Great if not the best travel lens you can get for your Sony cameras

It's a great travel lens but only if it works

This is the perfect travel lens.

No it's not the sharpest nor the fastest but for convenience and for a do-it-all travel

Versatile travel lens.

I thought perhaps I had a bad copy and would exchange, but after seeing other images posted on line (see Steve Huff blog) that were as soft as

And the zoomed pictures from the HX400 are as clear as if the lenses were made of plastic.