Our friends on DearSusan have just published a free lens testing tutorial. It covers all the main lens aberrations and faults such as 3 types of chromatic aberration, vignetting, astigmatism, field curvature, coma, focus shift, focus breathing, distortion, spherical aberration … and tells you how to test your lenses yourself very simply. So you can buy lenses and be certain you are getting a really good deal, not buying a lemon. All the test photographs provided are made with Sony A7 cameras. Perfect before the new lens release. The link is at the bottom of this page http://www.dearsusan.net/2015/10/23/41x-mastering-the-art-of-lens-testing-free-guide/

The worldwide first Nikon F to E-mount autofocus adapter is now on sale on [shoplink 42699 ebay]eBay (Click here for price and shipping info)[/shoplink].

The Chinese forum Xitek interviewed the Nikon F to E-mount autotofocus adapter developer. The developer promised to keep improving the autofocus performance.  Two months ago that was the performance of the adapter:

And here are more images of the adapter:

More about Commlite:
Commlite already makes plenty of adapters which you can find for sale on [shoplink 38429 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. This includes the electronic AF adapter for [shoplink 38430 ebay]Canon EF lenses on Sony E-mount (Click here)[/shoplink].

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Originally found via Mirrorlessrumors.

Sony released the December issue of the Alpha Universe magazine. Download it here fo iOS or Android.

Gift.of.Light on SonyAlphaForum.
2-8 “Spirit of Japan”
A7 + FE 70-200/4

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Sony A7 Mark II Tips

Win a new BATIS, LOXIA or other Zeiss lens at Zeissimages contest!
The A7rII is the camera of the year for Trustedreviews.
The Sony A-mount gear by Jack Devant (SonyAlphaForum).
A test of the A7Sii in french (with graph and pictures) at Lesnumeriques.

Benjamin: “I’ve just tested one of the first available custom Play Memories Apps on my A7II. It’s still a beta, but seems to work as advertised. See
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3926463#forum-post-56782059”

Rasch: “I invite you to test the new Zeiss Milvus:
http://fototesty.pl/blog/315_zeiss-milvus-8514-test-rozdzielczosci.html
http://fototesty.pl/blog/312_nowe-makro-zeissa-.html
http://fototesty.pl/blog/311_zeiss-milvus-3520-test-rozdzielczosci.html”

Firoz Ahmad‎: “https://vimeo.com/144261222. “I will walk …” clips shot completely handheld with a7s in Slog2 picture profile with a Zeiss prime lens 55mm at Lucknow in India. Color graded in Magic Bullet Suite 12.
I was on my way to photo shoot and just dropped in a centre of differently-abled for twenty minutes and shot few clips and images of an inspiring differently abled girl. I hope that she sees herself open to endless possibilities in the future.”

Bernie Aniciete: “Lyrics NSFW. Music video filmed with A7s. http://youtu.be/q2Hf4Jnr0eM. www.BnEPhotography.com www.Facebook.com/BnEMediA”

Sony Europe deals:
Aktion: 15% Rabatt auf Original Zubehör und bis zu 50 EUR Sofortrabatt auf Objektive (Amazon Germany).
Bis zu 50 EUR Sofortrabatt auf den Kaufpreis beim Kauf einer ausgewählten Sony Kamera (Amazon Germany).
Gratis Halterung für Sony Alpha 7R (nur Gehäuse) (Amazon Germany).
Up to £200 cashback on a selected Sony Digital Imaging selection (Amazon UK).
Offre de remboursement Sony : Jusqu’à 100€ remboursés sur une sélection de produits Photo (Amazon France).

Sony released the new A7sII firmware update which fixes the sun black spot issue. You can download it here: Sony UK, Sony Germany, Sony France.

Park Cameras Hands-on First Look: Sony a7s II

Beautiful Japan pictures reportage (SonyAlphaForum).
Sony A7sII review at TheVideoMode.
A7sII review by Mirrorlessons.
Sony IMX258 Flyer (Image Sensor World).
Sony 28-70mm f3.5-5.6 OSS review by ThePhoBlographer.
a6000 and 12mm touit in Yosemite at MoveToMirrorless.

Edd: “I recently finished writing reviews for the three small auto focus Sony FE primes. Analysing how well each lens copes with different infra-red wavelengths. This was tested on a full spectrum Sony A7, with various filters. I thought this might be of use any A7 shooters wanting to try out IR because most of these lenses aren’t mentioned on any other IR lens list yet.
28mm – http://infraedd.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/lens-review-sony-fe-28mm-f20.html
35mm http://infraedd.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/lens-review-carl-zeiss-sonnar-t-fe-35mm.html
55mm – http://infraedd.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/lens-review-carl-zeiss-sonnar-fe-55mm.html”

Fiberstrobe: “I’ve developed a freelensing technique for the SEL16F28 + VCL-ECF1 but I guess it can be used with the FF version as well. I describe it in detail on my blog:
http://fiberstrobe.blogspot.de/2015/07/can-we-get-bit-closer.html
http://fiberstrobe.blogspot.de/2015/09/freelensing.html
http://fiberstrobe.blogspot.de/2015/09/freelensing-versus-30mm-macro-with.html
By the way I’ve just won a dpreview challenge (Freelensing) with one of my photos taken with this technique (although it was a mini challenge I have to admit):
http://www.dpreview.com/challenges/Entry.aspx?ID=942059&View=Results&Rows=4”

Sony Europe deals:
Aktion: 15% Rabatt auf Original Zubehör und bis zu 50 EUR Sofortrabatt auf Objektive (Amazon Germany).
Bis zu 50 EUR Sofortrabatt auf den Kaufpreis beim Kauf einer ausgewählten Sony Kamera (Amazon Germany).
Gratis Halterung für Sony Alpha 7R (nur Gehäuse) (Amazon Germany).
Up to £200 cashback on a selected Sony Digital Imaging selection (Amazon UK).
Offre de remboursement Sony : Jusqu’à 100€ remboursés sur une sélection de produits Photo (Amazon France).