I just got this from a Meyer “internal source”:

The image above from photographer Firat Bagdu is the first image you see that is shot with the upcoming new Meyer Optik Görlitz prime lens with native Sony mount (not clear if A or E). The lens will be announced on April 14 at 11am London time (yeah same time as the Zeiss announcement!).

The lens is a mid range prime with “near-macro” capability. The look of the lens is historic but the internal lens design is new. This will be Meyer’s most technologically advanced lens. I have been told the specs are the same of one of their historic lenses. You take the guess which one it could be:
[shoplink 46792 ebay]Primoplan 25mm f/1.9[/shoplink]
[shoplink 46793 ebay]Lydith 30mm f/3.5[/shoplink]
[shoplink 46789 ebay]Primagon 35mm f/4.5[/shoplink]
[shoplink 46791 ebay]Trioplan 50mm f/2.5[/shoplink]
[shoplink 46791 ebay]Primoplan 58mm f/1.9[/shoplink]
[shoplink 46790 ebay]Telefogar 90mm f/4.5[/shoplink]

P.S.: The lens will also be available for Canon-Nikon-MFT-Fuji-Leica mount…

Sony launched a new teaser for their press conference at the NAB show on April 17 at 2pm Las Vegas time.I have been told Sony will announce plenty of new products. You can follow the video live stream here on SonyAlphaRumors! Mark the event on your calendar!

What can we expect? New camcorder of course, maybe an FF E-mount camcorder and also first 8K camcorder prototypes. A surprise could be the launch of a new A7III but I that’s just a pure guess for now…

Source: blog.sony.com/nabshow/

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The German company Meyer Optik Görlitz is teasing a new lens launch. The lens will be announced on April 14. And like I told before on the very same day at 11am Zeiss will announce the new Batis lens!

The Zeiss teaser at Zeiss Lens Russia (here on Facebook).

We got a confirmation that Zeiss has scheduled a product announcement event on April 14 at around 11am London time. It’s yet not 100% confirmed but it’s highly likely they will announce at least a new Batis 18mm lens!

Just least hope Zeiss will increase the production of all current Batis lenses too!
Batis 85mm in Stock status at [shopcountry 45791].
Batis 25mm in Stock status at [shopcountry 45790].

I just got this from a source. And I really do hope he got a wrong info as it would make the 70-200mm GM lens rather expensive:

“I’ve just got an initial quote for our local supplier in Australia on the GM lenses including the 70-200 F2.8 as follows (All in AUD). I’m not sure if they are retail prices or might include a slight discount as they told us lenses are still around 4-5 weeks away in Australia and we would need to confirm pricing closer to when stock is available as they should be able to hopefully offer slight better pricing…
– 24-70 f2.8 GM – AU$3099
– 85mm f1.4 GM – AU$2899
– 70-200 f2.8 GM – AU$5999
Pricing on the 70-200 F2.8 seems rather crazy!”

If the info is correct the 70-200mm GM lens will cost almost twice as much as the 24-70mm GM lens. This would mean:
– USA the 24-70mm GM lens costs $2,200 at Amazon. This would put the 70-200mm GM price at a bit over $4,000
– In Europe the 24-70mm GM lens costs 2,400 Euro at Amazon.de. The 70-200mm GM would cost a bit over 4,500 Euro.

This would make it a very expensive lens! The [shoplink 46652 ebay]Nikon 70-200mm[/shoplink] and [shoplink 46653 ebay]Canon 70-200mm[/shoplink] do cost about the half of the rumored GM price!

The new A9 is supposed to be a more “DSLR” alike sized camera (image above is a rendering)

About the source: This one comes from a very top source. It’s the same source that gave us the RX1rII specs months(!) ahead. So this is highly likely to be true!

The Bomb Sony A9 rumor: The source sent me this:

“The next generation flagship mirrorless camera from Sony will be a giant leap. It will drop a huge bomb in the imaging industry. It will not be A7III or A7RIII. It will be a new model above A7 series. I would say A9 (let’s name it as the new model). So the new A9 will have [shoplink 46602 ebay]dual XQD card slot[/shoplink], no CFast version, only XQD. A9 can do UNLIMITED RAW burst, UNLIMITED. The camera wont pause for buffering.”

Just recently Sony announced a new generation of [shoplink 46609 ebay]XQD cards (specs and prices)[/shoplink] which are now for sale bundled with the Nikon D5 (here on Amazon).

I repeat this one is a very top source. I hope he will send me some additional info soon like when will it be announced? What’s the sensor? Thanks :)

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