First Kerlee 35mm f/1.2 FE Lens Review by ePhotozine: “outstanding central sharpness and beautiful bokeh”

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ePhotozine (Click here) is the first site posting the review of the new Kerlee 35mm f/1.2 FE lens:

This is a fine lens, well made, with outstanding central performance. It suffers at the edges, although to be fair, when not photographing lens charts, which are flat of course, the real world results are very satisfactory. Sharpness is not really the main drawback, just a tendency to flare and quite a bit of CA at the edges. The very bright f/1.2 aperture is unique and may well be very useful in low light and for shallow depth of field effects. The bokeh is lovely and smooth.
In summary, a lens that can be used to make beautiful images, but do watch that flare.

Note: Photo By Richard tested the same lens but with Nikon F-mount.

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Correction on the Eric Naso A6300 overheating article

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Dear SAR readers. Yesterday I posted a link to Eric’ Naso’s article about the A6300 overheating issue. I wrote the post last week before I started my vacation with my family and did schedule the article to be posted yesterday (personal note: This is my first real vacation in years).

Now shit happened and Eric further tested his claims and now came to another different conclusion that faster cards do not help the to solve the issue. He updated the post while I was offline. Of course some readers not knowing this situation claimed I am unprofessional. But this is just a stupid wrong coincidence:

This is the first original article from Eric I was referring too:  http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://eriknaso.com/2016/06/29/how-i-solved-the-a6300-overheating-issue-when-shooting-4k-video/.
And while is was busy travelling with my family (and had no internet connection) he changed it to this: http://eriknaso.com/2016/06/29/how-i-solved-the-a6300-overheating-issue-when-shooting-4k-video/

Thanks SAR readers and Eric for your understanding. Wish you all a nice vacation of you have (or going to have) one ;)

First note: For those who still don’t know me. This is not a “professional” site. There isn’t a bunch of writers paid through direct company advertisement. There is just me… :=)

As a second note: I am a bit upset by some of the commenters who accused me of being unprofessional. Why? Because they knew that the article got updated and they didn’t simply gently ask me if I noticed the article got updated. As a polite person should wonder before to spread shit on the comment system :)

 

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Sony Tidbits…

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Sony a7 Series Eyecup Comparison Part 2

Tamron’s super value 70-300mm USD on the A7RII (Photoclubalpha).
FY2015 Semiconductor Business Summary (PDF file from Sony).
2016 Roundup: Semi-Pro Interchangeable Lens Cameras (Dpreview).
6 Things to Consider when Composing Images on a Small Screen (Explora).
Richard Corman: On Photographing Muhammad Ali and Other Legends (Adorama Learning Center).
To write a guest post on SAR follow the instructions on that page. Thanks!

Woods: Just a music video I directed and shot with the A7sII. All handheld expect ont shot on the ronin. Basic rollingshutter fix in premiere and you can see that it looks really good. Not too shaky and Jello-y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_kJx5JQoWA

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For SAR readers only: Free $100 gift card and $100 rebate on top A and E-mount lenses at FocusCamera.

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We have a special deal that runs for our SAR readers only. Added to the Sony $100 rebate you get an additional $100 gift card for free if you buy one of the lenses listed below and insert the coupon code “SONYALRULENSGC“. The offer expires 7/9:

Full Frame E-mount:
Sony 90mm FE macro lens
70-200mm FE
Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 FE
Zeiss 16-35mm FE
Zeiss 24-70mm FE
Zeiss 55mm FE

APS-C E-mount:
Zeiss 24mm f/1.8
Sony 18-200mm Zoom Lens (Silver)
Sony 18-200mm Zoom Lens (Black)
Sony 10-18mm f/4 OSS
Sony PZ 18-200mm OSS Lens

A-mount:
Zeiss 135mm f/1.8
Zeiss 24mm f/2.0
Sony 35mm f/1.4G
Zeiss Vario 16-80mm
Sony 16-105mm DT

Big 4th of July deals day: See the super long list of deals at Bhphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).

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Eric Naso tries to get rid of the A6300 overheating issue

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Eric Naso tried to get rid of the overheating issue. In the first posted article he wrote:

With the Sony a6300 no fans are available inside to cool it down. So what if the camera could write files faster? Or if the card was faster maybe it wont heat up because it has more headroom. Would that help? Well… YES IT DOES!

But after a few days he changed it and wrote:

I’ve updated this post twice since it was published so if you’ve already read it go to the bottom of the post starting with UPDATE header for new info. I’m not sure the faster cards are helping. Today’s testing was crazy and I was getting wildly inconsistent results.

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Sony E-mount camera used for virtual reality

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Image source: autumnvr.com

Above you can see the image showing a Sony A7r virtual reality “helmet”. It’s used to record Jesus VR — the Story of Christ (Source: Engadget).

And Tim Tilden sent us the image below:

A production company was at our hang launch this week. They were capturing 360 VR with this rig. Consisting of 5 6300’s with fish eye Lens babies with an adapter. Got some great video of my friend launching in his hang glider. Looking forward to seeing the completed project.

Subversive 360 Camera Rig

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Eyelead sck-1b sensor cleaning gel kit for Sony is on sale in Europe!

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To clean the sensor like a PRO you can now buy the Eyelead sensor gel cleaning kit on [shoplink 22691 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] and Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it. Watch the video below to see how it works.

A word of warning: US readers will find the “Eyelead sck-1” on sale at Amazon US (Click here). But be aware that this is the non Sony-version which you can recognize from the Blue gel color. You need to get the “Eyelead sck-1b” version with the red gel otherwise you risk to damage the filter on the sensor. I have yet not found the red gel Sony version on sale in any US store :(

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