Today you have Black Friday deals in Europe too!

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Link to all European Black Friday deals: Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
link to all European Camera/Photo Black Friday deals: Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.

Links to the Sony specific deals:
Bis zu 50 EUR Sofortrabatt auf ein Sony Objektiv beim Kauf einer Sony Alpha 6000 (Amazon Germany).
Walimex Objektive und Mantona Stative Sofortrabatt-Aktion (Amazon Germany).
Get £50 off when you buy the 50mm F1.8 full-frame portrait lens with selected Sony E-Mount cameras (Amazon UK).
RX100 and HX60 on Gold Box at Amazon France (Scroll down to find it).
RX100m4 and HX60 on Gold Box at Amazon Italy.
A5000 on Gold Box at Amazon Spain.
RX100 on Gold Box at Amazon Spain.
Save £100 on the A7II using voucher code “BF-A72-100” at ParkCameras.
Save £50 on the A6300 using voucher code “BF-A6300-50” at ParkCameras.
Save £50 on the A6000 using voucher code “BF-A6000-50” at ParkCameras.
Save £20 on the A5000 using voucher code “BF-A5000-20” at ParkCameras.
10% Off Using Voucher Code & Free ZEISS Cleaning Kit using voucher code “BF-ZEISS-10” at ParkCameras.
A6300 deals at Goecker.dk

One more info: The Sony A6500 is in Stock at Fotomundus.

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Sony Tidbits…

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Carl Zeiss 18mm F2.8 Batis Lens Review | John Sison

Sony 70-200 GM comparison shots with extender 1.4x and 2.0x (SonyAlphaForum).
Best of 2016: Sony Lenses (Explora).
Gear I Use #5- Petzval 85mm f/2.2- Shooting vintage lenses on the Sony Mirrorless Cameras (Jason Lanier).
Full Frame vs APS-C cameras: what’s the real difference (CameraJabber).
2016 Holiday Gift Guide: $500 and up (Dpreview).

To write a guest post on SAR follow the instruction on that page.

Kien Lam‎: “https://vimeo.com/192080851 I went on a 6000 mile road trip across America with two friends from Germany to show them what America has to offer outside our metropolitan cities. Shot with the A7II and RX100.”

Bernie Aniciete‎: “From 2011 to 2016, I tried to balance Air Force life and learning the ins and outs of a camera I bought with deployment money. Every chance I had, I was shooting…something…anything. It’s been about a year since I became a civilian and it has been pretty exciting. Thank you to everyone who has ever supported me, anyone I’ve traveled or shot with and special thanks to anyone who makes an appearance in reel. https://youtu.be/C7JvLoYPYf4
Filmed with: A7s, A6000 and Phantom 3 Pro“

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Black Friday deals on Sony A6300, RX100m5, Sigma, Lensbaby and Rokinon lenses and Lexar cards

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We got a long list of new Black Friday deals! To see them all click on those Black Friday page links at Amazon, Bhphoto and Adorama.

We got these three new deals:
Free $100 gift card with the Sony A6300 sold by BHphoto.
Free $100 gift card with the Sony RX100m5 sold by BHphoto.
Up to $300 off on Sigma A and E-mount lenses at BHphoto and Adorama.
Plenty of Rokinon E and A-mount lens savings at Adorama.
$40 off on the Lensbaby Twist 60 Optic at BHphoto.
Today only: Up to 25% off on Pelican camera cases at Amazon.
42% off on the 2-Pack – Lexar 32GB SD card at Adorama.
38% off on Lexar 64GB SD card at Adorama.
Rebates on the SanDisk 128GB Extreme PRO SD card at Adorama and BHphoto.
$20 off on Vello adapters at BHphoto.
$50 Instant Savings wirh Promo code “SHOPBH1680” on Metabones adapter at BHphoto.

Sony launched the new Black Friday specials. All the savings can be seen on those special pages at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here). Here is a short selection of the ongoing deals:

Sony cameras:
$200 off on the Sony A7II at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$350 off on the Sony 6000 kit at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$50 off on the Sony A5100 at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the Sony A5000 at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$50 off on the Sony RX100III at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$50 off on the Sony RX100II at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$50 off on the Sony RX100 at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.

