I keep this on my A6500 all the time, despite having Canon &Sigma lenses. It’s a great walk around lens and awesome for video. It goes well with my Sony 10-18 and Sony 35 1.4 as I am a hybrid shooter. I These 3 lenses without the lens hoods fit (sweet) in a small camera bag like the Peak Design 5l bag. So glad I left DSLR’s and didn’t invest (yet) in full-frame. It also comes in really handy for gimbal work. It suffers in low light but if you are running around town or on vacation, it has a sleek design and is lightweight. It is a great (better than average) kit lens, but not remarkable.

I’ve had this lens for about 2 years and mainly use it for stills. It has lot going for it and is far better than than the 16-50mm kit lens. It’s very versatile and ridiculously light, it really is the perfect travel lens in my opinion. However, it’s not my favourite lens. That pin-cushioning is crazy bad though.

Great review Christopher. For Video on APS-C just great for the price. I own it together with the a6000. I like it also for travelling.

Just bought this for some video and stills projects in africa. Overall it performed fairly well. The biggest challenge of it is its not wide enough at 18mm (im used to a 24 to 105 on full frame) so the extra 3mm sounds small but is huge in real world use… So i eas constantly switching to a wider lens. I have owned the zeiss 16-70 before which does give a 24mm equivalent and i found that lens much more useful for general use. (Although the long end of the 18-105 is also nice). I sold the lens after the project as i still have the canon 24-105 with a speed booster and works great apart from no eye focus. I really dont see myself using this sony 18-105 much again so its gone!

Beautiful and very thorough review, as usual!
I might add, though, that, in spite Christopher pointed out, that the bokeh is only OK, and that the stills are “Workable”, that the bokeh is very beautiful for the lens’ class, and the fact that at 105mm the corners are marginally soft – that’s not a bad issue, because you mainly shoot portraits at 105mm, f/4. Forarchitecture, landscapes at 105mm, tou can use f/8. I did not find that limiting. At dusk landscape I managed to find a foreground to suit the corners nicely, or, simply, didn’t noticed the soft corners at all (shoot with Sony A6300 at 24MPx). Beware of AF locking on the background, sometimes (zone AF or even Felxible spot) or blurry images (stills) in fast paced action on bright sunshine with POL filter. I
t is a very good lens, mostly for video, but the price is a little steep.
I even shoot event video with it on Sony A7 3 and works great, especially if you invert rotation for zoom ring (…) Don’t use the side zoom button for slow zoom, it won’t work right.

that was some spoooky distortion, shame it’s only September

This lens is only good if one shoots 4k in video. For stills, must be raw. I find it a lacklustre / mediocre lens for its price and size. Sold mine and bought sigma primes instead.

This lens is so beautiful, minimalist industrial design, I love it <3 and its small too
It's not the best performer but the price is excellent, thanks god for in body correction tho 😛

Still my favorite APS-C lens for my a6300, good for casual photography and video.

As you say, it isn’t a great lens for close focusing. However, there is a big improvement in close focusing by reducing the focal length from 105mm to 104mm, which I find a bit strange, but useful to know.

Is it as sharp as the 24-105 f4 G OSS?

Did you tested the 24-105mm F4 for A7 Cameras?
Would be Amazing if you have or can do any time =)