The following is a Guest Post from Phototraces about Sony’s Smooth Reflection App (available here):
Experimenting With Sony Smooth Reflection App
I switched from a Canon DSLR to a Sony Mirrorless two years ago.
You save up to 40% on Samyang (Wallimex) E and A-mount lenses sold by Amazon Germany (Click here). All EU readers with an Amazon account can buy those. The deal runs today only.
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Most of these Sony A7 camera bundles deals will en on April 8th:
Sony A7rII:
Free Lightroom 6 with the A7rII sold by Amazon and Adorama.
Various A7rII kits with free grip and cards at Amazon and Adorama.
Free 2 Terabyte USB 3.0 drive with the A7rII sold by BHphoto.
Free Adobe Creative Cloud 12-Month Subscription with the A7rII sold by BHphoto.
Sony A7sII:
Various A7sII kits with free grip and cards at Amazon and Adorama.
Free Rode VideoMic with the A7sII sold by BHphoto.
Free Bag and SD card with the A7sII sold by BHphoto.
Sony A7II:
Various A7II kits with free grip and cards at Amazon and Adorama.
Free bad, SD card and battery witht he A7II sold by BHphoto.
Sony A6500/6300:
Free bad, SD card and battery witht he A6500 sold by BHphoto.
Free bad, SD card and battery witht he A6300 sold by BHphoto.
What’s also super hot at the moment is that Rokinon 14mm Full Frame E-mount autofocus lens for $499 only directly from Amazon US (Click here).
New Batis Preorders:
Zeiss Batis 135mm f/2.8 lens at Adorama and Bhphoto.
Zeiss Batis 135mm lens shade at Adorama and Bhphoto.
Tony & Chelsea Northrup do think this is kind of the ultimate camera. The real issue Tony has with the camera is the uncertain future of A-mount. Also ePhotozine published their A99II review and do conclude:
Sony last announced new Sony A mount lenses in 2015, which were updates to existing lenses. Sony seem to be more committed to releasing lenses for the Sony FE mount, with new full-frame lenses announced for that system regularly. Yes, the A99-II is an excellent camera, and if you have a collection of lenses for the system, then it would make an excellent upgrade from the A99, but considering Sony’s focus on their mirrorless camera system, it’s difficult to see a long and prosperous future for Sony’s A-mount.
Sony A99II at [shopcountry 56569].
Note: I want to stress that Sony confirmed once again that A-mount is here to stay :)
Entapano posted a series of video he shot with the new Entaniya Fisheye 250 E lens. You can find those video here: youtube.com/channel/UCYfIedMS6Im1E-ePO0SplGQ/videos. Keep in mind that once you play the video you have to drag and drop with your mouse cursor to move around.
Now if you want that lens things are a tiny bit complicated: You have to buy the MFT mount lens (here on Adorama) and then buy the official Entaniya Sony E mount Adaptor for MFT 250 Lenses (again here at Adorama).
The official lens site can be found at entapano.com/en/fisheyelens/microfourthirds_fisheyelens.html
Lisa Beaney tested the new Batis 135mm lens:
The lens is a 2.8 lens and not a 1.8 or 1.4 as I know some people were hoping for. I don’t think this would present a problem in the real world and to be honest I’d much rather have a camera/lens combination that feels nicely balanced when I hold it !
The focus with the lens was fast and accurate and when I switched to manual focussing the focus ring was very smooth and easy to use. If you are using this lens for filming then you can have very smooth focus adjustments.
One more news she shares:
I know that Zeiss have but more resource in to their manufacturing after the success of the Batis 85mm lens so hopefully there won’t be quite as many delays in getting hold of it.
So hopefully we won’t say the many months shipment delay we had in the past!
And here are new Batis 135mm tests: Dustin Abbott (and video on youtube), PCmag, Lensrentals, The full PDF spec sheet with MTF graph is now available here: zeiss.com/datasheet-zeiss-batis-28135.pdf
New Batis Preorders:
Zeiss Batis 135mm f/2.8 lens at Adorama, Bhphoto, PhotoPorstNeuwied and ParkCameras.
Zeiss Batis 135mm lens shade at Adorama and Bhphoto.
