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Nick Bunick‎
1. Shot with Batis 85 and Sony a7r2, using natural light and reflector
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3) A selection of most liked pictures by the community and by me SAR admin will be posted weekly on SAR.

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Gold Box deal on the Rokinon 8mm f/2.8 E-mount lens at Amazon US. Sony lens savings ending tonight!

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At 3.19pm New York Time you will get a Gold Box deal on the Rokinon 8mm f/2.8 E-mount lens at Amazon US (Click here).

And the up to $200 E-mount lens savings will expire tonight! Grab them now at BHphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here) and FocusCamera (Click here).

Full Frame E-mount lenses:
 $100 off on the 16-35mm f/4.0 Zeiss lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
$100 off on the 24-70mm f/4.0 Zeiss lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
$100 off on the 24-240mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$25 off on the Sony 28mm FE lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
$50 off on the Sony 28-70mm FE lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
$100 off on the 28-135mm PZ lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
$100 off on the Zeiss 35mm f/2.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the Zeiss 5omm f/1.4 lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
$50 off on the Sony 50mm FE f/1.8 lens at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon, Focuscamera.
$100 off on the Zeiss 55mm f/1.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the 70-200mm G lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the 70-300mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the 90mm macro lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.

APS-C E-mount lenses:
 $100 off on the 10-18mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$25 off on the 16mm f/2.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$50 off on the 16-50mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$50 off on the 18-105mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the 18-200mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the 18-200mm PZ lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$25 off on the 20mm f/2.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$50 off on the 35mm f/1.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$50 off on the 50mm f/1.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.

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First Image Quality comparison between the Fuji GFX (Sony 50MP sensor) and the Sony A7rII

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A7rII vs GFX ISO 100 comparison at 100% enlargement (Click on the image to see the orioginal size).

I guess you were all curios to see if the 1.7 times larger Sony 50MP sensor of the Fuji GFX can easily beat the Sony A7rII image quality. Well now you can use the Imaging Resource Comparometer to make all the comparison you want as they just added the GFX Lab shots. Imaging Resource writes:

“This camera produces the best lab shots we’ve ever come across. Detail is fantastic, and high ISO performance is excellent.”

Here are a couple of short links to some of the full size images:
100 ISO: GFX vs A7rII
1600 ISO: GFX vs A7rII

It really comes down to very personal professional needs if the GFX advantage justifies the very high price of the camera. If you ask me I would like Sony to make a medium format camera with 55x41mm sensor. I think the image quality difference with FF would be really make a huge difference. But so would be the price :)

Here is the 100% enlarged 100 ISO comparison with the Phase One XF100 that uses the 55x41mm Sony 100 megapixel sensor (Click on image to see full size version):

 

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Sony Tidbits…

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On the Field Testing Sony 70-200 GM

Voigtlander 10mm f5.6 review – Super Wide Angle for Sony A7 Series (Movingelectrons).
3 Games, One Match, & a 10 hour day with the Sony A99II (Patrick Murphy-Racey)
Sony Imaging Ambassador – Mark Galer
Buying Guide: The Best Cameras for Vlogging (Adorama Learning Center).
The Tripod Explained (Explora).
New Alpha Academy program in Japan (DC.watch).

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To write a guest post on SAR follow the instruction on that page

Austin: “Not a rumor, but I wanted to share a review video of the a6500 that I did. I worked super hard on this and thought it might provide value on a Friday tidbits article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw0AiaWO8r0”

Drasko: “Just finished my review for ON1 using some of my old Sony A7rII Raw files for comparison with Lightroom. Have a look at my results, how good the shadow recovery in ON1 is and how fast you can get great results with it! http://www.dsphotoblog.com/?p=3271“

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Sony A99II in Stock at FocusCamera and Amazon

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The Sony A99II is in Stock at FocusCamera and via third party sellers at Amazon US.

Also the 70-200mm lens is in Stock at Amazon US, FocusCamera and [shoplink 56127 ebay]eBay US[/shoplink].

Reminder:
You save up to $400 on A6500-A6300-A6000 bundles sold by BHphoto (Click here to see the list).
Up to $300 savings on Sony cameras and lenses at BHphoto and Adorama.
New Sony US trade-in program is now running at BHphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).

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Sony interview at Imaging Resource: Says wide angle FE lenses are priority

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Imaging Resource interviewed Yasuyuki Nagata and Takashi Kondo from Sony. Most of the talk is about the new Sony 100mm STF lens. But Imaging Resource also tried to squeeze out some info about the future Sony lens strategy. They didn’t get much:

  1. About a new wide angle zoom: “There are a lot of professionals that [are asking for] a telephoto or wide-zoom [lens], but at this moment, maybe most of our professionals are basically [shooting] portraits.“
  2. About future lens development: “I cannot comment about future development products, but honestly speaking the landscape photographer is increasing [in Sony’s customer base].“
  3. APS-C people want a longer lens? “That’s why we’ve established the new 18-110mm f/4 lens to record movies.“

Summa Summarum: Wide angle lenses are high on the priority list because more and more landscape photographers are using Sony’s high-resolution cameras. While APS-C E-mount cameras need zooms and video optimized lenses.

New Sony lens preorder links:
85mm f/1.8 FE at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon DE. Amazon UK. Amazon IT. Amazon FR. Amazon ES. PhotoPorstNeuwied.
100mm f/2.8 STF FE at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon DE. Amazon UK. Amazon IT. Amazon FR. Amazon ES. PhotoPorstNeuwied.

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New $40 fisheye E-mount lens from a chinese company

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Our reader YC just spotted a new teaser for a Fisheye MFT lens made by a chinese manufacturer:

Some info from a Chinese mirrorless forum:
 http://tieba.baidu.com/p/5004916064?pid=104825892670&cid=104826339998#104826339998
 This guy claimed that his little team from Shenzhen, China is designing a super compact fisheye macro lens for E/X/M43 mount. The length is only 6mm. On APS-C it’s a 180 diagonal fisheye. The aperture is F8 and you cannot stop down. The minimum working distance is only 1 cm. It contains 1 AA glass. The corner sharpness wouldn’t be worse than the other fisheye lenses on the market (at least he said so).
 They have finished the first prototype. Several samples are included in the thread. The price is 299 CNY = 43.44 USD. They’ll start a fund raising program from March on the Chinese website JD.com (kind of like Amazon). The early bird price is 249 CNY = 36.18 USD. The product is planned to be shipped from June. But I guess they don’t have any plan for oversea market yet.

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