Kipon and Ibe announced the new Baveyes 0.7x adpater for Sony E-mount cameras. It’s basically the next Speed Booster alike adapter that sells for $300. STarting from January 10 there will be Nikon F, Canon EF and Leica R mount lens adapters. More details here:
via Mirrorlessrumors.
The new HXR-NX3 camcorder
RX10 review at German Slashcam.
Sony A3000 gallery photos posted: Can this low-cost champ deliver high-end DSLR results? (Imaging Resource).
Sony A3000 review: Entry-level body, high-performance sensor (DxOmark).
Let me tell you about my dream camera (itsnotthecamera)
2013 With the Sony RX1…by John Vink.
Sony Reportedly in Talks to Buy Renesas Fab to Expand Image Sensor Production Capacity (ImageSensorWorlds).
falken shoots with a850 and and Zeiss 24-70 f/2.8 (Fstoppers).
Polish Sony Action Cam 3 review at Sonyactioncam2.blogspot.com.
Aloha: “I created a Sony ALPHA – TALK group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SonyAlphaTalk/ Which I hope eventually will be a FB place ALPHA shooters can share there Sony Alpha TIPS and TRICKS. and photos.“
All Speed Fans can open their champagne bottle: Today Kipon officially released the world’s fastest lens for digital mirrorless system: The 40mm f/0.85 Ibelux! It will come with native E-mount and cost around $2,000. This is the worlds fastest native mirrorless system lens. You can only get faster with strange lenses like the [shoplink 23379 ebay]Leica Leitz 65mm f/0.75 (here on eBay)[/shoplink] or some [shoplink 23378 ebay]large format 0.75 XR lens (also to find here on eBay)[/shoplink]
The full press text and image samples can be read here (via MirrorlessRumors):
Good news for European readers. UNlike previously stated on Sony Europe sites (late January) the Zeiss FE 55mm is shipping…NOW! First preorders have been shipped yesterday and all single Sony Europe stores changed the delivery date. Click these direct Zeiss 55mm links to Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT.
You will likely get the lens for Christmas! :)
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Specs and order links in Europe:
Sony A7r body at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT, WexUK, WexDE.
Sony A7 body at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT, WexUK, WexDE, Amazon UK, Amazon DE, Amazon FR.
Sony A7 with 28-70mm kit Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT, WexUK, WexDE, Amazon UK, Amazon DE, Amazon FR.
Sony RX10 at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT, WexUK, WexDE.
Zeiss 35mm at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT,
Zeiss 55mm at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT
Zeiss 24-70mm at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, SE, PT
Sony G 28-70mm lens at Sony DE, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO.
Sony 70-200mm lens at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT.
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Adobe released the new Camera Raw 8.3 and Lightroom 5.3 for Windows (Click here to download) | Mac (Click here to download)
It adds RAW support for all three new Sony cameras and many new Sony-Zeiss Lens profiles:
The video on top is the presentation of the new Grasshoppers USB 3.0 camera. The camera itself is nothing interesting for us. What’s nice to know is that it actually uses a new Sony 1 inch Global Shutter sensor. All specs and details can be seen on the video you see on top or on that pdf file. Sounds like Sony cameras with Global Shutter will come soon too :)
Sony also announced the new HXR-NX3/VG1 camcorder (more at Sony UK).
On our rumor sites we talk a lot about DSLR and Mirrorless cameras. But will these cameras still be here in future? Kirk Tuck and Petapixel posted two interesting article about an ongoing paradigm shift in the camera industry. Kir writes that the younger generation isn’t bound to the past film camera history. They think differently and they are not going to use DSLR or Mirrorless system cameras:
They are living the golden age of photography from their perspective, and their heroes in the field are names we don’t even know. This is a generation that values a personal vision that arrives as quickly as a phone call and has a much shorter half life than the one we experienced for our work, but then again, what doesn’t move faster these days?
Allen from Petapixel writes:
The future isn’t the Nikon Df, the Olympus OM-D EM-1 or the Fuji X100s. The future isn’t the Sony QX-100, which awkwardly attaches to my phone. The future for photographers willing to carry around a dedicated camera adopts paradigms from the phone.
WiFi, GPS and a touch screen are built-in, and its open source software allows me to launch Instagram (or whatever app is the soup du jour) and have the camera automatically pair with my phone so I don’t have to do everything twice.
SAR’s note: Predicting the future is almost impossible. Even big marketing guys failed in that and they will keep failing in future. So this is just my pure instinct talking. In my opinion there will be always a big enough market for System Cameras. But these cameras will not look like old Film Cameras anymore and also act very differently and have completely different and new features. A couple of these new tech details will be discussed in future posts on SAR ;)
