Do you have a Sony 300-800 f4.5 lens, with a X1.25 internal teleconverter, 12.5" long, just under 4" in diameter, 4 pounds, able to shoot handheld at 750-2000 with a X2 teleconverter attached for $7500? Let me know when you do. Maybe in the two years that I will have to wait Sony will bring one out. I wonder if it will be similar to the 35 pound Signa 200-500 f2.8 except for weight - and size and cost.

No matter if the company is Sony, Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Olympus, or Panasonic, when one of them makes a new anything, they do many surveys to estimate the needs / wants of the product. It does them no good to make 1000 widgets, sell only 100, and have the profitability start at 700 widgets. If there were only 100 Olympus lenses made, that is a extremely gross underestimate of 300 lenses in a "declining" market. People want an easily handheld lens than can shoot at 1000 to 2000 angle of view. And I can assure you that all the other manufacturers have taken note of this. Already because of Panasonic and Olympus, the lens sizes, weights, and coverage have changed. Coverage is no longer the only main consideration. Size and weight have to come down and will continue to do so for all formats.

And as far as I am concerned, Olympus absolutely smokes the competition at 2000mm handheld at f11 1/250 second and ISO 3200.

Do you have a Sony 300-800 f4.5 lens, with a X1.25 internal teleconverter, 12.5" long, just under 4" in diameter, 4 pounds, able to shoot handheld at 750-2000 with a X2 teleconverter attached for $7500? Let me know when you do. Maybe in the two years that I will have to wait Sony will bring one out. I wonder if it will be similar to the 35 pound Signa 200-500 f2.8 except for weight - and size and cost.

No matter if the company is Sony, Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Olympus, or Panasonic, when one of them makes a new anything, they do many surveys to estimate the needs / wants of the product. It does them no good to make 1000 widgets, sell only 100, and have the profitability start at 700 widgets. If there were only 100 Olympus lenses made, that is a extremely gross underestimate of 300 lenses in a "declining" market. People want an easily handheld lens than can shoot at 1000 to 2000 angle of view. And I can assure you that all the other manufacturers have taken note of this. Already because of Panasonic and Olympus, the lens sizes, weights, and coverage have changed. Coverage is no longer the only main consideration. Size and weight have to come down and will continue to do so for all formats.

And as far as I am concerned, Olympus absolutely smokes the competition at 2000mm handheld at f11 1/250 second and ISO 3200.

But the Olympus angle of view is 300-800 f4.5 and 375-1000 f5.6 (with the 1.25X internal teleconverter on) in 35mm terms. It then becomes 420-1120 f6.5 and 525-1400 f8 (with internal teleconverter on) and the external X1.4 teleconverter. With the X2 external teleconverter, the lens becomes 600-1600 f9 and 750-2000 f11 (with internal teleconverter on). All of this is is handholdable. How many handholdable full frame zoom lenses are there that are capable of covering 300mm to 2000mm, at under 12.5" in length (under 14" with teleconverter) and 4 pounds, for $7500? And all the above at 1 pound less, no tripod needed, for only $2100 more than the most expensive closest system to that zoom range. Don't get me wrong; I would love to have a Sony full frame system to complement my Olympus system. I just do not have enough money to match my Olympus system in coverage. Just trying to match my 300 f4 lens to the Canon and Nikon 600 f4 would cost me either $9500 or $12K. And it still would not travel like my Olympus system. My ideal Olympus system would be 14mm to 2000mm in angle of view, flashes, batteries, filters, viewsight EE-1, and other accessories, packed in about a 8x15x20 backpack, and under 20 pounds total. I know of no other system that can do that. This is why the serious consideration for such a lens for my retirement and travels.

Do you have a Sony 300-800 f4.5 lens, with a X1.25 internal teleconverter, 12.5" long, just under 4" in diameter, 4 pounds, able to shoot handheld at 750-2000 with a X2 teleconverter attached for $7500? Let me know when you do. Maybe in the two years that I will have to wait Sony will bring one out. I wonder if it will be similar to the 35 pound Signa 200-500 f2.8 except for weight - and size and cost.

No matter if the company is Sony, Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Olympus, or Panasonic, when one of them makes a new anything, they do many surveys to estimate the needs / wants of the product. It does them no good to make 1000 widgets, sell only 100, and have the profitability start at 700 widgets. If there were only 100 Olympus lenses made, that is a extremely gross underestimate of 300 lenses in a "declining" market. People want an easily handheld lens than can shoot at 1000 to 2000 angle of view. And I can assure you that all the other manufacturers have taken note of this. Already because of Panasonic and Olympus, the lens sizes, weights, and coverage have changed. Coverage is no longer the only main consideration. Size and weight have to come down and will continue to do so for all formats.

And as far as I am concerned, Olympus absolutely smokes the competition at 2000mm handheld at f11 1/250 second and ISO 3200.