What you see on top is an image from the official Sony patent for a 600mm f/4.0 FE lens

It has been a rollercoaster of rumor time: But finally we sorted out things and we can report with 100% certainty that on Monday Sony will announce their most expensive E-mount lens ever:

We have been told 600mm f/4.0 will have an estimated price of around $14,000!

By comparison the Nikon 600mm and the Canon 600mm lenses cost less than $13,000. Here is a size comparison between the Nikon/Canon 600mm lens and the Sony 400mm GM. I guess the Sony 600mm will have a similar size.

via CameraSize

On Monday June 10 (I guess 4-5pm London time) Sony will announce:

• 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G lens priced around $2,000
• 600mm f/4.0 for $14,000

Exciting!

Note: Nokishita confirmed two lenses are coming. But they have no info about when it will be announced and how much they will cost…we have it :)

ソニーの最新の注文書に「SEL600F40GM」と「SEL200600G」の型番が追加されたのを確認しました。#噂

— 軒下デジカメ情報局 (@nokishita_c) June 7, 2019

In case you missed it: Summary of why we got no announcement on June 6 as previously rumored:

1. June 5/6 journalists had a meeting to test the 200-600mm G lens.
2. But the NDA to publish their hands-on is now set to expire on Monday (June 10) and not Today (June 6) as they have been previously told.
3. A second lens has been unveiled to them at the very end of the meeting!
4. This lens is the 600mm f/4.0

I now had a chat with three different sources. All three were actually expecting to be able to publish their 200-600mm FE G lens hands-on news today!

But now they told me that there was a last minute change at Sony:

1. All journalists and youtubers had to sign an NDA which will expire on Monday!
2. They now got info about a second FE lens too!

So this is what we learned now about the two new FE lenses:

1. Sony 200-600mm FE f/5.6-6.3 will cost around $2,000
2. The second lens is a fast telephoto prime!

Sorry again for the confusing 200-600mm announcement rumors but as you see there was really a major change because we now have TWO FE lenses to be unveiled early next week!

Summary in case you got lost with my rumors lately:

1. June 5/6 journalists had a meeting to test the 200-600mm G lens.
2. But the NDA to publish their hands-on is now set to expire on Monday (June 10) and not Today (June 6) as they have been previously told.
3. A second lens has been unveiled to them at the very end of the meeting!
4. This lens is a fast telephoto prime.

UPDATE:
Journalists are currently attending the 200-600mm FE G lens launch and shooting both wildlife and sports with it. But the official press text has still not be released.

I realized that I misunderstood the time release date: At 16:00 London time the Sony journalists press meeting has started but the NDA will expire on Monday! Sony decided to give journalists some hands-on time before the lens news goes public in a few days. I apologize for the misunderstanding!

One more thing: Latest I heard that the lens price is around $2,000!

UPDATE-2: Sony decided in very last minute to delay the public announcement to Monday…and we will get a second FE lens too! Read more about it here: sonyalpharumors.com/sr5-great-last-minute-news-two-fe-lenses-to-be-announced-early-next-week/

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Summary in case you got lost with my rumors lately:

1. June 5/6 journlists had a meeting to test the 200-600mm G lens
2. But the NDA to disclose their findings is now set to expire on Monday and not Today (June 6) as they have been previously told
3. A second lens has been unveiled to them at the very end of the meeting!
4. This lens is a fast telephoto prime

I just saw on Instagram many of the well-known youtubers on flight to the Sony event. While I have no 100% confirmation Sony usually makes the public announcements of new products around 4pm London time. UPDATE: Sony had the press meeting event but the NDA will expire in a few days after that event!

Now while we can be pretty certain to get the new 200-600mm FE I have no idea yet if we can hope to get something else. As far as I have heard the really HUGE events are scheduled for late summer. Sony is betting high on a new High end camera that will replace the A9. It will have a REVOLUTIONARY sensor and I am sure in that case that this isn’t a hype.

I also got rumors about the A7sIII and other Sony FE lenses I will post the weeks after today’s announcement.

In the meantime let’s see if Sony can surprise us today…

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The two-day Sony event for the 200-600mm FE lens launch has started today for journalists. They signed the NDA and are using the lens at this very moment.
UPDATE: Sony had the press meeting event but the NDA will expire in a few days after that event!

Kevin Yeung from Laowa posted these pictures of the new World’s widest rectilinear Full Frame f/5.6 M mount lens. In this case you see it adapted on the Sony using the Techart LM-EA7 autofocus adapter. Not sure if this lens will be available as native E-mount version too. Laowa did NOT disclose the focal length of the lens yet…

He also posted three imagge samples shot with it:

Our reader Robert made this size comparison between the leaked Sony 200-400mm f/5.6-6.3 G lens and the Sony 100-400mm GM. The new Sony super telephoto zoom lens will be announced this week on June 5 or June 6.

I have no idea how much the new 200-600mm lens will cost yet. Would be happy to learn it’s around $2,000. As a comparison the Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6 lens is priced at $1250.

And some fun by VTC Media :)

And here is a not so 100% accurate size comparison done using the CameraSize tool: