Sony NEX-F3 kit for $379. Gold Box deal on A35. Sigma A-mount lens price drop.

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The price of the NEX-F3 with 18-55mm lens dropped down to $379 at BHphoto (Click here). And there is a new Gold Box deal on the A35 at Amazon (Click here). And a couple of Sigma A-mount lenses got a price drop at Amazon (Click here).

More deals:
Sigma 35mm f/1.4 A-mount lens in Stock at BHphoto (click here).
NEX-6 body for $707 at [shoplink 18573 ebay]BigValue (Click here)[/shoplink].
RX100 for $494 at [shoplink 18574 ebay]ElectroElectro (Click here)[/shoplink].
Full Sony deals overview at DealsRunner.com.

UPDATE: Norm sent me this message: “Just wanted give you this information in case you don’t have it already but it looks like Canadians can finally benefit from the A99 + flas + grip bundle by buying within Canada from sony.  Until now we were forced to import the bundle from the US.  The $1000 savings will help drive Canadian sales I’m sure.
http://store.sony.ca/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContentDisplayView?hideHeaderFooter=false&storeId=20153&catalogId=100803&langId=200&cmsId=dslr_lens_bundle”

Thanks!

Sigma 35mm f/1.4 for Sony is now in Stock at BHphoto.

Right now in Stock is the superb Sigma 35mm f/1.4 A-mount lens at BHphoto (click here). Found via DealsRunner.

One more deal news: Today Amazon updated the deals page and you can see a nice overview of all current Sony deals. Click on them to open the deals page:
Save $930 on the Sony Alpha SLT-A99V Digital SLR Camera, VGC99AM Vertical Grip and HVLF60M Flash
Save up to $100 on Select Sony Handycam Camcorders
Save up to $250 on Select Sony NEX Compact System Cameras
Buy a Qualifying Sony Alpha Digital SLR Camera and Save $100 on Select Sony Lenses
Save $30 on the Sony HDR-AS15 Action Video Camera
Save up to $130 on Select Sony Cyber-shot Digital Cameras
Save up to $200 on Qualifying Sony Alpha Digital SLR Cameras
Buy a Qualifying Sony Alpha NEX Compact System Camera and Save $100 on the Sony E 55-210mm Lens
Buy a Qualifying Sony Alpha Digital SLR Camera and Save $200 on the Sony 18-135mm Zoom Lens

Sigma 35mm to finally ship this week!

Finally after a very ling wait the new Sigma 35mm f/1.4 A-mount lens will ship this week! Bhphoto (Click here) just anticipated the shipping date from May 30 to May 24.

There are a couple of new lenses that will ship soon in USA:
Sigma 35mm f/1.4 on May 30. Preorder at Adorama, Bhphoto.
Zeiss Touit 12mm f/2.8 on June 3 at Adorama, Bhphoto.
Zeiss Touit 32mm f/1.8 on June 3 at Adorama, Bhphoto.
Sony 50mm f/1.4 Carl Zeiss Planar T* ZA Lens on June 10 at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto.

 

Sony’s future is 4K (for both, TV and cameras).

For a couple of years companies market “3D” as the huge future for the television and camera industry. It didn’t really work out fine (at least not on cameras). Nowadays “4K” is the big new marketing trend. And for the first time Sony has now 4k Televisions in Stock and shipping at Amazon (Click here) and Adorama (Click here). As you know the NEX-FS700 (here at BHphoto) can now shoot 4K via the use of the external HXR-IFR5 unit. I think that by end of next year also high end A or E-mount cameras could be able to shoot 4K. That is the “new” future.

First VG900 deal. $500 off on the 28-75mm kit.

This is the first deal on the first Full Frame NEX camera, the VG900. You save $500 on the camcorder with 28-75mm lens at Amazon (Click here). The same $500 rebate is valid for the A99+28-75mm kit too (Click here). The recent A99 kit offers made it possible to get the A99 body only for less than $2,400 on [shoplink 18483 ebay]eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink].

UPDATE: The Bower (same as Samyang-Rokinon) 24mm f/1.4 got a $200 rpcie drop and sells for $499 at BHphoto (Click here).

First Lens Turbo shipping from UK! New Speed Boosters for Nikon G coming too.

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Sorry to bother you again with Lens Turbo and Speed Booster news. But quite many SAR readers and NEX owners are interested to grab one of these. And since today they are now available in UK stores too:
[shoplink 18466 ebay]Canon FD to NEX (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 18464 ebay]Nikon Ai to NEX (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 18463 ebay]Pentax K to NEX (Click here)[/shoplink].

There is also a news on the original (and probably more high quality) Speed Booster from metabones. A new New Speed Booster Nikon G electronic adapter to be released by end of May. And Philip Bloom is right now testing the adapter on his Blackmagic Cinema Camera. We should see his reviews soon on his website.