• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Photography Life

PL provides various digital photography news, reviews, articles, tips, tutorials and guides to photographers of all levels

  • Reviews
  • News
  • Lenses
    • Lens Index
  • Forum
  • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Workshops
    • Support Us
    • Submit Content
  • My Account
    • Log In
    • Sign Up
  • Search
Home → Reviews → Cameras and Lenses → Sony FE 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G OSS Review

Sony FE 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G OSS

By Dvir Barkay 7 Comments
Last Updated On July 3, 2020

« »

Table of Contents

  • Overview and Specifications
  • Focusing
  • Optical Features
  • Summary and Recommendations
  • Reader Comments
Disclosures, Terms and Conditions and Support Options
guest
guest
7 Comments
Most Voted
Newest Oldest
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Ertan
Ertan
December 21, 2018 3:47 pm

Tamron 70-300mm SP VC, Canon 70-300mm USM II, Nikon FX 70-300mm AF-P… All are much more inexpensive and as good. Maybe Tamron is a little behind for AF and material quality bit also can be found almost for 1/3 of Sony’s price. Ah also Sony has a function button :)
Sony is extremely expensive for what it is.

1
Reply
Keith
Keith
January 27, 2020 4:37 pm

here is a question i am pondering – using the fe-70-300 with the a7rii with its 42 mp span – since center is very sharp – for taking wildlife photos where more than likely you will crop to center – will the resulting cropped center magnify any lens deficiencies that would not otherwise be seen with the 100-400? I have a 24-105 that i am currently using and simple cropping has produced some amazing results that would be on par with any zoom lens. Would i notice a degradation of that superb sharpness cropping with the 300? Secondly would adding a 2x converter on to that combination eliminate my need for crop and would the IQ be about the same as a crop without the 2x converter.
Does anyone have any samples along those enquiries to demonstrate the results of my hypotheticals.

0
Reply
Paula
Paula
Reply to  Keith
June 24, 2020 6:27 pm

Can someone tell me which teleconverters are compatible with this lens? I can’t find one and really need one for moon shots.

0
Reply
Andy
Andy
September 2, 2019 4:56 am

Herring Gull, not a Sea Eagle!

0
Reply
Gary Lum
Gary Lum
December 21, 2018 4:05 pm

I love my Sony 24–240 mm lens. If a G version came out for that, I’d snap it up in a heartbeat.

0
Reply
Sean T
Sean T
December 21, 2018 2:59 pm

Ah yes, a great (the greatest?) example of what Roger Cicala calls the SPP “Sony Price Premium”. Let’s charge our customers twice as much as for a comparable rival lens (namely the Nikon 70-300 FX AF-P) because they have no options.

Remarkably I can’t find any comparisons between the two lenses. DxOMark barely has the AF-P listed.

However, I find the performance from this review utterly underwhelming for a $1200 zoom, unless of course mushy corners are somehow acceptable.

0
Reply
M. Emilio
M. Emilio
Reply to  Sean T
February 18, 2020 6:19 am

Completamente de acuerdo. Mi Nikon D750 con el 70-300 fx af-p tiene mejor calidad a la mitad de precio. (y con la misma o mejor estabilización).
Lo comento porque he tenido las dos combinaciones Nikon y Sony durante un año y me quedo con NIkon.

0
Reply

Primary Sidebar

Learn

  • Beginner Photography
  • Landscape Photography
  • Wildlife Photography
  • Portraiture
  • Post-Processing
  • Advanced Tutorials
  • Best Cameras and Lenses

Reviews

  • Camera Reviews
  • Lens Reviews
  • Other Gear Reviews

Photography Tutorials

Photography Basics
Landscape Photography
Wildlife Photography
Macro Photography
Composition & Creativity
Black & White Photography
Night Sky Photography
Portrait Photography
Street Photography
Photography Videos

Support Us

B&H Photo Video Banner

Recent Topics

  • Moving to Mirrorless, Advice needed
  • Night Rounds
  • Mirrorless Multi-exposure – RAW or JPEG
  • Instant cameras
  • Last post dates in forum
  • Prints from Proof Sheets
  • Can’t access account settings
  • How to appraise used gear
  • Price of ai-s lenses seems to have skyrocketed!
  • Unable to download tutorials I purchased

Footer

Site Menu

  • Beginner Photography
  • Lens Database
  • Photo Spots
  • Search
  • Submit Content
  • Subscribe

Reviews

  • Camera Reviews
  • Lens Reviews
  • Other Gear Reviews

Copyright © 2021 · Photography Life

You are going to send email to

Move Comment