David Schloss: “should you buy the a7R5 now?”

Sony A7rV Preorders:
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.

David Schloss reviewed the Sony A7rV and his conclusion in short:

Buy the Sony A1 if you need 10fps or faster, buy the Sony a7rv if your current camera is dying or you need a camera today, no one should buy an a9, and everyone else should wait.

Now released: massive Lexar 320GB CFexpress Type A card ($699 in USA and 499€ Europe)

The new 320GB card is now listed at BHphoto and Amazon. In Europe it’s priced close to 500 Euro at Amazon.

And today only the 160GB card is $128 off at BHphoto.

Lensvid just reviewed those new Lexar cards and concluded:

The Lexar cards seem to perform just as well as the Sony card for stills and video shooting and even better for data transfer to the computer, especially using the new Lexar card reader. Finally, it’s nice to see larger capacities for CFexpress A users on the market now the only thing we want to see are much more competitive pricing.

Heipi Tripod review by SonyAlphaBlog: “excellent compact travel tripod”

2 days left to get the world’s lightest 3 in 1 tripod on Kickstarter (click here). SonyAlphaBlog tested the tripod and concluded:

The Heipi Tripod (319$ / 399$ retail) is an excellent compact travel tripod . Very good build quality , very good ergonomics, very stable , fully featured (spike, smartphone holder, , sub tripod…)
Compared to the Peakdesign , it takes the same approach but implements it in a different way, with a smarter 3 pillars centre column , better rigidity , better ballhead, a sub tripod , better ergonomics and a much lower price
Highly recommended

Homemade Dia scanner using the Sony

One member of the Xitek Forum made this construction to scan his old Dia photos. There are some advantages and disadvantages compared to using a classic EPSON970 scanner:

  • The center resolution is much higher on the Sony images.
  • The edge resolution is better on the Epson
  • The scanning speed with the Sony is about 10x faster compared to the Epson
  • Post production is much easier with the Sony images than on the dated Epson software+
  • Colors are much more vivid on the Sony scanned images.

Personal note: I do have a ton of FF and MF negative and diag images. Would love to find a setup that makes it easy for me to digitalize the images…any idea?