DpreviewTV made a list of the best landscape cameras you can buy:
Under $1000 budget:
Under $3000 budget:
Unlimited budget:
Dpreview published the full Sony A7rV review and concluded:
The Sony a7R V is a high resolution mirrorless camera, combining an excellent sensor with a powerful autofocus system in a body refined over multiple generations of improvement. It lends itself to a wide range of photography, from portraiture and landscape work to wedding and events. Its cropped, slow readout 8K video is the only real weakspot in an otherwise hugely capable camera.
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If your photography benefits from high levels of detail capture, the a7R V is a camera that will do all it can to help you get the results you want, and those results can be spectacular.
Sony A7rV store links:
In US at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, FocusCamera, BeachCamera, Buydig.
In EU at Fotokoch, Amazon EU, FotoErhardt, Calumet DE, WexUK. ParkCameras UK.
In Australia at CameraPro, Camerahouse, Sony.
The Panasonic S5II features a curious new stabilization mode named “walk mode” See in this video how it performs against the Sony A7IV!
AI created portrait of a young women that doesn’t exist (Sony 50mm f/1.2 GM lens setting).
Intro:
I remember the days when digital photography was born. The voice was strong of those photographers who said digital isn’t real photography. It was a lost battle and nowadays it has become the absolute standard for photographic work.
Quickly after the days of Digital editing came: Photoshop filters, Topaz AI filters and Luminar…and again the voice was strong of those (now digital) photographers saying that this was the same as “cheating”. Nevertheless now it has become common to edit your images so much that the final photo is completely different from the original you took.
The AI revolution:
Now I am getting a lot of negative critic for even talking about the next AI revolution…which actually in my opinion is a simple “evolution” from what we already saw coming in the past years. In my heart I am still a medium format photographer, and my soul doesn’t love anything digital. This is why I created my analog Cube camera project (read about it here). But I am aware the world doesn’t care about my opinion or my ethical view about photography. The choice for me is simple: Ignore the current trends and rant on what’s about to happen, or open my mind about anything new and try to understand if I can still use it in a way that it fulfills my artistic goals.
Why does this matter for us Sony shooters?
What this video is about:
On my quest to understand the new AI tools I tried to answer this simple question: Can AI give me a portrait image that looks like it has been shot on a Sony 50mm f/1.2 GM lens? Here is what I found out:
Preorders at BHphoto, Amazon US&EU, Adorama. Fotokoch. FotoErhardt. WexUK.
SonyAlphaBlog tested the new Sigma 60-600mm lens and concluded:
The Sigma 60-600mm F4.5.3 DG DN Sports (2369 euros) is a a monster zoom lens extending the classical 150-600mm to reach 60mm on the low end. This unique 10x range is very versatile and allow to use it for wildlife and sport to take group shoot as well as tiny detail of a player or a bird and to be able to follow a distant subject coming very close to you, which is the main issue with a 150-600mm where you are stuck when your subject is coming close.
In good lighting conditions performances are excellent in term of sharpness on the entire range with although a little drop a 600mm.
AF is also very good in standard situation but for fast moving subject , the lens loose track when subject was coming near or with erratic movements.Although build quality and ergonomics are very good there is 2 points to take into account: Weight is huge and you can hold it more than 1 minute and be steady, so a monopod or a tripod is a must with this lens. I was also annoyed not to be able to zoom fast as zoom ring is quite stiff. I also had to take my big bag to transport it.
Tony writes:
Low megapixel cameras have less noise in low light because of bigger pixels, right? Camera manufacturers AND smartphone manufacturers use that in their advertising, but is it true?
NO. We put three sets of cameras to the test, for both still images and video. The cameras tested include the Sony a7S III, Sony a7R IV, Sony a1, Canon R5, Canon R6, Fujifilm X-H2, and Fujifilm X-T4. In EVERY case, the high megapixel camera outperformed the lower megapixel camera in low-light, high ISO photography AND video. Every time.
Tokina 11-18mm lens is at BHphoto. Adorama. Amazon US&EU.
Opticallimits tested the lens and concluded:
It’s nice to see that Tokina is finally back with a new original design. And the Tokina atx-m 11-18mm f/2.8 E doesn’t disappoint. Like all ultra-wide lenses, it has a few rough edges but overall, we are generally very pleased with the performance. This is especially true for the resolution chapter. With the exception of 18mm @ f/2.8, it is pretty sharp across the image field. At medium aperture settings, it even approaches greatness. Thanks to comparatively low native image distortions, image auto-correction doesn’t need to work hard either – thus maintaining most of the resolution goodness. The original vignetting is very high at 11mm f/2.8 but it’s reasonably well controlled at other settings and quite low with auto-correction again. Lateral CAs are an old Tokina enemy and they are indeed visible in RAW files but they represent no problem after processing. The sunstar rendering is decent at medium aperture settings. A weakness is flare in backlit situations, so better use the supplied lens hood.
The Tokina lens follows the brand’s long tradition of having a very good build quality. The lens is lightweight yet doesn’t sacrifice a solid feel. The control rings are very smooth. The inner lens tube extends slightly when zooming towards the wide-end – there is nothing wrong with this, but it is a little unusual in this respect. The AF is reasonably fast and it’s perfectly silent. While it won’t affect most users, we’d prefer finer steps of the AF motor though. As is, manual focusing via the focus-by-wire system feels somewhat coarse.
The Tokina atx-m 11-18mm f/2.8 E enters a busy market segment with lots of options to choose from. Besides being a pretty good lens to boot, it is also more affordable than most making it the value king in its class.