Full Frame E-mount lenses:
$100 off on the 24-240mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$50 off on the 50mm f/1.8 at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon

APS-C E-mount lenses:
$100 off on the 10-18mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$50 off on the 16-50mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the 18-200mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the 18-200mm PZ lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$50 off on the 35mm f/1.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$25 off on the lens 30mm macro at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.

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Mathieu Stern 3D printed a 135mm FE lens for the Sony A7 camera!

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Mathieu Stern created that amazing 3D-printed 135mm FE lens for the Sony A7 cameras! It’s a sort of Petzval alike lens or if you prefer a poor man’s Zeiss 135mm version :)

This is what he writes:

I met Arnault Coulet, CEO of a French 3D printing agency called FABULOUS. His team and he designed the 3D prototype and printed the lens. Luckyly for us, he saw all the crazy potential and fun we could create with this project.
I worked with them on designing a lens that could be mounted directly on my camera. Once I received the 3D printed parts from Arnault, I saw my crazy lens coming to “life” and… it worked !!
I had in my hand a monocle lens (meaning it has just one glass lens in the front) and in my estimation (I did the maths), it is a 135mm 1.8 lens.
I needed to give it a real first test, so I mounted it on my fullframe mirrorless camera. So I went to one of the most incredible place in France : Le Mont St Michel, which is one of the official World’s Wonders.
Discover more photos and information about this lens on my blog :
http://tinyurl.com/gsuffdz
and Learn more about the process on the Fabulous site :
http://www.fabulous.com.co/blog/optiq…
Please support me and my experiments on Patreon :
https://goo.gl/eUQ9ZY

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Zeiss Loxia 85mm tests by Phillip Reeve and Diglloyd: “it is as good as an Otus”

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The 85mm Loxia didn’t get much love by SAR readers. But if you can get over the noo so fast aperture limatation the lens seems to be quite a stellar performer!

Phillip Reeve is testing the lens and writes:

So, who is this lens aimed at? I think people looking for maximum image quality who don’t need a faster aperture and therefore do not want to pay the size, weight and price penalties that come with the Otus lenses. This lens is quite similar to the Loxia 21mm 2.8 in terms of contrast and corner to corner sharpness, in case of the latter I tend to say even better. ANd sharpness is great across the whole distance scale, at infinity and at the minimum focus distance.
The quality of the bokeh wide open is also quite nice as the lens features many special glass elements with anomalous partial dispersion but not a single aspherical lens, so you won’t encounter any onion rings making it actually a nice “allround” lens.
To be honest I haven’t found a real flaw yet, coma performance wide open isn’t great, but for an 85mm lens this is not of real importance to me.

Diglloyd posted many short test (post one, post two, post three). In Short he writes:

This image is a jaw dropping testament to what the Loxia 85mm f/2.4 can deliver at f/5.6, though full effect can really only be understood at the 28 megapixel size and with the crops on an iMac 5K—unbelievably crisp. It is as good as an Otus and its performance is achieved under low contrast bluish light. Every tiny branch and twig is sharp everywhere in the frame, excepting the OOF nearby trees. I wish the image had been recorded on a 100 megapixel sensor.

The lens can be preordered at BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama. In Eu at Amazon.de.

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Technical note: Contact form works again

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The past few days the anonymous contact form didn’t work. For those readers and sources who tried to contact me the past week: It’s now working again!

As a side note: I will switch SAR on a new server the coming 2-3 weeks. Expect the site to load much faster after that.

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Sony A99II ISO test by Andreas Peters

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The following is a short test from Andreas Peters:

“Back in 2015 I did an ISO comparison of the Sony A77II vs Sony A7II . As I now have a brand new Sony A99II I did the same test with this camera. All photos can be found in my Flickr Album “ISO test Sony A77II, A7II, A99II” https://flic.kr/s/aHsk9dazjD Remark:
For the Sony A99II I used the Tamron 70-700mm F2.8 Di LD (IF) as I do not own any F2.8 lens with a focal length of 55mm.
The Tamron 70-200mm @70mm gives a similar field of view for this test (I could have used my Sigma 24-105mm @55mm but this is a F4 lens which would have resulted in completely different exposure times)”

Sony A99II preorders at BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon. PhotoPorst, Calumet Germany and WexUK.

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