Official: Sony A9 III and FE 300mm f/2.8 GM announced
Pixel Perfect wrote:
300 f/2.8 weight is amazing just wish they would release a 400 and 500 f/4 that are also super low weight.
2kg 500 f/4 now seems within realm of possibility and would be an instant buy.
To me, here are the answers for the following questions:
1) Q: Why isn’t Sony releasing a lightweight 300 f/4? A: Because how much lighter could it be than the 70-200GMii with the 1.4TC, which nets you 280 f/4 with no loss in image quality?
2) Q: Why isn’t Sony releasing a lightweight 400 f/4? A: Because you can buy the 300GM and it becomes a 420 f/4 with the 1.4TC
Don’t have an answer to your 500 f/4 question, although I suspect Sony would say they’ve got that covered with the 600 f/4.
So by folding in the 1.4TC and using the GM series of zooms and primes plus the 200-600G, you have:
This seems like pretty good coverage with the addition of the 300 f/2.8. For those of us who shoot field sports, the 300GM does offer up faster options that only break half the bank of the other long GM primes, so nicely done, Sony!
300 f/2.8 weight is amazing just wish they would release a 400 and 500 f/4 that are also super low weight.
2kg 500 f/4 now seems within realm of possibility and would be an instant buy.
To me, here are the answers for the following questions:
1) Q: Why isn’t Sony releasing a lightweight 300 f/4? A: Because how much lighter could it be than the 70-200GMii with the 1.4TC, which nets you 280 f/4 with no loss in image quality?
2) Q: Why isn’t Sony releasing a lightweight 400 f/4? A: Because you can buy the 300GM and it becomes a 420 f/4 with the 1.4TC
Don’t have an answer to your 500 f/4 question, although I suspect Sony would say they’ve got that covered with the 600 f/4.
So by folding in the 1.4TC and using the GM series of zooms and primes plus the 200-600G, you have:
- 200 f/2.8
- 280 f/4
- 300 f/2.8
- 400 f/2.8
- 400 f/5.6
- 420 f/4
- 600 f/6.3
- 600 f/4
- 840 f/5.6
- 840 f/9
This seems like pretty good coverage with the addition of the 300 f/2.8. For those of us who shoot field sports, the 300GM does offer up faster options that only break half the bank of the other long GM primes, so nicely done, Sony!