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Image on top: The current Sony SAL-300F28G 300mm f/2.8 APO G SSM
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Until now we know that four lenses will be launched along the A9x. A new high end wide angle zoom, the Zeiss 50mm f/1.4 SSM, a new high end tele zoom and the 500 f/4.0 tele lens. Now a Sony Poland employee unveiled that also a new 300mm lens is coming (Source: klubkm). Thread the info with a grain of salt. Fact is that there is currently a huge $500 discount in USA and in some european countries too: [shopcountry 10599].
Reminder: The A99 and the new lenses should be announced in Spring 2012.
The Super discount on Sony lenses is ongoing in USA until the end fo the year:
$500 off on Sony 300mm f/2.8 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
$150 off on Zeiss 24 -70mm f/2.8 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
$150 off on Sony 70-200mm f/2.8 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
$100 off on Zeiss Distagon T* 24mm f/2 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
$50 off on Sony 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
$50 off on Zeiss 16-80mm f/3.5-4.5 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
$50 off on Sony 100mm f/2.8 macro at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
$50 off on Sony DT 16-105mm f/3.5-5.6 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
$50 off on Sony 50mm f/2.8 Macro at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
$25 off on Sony 50mm f/1.4 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
$25 off on Sony 85mm f/2.8 SAM at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
$25 off on Sony DT 35mm f/1.8 SAM at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
$25 off on Sony 30mm f/2.8 DT AF at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
$25 off on Sony 50mm f/1.8 DT AF at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
And the NEX converters + adapter + external flash + external monitor have been discounted at Amazon (Click here).
42 Responses
bazooka! cool 😀
I don’t get what Sony’s been trying to do. All the rumors only point to expensive prime lenses and cheap-ish zooms.
We also need cheap primes.
Where is the cheap zoom? I don’t see one..
That new 16-50 2.8 which comes with the A77 is cheap and mostly uninteresting for advanced photographers.
This might start a long discussion, but most people I know prefer prime lenses as general, coupled with ultra-wide zooms and tele-zooms such as 16-35/2.8 and 80-200/2.8, in full frame cameras of course.
That 16-50/2.8(APS-C) and Zeiss 24-80/2.8 are very good lenses, but many people will prefer prime lenses still.
So you want a plasticky lens mounted to a $2000+ camera?
300mm f4 G for 1000USD would be nice
that’s what I’m hoping too!!
i woudl have one for that but i bet its more like 1500$ or even more
Obican
16-50 and 24-70 are indeed very sharp, the sharpest zooms in all my collection but…even a cheapy prime lens beats them hands down. There comes the place for telephoto primes. 300/2.8 is the only one Sony currently has and I wish more to come
so lenses that sony already has and are good quality (except the 50mm f1.4 which is good news) or there are other versions in third party manufactureres.
Where is the 24-120 f4 lens like the nikon one? your 24-105 3.5-4.5 is really a low quality lens
Poland? With all due respect, that’s like having a source in say …Africa. Bucket of salt.
Screw you with opinions like that!
I did not intend to sound racist, but simply meant to say that Poland (like Africa) is not a major market or place of Sony Alpha R&D or business, so it’s an unlikely origin for a “SAR”. A Polish Sony guy on a lens roadmap conference call perhaps but somehow I doubt it.
A lot of multinationals have factories in Poland, as wages are lower than they are in western Europe. I’m not sure if Sony is one of them, though.
dunno about that. Poland has a pretty prominent Sony Alpha user group who’ve been known in the past to get pre-announcement cameras for field testing and you have to be pretty much in bed with Sony to achieve that. Whilst I wouldn’t suggest that you take the rumor as gospel, I wouldn’t rule it out simply because it came from Poland.
What the Fxxx. I have just preordered the 300 f2.8G….why didn’t Sony tell me first?
The 300mm F2.8 G (SAL300F28G) has been around for years, so you probably did not preorder it just now. Another lens perhaps?
+1
And the poster should not have a problem canceling his preorder, now if it was a special order that would be a different story.
I remember reading on the lens fold-out that came with my Alpha a850 that this lens was basically a made to order
Anyone remember the small tele prime mockup that was shown yeeeears ago with the original 500 mockup? Could be a 300/4?
AFAIK all those mockups have surfaced now apart from that smaller tele prime.
what about the high quality G zoom or the wide angle zoom for NEX coming in 2012? any new rumors on them?
Maybe Sony is weather sealing all of their expensive and important lens. 300mm, 500mm weather sealed is make sense because it is sport/wild life lens.
Oooh, and now we’d just need an SLR/SLT for sports…!
you will get it with FF 24MP. I bet it will be at least as fast as A77 (12fps) with larger buffer (maybe up to 2-3s/24-36 frame with RAW). And the noise will be much better than A77 as 24MP FF have photosite as big as less than 12 MP APS-C. Just wait.
