This week SAR readers photos selection.


Remon Fotografía‎
“Tsunami”. RX1. (f8,1/4000.ISO400)
https://500px.com/fotoarteremon

1) Submit your picture with a message and picture here: facebook.com/sonyalpharumors or on the SonyAlphaForum image section.
2) Like and comment the pictures from other readers here: facebook.com/sonyalpharumors/photos_stream?tab=photos and on SonyAlphaForum.
3) A selection of most liked pictures by the community and by me SAR admin will be posted weekly on SAR.

Note: When sending a pic feel free to also add a link to your site to promote yourself!

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Sony Tidbits…


Sony Alpha Tutorial – Setting up a Sony Flash as the Wireless Remote

Sony A7r with the Tamron 15-30mm f2.8 by Josselin Cornou.
2015 Sony world Photography Awards Shortlist anounced! (Worldphoto).
Comparison between the Contax G 45/2, the Zeiss Loxia 50/2, and the Sony 55/1.8 (SonyAlphaForum).
Loxia vs Sonnar comparison at iLoveHatePhoto.
Professional Photography with E-Mount (SonyAlphaForum).
Sony Imaging PRO Support (Sony Europe).
Olympus pen F 60/1.5 (SonyAlphaForum).
Sony A7m2 with Samyang 14mm f2.8 (SonyAlphaForum).

Free promotion for one of our friends who created a new APP: SCNX is the Photography App for the purist who loves to tell Visual Stories (here on iTunes).

Richard:I made a small test video with Sigma lens 30mm f2,8 on a6000. I am really pleasantly surprised, how good is AF in video with this non-Sony lens, especially when this lens is not last Art version (but quality of this lens is unbelievable for this price) and PDF is with this lens on a6000 very limited. Look on video and sorry for my bad english :)
http://youtu.be/QWt6M7ce8QA
http://youtu.be/TmPz4OR1i_Q
This video is with older basic lens 18-55mm from Nex-5, with updated firmware for right PDF support:
http://youtu.be/QE4lsIlRnls
αLens Promotion Video shown at CP+ (Youtube).
a7R as a sports camera at NBA games (SonyAlphaForum).

SAR reader Nicolas wrote a free “LensChanger” APP for you!

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Hi,
I have released a new free application that could interest SonyAlphaRumors readers, as many of them may use alt lenses on A7 series.

A lot of alternative bodies, adapters, lenses etc don’t report lenses right, if any. LensChanger is an application that allow you to change lenses registered into xmp files (sidecar files for Raws), jpeg files, and tiff files through exif metadatas.

LensChanger as been designed as a standalone, lightweight, portable and very easy to use application. It can thus work with whatever software using xmp sidecar files for raws, like LightRoom, ApertureOne, etc… So, you can keep it on an USB drive and run it with a few clicks to get all your files with correct lenses.

you can use ‘Rewrite’ after having set a list of lenses to change to and a folder to work on. This allow you to have LensChanger to automatically rewrite some lenses into custom defined lenses, if your adapter or bodie doesn’t report lens you need.
Or you can directly manually select a few files (or entire folder) and directly override a custom lens into. For raws file, it will create an xmp file with lens data if none exist. So once you import them into Lightroom for example, the lens will be good ! Of course, is an xmp file is ever created by a raw editing software, all your datas (tags, rating, develop settings etc) will still be there!

All informations and downloads, both for Windows x64 and Mac OSX, are here:
http://www.nicolasgenette.com/blog/lenschanger-application/
This application is written by a photographer who needed it, and who decided to release it for everyone, for free.

Cheers!

Nicolas Genette,

 

Sony Tidbits…


Lightroom – Edit a Long Exposure Landscape Image

Rangefinder Presents: How to Use ND Filters With Studio Strobes & Sony A7II (Youtube).
Can The Olympus OM-D E-M5 II High-Res Mode Compete With The Sony A7r? (Soundimagesplus).
Leica M/39 (incl. Voigtländer and Zeiss ZM lenses) at SonyAlphaForum.
CameraGP 2015 awards at Capacamera.
Loxia 35mm vs. Sonnar 35mm Lens Comparison at Ilovehatephoto: “Comparing the Loxia 35mm to the Sonnar 35mm, the Loxia wins out on build quality, vignetting/flare control, and character. While the Sonnar is the workhorse, the Loxia is for the connoisseur. The Loxia 35mm f/2 is not a perfect lens, but a huge kudos to Zeiss for taking the risk and designing a lens that was so fun to use and with so much soul.

SJStudio:Hi, you can see on this page my Wedding Inspiration Film shot with a Sony VG30 ans Metabones Speedbooster: http://www.sjstudio.fr/shooting-dinspiration-mariage-en-provence/

Boon:I managed to capture the solar eclipse with my Sony A7R. The photo link is here: http://myphotojourney.co.uk/solar-eclipse-20th-march-2015/. I also made a video using the 688 photos taken with the A7R. The link is here: http://myphotojourney.co.uk/solar-eclipse-video/

Tuan:I want to share you some information about Sel 24-240mm . Here is video unboxing in Vietnam
http://sonynex.vn/unbox-ong-kinh-sel-24-240mm-f3-5-6-3-chinh-hang-sony-viet-nam/
And Hẻre is compare With 70-200G4 on Sony A7 m2
http://sonynex.vn/anh-sanh-ong-kinh-sel-24-240mm-va-ong-kinh-sel-70-200-f4-tren-sony-a7-m2/

Go Wing Lens Holder for Sony A and E-mount.

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It’s a while that this new product is shipping but I never reported about it before. What you see here is the new GoWing Lens Holder for A-mount which also comes for E-mount. On the video below you can see how it works. It helps you to change lenses very fast!
You can have in both A and E-mount versions here:
E-mount Go wing at BHphoto, [shoplink 35109 ebay]eBay Korea[/shoplink] and [shoplink 35110 ebay]eBay Germany[/shoplink].
A-mount Go wing at BHphoto, [shoplink 35107 ebay]eBay Go Wing[/shoplink] and [shoplink 35108 ebay]eBay Germany[/shoplink].