Sony 300mm f/2.8 lens is now discontinued

By PR admin | Published: July 3, 2012

Sony Japan listed the SAL 300mm f/2.8G lens ($6,998.00) as discontinued. This lens was announced in June, 2006 and Sony recently raised its price by $700. With the announcement of the 500mm f/4 lens (SAL500F40G), it will be interesting to see if Sony will refresh also the 300mm f/2.8.

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  • black ice

    At this price range, the lens is probably built-to-order. I think it would strange if they don’t revise it, considering their efforts in the SLT series. Talk of at least two upcoming full frame SLT bodies almost guarantees more A-mount glass, and it will mean (slowly) revising the current lineup to have more resolving power (?), weathersealing, and improving the AF motor implementation.

  • AnnoyingOrange

    People shoot with a Sony for sports and wildlife?

    • craig

      That is exactly what I was thinking. You beat me to it.

      • spam

        Some do, I’ve seen several with A77 and 70-400 for birding. Seemes to work OK with fairly static subjects, but I’m not sure how well tracking works. Weird that they should discontinue the 300mm F2.8 now though, a 500mm F4 and a 70-400 isn’t enough if they want to be taken seriously by pros and even advanced amateurs.

        • Sky

          They plan to release weathersealed successor around Photokina.
          And actually there’s more lenses then just 500 f/4 and 70-400, lol. What were you thinking?!

          • spam

            I assume you got the point, but I was thinking about prolevel supertele/telezooms.

    • Sky

      Yea, I have even a news for you: People shoot with Sony exact same things as they do with Canons or Nikons! Surprise?! So here’s another: Sony’s cameras offer better IQ then Canons, even despite of having half-mirror in front of the sensor! Double surprise! And here’s a triple-suprise: Sony got unique specialized lenses that are unavailable for either Canon or Nikon and there’s nothing similar you can use there, like the lens with best bokeh of all – 135mm STF or brightest 135mm prime – Zeiss 135 f/1.8 or only catadioptric lens with AF.

      Ignorants….

  • black ice

    I don’t know, do they?
    I don’t own their equipment, but I also do not underestimate them.

  • Pablo Ricasso

    I’m building a knock around Sony system right now. I had become discouraged because Sony offered their full frame 24 for two thousand and Nikon held theirs at seven or eight thousand for what seemed like FOREVER. That and they were using Sony sensors without offering the image stabilization. Well, things are better now and I’m only going to buy a crop camera, but consider these primes…
    Zeiss 135 f1.8
    Minolta 200 f2.8
    Minolta 300 f2.8
    Sony 300 f2.8
    Minolta 400 f4
    Sony 500 f4
    Minolta 600 f4.
    Two grand vs seven (that problem now solved) or 24 vs 21 megapixel (now a whole 22)
    Image stabilization built in vs trash your old lenses and buy new ones.
    Cheap prices because eggheads think their stuff is obsolete vs scarcity because eggheads think their system is the only thing that will persist. (And YEAH, I bought most of the entire ai/ais system that I wanted very cheaply in the early digital age when eggheads thought that would be obsolete too.)
    Crazy live view performance, availability of mirrorlessness to keep your sensor clean in rough conditions, and high speed shooting and video modes in the cropped camera vs tiny incremental improvements from the others…

    Why WOULDN’T you shoot sports and wildlife with it?

    And yeah, everybody has a 300 f2.8. The new one will probably be at the photokina.

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