BIG...in every respect

• Powerful and silent Hyper Sonic Motor enables fulltime manual focus override
• Two Extra-Low Dispersion glass elements reduce chromatic aberration to a minimum
• A rotating filter holder in the rear of the lens barrel enables easy use of the included circular polarizer
• Lead and arsenic free ecological glass

New multi-layer lens coating and lens design reduce flare and ghosting. Extraordinary Low Dispersion (ELD) glass elements produce excellent image quality and ensure sharp, quality images for film and digital SLR cameras. It enables to see the far subjects in more detail than is possible with the naked eye.

Reduction of flare and ghosting

This digitally optimized ultra telephoto lens is equipped with a new multi-layer coating technology that reduces both flare and ghosting. This also ensures an accurate color balance and high definition results.

ELD Glass elements ensure high quality images

Incorporating two Extraordinary Low Dispersion glass elements to reduce chromatic aberration to a minimum and ensure sharp, quality images.

Hyper sonic motor

This lens incorporates HSM (Hyper Sonic Motor), which ensures a quiet and high-speed AF as well as full-time manual focus override by rotation of the focus ring.

It features a drop-in filter

It also features a drop-in 46mm filter holder in the rear part of the lens barrel, which can be rotated to facilitate the use of filters, including a polarizing filter.

Inner focusing

Inner focusing retains external dimensions for ease of handling.