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The Sony DT 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6 SAM lens has an almost satin/flat black finish, the same as the 70-300mm G SSM.  It has a ribbed rubber zoom ring, and a rather short rubber focus ring.  Quality seems good, with a nice fit and finish, but the end of the lens barrel at full extension is a little wobbly, it doesn't affect the picture though. It has a plastic mount.
 
Zoom control is smooth and even, the barrel runs in and out at different lengths like most cheap kit lenses, and is fully drawn-in at 35mm. It extends out a maximum of 3/4" (20mm) at 18mm. The focal length numbers are checked at; 18mm, 24mm, 28mm, 35mm, and 55mm. The EXIF data is off at the marked 28mm, reading 26mm, and at 24mm, reading 22mm.
 
This lens is the first using Sony's SAM or Smooth Autofocus Motor. With good light, focusing is fast and mostly accurate, especially with the lens stopped down. Low light focusing is a hit or miss affair with the A700, (the A900 is much better) which uses an AF illuminator, not the flash. Models that use the flash for low light focusing may be quicker and more accurate. The filter ring turns when focusing so watch your grads and polarizers, though it doesn't turn while zooming, that's the same design as the old lens. These kit lenses aren't really made for manual focusing.  It takes about 1/5 turn from close focus to infinity, which is not as short (1/8 turn) as the 18-70mm. The closest focusing distance from lens barrel to subject is 4" or 102mm.
 
This lens has overlapping numbers, for instance; you can get F/3.5 or F/4 at 20mm, depending on the tiny movements of the zoom ring, this is quite common.  Also, this lens miss-reads the marked 28mm length (reads 26mm) and 24mm, (reads 22mm) in the EXIF data.
 
The lens keeps the aperture wider as you zoom out. You're still at F/4.5 at 35mm, with the old Sony DT 18-70mm, you're at F/5.6 at 35mm.