Sony 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 Compact Super Telephoto Zoom Lens for Sony Alpha Digital SLR Camera

 

Sony 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 Compact Super Telephoto Zoom Lens for Sony Alpha Digital SLR Camera

 

By : Sony
Price : $249.00

Item Description

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Get extremely close to your subjects from a relaxing distance with this Sony 75-300mm super telephoto zoom lens. Good for taking incredibly close-up portraits with no producing your subject nervous, the compact, lightweight 4x zoom lens is a terrific value and an best option for covering outdoor activities and sports action, even in huge stadium areas. The lens gives a wide zoom range of 112.5 to 450mm (35mm equivalent) that handles both middle-ground subjects and portraits from afar, even though still capturing intimate particulars and natural wonders close at hand. In addition, the lens offers light sources a pleasing circular defocused effect in the background, making the subject stand out beautifully.

• Focal length: 75-300mm (112.five-450mm 35mm equivalent)
• Maximum aperture: f/four.five-5.6
• Minimum aperture: f/28-32
• Filter diameter: 55mm
• Minimum concentrate distance: 4 feet, 11 inches
• Magnification: .25x
• Lens group elements: 10 groups 13 components
• Distance encoder: Yes
• Blades: 7 aperture blades
• Asperhic components: No
• Lens type: Telephoto zoom
• Dimensions: two.81 inches in diameter and 4.81 inches lengthy
• Weight: 1 pound, two ounces

SONY 75-300MM F/4.5-5.6 ZOOM

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4 x 2 x 2 inches ; 1.5 pounds


• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)


• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.


• ASIN: B000DZH9H4


• Item model number: SAL75300
  

Customer Testimonials

According to a photo magazine, this is a cosmetically re-labelled Konica Minolta 75-300 (D) zoom telephoto, which is a lens that I own (it absolutely looks exactly the same as the KM 75-300 lens, but with the 'Sony' name). In which case, I have the following review:
(1) Superb construction top quality, this is a quite nicely created lens, terrific finish, not too heavy but solid and with out the 'plastic' really feel of lots of medium-priced lenses
(two) Remarkable optical top quality, with good sharpness even at the longest 300mm focal length where most zooms begin to show poor high-quality
(three) Particularly Unusual: near-zero distortion throughout the complete range of focal lengths (particularly several from some Sigma zooms that I own, which have conspicuously visible pincushion distortion). This can effectively be the lowest-distortion 75-300 telephoto from any maker.
(4) One particular CAVEAT: AUTOFOCUS IN LOW LIGHT: on my Minolta Maxxum 7 film camera, whose autofocus method is apparently quite equivalent to the Sony Alpha 100, the camera has difficulty autofocussing the 75-300 lens at the 300 mm setting (exactly where the aperture is only f/5.six) in light weaker than direct sunlight. This is possibly the very same with any f/5.six or slower lens. I have discovered myself switching to manual focus at the 300 mm setting if the subject is not brightly lit.
NOTE: the Konica Minolta 75-300 (D) lens is nonetheless on the market, for about $140, and reportedly will operate with Sony Alpha cameras just as properly as the similar lens labelled Sony.

Prequel: I am coming from a strict Nikon background and due to getting my $4000 kit(D80, 3 VR, 3 2.8 pro lenses, etc) stolen out of my car or truck, am beginning all over once more. That becoming said, I do not have $4000 to plop down at as soon as, so I decided to get an "entry to mid-level" program and just after a number of internal battles, decided to try a thing different and go with the Alpha technique. My thoughts had been if points didn't perform out with this setup, I haven't spent that much and could use it for a carry-about camera. So far I see totally NO purpose to go back to Nikon. Yes, this system is THAT fine.
Sony 75-200mm f/four.5-five.6 Lens: Wow. I sincerely can not Think this lens is only $229! As many testimonials point out, this lens has practically ZERO distortion from 75mm all the way up to 300mm and purple fringing(CA) is contained nicely. Needless to say, for a lens at this price point to preform this well is unheard of. This lens combined with the super speedy AF of the a200 is a wonderful marriage. I compared this to the super sharp Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR, and despite the fact that the Nikon is a bit sharper and performs much better in low light, the IQ distinction is surprisingly small. I can extremely recommend this lens and the Sony Alpha method as a complete!

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