Til December 23 you can have the Rokinon APS-C E-mount lens for a discounted $279 price at Adorama (Click here). And you get an additional battery for free with the new Sony A6500 sold by BHphoto (Click here).
All current available Sony and accessory deals can be seen on those pages at BHphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).
Photogrpahyblog tested the new Zeiss Loxia 85mm f/2.4:
The Zeiss Loxia 85mm f/2.4 is a pleasure to use, thanks to its superb weather-proof build quality and wide, smooth focusing ring. When manually focusing the Zeiss Loxia 85mm f/2.4 delivered a very high percentage of keepers thanks to the A7R II’s excellent magnification and peaking features. Vignetting is apparent when shooting wide-open at f/2.4, but quickly disappears as you stop down to f/5.6, while both chromatic aberrations and pin-cushion distortion are very well controlled.
There are a few drawbacks to the Zeiss Loxia 85mm f/2.4 lens, though. You obviously don’t get auto-focusing, the 80cm minimum focusing distance is a little restrictive, it’s larger and heavier than its main rivals, and the asking price of $1399 / £1199 / €1399 is a lot of money to pay for a manual focus prime lens.
The lens is set to start shipping right before Christmas at BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama. In Eu at Amazon.de.
Uldis Plinte
today’s sunrise in birch grove
Sony A7 II + Batis 85mm @ 1.8 (3 vertical shot panorama)
1/1600sec | ISO 100 | 85mm | f/1.8
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This one ends today at midnight: 15% back on Sony stuff by using the Amazon PRIME card at Amazon US (Click here to read the details). Click those links to see the full list of elegible cameras (here) and lenses (here):
The infamous Fotodiox Nikon to E-mount adapter broke another camera. This time it’s the Sony A7II. Watch the video to learn more about it. And please warn the comunity…do not buy the adapter that is currently on sale at BHphoto (Click here to see it but don’t buy it!).
I do hope Fotodiox will help and/or reimburse all those affected by that issue!
All our EU readers can get the up to 53% deal at Amazon.de (Click here). Note that in Germany Samyang lenses are sold as Wallimex. Direct link to the discounted lenses:
12mm E-mount Wallimex
7.5mm E-mount Wallimex
8mm E-mount Wallimex
16-300mm A-mount Tamron
8mm A-mount Wallimex
35mm f/1.8 SP A-mount Tamron
Quick a7s Tip: Significantly Improve Battery Life
Canon and Toshiba patented a special curved sensor design (Mirrorlessrumors).
A Photographer’s Guide to Packing for Holiday Travel (Explora).
Transforming Light Into Art (ALC).
An unpretentious test of 35mm on 8 lenses on A7S2. Primes and zoom, some Sony some legacy (Scatteredlightblog).
Sony a6500 touch autofocus skate park test – graded with Filmconvert (Newsshooter).
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David: “his is my little slomo clip using an RX100 IV. Happy to share it. https://youtu.be/efnXTOWEg7c“
