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I have pre-ordered the 300mm f/2.8 GM already. I already wanted it, but was fearful it would be too heavy for me. It turned out  to be substantially lighter weight than expected, so placing the pre-order was easy.

The 300 GM appears to come with an interesting bag - sort of conical. Not a hard case like a Pelikan like the bigger super-tiles.

Still contemplating the A9III. I think it's an opportunity to learn about the big new player in town.

Have the rest of you considered that you heard some people saying with much gravitas that the next A9 had to have lots of pixels to compete with the Z9 and Z8, when the obvious competitor for those is the A1. The competitor to the A9 is the R3. Maybe those people convinced themselves because what they wanted was a camera with those properties, and a price-tag like the A9, because they didn't want to pay for an A1. Wishful thinking.

I'm able to afford both at the moment, and I think getting experience with a global shutter will give me an understanding of future global shutter bodies. It was working with an A9II that made me understand the value of the left shoulder dials, even though the A9II wasn't really what I want.

BTW: Brownie may be happy to hear that the A9 III gets a new feature: the left shoulder dial can be overridden - not possible on earlier bodies.