Thoughts: Sony FE PZ 28-135 f4

The build quality on this lens seems to be well made. However, in my experience this lens is not all it's cracked up to be. The price for this cine zoom is well below other cinematic zoom lenses. 

I was out shooting on location when the lens completely stopped working. I had it sitting on the tripod waiting for the clouds to part. The weather was cold and so I thought this had something to do with its' malfunction. So I removed it from the tripod and set it close to the heater to warm up. It never worked. The focus stopped working both in manuel or automatic mode; the iris ring would NOT change the blades nor would the zoom function work. It was terrible! I was out in the field and the lens completely failed. I had to switch to using my photographic lenses instead. While 8 days remained on my trip I continued to mess around with the 28-135 lens to see if I could get it to work. The lens just simply stopped working.

After my trip I called the rep back at Mike's Camera's in Sacramento and he was extremely helpful. They have to send it back to Sony. What a dud of a lens!. Apparently this problem is common with this lens. So my plan for the 28-135 is to send it back to Sony then sell it. It's been a terrible lens. 

So I've had a bad experience with this lens. Hopefully it isn't everybody's problem. I certainly wouldn't recommend getting it. The zoom works well but manifests a lag. The image quality is not sharp or clean. Even if I had the money to purchase this lens again I certainly would not.

So now I'm looking for a replacement. Considering the Veydra mini primes. We'll see. I have to research it out more.

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