(SR1) The impossible rumors roundup…(100mm and 24mm FE, A7sIII with RGBW sensor)

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Source 1:

Sonys next thing at e-mount are two prime lenses. one large prime for wildlife and portrait 100mm at f 2.0- one vastly open wide angle 24mm

Source 2:

The sony A7S III that will be anounced next spring will be the first interchangeable lens camera featuring a RGBW sensor. This will result in an sensitivity increase of 84%. Additional improvements and the cooper wired backlight sensor will result in a total of over 1 fstop of noise improvement

Source 3: Sony A7III

The A7III will have dual card slots and a much faster AF system.I was speaking to a Sony rep who assured me that the newer A7III and above will have these two features.Those were my big two concerns, so I didn’t ask about anything else. I’m a horrible source

Notes on those kind of (im-)possible rumors:

  • Fake rumors sent by so claimed sources that are known to create fake rumors are NOT included. What you see here are messages I got from unknown sources where I have no track of any “rumor history”
  • It’s by readers request that I create this sum up of low ranked rumors. But please remind all that these are not rumors from trusted sources and don’t count me accountable on those kind of very low ranked rumors :)
  • The last year a couple of those rumors were right (RX1rII and A6300 specs). So miracles sometimes can happen :)
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New Sony FS7 primers from Omeneo

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Hrvoje: “I have thoroughly analyzed Sony FS7 and optimized its imaging performance.
New Primers Equinox series starts from this camera. These Primers are designed for professional log recording 10 bit+ cameras. This particular package is designed specifically for FS7 sensor and S-Log3/S-Gamut3.Cine basis and it optimizes the signal for Rec.709, significantly improving Sony FS7 performance.
Included are 4 64x64x64 .cube files for post production workflow and 4 33x33x33 .cube files for camera and set preview.

01 Base is best suited for a colorist, other three are more definitive and closer to the final outcome and may be more helpful to shooters working on their own material and as a set preview. All four are greyscale neutral and utilize full available dynamic range of the sensor and recorded shadow and highlight data is preserved. This makes S-Log3 workflow much more practical and consistent and there is no shadow accentuated noise as initially assumed with S-Log3.

Achieved:
– Improved color performance on many aspects across the whole signal range
– Optimized utilization of full sensor dynamic range
– More natural and organic image impression

Primers should be used as a first step in post on S-Log3/S-Gamut3.Cine shot material and all color modifications apart from white point correction should come after the signal is optimized.

http://omeneo.com/primers/

Kind regards and happy shooting!

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Sony Tidbits…

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Bounce Panel: Sony a6000/a6300/a6500 Pop-Up Flash Diffuser

Lenses for the Hybrid Shooter (Explora).
How to Lighten Up Your Camera Gear (ALC).
Sony SLDVS-EC Interface (Image Sensor World).
Cokin launches vintage-styled Riviera Classic tripod (Dpreview).
Edelkrone Motion Module Adds iOS Control to the SliderONE (Cinema5D).
Vollformat gegen APS-C: Sony E 16-70 mm F4 ZA OSS vs. Sony FE 24-70 mm F4 ZA OSS (J. Haag).

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

Bard: “https://www.eventbrite.com/e/destination-cuba-with-colby-brown-and-sony-alpha-universe-tickets-28708326377
Costs $3999, deposit $1000. Free Rental of an A7 Series Camera and 2 FE lenses for the duration of the trip
Everyone that signs up for this Workshop will be given a Sony A6300 Kit camera to keep!”

Lenin: “I just wanted to share with you a couple of my latest posts. The first one is about my updated travel photography gear, which includes a Sony A7II and accessories. http://bit.ly/2fJ6MJx
The second one explains a workflow for backing up photos while traveling using an iOS device and a Raspberry Pi. It’s actually a two-part post. Here are the links:
http://bit.ly/2gyMepQ
http://bit.ly/28Zpg5o“

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Zeiss Loxia 85mm f/2.4 Review at Photographyblog

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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.

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This week SAR readers photos selection

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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

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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