Brendan van Son and Photogearnews tested the new $30 Sony Digital Filter App:

Image courtesy: Admiringlight.

Jordan Steele from Admiringlight tested the new 85mm f/1.8 FE Sony lens ([shopcountry 57214]). The final conclusion is:

Given the very reasonable $598 price tag, the lens exceeded my expectations.  The nearest competitor is the outstanding Zeiss Batis 85mm f/1.8, which provides similar sharpness and bokeh with slightly lower levels of chromatic aberration, but at double the price. For the vast majority of shooters, the Sony 85mm is going to be the lens of choice between these two.  It’s an outstanding value and an excellent lens. Sony has produced a winner with the 85mm f/1.8, and it has earned a spot in my bag.

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The most expensive lens Sony is producing right now is the Sony 500mm f/2.0 G which sells for $13,000 at BHphoto and Amazon. Well that lens just got reviewed on the new Sony A99II by John Sison:

Oh and don’t forget to watch the unboxing video of such a huge lens:

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As you can see from the image above the size different between the new Sony A7rII + [shoplink 57167]Batis 135mm f/2.8[/shoplink] and the Canon 5Dr + [shoplink 57168]Sigma 135mm f/1.8[/shoplink] are small.

In Zeiss defense we have to add: The Batis has weather sealing, in lens stabilization and more importantly it weights almost half as much as the Sigma!

Preorders:
Zeiss Batis 135mm f/2.8 lens at Adorama, Bhphoto, PhotoPorstNeuwied and ParkCameras.
Zeiss Batis 135mm lens shade at Adorama and Bhphoto.

Tony & Chelsea Northrup do think this is kind of the ultimate camera. The real issue Tony has with the camera is the uncertain future of A-mount. Also ePhotozine published their A99II review and do conclude:

Sony last announced new Sony A mount lenses in 2015, which were updates to existing lenses. Sony seem to be more committed to releasing lenses for the Sony FE mount, with new full-frame lenses announced for that system regularly. Yes, the A99-II is an excellent camera, and if you have a collection of lenses for the system, then it would make an excellent upgrade from the A99, but considering Sony’s focus on their mirrorless camera system, it’s difficult to see a long and prosperous future for Sony’s A-mount. 

Sony A99II at [shopcountry 56569].

Note: I want to stress that Sony confirmed once again that A-mount is here to stay :)

Entapano posted a series of video he shot with the new Entaniya Fisheye 250 E lens. You can find those video here: youtube.com/channel/UCYfIedMS6Im1E-ePO0SplGQ/videos. Keep in mind that once you play the video you have to drag and drop with your mouse cursor to move around.

Now if you want that lens things are a tiny bit complicated: You have to buy the MFT mount lens (here on Adorama) and then buy the official Entaniya Sony E mount Adaptor for MFT 250 Lenses (again here at Adorama).

The official lens site can be found at entapano.com/en/fisheyelens/microfourthirds_fisheyelens.html

Lisa Beaney tested the new Batis 135mm lens:

The lens is a 2.8 lens and not a 1.8 or 1.4 as I know some people were hoping for. I don’t think this would present a problem in the real world and to be honest I’d much rather have a camera/lens combination that feels nicely balanced when I hold it ! 
The focus with the lens was fast and accurate and when I switched to manual focussing the focus ring was very smooth and easy to use. If you are using this lens for filming then you can have very smooth focus adjustments.

One more news she shares:

I know that Zeiss have but more resource in to their manufacturing after the success of the Batis 85mm lens so hopefully there won’t be quite as many delays in getting hold of it.

So hopefully we won’t say the many months shipment delay we had in the past!

And here are new Batis 135mm tests: Dustin Abbott (and video on youtube), PCmag, Lensrentals, The full PDF spec sheet with MTF graph is now available here: zeiss.com/datasheet-zeiss-batis-28135.pdf

New Batis Preorders:
Zeiss Batis 135mm f/2.8 lens at Adorama, Bhphoto, PhotoPorstNeuwied and ParkCameras.
Zeiss Batis 135mm lens shade at Adorama and Bhphoto.