European Black Friday: Today is the last day!

 

Today is your last chance to grab the Black Friday deals:

Germany: Amazon DE, Fotokoch, FotoErhardt, Calumet.
UK: Amazon UK, WexUK, Clifton, ParkCameras.
France: Amazon FR
Italy: Amazon IT
Spain: Amazon ES
Netherlands: Amazon NL
Australia: Amazon AUS.
USA & Canada: Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama

Don’t forget to grab the massive discount on Adobe at Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES, Amazon US&CA, BHphoto, Adorama.

Amazon Germany:

Amazon UK:

Amazon FR:

Amazon IT:

Amazon ES:

Other mentions:

  • New big savings on Sigma lenses at Amazon Germany
  • Sigma 24-70mm f2,8 DG DN IIfor 1149 Euro at FotoErhardt
  • 10 % Rabatt auf unser gesamtes Second-Hand-Sortiment (Calumet).
  • 50 € Gutschein für den nächsten Einkauf geschenkt und einen 100 € Gutschein ab 2.000 € Einkaufswert (Calumet)
  • Save £170 with Code SIGMA170 at WexUK
  • 10% off Sony Lenses for Cyber Monday at WexUK

European Black Friday weekend sales officially started

Today a massive amount of new Black Friday deals have been posted on those pages at:

Germany: Amazon DE, Fotokoch, FotoErhardt, Calumet.
UK: Amazon UK, WexUK, Clifton, ParkCameras.
France: Amazon FR
Italy: Amazon IT
Spain: Amazon ES
Netherlands: Amazon NL
Australia: Amazon AUS.
USA & Canada: Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama

New deals from today (The list will be continually updated by me)

  • New big savings on Sigma lenses at Amazon Germany
  • Sigma 24-70mm f2,8 DG DN IIfor 1149 Euro at FotoErhardt
  • 10 % Rabatt auf unser gesamtes Second-Hand-Sortiment (Calumet).
  • 50 € Gutschein für den nächsten Einkauf geschenkt und einen 100 € Gutschein ab 2.000 € Einkaufswert (Calumet)
  • Save £170 with Code SIGMA170 at WexUK
  • 10% off Sony Lenses for Cyber Monday at WexUK

Amazon Germany:

Amazon UK:

Amazon FR:

Amazon IT:

Amazon ES:

Spec comparison between the new Sony a1II and other flagship cameras

Preorder links:
Sony A1II at  BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, BestBuy, FotoErhardt, FotoKoch, Calumet, WexUK, Clifton, CameraPro. Sony Australia.
Sony 28-70mm f/2.0 GM at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, BestBuy, FotoErhardt, Fotokoch, Calumet, WexUK, Clifton, CameraPro. Sony Australia.

You can use the BH comparison tool to check out the specs:

Comparing Sony A1 II vs Sony A1 vs Sony A7R V
Comparing Sony A1 II vs Canon R5 Mark II vs Nikon Z8
Comparing Sony A1 II vs Sony A9 III vs Canon R1

Review of the new OWC Atlas Pro 4.0 CFexpress Type A

Shawn C. Steiner from Explora tested the new new generation of CFexpress Type A cards from OWC:

Shawn writes:

Looking at OWC’s documentation, you will see that the Atlas Pro cards are tested to offer 400 MB/s sustained write speeds. That is more than enough for all the cameras that currently support Type A cards.
There is one note with speed. Technically, the Atlas Pro cards are only rated to VPG200. This is more than enough for even the top high frame rate options of the FX3 and FX6 even though they might not be rated at the top speeds of competing cards. The CFexpress 4.0 technology more than makes up for this with real-world performance. Per OWC, these cards are designed for sequential writes since that is how cameras operate.
Testing it myself through my go-to tool Blackmagic Disk Speed Test and using a USB4 reader on an M3 MacBook Pro, I was able to get consistent results of >1500 MB/s for both write and read speeds. Using the same test for a last-gen CFx Type A card I was only getting half that. You will potentially halve the amount of time it takes to get your media off your cards and onto your drive.