Sony 70-400mm f/4-5.6 G-Series Lens

The Sony 70-400mm f/4-5.6 G-Series Lens is a 5.7x super telephoto zoom lens and the latest addition to Sony’s G-series line of premium lenses. Designed to deliver extremely sharp descriptive performance across its wide focal length range, the Sony 70-400mm Lens is ideally suited for sports, action and wildlife photography.

The Sony 70-400mm f/4-5.6 G-Series Lens is an excellent choice for a wide range of medium to long-distance telephoto applications. (35mm equivalent when used with APS-C format cameras: 105-600mm.)

Sony's G-Series lenses are designed for maximum descriptive power, maintaining excellent peripheral light characteristics and maximizing contrast even at the edges of the frame.

Powerful telephoto zoom lenses tend to have larger, heavier elements that are harder to drive in Auto Focus. Sony achieves fast, smooth, near-silent automatic focusing with the Super Sonic wave Motor. It delivers high torque, high speed and rapid start/stop response.

With the ability to focus as closely as 5 feet (1.5m), this telephoto lens also lets you move in for dramatic shots of people, natural subjects and close-up details.

The lens enables to you firmly lock in focus for creative control. Focus range limiter can be set to speed auto-focus response. Focus Hold also enables image preview with the α900 D-SLR.

Because the aperture blades form a near circle at the wide openings used for low-light shots, spot-light sources have a pleasing circular defocused effect. The lens features nine aperture blades.

Aperture (Max.) : f/22
Aperture (Min.) : f/32
Aspheric Elements : 0(0 surface)
Blades : 9 aperture blades
Depth-of-Field : No
Distance Encoder : Yes
Distance Scale : Yes
Filter Diameter : 77mm
Focal Length : 105-600mm
Focus-hold Button : Yes
Focus-range Limiter : Yes
Lens Groups-Elements : 18 elements, 12 groups
Lens Type : Telephoto Zoom Lens
Magnification : x0.27
Minimum Focus Distance : 5 feet (1.5m)
Non-rotating Focusing Ring : Yes
SSM Focusing : Yes
Tele-converter Compatibility - 1.4x : Yes - manual focus only
Tele-converter Compatibility - 2.0x : Yes - manual focus only
Dimensions (Approx.) : 3-3/4x7-3/4" (94.5x196mm)
Weight (Approx.) : 3lbs 5oz (1500g)