Sigma announces the BF camera carved from a single block of aluminium!

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I think you should take a close look at the new Sigma BF camera (here at BHphoto). The main reason is that it has a radically minimalist design, which I personally really like! Here is some important information:

  • carved from a single block of aluminum
  • minimalist controls
  • 230 GB of internal memory
  • No EVF, no SD slot, no HDmi, no IBIS and NO to a lot of things you usually have on a camera!
  • Sigma BF Stands for ‘Beautiful Foolishness’

From a technical perspective, this really is a ‘boring’ camera, but the novelty here is the radical new design and user interface. I would love to see Sony produce a ZV or RX FF camera with such high build quality and a simplified, solid button layout. I’m seriously considering buying the WHITE model :)

Here you can see images of the Aluminum block used to carve out the new BF camera:

The I lens series has been redesigned to match the new BF camera style:

Hands-on images with the new BF:

And here a size comparison with the older FP model:

Preorders:
300-600mm lens at BHphoto. Amazon. Adorama. FotoErhardt. Fotokoch. WexUK.
16-300mm at BHphoto. Amazon. Adorama. FotoErhardt. Fotokoch. WexUK.
Full press release on Explora

 

 

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Full leaked Sony 400-800mm and 16mm lens specs!

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I got the full Sony lens specs for you! These lenses will be announced on February 26 at 3pm London time!

Sony 400-800mm f/6-3-8.0 G lens specs:

  • 11 aperture blades
  • 19 lens groups with 27 lens elements
  • OSS
  • internal zoom
  • 105mm filter thread
  • full time DMF switch
  • minimum focusing distance varies between 1.7m-3.5m
  • far-mode starting at 8m (instead of the usual 10m)
  • supports teleconverters
  • 2.475kg
  • 119.8mm wide x 34.6cm long
  • Shipment start: March
  • Price: 2999€ (USD price possibly around $2,500)
  • Preorder links: BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, FotoErhardt, WexUK.

Sony 16mm f/1.8 G lens specs:

  • 11 aperture blades
  • 15 lens elements in 12 groups (including AA, ED and super ED glass)
  • aperture ring (de-clickable)
  • same XD linear focusing motor as the 14mm GM
  • 15cm minimal focusing distance
  • 73.8mm + 75mm
  • 304grams
  • Shipment start: April
  • Price: 999€ (USD price possibly around $849)
  • Preorder links: BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, FotoErhardt, WexUK.

If you have more info about the next Sony cameras and Sony/Zeiss lenses you can share send me a message using this contact box, SIGNAL, or at sonyalpharumors@gmail.com. Thanks!

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Here’s why there are massive Sony A7rVI, A7V, FX3II and RX1rIII rumours floating youtube!

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If you search on youtube for cameras like the Sony A7rVI, Sony A7V, Sony FX3II and so on, you will find a large number of ‘rumor’ videos. Over the past few months, readers have often pointed these videos out to me and some of them believed that they were real rumors.

But they are all AI generated videos!!!

There’s software that basically uses tools like CHATGPT to create a scripted text for a YouTube video, and then uses AI tools for image and video generation that create images based on that scripted text. In fact, most of the text in these videos is scraped from my websites, and then they add a few fantasy ideas to grab your attention. I hope that Youtube will soon crack down on AI-generated videos. Some of these videos have more views than my real rumor videos on Youtube :(

In general, I’m surprised at how many people fall for these IA pictures and videos. On many social networks like Facebook, IG and TikTok, I see hundreds of thousands of likes for such content and most people believe it’s real!

It’s a crazy world we live in… I almost think it’s time to go live on a mountain with my dog…. ah, sorry… I don’t have a dog… it’s just a dog created by AI!

 

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