Image courtesy: Photozone.de

Photozone keeps testing third-party lenses on Sony NEX cameras :)

They just published the Voigtlander Color Heliar 75mm f/2.5 (on Sony NEX) Review (Click here to read it): “The [shoplink 4096]Color Heliar[/shoplink] doesn’t cost an arm and a leg and if you’re looking for an affordable medium tele prime lens it is certainly worth a look.”

[shoplink 4096]Click here to see the list of current Heliar 75mm auctions on eBay[/shoplink]!

Cgarrard from Alphamountworld tested the new Sony A33. He doesn’t seem to be too enthusiast with the camera: While there are features of the A33 that I like quite a bit (auto HDR, video, and the EVF/LCD) the amount of niggles I can recite or painfully remember makes it a one step forward, two step back type of camera in the scope of its usability.”

Read the review: http://www.alphamountworld.com/reviews/sony-alpha-a33-slt-review-alphamountworld?page=0%2C9

P.S.: Finally the A33 is in Stock almost everywhere!

US:
BHphtoto has it in Stock (Click here)!
Notice that Amazon doesn’t have any A33!.

Germany:
Amazon has it in Stock (Click here) and Pixmania Germany has it in Stock (Click here)
UK:
Pixmania UK has it in Stock (Click here)
France:
Amazon has it in Stock (Click here)
Italy:
Pixmania has it in Stock (Click here)
Holland:
Pixmania Holland has it in Stock (Click here)
Spain:
Pixmania Spain has it in Stock (Click here)
Belgium:
Pixmania Belgium has it in Stock (Click here)

Mattia Santino Merli just sent us the first Sony NEX-VG10 Motorsport video!

And the good news is that the camera is in Stock at Amazon (Click here) and available for preorder at BHphoto (Click here)

In Europe you can preorder the camera at Amazon Deutschland (click here) and Amazon France (click here).

Sony A55 Motorsport video sample (via Fotoactualidad)

Image courtesy: Photozone.de

Photozone has fallen in love with the new Sony NEX camera :)

They reviewed 4 third-party manual focus lenses in few days. And Photozone will not stop here: “We’ll test most of the Voigtlander lineup plus a few [shoplink 3255]Zeiss ZMs[/shoplink] & Leica Ms.”

Read the following four reviews:

1) [shoplink 3987]Leica Summarit-M 50mm f/2.5[/shoplink] on Sony NEX (click here to read the review).
Photozone writes: “its execution is next to perfect and you can feel that it was made with passion” and “In optical terms it is certainly an impressive lens“.
Check out price and availability of the lens on [shoplink 3987]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]

2) [shoplink 3990]Voigtlander Heliar 50mm f/3.5[/shoplink] on Sony NEX (click here to read the review) .
Photozone writes: “In technical terms it is still a very good performer and roughly comparable to the Zeiss and Leica 50mm lenses“.
Check out price and availability of the lens on [shoplink 3990]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]

3) [shoplink 3991]Voigtlander Ultra-Wide Heliar 12mm f/5.6[/shoplink] Aspherical II on Sony NEX (click here to read the review).
Photozone writes: “The lens is extremely sharp in the image center and still good in the image borders/corners.” and ” The primary weakness of the Heliar is the heavy amount of light fall-off combined with a slight color shift in the image corners.”
Check out price and availability of the lens on [shoplink 3991]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]

4) [shoplink 3992]Zeiss Planar ZM T* 50mm f/2[/shoplink] on Sony NEX  (click here to read the review).
Photozone writes: “The center resolution is on a very high level at large aperture settings and the borders are pretty good here.”
Check out price and availability of the lens on [shoplink 3992]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]

Sony Alpha NEX-5 sample movie – indoor handheld from Gordon Laing (Cameralabs) on Vimeo.

Cameralabs is one of my preferred websites and they just published the new Sony Alpha NEX-3 / NEX-5 review (click here). The first line of their conclusions says: “The Sony Alpha NEX-5 is one of the most impressive, exciting and enjoyable cameras we’ve used for a long time.” :)

One more NEX news: David Kilpatrick tested the NEX-5 live sound (Click here to read the article at Photoclubalpha)

If you don’t own a NEX camera use those shop links to check for price and availability:

NEX5 (Click on store name): Amazon.com / Adorama / BHphoto / eBay

NEX-3: Amazon.com / Adorama / BHphoto / eBay

As you know SLRmagic launched a new [shoplink 3514]35mm f/1.7 lens with E-mount[/shoplink]. This lens works without adapter and has been designed for NEX cameras. Cris (from Australis) posted some image samples inside the dpreview forum: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1042&thread=36262990

The lens does cost less than $100 [shoplink 3514]on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]!

Imagine how it would be to use a [shoplink 3874]$6,550.00 lens[/shoplink] on you NEX camera! Yes such an expensive lens does really exist and of course it is a Leica ;)

Darren Chan posted some image samples on flickr taken with the NEX-5 and the Noctilux. Some other image samples have been also posted on SonyAlphaNex. That’s almost all you can find on the web, not many user are going to buy that lens to use it on the Sony camera! Check out the [shoplink 3874]Noctilux auctions on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] to see how much that lens costs. If you need a very fast lens for your camera I suggest you to wait for our next post where we will show you “cheaper” alternatives!

P.S.: You can use Leica lenses only [shoplink 3491]via M-mount to E-mount adapter[/shoplink]

If you have want to share your NEX + third party lens images contact us at sonyalpharumors@gmail.com. Thanks!