Sony rebates in Germany: Save up to 80 Euro.

• April 28, 2016
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Sony Germany launched a new rebate program. You save up to 80 Euro at Amazon.de (Click here to read all details).

Sony US officially drops the price of the A7II by $200!

• April 27, 2016
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Sony US officially reduced the A7II price. It’s now $200 off in all US stores like Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here). Also the first generation A7 got a $100 discount and sells for $998 at Amazon (Click here).

Also be sure to check out the many Sony Open Box deals from BestBuy (Click here to see them all). There is also a bunch of 55mm FE lenses for $719 only!

(SR4) A99 will be discontinued end of this summer

• April 27, 2016
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The following info comes via the one source who shared the new “GM lens line” rumor as first (read the rumor here). So it should be quite a reliable info: He said Sony plans to discontinue [shoplink 45722 ebay]the current A99[/shoplink] by end of this summer. He cannot share details yet about how the new A99 successor will be. But stay tuned on SAR. As soon as he “can” he will whisper to use some first details about the new A-mount flagship!

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Sony A7rII and RX1RII are now compatible with the Motion Shot & Multiple Exposure app. Timelapse app updated too.

• April 27, 2016
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There is a new update on the two Motion Shot & Multiple Exposure apps which adds compatibility with the Sony A7rII and RX1rII.

And the Timelaps App got updated too with a silent shooting mode.

Thanks Thalamus and ADWB for this!

Sony Tidbits…

• April 27, 2016
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Ultrasonic water, slow motion Sony RX100 mk4

Delta (video on top): “This generation of cameras are terrific for scientific application even in home laboratories all over the world, since they are so affordable but are still capable of recording in 1000 FPS at good image quality. As you know, science is about observing and recording experiments, and the new high frame rate cameras are fantastic for this purpose.
Recording Ultrasonic vibrations in water:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0nHDZVr5MQ
Recording human reaction time from eye blinking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okyzcngHxhI
Quicksilver recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjf5jRKe8Ws”

German Batis 25mm review at Clickpix.
Firmware update for EF-E Smart Adapter MARK IV and EF-E Speed Booster ULTRA (Metabones).
A7rII test at Fototesty.pl
24-70’s – GM vs Zeiss vs Canon (SonyAlphaForum)

 

Good deals on the last Hasselblad Sony clones

• April 26, 2016
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They may become a classic after all….the Hasselblad clones! And now you can have them for a very low price…soemtimes lowers than Sony’s originals!

Hasselblad LF 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS Lens sells for $149 at BHphoto (Click here). That’s almost half the price of the Sony version!

The Hasselblad Stellar sells with a $1,546 discount at BHphoto (Click here). Still more expensive than the “original” Sony RX100. But the Hasselblad comes with sexy Wooden box, leather wrist and shoulder strap, cleaning cloth and 2 year warranty.

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Ending soon:
$170 off on the Sony FE 24-240mm at [shoplink 47118 ebay]eBay US (3 year US seller warranty)[/shoplink].
$600 off on the Sony A7sII at [shoplink 47285 ebay]eBay US (3 year US seller warranty)[/shoplink].

Few more info on the Sony hack

• April 26, 2016
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Yesterdays news about the new Sony hack software created some buzz on the web. I do hope this will become a sort of Magic Lantern for Sony! As mentioned by Ma1co on Github there are still about 15 000 entries in the settings file. Experienced hackers may help him to figure out how all those settings do work.

Here is some additional info on the hack:

The full list of “hackable” cameras can be seen here: github.com/ma1co/OpenMemories-Framework/blob/master/docs/Cameras.md

SAR reader Vlousada added a way to hack your camera without the browser limitation:

For those with trouble with Internet browsers such Chrome, Firefox, Opera must try:
1. download https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-…
1.1. save or copy the pmca-v0.4-win.exe file to a folder. I use C:\PMCA

2. Into that folder create a file Install.cmd
2.1 Edit Install.cmd and paste this text:

@ECHO OFF
C:\PMCA\pmca-v0.4-win.exe install -f *.apk
PAUSE

3. Download and copy https://github.com/ma1co/OpenM… to that folder
4. Open a command prompt into that folder (use CTRL+SHIFT+RightMouseClick)
4.1 Install

SAR reader David made a short How To video

Ma1co is reading our site and will likely answer your questions. You can also follow him on the Personal View forum.