I don’t know what they’ll do, if the’ll continue with A77 policy I’ll soon be a Canonist…
Without flaming, I think that if they’d put an A580 (with its fantastic 16mpx sensor) in the A700 body with an autofocus similar to the A77 one but a little less stupid, with a minimum of customer’s personalization, they would make happier many of us. Cheap investiment, great results! ;-(
But I think that in Sony’s intentions there is simply the production of photo/video “gadgets cameras” such as A65 & A77 (ridiculous buffer, ridiculous 24mpx!!!, ridiculous high iso performance, fantastic ergonomics, EVF and video performances), no more “serious” and simple PHOTO cameras…
Szabla, jestes slawny 🙂
Sabre, you’re famous 🙂
Greets from Klubkm!
Personally I’m happy to see any and all announcements and or rumors from Sony about A-Mount lenses. Never mind that this lens or that lens wouldn’t be on MY list of must haves in my bag.
No, I’m very happy to see Sony begin to chip-a-way at modernizing its limited, technologically tired professional (full frame) lens catalog with new optics and redo’s of classics that are already in the line-up like the 300mm
Sony has a lot to do just to become completive with Nikon and Canon and my never equal the variety in numbers of lenses to select from, but so far I like what I’m seeing and looking forward to purchasing at least two if not more lenses in this next year.
Very few of us I think really need more than five good lenses and most of us could make do with three like a 24-70/f2.8, a 70-200/f2.8 and a fast prime.
Btw, a refresh of the ZA 85f/1.4 with a faster motor, modern coatings, weather sealing and a aperture of f/1.2 would be nice… 🙂
I’d prefer a 85/2.0 or a 85/1.8 instead of the current 85/2.8.
Modern coatings? What is inadequate with the current Zeiss T* coating? Perhaps the Zeiss font is not large enough to be seen from all angles?
Indeed it could be 300mm f4 Apo G white!
I found old pictures of mockups:
http://www.photoclubalpha.com/2007/08/09/sonys-future-alpha-lenses-and-cameras/
http://photoclubalpha.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/telephoto_fixed_lens.jpg
I wish the 35mmF1.4 would be next. 🙁
While I agree I’d love a new Zeiss 35mm 1.4 (which would rule all the 35’s, look at DXOmark results of the current Zeiss 35mm MF on a D3x and compare with Nikkor 35mm and also Sony 35mm on A900). However I must ask, have you actually tried the current 35g, it’s magical and while I may have just gotten lucky with a good sample mine is sharper than my friends Nikkor 35mm 1.4 at 1.4 and very sharp by f2. Most of the people who discredit the current 35mm have never even tried it or at least on a FF which the 35mm is purely meant for!
Great to hear about a 300mm pro sports lens. It means Sony is serious about it’s professional future and this will not only benefit us professionals but also those after cheaper primes and APS-C bodies too as the best pro tech will always filter down through to the consumer items.
It indeed could be 300mm f4 G lens:
http://www.photoclubalpha.com/2007/08/09/sonys-future-alpha-lenses-and-cameras/
I’d prefer they just dropped a couple of grand off the lovely 300/2.8 SSM, but oh well.
It’s unlikely to be a 300/2.8, as the current Sony version (and the old Minolta version) are the best available lenses in that range from any manufacturer. Dropping R&D money on a new version would be crazy.
A 300/4 it can be. Or maybe not, seeing how good the 100-300 and 100-400 zooms are…
300/4 most likely. It should take 1.4 magnifier or even 2x
A technical question: What are the requirements in a lens’ rear element design to enable the use of a Sony TC? So far I noticed that TC-compatible lenses have a recessed rear element which doesn’t protrude inside the camera body. What is the reason for this optical design? Why can’t other lenses, ie. 24-70Z take on this design so that TC can be used as well.
The only limitation is that the rear lens element doesn’t come into contact with the front element of the teleconverter.
Generally telephoto lenses have a larger spacing between the rear element and the film/sensor plain than lenses with shorter focal length, which is why it’s rare to find matched TC compatible lenses with focal lengths shorter than 180mm or perhaps 135mm.
Of course, it’s possible to make a lens or teleconverter more asymmetrical so that shorter focal lengths can fit, but it’s a challenge to do so without sacrificing quality.
Don’t get overexcited…
As a member of KKM forum I feel obliged to explain that:
– firstly, the Google translation is very poor this time;
– secondly, one has to know and feel the KKM forum specific atmosphere to understand that discussion.
It was rather a joke than anything else.
If that’s the case with all SR2 rumours, it means they should be treated as trash and nothing more…
Hopefully Sony will standardize it’s tele on the Silver color of the 70-400G, which is very good at keeping the lens from overheating in the sun. If Sony does white they will just blend in with all the Canon lenses, where silver would be a distinctive color.
By that definition, Pentax have had distinct tele lenses for quite a while.
I am hoping for a 200mm f2.8 with SSM and perhaps a suprise 200mm f4 macro with SSM!
that would be cool
i need to plan tho what im replacing my crappy kit telo zoom with (shorter fast 50-200 range or a 70-300g )
if a 200 ssm was out (black please to match my 16-80cz) i would then jsut go get a tamron USD and wait for the 200
the other way im thinking is get a 80-200 2.8 black off evil bay and then pick up a 300f4 of thats comming out