Samyang officially releases the five E-mount Full Frame lenses.

Samyang Europe officially announced the release of five Full Frame E-mount lenses for your A7-A7r camera. These are great lenses but you have to know that these have been designed for DSRL cameras. It means they are bigger than they could be of Samyang would have designed them specifically for the FF E-mount. So nothing has changed between that E-mount version and the other Canon/Nikon Sony A-mount versions. They only made it fit to E-mount by making a longer tube :)

These are the lenses (no preorder links available yet):

• Samyang 14mm f/2.8 ED AS IF UMC
• Samyang 24mm f/1.4 ED AS IF UMC
• Samyang T-S 24mm f/3.5 ED AS UMC
• Samyang 35mm f/1.4 AS UMC
• Samyang 85mm f/1.4 AS IF UMC

Sony TidBits…


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.“

World’s fastest lens announced: 40mm f/0.85 E-mount for $2,000!

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):

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A very good news: Zeiss 55mm FE lens already shipping in Europe!

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.

New Sony one inch Sony Global Shutter sensor in use in Grasshoppers cameras. New HXR-NX3/VG1 announced.

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).