There’s more than one way to skin a cat. It’s a nasty little phrase but apparently people have been using it for about 400 years, and it applies to standard zoom lenses for L-mount cameras. They’re anything but ‘standardized’, and you’re spoilt for choice when deciding which one to buy.
Budget options tend to have a variable aperture rating that’s often disappointingly narrow at the long end of the zoom range. Pro-grade versions tend to have a constant f/2.8 aperture rating, or even faster in some cases. Then there’s a notable disparity in actual zoom ranges, with sizeable differences in everything from the amount of wide-angle coverage to the maximum telephoto reach.
