Sony 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 Telephoto Digital SLR 0.25x Zoom Lens with Super Sonic Wave Motor

Sony 70-300mm Features

• Compact Design, All-Around Versatility: Superb 70-300mm zoom lens is an excellent choice for a wide range medium to long-distance telephoto applications - & its lightweight design lets you leave it on-camera or carry it easily as an accessory lens for special purposes (35mm equivalent: 105-450mm)
• Superb Optical Performance: Sony's G-Series lenses are designed for maximum descriptive power, maintaining excellent peripheral light characteristics and minimizing contrast drop-off even at the edges of the frame
• Short Minimum Focusing Distance: With the ability to focus as closely as 4 feet (1.2m), this telephoto lens also lets you move in for dramatic shots of people, natural subjects and close-up details
• In-Camera Image Stabilization: A major reason for its compact, lightweight design is the benefit of Super SteadyShot in-camera image stabilization, built into every Sony a system DSLR - and enabling accessory lenses to eliminate the extra weight and expense of in-lens stabilization mechanisms
• SSM (Super Sonic wave Motor): Designed for fast, smooth, silent automatic focusing, this unique technology achieves high torque at low speed with rapid start/stop response. It operates through the ability of a piezoelectric device to reshape itself quickly when voltage is applied
• Focus Hold Button: For creative control and image preview, a focus hold button conveniently located on the lens barrel lets you firmly lock in focus - and a focus range limiter can be set to speed auto-focus response
• Smooth Manual Focusing: An easy-grip focus ring on the lens barrel gives you a solid "hands-on" feel in manual focusing
• Multi-Element Design with Internal Focusing: The SAL-70300G is designed with 16 lens elements in 11 groups, with internal focusing so the balance of your camera never changes
• ED (Extra-low Dispersion) Glass: Because light of different wavelength bends at different angles when it passes through a lens, ED (Extra-low Dispersion) Glass is used to eliminate chromatic aberration by correcting certain wavelengths of light for sharp, clear images with well defined colors
• Circular Aperture: Because the aperture blades form a near circle at the wide openings used for low-light shots, spot-light sources have a pleasing circular defocused effect