Sony Japan at lats announced a new A-mount lens: The 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G SSM II!
These are the specs google translated via Sony Japan:
And sharp sense of resolution, it is a telephoto zoom lens that achieves a beautiful blur of unique G lens.
Sports and animal outdoor shooting, of course, ideal for close-up photography and shortest shooting distance 1.2m. I am also active in such portraits and flowers of shooting.Flare and ghost caused by surface-to-surface reflection is suppressed significantly by employing nano AR coating, further improve the descriptive power.
Dynamic tracking performance of AF is about 4 times faster in the current model (“SAL70300G”) ratio.
Adopt a conscious design to dust-proof and drip-proof.<Release Date: February 2015 Manufacturer’s suggested retail price: 142,000 yen + tax>
※ For specifications, see the shopping site.
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Aw man, wish the SAL70400G2 was also weatherproof like this lens…keep more lenses coming!
Yeah, with you on this one. It seems that Sony is just moving full steam ahead with a direct pipe from the research lab to the production line. I guess there are two ways to look at it: be pissed off that last year did not get this year’s upgrade or be excited by the pace of upgrading that they are maintaining. I must confess going from one to the other at times.
I believe this is the last A-mount lens in history.
Dude the 35mm G2 is next.
why?
they could have at least made it white like the rest of the G tele lenses, by least I mean if they are already going to be lazy as they have been the last two years and not even update the design. Interesting how the knocked down 50 grams from the weight, wonder what changes occurred for that to happen, especially since its got the exact same mtf, so the changes are not optical, but with Sony thats a given. Hopefully the price is only a couple hundred more, otherwise its a joke, especially since the lens is already priced too high.
the lens quality is terrible!
http://www.sony.jp/ichigan/products/SAL70300G2/feature_1.html#sample
when is the new sigma zoom coming out for a-mount?
Your lying. The 70-300 g is best in class, read any review. Buying Sigma crap is a waste of time, because it’s not AF-D compatible, and is slow to focus on ALL SONY CAMERAS.
Why A mount? I wait many years for E mount 70-300. We have poor 55-210 and super 70-200/4. But we need 300/5,6 in the end.
because the a99 is still the most pro camera on the Market from Sony, and the a99m2 coming first in 2015.
a7 is still only a high end consumer camera.
Yay o/ But 142k yen? 1000€? For an upgraded AF, nano-coating (ok it is weather sealed now…)?
I REALLY hope it’s better than the Tamron 70-300 USD…
Yay… now we’ll never ever again hear a complaint from the A mount folks here for the rest of the year!
LOL, who am I kidding? ha 😛