It zooms and has optical zoom as well, and my photos came out just as sharp, detailed, and richly colored as with my other lenses.

Funny how the kit lens for Sony's NEX-6 is one of the best zooms for the buck that you can get for Sony's compact E-mount cameras

noisy when zooming. sounds like theres sand in the mechanism or

It's very compact and still gives a reasonable zoom range.

Covers a good zoom range