with the Sony a7RV along with the Sony Alpha 1 that serve as my benchmark cameras for Sony lenses.

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Lenses like this prove to be very popular with portrait and wedding photographers. Why? Because that faster maximum aperture allows you to have much better low light performance and produce shots with much shallower depth of field than what an F2.8 lens can achieve. F2 is a full stop faster than F2.8, meaning that you need half as much light with an F2 lens. You can get more “prime-like” shots with lenses like this.

There really aren’t any direct competitors to a lens like this. There are some interesting faster zooms now, like Tamron’s 35-150mm F2-2.8 VXD combines a very short portion of the zoom at F2 with a killer focal range, and Sigma’s 28-105mm F2.8 DN expands the traditional range for an F2.8 standard zoom. But outside of the wider Sigma 28-45mm zoom, there’s nothing that covers the standard zoom range like this with a constant fast aperture like this.

It doesn’t hurt that the Sony 28-70 GM is optically exceptional. It’s not cheap, obviously, but I suspect that it will become a pretty big hit nonetheless, as this is the kind of lens that you could replace multiple primes with and still be very happy. Enjoy the images from this special lens below.

Photos of the Sony FE 28-70mm F2 GM

Photos taken with the Sony FE 28-70mm F2 GM

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