FDtimes published a PDF document containing an interview with Zeiss Vicepresident Winfried Scherle. Here are a couple of interesting tidbits:

1) Full Frame is the future:
“I’m convinced that in the near future the relevant innovations and improvements will be made with Full Frame sensors. With the huge number of FF still picture cameras being sold, these sensors will be available for attractive prices. Canon started with the 5D MKII and was, according to my understanding, surprised that the community used the still camera for motion pictures. Sony has the a7RII and a7S which is dedicated for motion pictures. I’m convinced we’ll see more and more cine cameras with Full Format sensors.”

2) About the lens strategy with Sony:
“We have regular strategy meetings with Sony where we discuss roadmaps and so on but please understand that we can’t disclose further details.”

3) About E-mount:
“I think they were surprised about the success when they introduced the first mirrorless cameras in an environment that was dominated by DSLRs. So the E-mount market and mirrorless cameras have been a really disruptive technology. It started to be very popular in Japan but now it’s spreading around the world. And it’s getting even more relevant with the a7 series Full Format cameras. We are convinced that this will also drive the motion picture industry.”

It’s very clear how Zeiss is focused on Full Frame E-mount lens development. I don’t think we will ever see a new [shoplink 41087 ebay]Zeiss Touit APSC lens[/shoplink] launch anymore!

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A set of great A7 with Helios-44-2 2/58 lens images by Phillip Reeve (SonyAlphaForum).
Sony A7R II vs Olympus E-M10 II: 5-Axis Stabilization Head-to-head (Digitalrev).
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X-T10 vs E-M5 II vs a6000: Mirrorless Shootout! (Tony Northup).
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Bastian Kratzketo‎: “Real time footage of the northern lights in iceland.Shot on Sony A7s + Nikon 14-24mm 2.8Ghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPYkeVh941Q“

Sony Japan announced that it will release a firmware update for the A7rII in mid October. And it will add the 14bit uncompressed RAW file option!

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Kinoshita Optical announced the new Kistra 55mm f/1.2 lens. It comes in Contax-Yashica mount but it has been designed to be used on Full Frame mirrorless camera. The lens costs about $1,460 and can be bought on [shoplink 40987 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. To use it on your A7 camera you will have to buy the [shoplink 40990 ebay]Yashica to E-mount adapter (Click here)[/shoplink]

The picture on top shows the A7Ii with the new lens. If you wonder what’s the “ornamental” stuff well there is a Biker-friendly ;) strap you get at Rakuten. And the case is the Ulysses case you get on eBay in [shoplink 37912 ebay]Black (Click here)[/shoplink], [shoplink 37913 ebay]Blue (Click here)[/shoplink] or [shoplink 37914 ebay]Brown (Click here)[/shoplink].

Here are the lens specs and MTF graph:

DC.watch posted the first test on the Sony A7II. Here are the images of the lens on the camera (Click on it to enlarge):

And here some image samples all shot at max f/1.2 aperture (Click on it to enlarge):

Image samples on the A7s can be seen here: http://www.kinoshita-optical.com/gallery.html

Kistar 55mm f/1.2 can be purchased on here on [shoplink 40987 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

On the picture above you see the Canon 120 Megapixel FF prototype. Rumor has it the camera will be on market early 2018 only. And there are two main reasons why that camera is interesting for the Sony folks:

1) It will be interesting to see how Sony will react to this. If Canon will release that camera in one year from now Sony will have to answer with a special High Res E-mount camera too.

2) David Candlish pointed out the new kind of issues photographers will have to deal when using such crazy high megapixel numbers. He writes:

• Doing the maths for the new 120 megapixel camera means the maximum aperture usable before diffaction is somewhere between f/4.5-f/5
• The 5DS/5DSR also highlighted that some of Canon’s older or lower-quality lenses were unable to make full use of the improved resolution – quite a number in fact, only ~40% of Canon’s lineup were recommended. With the resolution bar set almost three times higher it will be interesting to see how the percentrage number of recommended lenses which can leverage the full capability of the sensor changes.
• Image size is going to be fun to see too. Already the full resolution RAW files from the 5DS/R and A7RII cause noticeable lag when loading & processing in Lightroom, even in top-end machines, so tripling the amount of data will magnify that issue. Storage space is a consideration too, even though cards & drives are getting cheaper & larger all the time.

P.s.: Full Canon NYC show coverage info at CanonWatch.