#sony has announced the FE 20-70mm F4 G, a standard zoom that extends out to the ultra-wide region while maintaining its reach at the long end. The unstabilized lens offers a constant F4 aperture in a relatively compact and lightweight body. The 20mm starting point gives an additional ten degrees of diagonal angle-of-view compared to 24mm (for reference, the difference between 28 and 24 is around eight degrees). Sony points out that this means you can still maintain a wide angle of view even with the additional crop applied by engaging digital stabilization in video. We found the combination of standard range with extension out to the ultra-wide valuable for both stills and video when we used Panasonic’s Lumix 20-60mm F3.5-5.6, and the addition of more reach at the long end only expands that flexibility. The lens has a dedicated aperture ring, as well as zoom and focus rings. The aperture ring has a lock switch to keep in in (or out of) its ‘A’ setting, that passes aperture control ...