Sony Tidbits…


How to capture great bird photos. Featuring Sony FE 200-600mm Lens

The 5 Toughest Hard Drives for Your Next Adventure (Explora).
A7RIV + GM 85MM f1.4 Relaxing Photoshoot Behind the Scenes (Julia Trotti).
Sony A7S III: 4k vs 1080p With The Best Lens Ever Made (Camera Conspiracies).
MVE Automated focus stacking rail review at SonyAlphaBlog.
Venus Optics LAOWA 9 mm f/5.6 FF RL review at Lenstip.
Voigtlander 65mm FE image amples at Mapcamera.
I review the 7.5mm F2.8 Fish Eye Lens for Sony, Panasonic, Fuji and Canon from Pergear (David Oastler).

Personal photos and tests from SAR Admin Andrea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and 500px.

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We have our own Facebook camera groups and pages you can join to discuss the upcoming new cameras in detail:
Sony A9 group and Sony A9 page.
Sony A7rIV group and Sony A7rIV page
Sony A7sIII group and Sony A7sIII page
Sony A7III group and Sony A7III page
Note: In groups you can post your own stuff like images, news and questions. While on pages you will read the specific camera news from SAR.

Topaz updates Mask AI and Video Enhance AI

Reminder: You can use our checkout code “RUMOR” to get an additional 15% discount on all TOPAZ products (Click here).

Topaz updated two of their may plugins:

Mask AI improvements help you mask in record time:
We’ve made some great updates to Mask AI! From better interface tools and improved AI, to fresh features and built-in tutorials, Mask is more powerful and easy-to-use than ever.
Buy it now for $99.99 or existing users can download the latest update free.

New features in Video Enhance AI give you even better upscaled footage:
We’ve made some more great changes to Video Enhance AI, including improved video IO, new bitrate settings for MP4, Theia model updates, and auto Save/Load to help you streamline your video workflow.
You can buy Video Enhance AI for just $199.99 (regularly $299.99) during our limited-time introductory offer. Existing users can download the latest update.

You can use our checkout code “RUMOR” to get an additional 15% discount on all TOPAZ products (Click here). This is what you save on the single products:

The world is changing: I bought my first photo gear with crytpo and you get up to 8% BNB cashback

This might be interesting for our European readers (the card ins’t available for US citizens yet):

I bought my first photo gear (a lens) using the brand new Binance Card (click here to make an account to get one). The fee is about 1,5% to convert BNB to EUR or USD (and there are no other hiddden costs).
The good news is that there is an up to 8% cashback on every purchase (see image below). Althaugh realistically you will not spend 6,000 BNB in one month (that’s 130k in EURO). But a 4% BNB (about 4K per month) cashback is absolutely doable if you buy photo gear.

IMPORTANT: The one big problem dealing with crypto is the volatility. Be aware of that risk. A solution is to use the Binance Card with the BUSD stablecoin to to avoid the volatitly…but there is no cashback on that. And in general talk to a financial expert before doing crypto business to avoid mistakes and dumb errors :)

And please use my Binance affiliate link to create an account. I get a small commission and you pay 0% extra for that…Thanks!