Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
p.45 #1Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
Male water buck.
ILCE-9M3 FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/4.0 1/800s 250 ISO -0.3 EV
Jun 26, 2025 at 05:50 PM
p.45 #2Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
Spotted Hyena - Kruger National Park
ILCE-9M3 FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/4.0 1/1600s 3200 ISO -0.7 EV
Jun 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
p.45 #3Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
KNP
ILCE-9M3 FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter lens 600mm f/5.6 1/1250s 800 ISO 0.0 EV
Jun 28, 2025 at 01:12 PM
p.45 #4Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
Astur gentilis by Andrew Nik, on FlickrJul 08, 2025 at 02:46 AM
p.45 #6Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
Didn't know this thread still exists
Some recent ones.
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ILCE-1M2 FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter lens 600mm f/5.6 1/250s 1250 ISO 0.0 EV
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ILCE-1M2 FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter lens 600mm f/5.6 1/800s 2000 ISO -0.7 EV
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ILCE-1M2 FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter lens 600mm f/5.6 1/500s 2500 ISO -1.0 EV
Aug 01, 2025 at 05:49 AM
p.45 #7Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
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ILCE-1M2 FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter lens 600mm f/5.6 1/400s 320 ISO -1.7 EV
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ILCE-1M2 FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter lens 600mm f/5.6 1/1000s 640 ISO -1.3 EV
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ILCE-1M2 FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter lens 600mm f/5.6 1/1000s 400 ISO -1.7 EV
Aug 01, 2025 at 05:52 AM
p.45 #8Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
I was doing an early morning walk at Steamboat Lake S.P. here in Colorado and heard a sandhill crane calling close by. Lets just say I was in the right place at the right time when a hiker with two dogs came up the trail towards me.
Sandhill Crane take off
Sandhill Crane take off
Sandhill Crane take off
Sandhill Crane take off
Sandhill Crane take off
Sandhill Crane take off
Sandhill Crane take off
Sandhill Crane take off
ILCE-1M2 FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/4.0 1/3200s 6400 ISO 0.0 EV
Sandhill Crane take off
ILCE-1M2 FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/4.0 1/3200s 6400 ISO 0.0 EV
Sandhill Crane take off
ILCE-1M2 FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/4.0 1/3200s 6400 ISO 0.0 EV
Sandhill Crane take off
ILCE-1M2 FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/4.0 1/3200s 6400 ISO 0.0 EV
Sandhill Crane take off
ILCE-1M2 FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/4.0 1/3200s 6400 ISO 0.0 EV
Sandhill Crane take off
ILCE-1M2 FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/4.0 1/3200s 6400 ISO 0.0 EV
Sandhill Crane take off
ILCE-1M2 FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/4.0 1/3200s 6400 ISO 0.0 EV
Aug 01, 2025 at 07:41 AM
p.45 #9Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
MFD on this lens is annoying, oh well, can't have it all I guess.
Aug 18, 2025 at 07:13 AM
p.45 #10Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
duncangr wrote:
MFD on this lens is annoying, oh well, can't have it all I guess.
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6730_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6731_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6732_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6733_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6734_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6735_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6736_DxD_16x9.jpg
Good work on the swallows.
MFD is pretty good and you can't find much better in a prime lens. 2m is pretty standard for a 300/2.8. Nikon 120-300 is 2m. Canon RF100-300 is 1.8m. Canon EF 300II was 2m. If we look at something like the Z400/4.5 we jump out to 2.5m. 400DOII was 3.3m.
I think the MFD is excellent for most subjects. Were those swallows within MFD? The 2nd to last is OOF but the last is slightly better focused (although not sharp) so I don't really know if MFD was the problem?? Looks like focus just latched onto the bird's right wing...not that it was within MFD.
MFD on this lens is annoying, oh well, can't have it all I guess.
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6730_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6731_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6732_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6733_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6734_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6735_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6736_DxD_16x9.jpg
Good work on the swallows.
MFD is pretty good and you can't find much better in a prime lens. 2m is pretty standard for a 300/2.8. Nikon 120-300 is 2m. Canon RF100-300 is 1.8m. Canon EF 300II was 2m. If we look at something like the Z400/4.5 we jump out to 2.5m. 400DOII was 3.3m.
I think the MFD is excellent for most subjects. Were those swallows within MFD? The 2nd to last is OOF but the last is slightly better focused (although not sharp) so I don't really know if MFD was the problem?? Looks like focus just latched onto the bird's right wing...not that it was within MFD.
Aug 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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p.45 #11Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
arbitrage wrote:
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6730_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6731_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6732_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6733_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6734_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6735_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6736_DxD_16x9.jpgGood work on the swallows.
MFD is pretty good and you can't find much better in a prime lens. 2m is pretty standard for a 300/2.8. Nikon 120-300 is 2m. Canon RF100-300 is 1.8m. Canon EF 300II was 2m. If we look at something like the Z400/4.5 we jump out to 2.5m. 400DOII was 3.3m.
