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The last component of my “encourage Sony to do more announcements like 8 November 2023” efforts arrived today: I collected the 300mm GM.
It arrived in a Sony printed box 29cm x 29cm x 48cm! Plain brown, not black or orange. I looked at the box and wondered what could be inside - it looked much bigger than I expected. There was a collection of folded paper sheets (Sony’s usual documentation for lenses), a neck strap, and another strap which I think is for the bag. And the lens bag is triangular in one profile, and rectangular in another - so it’s not exactly conical, but sort of. There is a fair bit of folded cardboard in the box to support the bag - that’s nice.
The bag has about 3cm of padding in the bottom - that’s impressive.
Now the piece of news that will upset Clint! It has no lens cap because it has no filter threads for the cap to clip to. It comes with a slight refinement to the kind of lens hood we got on the 70-200 GM II, and it’s “lens cap” is a pleather “hat” that goes over the hood (I have seen similar arrangements on other super-teles - even Canon’s EF 200/2). Sorry, “Deleted Member 5045” - you have to have the hood on this lens to be able to cap it!
The front of the lens is about 11cm across. The glass goes all the way across - Sony clearly decided to make this lens as small of possible, even with a lot of glass inside it.
I have packed my bag to take the lens on its first outing: both TCs, and the A9 III. This is going to be fun!
The last component of my “encourage Sony to do more announcements like 8 November 2023” efforts arrived today: I collected the 300mm GM.
It arrived in a Sony printed box 29cm x 29cm x 48cm! Plain brown, not black or orange. I looked at the box and wondered what could be inside - it looked much bigger than I expected. There was a collection of folded paper sheets (Sony’s usual documentation for lenses), a neck strap, and another strap which I think is for the bag. And the lens bag is triangular in one profile, and rectangular in another - so it’s not exactly conical, but sort of. There is a fair bit of folded cardboard in the box to support the bag - that’s nice.
The bag has about 3cm of padding in the bottom - that’s impressive.
Now the piece of news that will upset Clint! It has no lens cap because it has no filter threads for the cap to clip to. It comes with a slight refinement to the kind of lens hood we got on the 70-200 GM II, and it’s “lens cap” is a pleather “hat” that goes over the hood (I have seen similar arrangements on other super-teles - even Canon’s EF 200/2). Sorry, “Deleted Member 5045” - you have to have the hood on this lens to be able to cap it!
The front of the lens is about 11cm across. The glass goes all the way across - Sony clearly decided to make this lens as small of possible, even with a lot of glass inside it.
I have packed my bag to take the lens on its first outing: both TCs, and the A9 III. This is going to be fun!