For our fairly large and growing family of Sony E-mount shooters on these boards, good news: Sony has announced two new FE-mount lenses - their 30th and 31st E-mount lenses...and both seem to fulfill the frequent requests of many of us.
Most exciting for me personally, being a long-lens shooter with wildlife and birding, is the new FE 70-300mm F4.5-5.6 G OSS lens:
http://www.sony.com/electronics/camera-lenses/sel70300g
Finally, we have a longer lens in E-mount, breaking through the 240mm barrier...and it's a G lens - so quality should be quite decent, build is mostly metal, it's weather-resistant, has focus limiters and focus hold buttons, and stabilized. And at $1100, it's priced a bit below the Canon 70-300mm F4-5.6L...not too bad a price.
And though it may not have been discussed here, we had last month's announcement of the FE 70-200mm F2.8 G OSS lens, which will also have two available matched teleconverters, a 1.4x and a 2x...that will help push focal reach all the way to 400mm - though this lens and TC combo ain't gonna be cheap!
Next up - something many FE camera shooters have been wishing for, a true 'nifty fifty' - a reasonably priced 50mm fast prime...behold the FE 50mm F1.8:
http://www.sony.com/electronics/camera-lenses/sel50f18f
Now the FE shooters get their own cheap 50mm option, like the APS-C shooters already had - and still have the high-end 55mm option if willing to spend. One frequent criticism of Sony's FE line was that there was no cheap prime - no 'nifty fifty'. Now that's been addressed too!
Most exciting for me personally, being a long-lens shooter with wildlife and birding, is the new FE 70-300mm F4.5-5.6 G OSS lens:
http://www.sony.com/electronics/camera-lenses/sel70300g
Finally, we have a longer lens in E-mount, breaking through the 240mm barrier...and it's a G lens - so quality should be quite decent, build is mostly metal, it's weather-resistant, has focus limiters and focus hold buttons, and stabilized. And at $1100, it's priced a bit below the Canon 70-300mm F4-5.6L...not too bad a price.
And though it may not have been discussed here, we had last month's announcement of the FE 70-200mm F2.8 G OSS lens, which will also have two available matched teleconverters, a 1.4x and a 2x...that will help push focal reach all the way to 400mm - though this lens and TC combo ain't gonna be cheap!
Next up - something many FE camera shooters have been wishing for, a true 'nifty fifty' - a reasonably priced 50mm fast prime...behold the FE 50mm F1.8:
http://www.sony.com/electronics/camera-lenses/sel50f18f
Now the FE shooters get their own cheap 50mm option, like the APS-C shooters already had - and still have the high-end 55mm option if willing to spend. One frequent criticism of Sony's FE line was that there was no cheap prime - no 'nifty fifty'. Now that's been addressed too!