I think the MFD is excellent for most subjects. Were those swallows within MFD? The 2nd to last is OOF but the last is slightly better focused (although not sharp) so I don't really know if MFD was the problem?? Looks like focus just latched onto the...Show more →
Could be unrelated to MFD but I did find that the focus becomes a little erratic when birds get really close with the 200-600 while I never experienced that with the 100-400.
The birds were feeding on bugs I disturbed from the scrub around me so were often snapping up bugs just a few inches from my head. I noticed them doing this while I was walking and so I sat down - to better acquire them when they were low over the ground, and because most of the bugs were just a foot or two above the ground so better chance of getting a frame of one of them catching a bug - and shook the bushes to flush out the bugs. Worked a treat - I'll take a video of me shooting next time if they are still behaving the same way. I think a lot of fledglings around as we head towards summer so hopefully they will be around for a few more days.
duncangr wrote
MFD on this lens is annoying, oh well, can't have it all I guess.https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6730_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6731_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6732_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6733_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6734_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6735_DxD_16x9.jpg
https://duncangroenewald.com/img/photos/2025-08/2025-08-17/A9iii/DGB_20250817_1_6736_DxD_16x9.jpg
MFD is pretty good and you can't find much better in a prime lens. 2m is pretty standard for a 300/2.8. Nikon 120-300 is 2m. Canon RF100-300 is 1.8m. Canon EF 300II was 2m. If we look at something like the Z400/4.5 we jump out to 2.5m. 400DOII was 3.3m.
I think the MFD is excellent for most subjects. Were those swallows within MFD? The 2nd to last is OOF but the last is slightly better focused (although not sharp) so I don't really know if MFD was the problem?? Looks like focus just latched onto the...Show more →
Could be unrelated to MFD but I did find that the focus becomes a little erratic when birds get really close with the 200-600 while I never experienced that with the 100-400.
The birds were feeding on bugs I disturbed from the scrub around me so were often snapping up bugs just a few inches from my head. I noticed them doing this while I was walking and so I sat down - to better acquire them when they were low over the ground, and because most of the bugs were just a foot or two above the ground so better chance of getting a frame of one of them catching a bug - and shook the bushes to flush out the bugs. Worked a treat - I'll take a video of me shooting next time if they are still behaving the same way. I think a lot of fledglings around as we head towards summer so hopefully they will be around for a few more days.
Aug 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
p.45 #12Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
For something completely different, this is a very capable sports photography lens as I have experienced over the last couple of days shooting WTA1000 tennis tournament in Cincinnati, OH,
Few sample shots:
Dom
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Few sample shots:
Dom
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Aug 19, 2025 at 05:27 PM
p.45 #13Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
Yesterday flowers.
ILCE-7RM4A FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/4.0 1/125s 200 ISO -1.0 EV
ILCE-7RM4A FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/4.0 1/125s 125 ISO 0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM4A FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/5.0 1/125s 200 ISO -1.0 EV
ILCE-7RM4A FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/4.5 1/250s 100 ISO 0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM4A FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/4.0 1/640s 100 ISO -1.0 EV
ILCE-7RM4A FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/5.0 1/640s 100 ISO -1.0 EV
ILCE-7RM4A FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/4.0 1/250s 100 ISO -1.0 EV
ILCE-7RM4A FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/4.0 1/200s 100 ISO 0.0 EV
ILCE-1 FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS lens 300mm f/2.8 1/320s 125 ISO 0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM4A FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/4.0 1/160s 100 ISO 0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM4A FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/4.0 1/250s 100 ISO -1.0 EV
ILCE-7RM4A FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter lens 420mm f/4.0 1/320s 100 ISO 0.0 EV
Aug 24, 2025 at 02:17 AM
p.45 #14Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
Nice detail from this lens with the A1ii
Aug 25, 2025 at 05:28 AM
p.45 #15Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
Lepus europaeus by Andrew Nik, on FlickrSep 05, 2025 at 05:26 AM
p.45 #16Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
Is there anybody here?
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p.45 #17Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
Just got home with my latest acquisition. Obligatory cat photos to revive the thread until I can take it outside.
I was able to get sharp photos at 1/60 - 1/100 with my A7RV around the house. Pretty impressed with that.
Now, do I go with Zemlin or GP Walsh?
I was able to get sharp photos at 1/60 - 1/100 with my A7RV around the house. Pretty impressed with that.
Now, do I go with Zemlin or GP Walsh?
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:41 PM
p.45 #18Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
A couple first photos with this lens.
Goose on approach by Brian Caslis, on Flickr
Duck I see you by Brian Caslis, on Flickr
Goose on approach by Brian Caslis, on FlickrDuck I see you by Brian Caslis, on FlickrJul 28, 2026 at 10:54 AM
p.45 #20Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM Image Thread
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Hutton's Vireo (Vireo huttoni)
ILCE-7RM6 FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS lens 300mm f/5.6 1/1000s 5000 ISO 0.0 EV
Aug 03, 2026 at 03:35 PM