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Tornado Tower in Doha, shot with a6000 and Sony 10-18mm f/4 OSS Alpha E-mount lens at 18mm
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Sony Tidbits…


Low Key single light portraits AT MIDDAY by Matt Granger.

A set of great A7 with Helios-44-2 2/58 lens images by Phillip Reeve (SonyAlphaForum).
Sony A7R II vs Olympus E-M10 II: 5-Axis Stabilization Head-to-head (Digitalrev).
Street style photos with the A7 II and 55mm f/1.8 (Mike On The Street).
Sony PXW FS5 Camera Review (Cinescopophilia).
This is the Zeiss FE 16-35mm patent (Freepatentsonline PDF).
X-T10 vs E-M5 II vs a6000: Mirrorless Shootout! (Tony Northup).
Sony a7S II vs Panasonic GH4 (Digitalrev).

Bastian Kratzketo‎:Real time footage of the northern lights in iceland.Shot on Sony A7s + Nikon 14-24mm 2.8Ghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPYkeVh941Q

Kistar 55mm F1.2 lens announced and tested on the Sony A7II!

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Kinoshita Optical announced the new Kistra 55mm f/1.2 lens. It comes in Contax-Yashica mount but it has been designed to be used on Full Frame mirrorless camera. The lens costs about $1,460 and can be bought on [shoplink 40987 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. To use it on your A7 camera you will have to buy the [shoplink 40990 ebay]Yashica to E-mount adapter (Click here)[/shoplink]

The picture on top shows the A7Ii with the new lens. If you wonder what’s the “ornamental” stuff well there is a Biker-friendly ;) strap you get at Rakuten. And the case is the Ulysses case you get on eBay in [shoplink 37912 ebay]Black (Click here)[/shoplink], [shoplink 37913 ebay]Blue (Click here)[/shoplink] or [shoplink 37914 ebay]Brown (Click here)[/shoplink].

Here are the lens specs and MTF graph:

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DC.watch posted the first test on the Sony A7II. Here are the images of the lens on the camera (Click on it to enlarge):

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And here some image samples all shot at max f/1.2 aperture (Click on it to enlarge):

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Image samples on the A7s can be seen here: http://www.kinoshita-optical.com/gallery.html

Kistar 55mm f/1.2 can be purchased on here on [shoplink 40987 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

This is the smartest and coolest Aluminum lens hood for your Zeiss 35mm and 55mm FE lens!

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This is the sexiest and also the smartest lens hood you can buy for you 35mm and 55mm Zeiss FE lenses. The Korean company Lim’s designed them to be completely retractable. This makes it possible to carry it on lens instead of having it somewhere loose in your bag. You can see the detailed lens description and more pictures on those eBay links:
Lim’s Aluminum hood for the FE 55mm on [shoplink 40586 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Lim’s Aluminum hood for the FE 35mm on [shoplink 40588 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Lim’s Aluminum hood for the APS-C E-mount 24mm Zeiss on [shoplink 40589 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] and Amazon (Click here).
Lim’s Aluminum hood for the APS-C E-mount 50mm Sony on [shoplink 40590 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

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Interesting discussion about the possible Canon 120MP FF real world issues (David Candlish).

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On the picture above you see the Canon 120 Megapixel FF prototype. Rumor has it the camera will be on market early 2018 only. And there are two main reasons why that camera is interesting for the Sony folks:

1) It will be interesting to see how Sony will react to this. If Canon will release that camera in one year from now Sony will have to answer with a special High Res E-mount camera too.

2) David Candlish pointed out the new kind of issues photographers will have to deal when using such crazy high megapixel numbers. He writes:

  • Doing the maths for the new 120 megapixel camera means the maximum aperture usable before diffaction is somewhere between f/4.5-f/5
  • The 5DS/5DSR also highlighted that some of Canon’s older or lower-quality lenses were unable to make full use of the improved resolution – quite a number in fact, only ~40% of Canon’s lineup were recommended. With the resolution bar set almost three times higher it will be interesting to see how the percentrage number of recommended lenses which can leverage the full capability of the sensor changes.
  • Image size is going to be fun to see too. Already the full resolution RAW files from the 5DS/R and A7RII cause noticeable lag when loading & processing in Lightroom, even in top-end machines, so tripling the amount of data will magnify that issue. Storage space is a consideration too, even though cards & drives are getting cheaper & larger all the time.

P.s.: Full Canon NYC show coverage info at CanonWatch.

Professor Hank Dietz from University of Kentucky publishes A7rII repair tool!

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Image courtesy: Hank Dietz: http://aggregate.org/DIT/KARWY/

Professor Hank Dietz from the University of Kentucky sent me this:

I’ve now posted a Beta-test version of a free software tool I’ve been developing to perform credible repair of Sony ARW2 artifacts. It isn’t perfect, but it does quite well converting an ARW2 raw file into a repaired raw wrapped as a DNG. The research project homepage (at the University of Kentucky Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) is:
http://aggregate.org/DIT/KARWY/
The online WWW form interfaced version of KARWY is linked from there. It can be used without having to install any software.

Thanks Professor!

A7rII store list:
In USA: at Amazon, BHphoto, AdoramaSonyStore US, FocusCamera, Uniquephoto.
In Europe at Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Wex UK and ParkCameras.
In Asia at Digitalrev, CameraPro.

The A7sII preorder list:
In USA at Amazon, BHphoto, FocusCamera, Adorama.
In Europe at WexUK.
In Asia soon at Digitalrev.