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Sony is assembling the new RX1rII camera in Japan. There is special trained people who have to perfectly align the Lens and Sensor. Nice to see Sony is taking care about quality and precision!

And Trustedreviews posted a hands-on review:

The Sony RX1R II is a camera easy to lust after. A full-frame sensor in an ultra-portable body? It’s a photographic dream come true.

RX1rII worldwide preorders will start on November 5 at 8am New York time (Source: Bhphoto, Amazon and Adorama)

In all the years I do write on SAR this is a first! The video on top shows a review of the A7rII BOX(!) LOL :)   Source: SonyAlphaForum.

Need for Speed: Fstoppers Reviews the Mitakon Zhongyi 50mm f/0.95 Lens for Sony FE (Fstoppers).
Sony A7r with 55mm FE: “Body parts“ by Marc Alhadeff on SonyAlphaForum.
Sony FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS – Review by James Minn.
Sony’s RX100 IV is One of the Best High-End Compacts Money Can Buy (PetaPixel).

Marc: “I’ve just released a slowmotion video filmed with the rx10m2 und rx100m4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxH51DuMjQo On my blog I’ve published two extensive aricles about the 2 cameras (in german):
http://reisezoom.com/sony-dsc-rx100iv-rx10ii-test-tipps/
http://reisezoom.com/filmen-mit-der-rx100m4-rx10m2/“

Chris: “I’ve been working on my third episode of my small video series « OFF THE BEATEN TRACK » using the new a7rII and DJI Inspire X5. The expedition brought us to 81° North in the ice pack in search of polar bears. Unfortunately rapid sea ice loss is depriving polar bears of their habitat, since they depend on the ice to hunt their prey. https://vimeo.com/140989382”

Joe: “New features of DxO OpticsPro v10.5.1. 6 new cameras supported:
Sony ILCA-7R II
Sony DSC-RX100 IV
Sony DSC-RX10 II
Support for OS X 10.11 (El Capitan).
Minor bug fixes.“

5 Camera Settings Everyone Should Know

Gold Box on the Samyang-Wallimex 12mm f/2.0 E-mount lens at Amazon Germany.
The Irrational Reasons to Buy an $800 35mm f/2.8 Lens (Fstoppers)
2 months in Cold Wilderness with A7R (SonyAlphaForum).
Sony fs7 to get 2k center crop, interval recording and noise suppression in cine ei mode (Newsshooter).
Best settings A7RII – first attempt (SonyAlphaForum)
Who are the Professional Photographers who Switched to the Sony A7 Series? (Ilovehatephoto).
RX10 II review on spanish magazine FOTO DNG.

Vit: “This is the part 3 of the Sony a7rII review. The first two test were mainly about the camera quality and lowlight performance. And this part 3 is just random video in Melbourne City. I shot the video in Super 35mm mode 4K XAVC-S format with S-Log 2 picture profile, used EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM lens with Metabones T SpeedBooster Ultra. And graded in FilmConvert Pro 2.1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhrUx5Z7roM”

Jonas: “I bought an a7Rii last week and i tried the 100fps 720p xavc-s recording for some random garden trampoline shots on slog2.
I’ve never done any color grading before so bear with me for lack of post production skills.
Just wanted to share one of the best and happiest experiences of my everyday life and display for everyone how nice footage you can collect with your sony camera.
Lens is the batis 25/2 lens ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB9HS20o15s“

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Techart again updated the firmware for their [shoplink 39860 ebay]Contax G to E-mount autofocus adapter (available here on eBay)[/shoplink]. With the new adapter autofocus speed has been again improved! You can download the firmware on Google Play (Click here) or iTunes (Click here). Techart Contax page: techart-logic.com/2015/G2.html

Chad Wadsworth already tested the new version and writes:

As of revision 2.1.0, released in October, 2015, the performance is rock solid with AF speed on both my lenses (45/2 and 90/2.8) that rivals a native lens – yes you read that correctly. I’ve noticed some minor hunting in low contrast / low light subjects but nothing major and native FE lenses frequently do the same. AF accuracy is spot on and the MF implementation now works as it used to, meaning that you can engage MF at any time by adjusting the small focus dial on the adapter. This is a major achievement by TecArt and finally makes these lenses viable options that I would feel confident shooting even for paid work.

And there are two videos posted on SonyAlphaCameras do show how good and how noisy(!) the adapter works on the Sony A7rII.

These are the Contax Full Frame lenses you can use on the A7-A7r-A7s and APS-C E-mount camera with full autofocus and electronic aperture control:
Hologon 16mm; 1:8 on [shoplink 16235 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Biogon T* 21 mm; 1:2,8 on [shoplink 16236 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Biogon T* 28 mm; 1:2,8 on [shoplink 16237 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Planar T* 35 mm; 1:2,0 on [shoplink 16238 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Planar T* 45 mm; 1:2,0 on [shoplink 16239 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Sonnar T* 90 mm; 1:2,8 on [shoplink 16240 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Vario-Sonnar T* 35 – 70 mm; 1:3,5-5,6 on [shoplink 16241 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

The timelapse is complete. 8000+ frames, 100GB of images, over 10 hours of shooting and 2 hours of render. The mountain and the milky way (SonyAlphaForum)

Selling Nikon gear and making the switch (SonyAlphaForum).
Canon 5DS R & 20mm f/2.8 USM versus Sony A7R II & LEICA 21mm f/3.4 (Ken Rockwell).
ILCE-7RII: A-Mount with LA-EA3 or LA-EA4 ? (Joerghaag.com).
3 jours en Pyrénées centrales avec le Sony a7ii (Herpetofocus).

Wade: “Hi here is a video i’ve shot entirely on the Sony RX100IV at 240fps while making my a syphon coffee. https://vimeo.com/136640640”

Nyrn: “Here’s a 4K time-lapse video I made of Cambridge, UK. I used Sony’s angle shift app for some of the scenes, those are obviously not in 4k.. but the rest is. I hope Sony will soon update it’s time-lapse apps with 4K capability. Olympus already has this. I hope you’ll enjoy the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydTPhT_Ubus”

Robert: “Sony Rx10ii on a Pilotfly H1+ filmed at ISO 10,000!
https://www.facebook.com/RobertPeakDesign/videos/vb.131199490295213/905788989502922/?type=2&theater“

The Polish site Optyczne.pl (google translation here) interviewed Masaaki Oshima and Yann Salmon-Legagneur from Sony.

Here are a couple of interesting info:

1) Astro-tracer function (known from the Pentax K-3 II):
Sony says they are currently investigating how to apply it in future products.

2) Touchscreen:
Once Sony has reached a high level of quality of the touchscreen technology they will implement it on high end cameras too (The A5100 is already touchscreen).

3) RX with APS-C sensor:
There is yet no plan to make a RX camera with ASP-C sensor.

4) A6000 successor:
Sony said they are continuing to develop APS-C cameras. They cant of course comment about a possible release date of the A6xxx.

5) A-mount:
Just like APS-C E-mount also A-mount is being developed.

The new Leica SL surely is expensive (preorders and specs at BHphoto) but it’s also surprisingly capable! Leica claims that the SL is the world’s fastest autofocusing camera. It records 4K video, plus it has a massive 4.4MP EVF and 11 fps. If it wouldn’t be for the very high price the camera would certainly be a strong Sony competitor!

All news about that camera can be read at Mirrorlessrumors.com now!

Leica SL camera and lens specs at BH/Adorama:
Leica SL camera at BHphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).
Leica SL 24-90mm at BHphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).

UPDATE: What we failed to see about Leica by Jorge Torralba.