Guest Post: How big should a Sony E-mount camera be?

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Important editors note: This post had a bug in the comment system and comments were mixed up with comments form older posts. That’s why I reposted this from scratch!

The following is a guest post from Jiri:

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Since the introduction of the E-mount (formerly NEX) system Sony has struggled to offer a maximum power from a minimal body. There is no doubt that they succeeded pretty well in this respect.

I have bought my first E-mount camera (NEX7) five years ago and coming from DSLRs I had to learn how to cope with the petite size of the body. Still now, some forty thousand pictures later, I am fighting with what I feel as an insufficient size of my E-mount bodies. I kept adding various L-plates and grips to them in order to increase their height and to solve the insufficient battery capacity as well. As a glass wearer I also fought heavily with the small eyepieces on the EVFs. The well-known overheating problem has never been an issue to me as I am not a video guy, but it should be mentioned too.

The question for me was: could an increase in the size of the body help to solve at least partly these problems? How big should such camera be?

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Reviews of Samyang XP 85mm f/1.2 and comparison with Canon FD 85mm f/1.2 S.S.C. Aspherical

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The following article is a guest post from Langstrum:

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I live in South Korea and got a chance to have the new Samyang XP 85mm f/1.2 quite soon so I decided to make a user review and compare it to the [shoplink 54844 ebay]Canon FD 85mm f/1.2 S.S.C. Aspherical[/shoplink] as I have this lens for several years now. This review is based on the quality of a new copy of Samyang XP 85mm f/1.2 and a pristine copy of the FD lens (which is extremely hard to find now).

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Sony Tidbits…

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New great Sony US savings: $300 off on the Sony A7rII and A7sII. $480 trade-in bonus.

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$300 off on the Sony A7rII at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$300 off on the Sony A7sII at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$200 off on the Sony A7II at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$200 off on the Sony A7 at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.

And Adorama gives you an additional $200 gift card on the A7rII  and on the A7sII

And those are the new Sony and Zeiss lens savings ordered by focal length:

Full Frame E-mount lenses:
 $100 off on the 16-35mm f/4.0 Zeiss lens at Amazon, Adorama (extra $100 gift card) and BHphoto.
$100 off on the 24-70mm f/4.0 Zeiss lens at Amazon, Adorama (extra $50 gift card) and 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 (extra $25 gift card), 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 and 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.

Sony Accessories:
$25 off on the Sony 21mm f/2.8-22 Ultra Wide Converter Lens at Amazon.
$25 off on the Sony VCLECF2 10-13mm f/2.8-22 Fisheye Lens Fixed Prime Fisheye Converter at Amazon.
$25 off on the Sony VCLECU2 12-16mm f/2.8 Petal Shaped Fixed Ultra Wide Converter for SEL16F28 and SEL20F28 at Amazon.
$100 off on the Sony Adaptor Kit with Microphone at Amazon.
$50 off on the Sony HVLF32M MI (Multi-interface shoe) Camera Flash at Amazon.
$50 off on the Sony HVLF43M High Power Flash with Quick Shift Bounce at Amazon.
$50 off on the Sony VGC2EM Vertical Grip at Amazon.
$50 off on the Sony LA-EA4 A-Mount to E-Mount FF Lens Adapter with TMT at Amazon.
$25 off on the Sony HVLF20M at Amazon.
$20 off on the Sony ECMGZ1M Gun / Zoom Microphone at Amazon.

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And there is also a new trade-in bonus at Adorama (Click here).

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Sony Alpha live view support for the Timelapse+ VIEW Intervalometer

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The following is a guest post from Isaac:

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Timelapse+ had a really interesting KickStarter last year for their VIEW Intervalometer and it looks like they now have live-view support for the Alpha!

The VIEW is a powerful little device with some neat features like automatic bulb ramping, live time lapse preview — watched either on the VIEW or a smartphone — and touch-free gesture controls.

Since the end of the KickStarter campaign, Timelapse+ has been actively adding new features and working with other vendors to include third-party integrations to the VIEW.

Timelapse+ creator, Elijah Parker posted on the company’s blog:

Anyway, back to the good news — live view is working!  This is nice because you can stream live view over the app and more conveniently setup motion keyframes or just setup the shot from somewhere else altogether via app.view.tl over the internet.

I had previously believed live view wasn’t possible over USB with Sony since there didn’t seem to be any hidden commands in the protocol for this and Sony’s software doesn’t support it.  Sony’s USB protocol is quite limited and in my opinion, terribly designed.  For example, to change ISO, you can only tell it to go up or down, then read what it is.  To find the range of options, you need to move it up until it doesn’t change anymore, then run it all the way down, one step at a time, until it again stops changing.  Compare this with Nikon, where you can request the list of valid ISOs, choose one, then set it to be anything.  No stepping blindly through a list.  Canon is slightly more cumbersome — the lists of everything are sent all at once when it first connects, then again if they change.  They can’t just be requested at anytime, but it still works just fine.

This is just a blurb from his post but you should read the whole blog post. It’s fairly technical but interesting.

You can read more about VIEW on the company’s website: timelapseplus.com/view

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This week SAR readers photos selection

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Björn Khalad Thundal‎
Cold fog after sunset outside Köping, Sweden. A7RII with Carl Zeiss 55/1,8

1) Submit your picture with a message and picture here: facebook.com/sonyalpharumors or on the SonyAlphaForum image section.
2) Like and comment the pictures from other readers here: facebook.com/sonyalpharumors/photos_stream?tab=photos and on SonyAlphaForum.
3) A selection of most liked pictures by the community and by me SAR admin will be posted weekly on SAR.

Note: When sending a pic feel free to also add a link to your site to promote yourself!

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Gold Box deal on the Samyang 50mm f/1.4 FE autofocus lens at Amazon

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There is now a Gold Box deal on the Samyang 50mm f/1.4 FE autofocus lens at Amazon US (Click here).

Reminder:
You save $250 on the Rokinon FE autofocus lens kit sold at BHphoto.
$200 off on the A77II sold by Bhphoto, Amazon and Adorama.
Full list of deals at BHphoto (Click here).
$200 gift card on the Sony A7rII by Adorama.
$200 gift card on the Sony A7sII by Adorama.
$100 gift card on the Sony A6300 by Adorama and BHphoto.

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