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Camera Settings for Shooting Portraits – Sony Alpha Tutorial

Today’s Gold Box on the Sony E-mount 18-200mm and Wallimex 8mm lenses at Amazon Germany (Click here)
Macro Therapy – Love Stands Still (Alphauniverse)
A7RII Milky Way (SonyAlphaForum).
The £1,000 Amazon.co.uk Gift Cards Prize Draw (Amazon UK).
Going All-Mirrorless: My First Non-DSLR Wedding (Movingtomirrorless).
Petition for firmware update of the RX1 (Change).
Batis 25mm lens test at DC.watch.
Sony A7II test at Fototesty.pl.

Kerrin: “I thought you’d be interested in how the new 90mm Macro lens does with the FS7 and A7s in (mostly) 4K while following around some insects for a few days. Definitely a gorgeous lens that is very sharp. I also used it for full portraits of my family and it perfect for that as well. https://vimeo.com/136656424”

Sebastian: “I tested out the HFS a bit on the weekend and here are results. In case you will post some more samples. https://vimeo.com/137271489”

Mike Machian: “Shot on two A7s’s in 4k with two Shogun’s attached https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OxyN8lVvhQ”

Fernando: “Extremadura es vida, Timelapse 4k: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhBlUo-0_r8”

Jose: “Here the Vimeo link to the new ALX models: https://vimeo.com/135291022 ALX S4 KIT: http://www.libecsales.com/products/alx/ALX_S4_KIT.html“

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New A7rII reviews (Dave Dugdale, long zoom with LL and Canon 5ds battle).

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On top you can watch the A7rII review video from Dave Dugdale. He is a known GH4 user and loves the A7rII features (with a few missing exceptions).

Photographyblog posted the full A7rIi review and concludes:

The Sony A7R II certainly succeeds in its attempt to turn the heads of DSLR owners. It won’t satisfy the needs of professional sports shooters, the menu system isn’t as refined as the competition, and some people will still put their trust (however blindly) in a more conventional DSLR, but the A7R II is a undoubtedly a break-through camera for Sony, both in terms of the promises that it makes, and the realisation of those promises…

Luminous Landscape tells you what long lens suits best for the A7rII.

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The French site Focus Numerique compared the A7rII against the Canon 5DsR. And the A7rII is the winner with the Canon 5Dsr beating the A7rII only when it comes to sports photography.

Alexandre: “I shot beautiful pictures in Thailand with my new Sony A7RII and 3 different lenses, you can share if you like them: http://traveljournalist.com/sony-a7rii-thailand-stars-models-landscapes-beach-resorts-skyscrapers/”

A7r2 – A7r – D810 – 5Ds – 5Dm3  Sharpness / dynamic range / noise comparison by Tweakers.net
Sharpness – http://tweakers.net/reviews/4150/6/zin-en-onzin-van-veel-megapixels-vergelijking-scherpte.html
Noise – http://tweakers.net/reviews/4150/8/zin-en-onzin-van-veel-megapixels-vergelijking-ruis.html
DR – http://tweakers.net/reviews/4150/7/zin-en-onzin-van-veel-megapixels-vergelijking-dynamisch-bereik.html

A7rII store list:
In USA: at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, SonyStore US, FocusCamera, Uniquephoto.
In Europe at Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Wex UK and ParkCameras.
In Asia at Digitalrev, CameraPro.

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New Rokinon 50mm f/1.2 and 21mm f/1.4 E-mount lenses on preorder at Amazon. First image samples on the NEX-3.

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The very ncie new Rokinon APS-C E-mount lenses can now be preordered at Amazon US too: 50mm f/1.2 lens (Click here) and 21mm f/1.4 lens (Click here). Be sure to choose the Sount mount version when you preorder.

Lenswork (Click here) posted the very first two image samples show with the brand new Rokinon 50mm f/1.2 E-mount lens on the NEX-3.

Full preorder links:
Rokinon 21mm f/1.4 Lens for APS-C E-mount (Black) at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
Rokinon 21mm f/1.4 Lens for APS-C E-mount (Silver) at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
Rokinon 50mm f/1.2 Lens for APS-C E-mount (Black) at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
Rokinon 50mm f/1.2 Lens for APS-C E-mount (Silver) at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.

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(SR3) No new A-mount camera coming at Photoplus (now 17 months without A-mount camera announcement).

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One trusted source who lately shared some correct news sent me a disappointing info on A-mount. On his latest meeting with Sony managers he has been told there is no new A-mount camera coming at Photoplus this year. Now, the only hope left is that Sony somewhat lied to him to hide some surprise. But I really don’t think that’s the case.

It’s really sad that Sony is leaving A-mount owners in the dark. Despite their official statement that A-mount will “continue” the truth is the following:

1) The last A-mount camera they announced was the A77II in May 1, 2014. So it’s now 17 months without any new A-mount camera announcement.
2) The high end A99 camera got announced three years ago on Sep 12, 2012. It would be about time to announce a new camera!

And A-mount owners are not the only guys concerned. Also E-mount APS-C E-mount camera owners are waiting to get some new APS-C E-mount lens and new camera to upgrade. You can’t just ask A3000/A5000/A6000 camera owners to buy expensive and much to big FE lenses for their cameras…

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Sony new microlens design could dramatically improve phase detection autofocus performance.

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Egami spotted a new Sony patent that could dramatically improve the autofocus performance on future Sony cameras. Imaging Resource writes:

Sony’s patent publication (which means it has been filed and acknowledged, but not yet denied or approved), lays out the groundwork for being able to create unique microlenses with different profiles (shapes), so that the microlenses over the phase-detection pixels could direct light coming only from the desired direction onto the surface of the pixel, without requiring shading. This technology is significant and unique for the fact that the patent implies this would be done on a pixel-by-pixel basis.
This change would give the pixels and overall system much more information to work with in low-light situations.

We are slowly getting there…catching up with Nikon and Canon AF performance!

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You can win 6x Sony A6000 cameras at Amazon Germany photo contest.

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German folks can join the photo contest organized by Amazon Germany (details here) to win one of the six A6000 or…one Vespa :)

And from now till October 11th Amazon Germany (Click here) runs daily deals on camera stuff. Among them today we have a Gold Box on the A77II and WX500 Sony cameras. All EU folks can actually buy from Amazon Germany if you understand the language to hit the right buttons :)

Two Amazon.de Gold Box on SD cards and two on cameras:
32GB at 10:00 (Click here).
64GB at 11:30 (Click here).
A77II at 18:00 (Click here).
WX500 at 18:00 (Click here).

Two Amazon UK card deals:
44% off on the Lexar 8GB SD card (Click here).
26% off on the Transcend 32GB SD card (Click here).

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