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by philliphallphotography⁠
Sony A1⁠
400mm f2.8 G
1/800⁠
ISO 2500⁠

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Kenko 400mm F8 IIS Mirror Lens announced – Specs and Sample Images

Press text:

Product Details and Samples

The reflected optics using a mirror realizes an amazingly compact size and lightness while being ultra-telephoto of 400 mm. The inner reflection of the T-mount part has been suppressed and the performance has been improved. The unique ring blur unique to mirror lenses is attractive. We have a lineup of 8 types of mounts for single-lens reflex and mirrorless.

  • The mount is T-mount type and removable. You can also convert it to another mount.
  • The focus is manual. Exposure is only supported by aperture-priority AE(A) or (Av), or manual (M).
  • Depending on the camera, you need to set “Allow release without lens”.
  • Suggested retail price: Open
    [Released on December 24, 2021]

Specs

  • focal length: four hundred mm
  • brightness: F8 (fixed
  • )Lens configuration: six pieces in two groups
  • angle of view: 6°8′ (35mm full size)
  • size: 112mm x Φ74mm (for mirrorless)
    82mm x Φ74mm (for SLR)
  • weight: 545g (for mirrorless)
    500g (for SLR)
  • filter diameter: 67mm (front side)
    30.5mm (mount side)
  • Minimum focusing distance: one thousand fifteen meters
  • Maximum magnification: one two and a half
  • Focus method: Front ball pull-out method, manual focus
  • squeezed blade: none
  • hood: Dedicated hood (included) KMH-671
  • mount part: T-mount used (installed at the time of shipment)
  • Mirror lens 400mm f/8 N II S Fujifilm X KF-M400FXIIS

via kenko-tokina

Android App Camoodoo updated

Steffen:

Im the developer of the Android App Camoodoo. It allows to remote control all current Sony Cameras via Android Smartphone. It is similar to some other Apps you already mentioned on your page, but for Android and I think it has more features.

I released the new Version 6 some days ago with this new features:
– UI Redesign
– Support for newer Sony Models (A7SIII, A7RIV, A7C, Rx100VII, ZV-1, ZV-E10, A1)
– Support for Canon Cameras
– Import Custom Luts from *.cube files

You find a lot of informations of on Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.conpho.camote

or the Website:
http://www.camoodoo.com

Press text: Sony Develops World’s First*1 Stacked CMOS Image Sensor Technology with 2-Layer Transistor Pixel

Today Sony announced a new kind of sensor. This is the press text:

Sony Develops World’s First*1 Stacked CMOS Image Sensor Technology
with 2-Layer Transistor Pixel
Widens Dynamic Range and Reduces Noise by
Approximately Doubling*2 Saturation Signal Level*3

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
*1: As of announcement on December 16, 2021.
*2: Based on comparison, on a one square μm equivalent basis, between existing image sensor and the new technology applied to Sony’s back-illuminated CMOS image sensor; as of announcement on December 16, 2021.
*3: A single pixel’s maximum electron storage capacity.

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (“Sony”) has succeeded in developing the world’s first*1 stacked CMOS image sensor technology with 2-Layer Transistor Pixel. Whereas conventional CMOS image sensors’ photodiodes and pixel transistors occupy the same substrate, Sony’s new technology separates photodiodes and pixel transistors on different substrate layers. This new architecture approximately doubles*2 saturation signal level*3 relative to conventional image sensors, widens dynamic range and reduces noise, thereby substantially improving imaging properties. The new technology’s pixel structure will enable pixels to maintain or improve their existing properties at not only current but also smaller pixel sizes.
Sony announced this breakthrough at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting that started on Saturday, December 11, 2021.

■ Stacked CMOS image sensor architectures

A stacked CMOS image sensor adopts a stacked structure consisting of a pixel chip made up of back-illuminated pixels stacked atop a logic chip where signal processing circuits are formed. Within the pixel chip, photodiodes for converting light to electrical signals, and pixel transistors for controlling the signals are situated alongside each other on the same layer. Increasing saturation signal level within form-factor constraints plays an important role in realizing high image quality with wide dynamic range.

Sony’s new architecture is an advancement in stacked CMOS image sensor technology. Using its proprietary stacking technology, Sony packaged the photodiodes and pixel transistors on separate substrates stacked one atop the other.
In conventional stacked CMOS image sensors, by contrast, the photodiodes and pixel transistors sit alongside each other on the same substrate. The new stacking technology enables adoption of architectures that allow the photodiode and pixel transistor layers to each be optimized, thereby approximately doubling saturation signal level relative to conventional image sensors and, in turn, widening dynamic range.

Additionally, because pixel transistors other than transfer gates (TRG), including reset transistors (RST), select transistors (SEL) and amp transistors (AMP), occupy a photodiode-free layer, the amp transistors can be increased in size. By increasing amp transistor size, Sony succeeded in substantially reducing the noise to which nighttime and other dark-location images are prone.
The widened dynamic range and noise reduction available from this new technology will prevent underexposure and overexposure in settings with a combination of bright and dim illumination (e.g., backlit settings) and enable high-quality, low-noise images even in low-light (e.g., indoor, nighttime) settings.
Sony will contribute to the realization of increasingly high-quality imaging such as smartphone photographs with its 2-Layer Transistor Pixel technology.