Sony has its new 500mm f/4G supertelelens announced. Prototypes were already a few years on stock exchanges are shown. The new lens is dust – and splash-proof, and cost the considerable sum of 13,000 euros.
The professional lens has as type SAL500F40G and offers for full-frame sensors a full cover. It is the first time that Sony is a G-primelens with such a large range releases. Previously it was the SAL300F28G lens that title should carry. Sony already had a SAL500F8 in the program, but a spiegelobjectief.
The 500mm lens has a diameter of 14cm, with a length of 36.7 cm and a weight of almost 3.5 kg. The lens is constructed of 11 lens elements divided into 10 groups. Three lens elements are of ED-type and internal use of Sony’s Nano AR coating to reduce reflections.
For a silent and fast focus use of Sony’s SSM-technology and the lens is compatible with the sensorshift image stabilization that Sony offers in its cameras are used. The lens comes with a lens cover made of carbon fiber.
The lens is equipped with a large number of buttons. So are the front four focus hold buttons around the lens, we see a Direct Manual Focus switch, and there are buttons to the focus range limit. In addition, the mount space for special drop-in filters, the lens includes a base for mounting on a tripod and there is an eye to the lens on a strap to hang.
The introduction of the new lens is a sign that a full-frame camera from Sony with a fixed mirror it quickly comes and Sony has in a round-table conversation to know that this is there final to come, is to be read at DPReview. The new full-frame series, the Alpha A900-dslr, which is now no longer being produced, the follow-up. The SAL500F40G is from the end of april in the Netherlands available for a suggested retail price of 13,000 euros.
