A high-performance standard zoom for wide-angle to midrange telephoto shots. This compact, easy-to-carry lens carries you from 24mm wide-angle to 105mm telephoto — the range of focal lengths you’ll use most often for general-purpose photography, giving you a single lens to use on vacation or take on location. Mounted on the Sony® α (alpha) DSLR-A100 camera, this lens provides 35mm wide-angle to 157.7mm telephoto imaging (35mm equivalent).

Glass-Molded Aspherical Lens Elements
Two glass-molded aspherical lens elements correct visual aberrations and improve picture quality across the entire zoom range.

Circular Aperture
Because aperture blades form a near circle at the wide openings used for low-light shots, spot-light sources have a pleasing circular defocused effect.

Auto Clutch
In auto-focus mode, the manual focus ring does not rotate — and in manual focusing, a wider focus ring provides a solid, hands-on feel.

Reviews

Sony 24-105mm SAL-24105 Lens Review by alphamountworld.com

Sony’s 24-105mm f3.5-4.5 is a carry over from the highly popular Minolta 24-105 RS ‘D’ (D stands for distance encoding via an 8 pin connector). Distance encoding basically means the camera and lens communicate with each other in multi-segment metering mode so the camera knows what focal length the lens is at during the time of exposure, and as a result helps to more correctly analyze that data for a final exposure calculation. This data is even more important when using a compatible flash unit so all three can work together to gather correct exposure information, and generally speaking you get a more accurate flash reading at any given focal length as a result.