Sony FE 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 GM OSS Lens

Sony FE 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 GM OSS Lens

The new Sony FE 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 GM OSS Lens offers an incredibly fast, precise AF capabilities, a lightweight, portable design and a variety of professional functions and customizability. This full-frame lens maintains the high standard of resolution that is shared among all of Sony's flagship line of G Master series, making this an exceptionally powerful photographic tool for a variety of enthusiast and professional shooters, particularly those who are shooting sports or wildlife.

Uncompromised G Master Design and Performance

This super telephoto 100-400mm zoom lens meets the intense built requirements of Sony's acclaimed G Master series lens line up, and features 22 lens elements configured in 16 different groups. This lens includes one Super ED (Extra-low Dispersion) and two ED glass elements that work together to minimize chromatic aberration and produces outstanding corner-to-corner sharpness throughout the lens' zoom and focus ranges and rendered 'bokeh' background defocus, ensuring the finest details are brought out in every subject and scene. The lens is also designed with Sony's Nano AR coating that reduces unwanted reflections, flare and ghosting, which comes in handy especially when shooting sports or wildlife.

Precise, Quick AF Performance 

In order to keep up with fast-moving action, the Sony FE 100-400mm GM super telephoto zoom lens features a double motor system. The Direct Drive SSM drives the heavy front focus lens group, while the Double-linear motor system enables rapid acceleration of the main lens group to capture sudden subject motion. A newly optimized AF algorithm ensures the subject is quickly found and focused on with quiet operation.

Lightweight Design, Extensive Customizability

The new FE 100-400mm GM lens is among the lightest in its class at a mere 49.3 ounces, making it an ideal fit for Sony's wide range of compactly designed cameras. This lens also features a zoom torque adjustment ring - a first for Sony a - that allows the user to adjust the level of torque in the ring to zoom faster or slower depending on their shooting style. There is also a focus hold button that the user is able to assign to a variety of functions including focus mode selection, AF area selection or the popular Eye AF lock feature. If that wasn't enough, this telephoto lens is dust and moisture resistant and has a fluorine coating on the front o f the lens that makes it easier to remove dust and grease.

Professional Operation and Reliability

Feel comfortable during handheld shooting with the built-in optical image stabilization, ensuring sharp, crisp images. Feel free to get close to your subject with the minimum focusing range of just 3.22 feet, and capture soft, beautiful bokeh with the 9 bladed circular aperture design. This outstanding lens is compatible with both the 1.4x (model SEL14TC) and the 2.0x (model SEL20TC) teleconverters, allowing photographers and videographers to shoot at up to 800mm on full-frame cameras and approx. 1200mm (35mm full-frame equivalent) on APS-C cameras.

Features:

• E-Mount Lnes/Full-Frame Format
• Aperture Range: f/4.5-5.6 to f/32-40
• One Super ED Element and Two ED Elements
• Nano AR Coating and Fluorine Coating
• Direct Drive SSM Focus System
• Optical SteadyShot Image Stabilization
• Zoom Torque Adjustment Ring
• Internal Focus, Focus Range Limiter
• Dust and Moisture-Resistant Construction
• Nine-Blade Circular Diaphragm