Sony FE 14mm f/1.8 GM Full-Frame Large-Aperture Wide-Angle Prime G Master Lens

The Sony FE 14mm f/1.8 GM delivers incredible G Master quality and performance with a new perspective from an ultra-wide-angle field of view and bright f/1.8 aperture - all in a compact and lightweight design. Ideal for astrophotography, architecture, landscape, and even portraits and movie shooting, it delivers extraordinary resolution and gorgeous bokeh with precision focus performance. Two XA (extreme aspherical) elements, one aspherical, two ED (Extra-low Dispersion) glass, and one Super ED element coupled with Nano Anti-Reflective coating II all contribute to high-contrast, high-resolution results with corner-to-corner sharpness and dramatically reduce chromatic aberration, flare, and ghosting.

f/1.8 Max Aperture

The f/1.8 max aperture – uncommon in ultra-wide primes - provides extraordinary brightness and shallow depth of field, allowing you to isolate your subject from the foreground and background with amazing light-gathering capabilities when shooting wide open. The combination of wide f/1.8 aperture with 9 circular aperture blades and two XA (extreme aspherical) lens elements deliver on the G Master promise of ultra-sharp in-focus areas of your image with beautiful soft defocused bokeh. The fast f/1.8 aperture is not only good for shallow depth of field but ideal for situations that require more advanced light-gathering capabilities like indoor, night, and astrophotography, making this lens perfect for any occasion.

Two XA (Extreme Aspherical) Lens Elements

The FE 14mm f/1.8 GM incorporates two extremely precise XA (extreme aspherical) elements - manufactured to 0.01-micron surface precision - and one aspherical element in an innovative optical design that achieves stunning G Master resolution throughout the image area while delivering smooth, creamy bokeh in out-of-focus areas. Two XA elements compensate for coma, field curvature, and astigmatism that can be problems with wide-angle large-aperture optics. Sagittal coma flare is also corrected which makes this lens ideal for capturing stars in the night sky. These elements also enable closer focusing distance and contribute to the compact and lightweight design.

Beautiful, Natural-Looking Bokeh

While the two XA elements effectively suppress onion ring bokeh, the f/1.8 max 9-blade circular aperture maximizes the beauty of this large-aperture prime-lens, contributing to impressive images in which the subject stands out against a smoothly defocused foreground and background, as well as perfectly round points of defocused light. Conventional aperture blades have flat sides that create unappealing, polygonal-shaped defocused points of light. This lens overcomes this problem through a unique design that keeps the aperture almost perfectly circular from its wide-open setting to when it is closed by 2 stops. Smoother, more natural defocusing can be obtained as a result.