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There is a Gold Box on the Tamron 70-300mm A-mount lens at Amazon (Click here and scroll the horizontal bar to find it). There is also a $100 mail rebate and free extras on three A-mount superzoom sold at Adorama (Click here). And they also have the best Sony camera/lens deal overview page of all stores (Click here).

Two new RX100 deals:
You get a free bag, Free 64GB SD card, Free LR5 and $10 gift card along the RX100m3 at FocusCamera (Click here).
Open Box RX100m2 for $499 at Buydig on eBay (Click here).

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Sony’s goal for 2015.

Sony still has a long way to go to win the Full Frame battle against Nikon and Canon. And if Sony engineers are reading this they may check out these two articles to learn what should be done:

Sony, Fix These Things and Win (Diglloyd)
The SONY FE MIRRORLESS SYSTEM – Getting There For Professionals? (Soundimagesplus).

I agree on 99% of what these two guys wrote :)

@CarlZeissLenses well I’ve been waiting for mine for one-and-a-half month now.

— Renier Mouthaan (@RenierMouthaan) December 9, 2014

Carl Zeiss posted that tweet to deny that the Loxia 50mm lens could be out of Stock for the next months. And on Facebook Zeiss writes:

There are rumors out there stating that our Loxia 2/50 will be out of stock for months. Let us state that this is not true! While it is out of stock with some dealers at the moment due to high demand, we are constantly producing new batches and shipping them to distributors and dealers. So please, don’t worry!

Fact is that no EU and US stores has them in Stock now (and they were supposed to be in Stock back in October). So let’s hope the lens will indeed ship soon as promised by Zeiss. By the way, Thanks Zeiss for officially giving us an answer!

Zeiss Loxia preorders:
Zeiss Loxia 50mm f/2 Planar T* Lens for Sony E Mount at BHphoto, Adorama, WexUK, CameraPro, Digitalrev.
Zeiss Loxia 35mm f/2 Biogon T* Lens for Sony E Mount at BHphoto, Adorama, WexUK, CameraPro.
Zeiss Lens Hood for Loxia 50mm f/2 Planar T* Lens at BHphoto and Adorama.
Zeiss Lens Hood for Loxia 35mm f/2 Biogon T* Lens at BHphoto and Adorama.
Zeiss 52mm Front Lens Cap for Touit and Loxia Lenses at BHphoto and Adorama.
Zeiss De-Click Key for Loxia Lenses (5-Piece Set) at BHphoto and Adorama.
Zeiss Rear Lens Cap for Loxia E-Mount Lenses at BHphoto and Adorama.

70-200/4.9-6 mirroless APS-C

These are five new Sigma zooms for APS-C mirrorless system (Source: Egami). From all those lenses I hope to get the 18-55mm f/2.8 zoom. It’s a lens that’s highly missing in the E-mount range!

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Gary Fong unboxed and tested the new A7II.

Sony a7II First Impressions + Sample Photos at ChipChick.
First impressions at ThePhoBlographer.
A7II Studio Shot comparison at Dpreview.
Henry’s Canada is also doing a hands on demo w/the camera on Fri Dec 12th.
Full review at Mobile01.

USA/Canada preorders:
Sony Alpha a7II (Body Only) for $1,698 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, SonyStore and Sony Store Canada.
Sony Alpha a7II with FE 28-70mm OSS Lens for $1,998 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, SonyStore.
Sony 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G SSM II Lens for $1,148 at BHphoto.

EU preorders:
Sony Alpha a7II (Body Only) for 1.799 Euro at Sony Germany, Sony UK, Jessops UK, Sony France, Sony Italy, Sony Spain, Sony Austria, Sony Switzerland, Sony Netherland, Sony Belgium, Sony Portugal, Sony Sweden, Sony Finland, Sony Norway.
Sony Alpha a7II with FE 28-70mm OSS Lens for 2.099 Euro at Amazon Germany, Wex UK, Jessops UK, Verkkokauppa.

Asian/Australia preorders:
Sony A7II at Sony Store Australia and Amazon Japan.

A7II vs A7 by Mobile01.