Pedro Santos
Game of colours
A7r + Leica Summarit 75/2.5

Plenty of SAR readers are sharing their best shots on our facebook wall (Click here). These are just some of them I found particularly interesting this week:

Sony A77 II AF Speedtest

A6000 review at Digitalversus.
Sony A7r review at Steve Digicam’s.
A600o test at Capacamera.
Sony 24-70mm review at Focus Numerique.
irst Look: Zeiss Touit 50mm f/2.8 Makro-Planar: Aperture Series ‘Glistening Rocks’ (Diglloyd).
Some answers about the Pentax 645Z with Sony MF sensor at Newsshooter.
Sony RX10 Field Diary: All in One? (Outbackphoto).
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H400 Review (ePhotozine).
Sony expects huge loss after bailing on PC business (Engadget).
Carl Zeiss Vario Tessar T* FE 24-70mm F4 ZA OSS Review (Photographyblog).
Zeiss 24-70mm review at SonyAlphaLab.
Sony A6000 + Zeiss 16-70 F/4 – Prueba de campo at DSLRmagazine.

An interesting post in a forum, posted a few hours ago, about the low light focusing capabilities of the a7s, from a show in China: http://www.latinfotografia.net/foros/index.php?topic=48779.0
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Edward: Wanted to share my unboxing and overview of the Sony FE 70-200 G Lens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldUeYTMOVpg

Sony just announced the new A77II and the Zeiss 16-35mm FE lens All the info you need is here:

Preorders:
Sony A77 body in USA at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Sony Store (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sony A77 with 16-50mm lens at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Sony Store (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sony A77 body in Europe at Sony Germany, Sony UK, Sony France, Sony IT, ES, NL, BE, AT, CH, PT, NO, SE, FI.

Key info:
Ships in June. Price 1199 Dollars and 1199 Euro.
GPS is gone and NFC is in.
Some Sony A77II slides can be seen at Optyczne.pl.
There is a surprise: Sony announced the 16-35mm F/4.0 FE Zeiss too! Article here: sonyalpharumors.com/surprise-sony-also-announces-the-new-zeiss-fe-16-35mm-f4-0-fe-lens/

Previews, Hands-on and reviews:
First impression by Dpreview. First impression by ThePhoBlographer, Hands-on by Cameras.Reviewed, Hands-on pics at Photographyblog, Hands-on by Techradar, Uebergizmo, Engadget, Tes by German Chip.de.

Image samples:
Photographyblog, DSLRmagazine (scroll down to the bottom),

Videos:
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The Phoblographer’s first Impressions Sony A77 Mk II
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Official Sony α77 II – First Look video

Press release:
BHphoto, Dpreview, Sony (Spanish), Sony (English), LesNumeriques (French), Photoscala (German), Photographyblog, DSLRmagazine (Spanish), Amateur Photographer, ePhotozine, LeMondeDeLaPhoto (French), Quesabesde (Spanish), DxO, Focus Numerique (French),

Poll:
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Sony A77 body images (Click on it to enlarge):

Image courtesy: Photoscala.

Well it was true after all! Indeed Sony announced two new Full Frame E-mount lenses. Well, one is the already pre-announced 28-135mm PZ zoom. But the second is the long time rumored Zeiss 16-35mm f/4.0 FE OSS lens! Release is said to be “mid year”. No price info yet.

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Mitakon just released the new Lens Turbo II EF to E-mount adapter and you can already buy it on [shoplink 26138 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. The improvements of the new version are:
– Redesigned Lens
– New and improved coating
– Special square end of the lens

Thanks  Henrik – Kameravalg.dk for finding this!

Samyang announced two new E-mount and one new A-mount lens. Full specs can be read by clicking those links:
Specification – Samyang 10mm T3.1 Cine E-mount (specs here)
Specification – Samyang 12mm T2.2 Cine E-mount (specs here)
Samyang 300mm f/6.3 Mirror UMC CS A-mount (specs here)

Here is the official Samyang press text:

10 and 12mm E-mount:
Nearly a month after their market release, Samyang 10mm f/2.8 ED AS NCS CS and Samyang 12 mm f/2.0 NCS CS lenses are now available in their equivalent cine versions: Samyang 10mm T3.1 Cine and 12mm T2.2 Cine. Samyang VDSLR cine lenses feature aperture and focus rings with sprocket wheels controlling their work through Follow Focus systems. This allows for noiseless and smooth adjustment of the above parameters during filming.
Samyang 10mm T3.1 Cine and 12mm T2.2 Cine have nanocrystal anti-reflective layer (NCS) that ensures better light transmission, increased resistance to light reflections and higher contrast, which improves optical resolution of the lenses.
Samyang 12 mm in photo and cine versions fills the gap among lenses dedicated for mirrorless cameras with APS-C sensor, large angle of view and high brightness. The lens has been designed for cameras fitted with a high resolution sensor (above 24 mln pixels). Samyang Optics company is renowned among clients for great quality optics offered at affordable prices. And this is also the case with 10mm and 12 lenses which provide technical parameters and optical potential that can easily compete with the best wide-angle prime and zoom lenses available on the market.

300mm A-mount:
Samyang offers light and compact 300mm f/6.3 Mirror UMC CS mirror lens in DSLR version with Canon EF, Nikon F, Sony A and Micro 4/3 mounts. Optical construction includes 8 lens elements arranged in 8 groups. The lens elements have been covered with anti-reflective, multi-layer (UMC) coatings of new generation to minimize light reflections and increase contrast. Owing to large focal length, really affordable price and small sizes (the lens weighs only 260g), your lens will become inseparable companion for all reflex camera users in “the field”.

Sony published a new patent for a Mirror lens having a focal length of 250mm and f/4.5 aperture. It’s designed for APS-C E-mount cameras. A perfect lens to spy the neighbourhood take pictures of birds :)

By the way, if you are looking for an E-mount mirror lens you can also buy that Albinar 300mm on Amazon US (Click here) or [shoplink 26152 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

via Egami.