There will be soon new product announcements from Sony: early November for the A-mount camera and maybe earlier for the new FE lenses. But before to talk more about the future stuff I have to catch up with tests and reviews done with the newly announced cameras and lenses:

New A7sII, RX1rII, A7sII, Loxia 21mm news:
Hands-on with the Sony a7S II (Dpreview).
Loxia 21mm FE image samples by Christian Dandyk.
Sony announces new RX1R II (WexUK).
Sony’s new rx1r ii variable optical low pass filter – could the new technology eliminate aliasing and moire in video forever? (Newsshooter).
Sony RX1R Mark II: First Impressions (Planet5D).
Sony Alpha 7S II: Erster Eindruck und Fotos des High-ISO-Monsters (Photoscala).
Sony RX1R II: la compacta que querrás comprar (Quesabesde)

New RX1rII, A7sII, Loxia 21mm and Sigma 20mm store links:
Sony A7sII is now shipping in USA at Amazon, BHphoto, FocusCamera, Adorama. And in Europe/Asia at ParkCameras, WexUK, Jessops and Digitalrev.
Sigma 20mm f/1.4 Nikon F mount version at BHphoto and Adorama.
Sigma 20mm f/1.4 Canon EF mount version at BHphoto and Adorama.
Loxia 21mm FE lens at BHphoto and Adorama. In Europe at WexUK.
RX1rII at Bhphoto, Amazon and Adorama.

Sony just issued firmware 2.0 for the Sony A7rII. Download links:
Windows: Sony.com, Sony Australia.
Mac: Sony.com, Sony Australia.

Those are the new features:

• Adds the selectable feature for uncompressed 14-Bit RAW image capture
• Adds support to output video via HDMI during use of the Remote Camera Control software (still mode only)

UPDATE: There seems to be an issue with the firmware update. If you have APS-C mode on “Auto” than once you install the firmware update you can only shoot pictures at a max resolution of 18 megapixel. You can still change the settings after the firmware update so don’t worry. But just in case you can’t take any 42MP pictures any more know it that the firmware seems to activate it as default! (Thanks Mirrorlessons for the tip).

Thanks Oliver, Mike, Craig for sharing the links!

A7rII store list:
In USA at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, SonyStore US, FocusCamera, Uniquephoto.
In Europe at Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Wex UK and ParkCameras.
In Asia at Digitalrev, CameraPro.

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From experience I know that you don’t have to take official Sony social messages as a holy grail. It happened in the past that they made incorrect statements. That said it’s worrying that they release messages like this on from Sony UK (Source: Twitter and also on Facebook). Asked if A-mount camera development is dead they answered:

We have no A-mounts planned. We recommend our A7 range. E-mount but with an adapter (LA-EA4, LA-EA3), A-mount lenses can be used.

That certainly doesn’t create any confidence at all in A-mount. I beg Sony to finally make a clear PRO A-mount statement. Or if they plan to “fade out” A-mount just give current A-mount owners a plan to switch. Like a free A7 camera in exchange of their used A-mount camera. But I know they will not do that :(

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Thanks Matthew for sharing this!

An Introduction to the Nissin Di700a Flash Units and Air 1 Commander by Gary Fong

Bis zu 50 EUR Sofortrabatt auf den Kaufpreis beim Kauf einer ausgewählten Sony Kamera (Amazon.de).
Dropped Camera – The Good and Bad News (SonyAlphaForum).
16-35mm Zeiss FE lens review at Talkemount.
Darren Miles video review of the Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 FE lens (SonyAlphaCameras).
Sony a7rII and Minolta Lenses (SonyAlphaForum).
Batis 25mm test at Ascii.jp.
Sony FE 28mm f/2 Astrophotography Review (Lonelyspeck).
Andrew Huang tripping with Sony ActionCam (ActionCameraRumors).
New pictures and details of the Veydra Mini Prime cine lenses in E-mount (Newsshooter).

Martin: “I recently finished my latest music video clip with the A7S, A7 and A5100. maybe it could be interesting for your readers too: The Awakening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE8WnLcKHwg“

Canon 120 Megapixel FF prototype could be launched in 2017.

Amateur Photographer interviewed Kimio Maki from Sony. As you know Canon recently did show a new 120MP Canon DSLR prototype with the target to go on sale in 2017. Asked about the High megapixel future of Sony Kimio Maki answered:

“If the customer needs 100-million pixels, if the customer needs more than 100-million pixels, we will create such kind of a product. Right now we don’t get a strong demand from the customers for this.”

I certainly do not need 120MP but maybe you do?

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