This tutorial shows the basic set up for wireless flash with the α 7 series.

If you like to learn more about how to use the Flash on Alpha Cameras check out those three new videos published by Sony.

This video shows a classic three-point-lighting setup with two F60Ms and an F43M as control flash.

In this video we illustrate the practical application for wireless flash.

[shoplink 48072]Sony 85mm GM f1.4[/shoplink] vs [shoplink 23448 ebay]Leica 75mm Summilux f1.4[/shoplink] vs [shoplink 45791]Zeiss Batis 85mm f1.8[/shoplink]

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A little background on me, and my style of shooting:

I love photographing beauty (close portraits), and I like the drama that comes with a narrow depth-of-field (DOF).  The type of lens required to attain these two things falls in the 75-90mm range, and must be relatively fast (f1.8 or faster).

I love the [shoplink 47718]Sony a7R II[/shoplink] because I can adapt almost any lens ever made, and over this past year, I’ve given a good go at trying ALL of them ;)

All of the images below were shot wide open.

The first portrait lens I had for the a7r II was an adapted [shoplink 48745]Canon 85mm f1.8[/shoplink] that my wife, Kelly Williams, gave to me.  It rendered very beautiful images, but since it was adapted, the AF was slow, and it was very prone to purple fringing.  Since I like to shoot backlit, this compounded both of these problems.

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The [shoplink 45791]Zeiss Batis 85mm f/1.8[/shoplink] was one of the main motivators for switching from A-mount to FE when it was first announced. Coupled with the then-just-announced A7R2’s features, the new combination was so far beyond the A99 I’d been using as to finally convince me the time had come to go mirrorless. The promise of a premium optic, one that looks like a mini-Otus, with auto-focus and the nifty little OLED distance scale, not to mention optical stabilization, was irresistible.

David from Photoclubalpha tested the new Elinchrom EL-Skyport Plus HS for Sony. He writes:

It’s been a long time coming but this unit is, I think, the sign that Sony has arrived as a professional camera system.

Check out his full review!

Las Vegas In Infrared (Sony RX100m4)

This is a beautiful video from Philip Bloom! He writes:

Shot with a hardware modified Sony RX100 IV (with the infrared blocking filter removed) in 250fps 2 second burst mode with a 665nm filter.
Mostly shot from a moving vehicle creating a surreal study or a surreal city all set to one of my favourite pieces of music, Beethoven’s 7th Symphony 2nd Movement,
To know more about how this video was made check out my super in depth blog post here: http://philipbloom.net/blog/lasvegasi…
Additional colour work done with Film Convert. 10% with code bloom or via this link: gopb.co/filmconvert
Thanks to James Miller for this special DeLUT which I used as well!

RX cameras store links:
In USA at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, FocusCamera, Uniquephoto.
In Europe at Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Wex UK.
In Asia at Digitalrev, CameraPro.

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Gary Fong compared the mighty [shoplink 48632 ebay]Canon 85mm f/1.2 lens[/shoplink] against the new [shoplink 47395]Sony 85mm f/1.4 GM[/shoplink] bokeh king lens. Note that there is a typo on the video and the Canon images are shot at f/1.2 and not at f/1.8 as written on the video.

85mm GM store links: [shopcountry 47395].

Samyang Korea issued a full press text regarding the two new Autufocus FE lenses. The two lenses will ship in July in Korea and a bit later elsewhere in the world. They still didn’t announce the final pricing but the price will be less than $600.

They released the MTF graphs and some low resolution image samples too:

50mm F1.4 AS IF UMC Full Frame E-mount

14mm F2.8 ED AS IF UMC Full Frame E-mount

found via Dicahub. Thanks!

Reminder: Eggry.blog shared some info on those new lenses:

1) AF lenses is not named yet. They’re conducting naming contest in Kora. That’s why it’s just engraved like AF 14/2.8 FE.
2) 14mm f2.8 is not ready for the exhibition so no hands-on time.
3) 560g. almost double of FE55.8ZA but it’s f1.4. Sigma 50.4 Art is 860g even without adapter.
4) closest focus distance is 45cm which is not suprising in Fifties.
5) Aluminum casing feels good, very similar to Sony lenses.
6) Unfortunately, focus ring is focus-by-wire. They confirmed it.
7) Sharpness at 1.4 is not surprising. It improves vastly at f2. There’s some amount of CA from 1.4 to 2. from 2.8, there’s nothing bothering in my eyes.
8) AF is good. not fast as 55.8ZA but I guess faster than 50.8. for sure it’s faster and reliable than Sigma 50.4 with MC-11. Wobbling is bigger than Sony lenses. Noise is not big but noticable than Sony.
9) Movie AF is not satisfying. You can check it another article here.(also sharpness and Bokeh test! sharpness at f2 is certainly wrongly focused.)
http://www.popco.net/zboard/zboard.php?id=samyang
10) Price is not finalized yet. Samyang is listening visitors’ opinion. I said 600 USD with tax and they said it won’t be that expensive. The other said 400 USD and told it will be more than it. So I guess it would be around 500 USD. I think it’s good positioning.
11) All lenses are beta version. so it can be improved when launched.