The new FE 20-70mm F4 G will be available in the Middle East and Africa region from February 2023.
Sony has introduced the FE 20-70mm F4 G, a standard zoom that extends out to the ultra-wide region while maintaining its reach at the long end. The unstabilised lens offers a constant F4 aperture in a relatively compact and lightweight body.
With G Lens image quality, high-speed accuracy and tracking AF and a smart design for maximum mobility and operability, this new lens is designed for a wide range of creators. The FE 20-70mm F4 G is suitable for a variety of content captures like vlogging and movie production through to still shots of portraits and landscapes.
Speaking about the zoom lens, Sajeer Shamsu, Head of Digital Imaging at Sony Middle East & Africa, said: “The introduction of the FE 20-70mm F4 G sees the standard zoom category of lenses redefined. The new concept lens has an incredible, ultra-wide zoom range from 20 mm through to 70 mm to ensure true versatility – perfectly designed for both still and video creators in the Middle East & Africa region, with its sophisticated imagery and high-level operability.”
With an ultra-wide 20 mm to 70 mm zoom range and constant F4 aperture, the FE 20-70mm F4 G offers optical performance in a compact, lightweight lens due to Sony’s latest lens design and XD (extreme dynamic) Linear Motors technology.
With Sony’s latest technology, the new lens boasts G Lens image quality in a compact and lightweight lens. With two AA (advanced aspherical) elements, one aspherical element, three ED (Extra-low Dispersion) glass elements, and one ED aspherical element, this lens’s state-of-the-art optical design simultaneously corrects chromatic and spherical aberration for extremely high optical performance across the whole zoom range.
The FE 20-70mm F4 G’s short minimum focusing distance makes it easy to manoeuvre around subjects, such as small flowers, to find the ideal angle (0.3 meters at the wide end and 0.25 meters at the telephoto end of the zoom range when using AF). Maximum magnification is 0.39x for dynamic, detailed close-ups.
The lens’s focus group is driven by two of Sony’s latest XD Linear Motors, providing high thrust for fast, quiet, low-vibration focus drive. Thrust efficiency has been significantly improved over previous models, resulting in up to a 60% increase in AF speed, and because tracking performance has been improved by about two times compared to previous models, moving subjects are tracked with consistent reliability and precision.
Alpha series cameras’ Active Mode image stabilisation is highly effective at the ultra-wide 20 mm end of the FE 20-70mm F4 G zoom range, providing image stabilisation performance, whilst maintaining a wide angle of view.
The new FE 20-70mm F4 G’s independent focus, zoom, and aperture rings feature optimised diameter, width, and positioning for full control when shooting stills as well as maximum versatility when recording video.
The FE 20-70mm F4 G has a dust and moisture-resistant design and the front lens element features a fluorine coating that repels fingerprints, dust, water, oil, and other contaminants.
