Chinese companies are fast: Already first half leather case for the new A7II on eBay.

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Chinese companies are damn fast when it comes to making accessories for great new cameras. There is already a first half leather case for sale on eBay: It comes in [shoplink 32318 ebay]Black (Click here)[/shoplink] and [shoplink 32319 ebay]Brown (Click here)[/shoplink].

Hope full leather cases will appear soon too…

USA/Canada A7II links:
Sony Alpha a7II (Body Only) for $1,698 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, SonyStore and Sony Store Canada.
Sony Alpha a7II with FE 28-70mm OSS Lens for $1,998 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, SonyStore.
Sony 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G SSM II Lens for $1,148 at BHphoto.

EU A7II links:
Sony Alpha a7II (Body Only) for 1.799 Euro at Sony Germany, Sony UK, Jessops UK, Sony France, Sony Italy, Sony Spain, Sony Austria, Sony Switzerland, Sony Netherland, Sony Belgium, Sony Portugal, Sony Sweden, Sony Finland, Sony Norway.
Sony Alpha a7II with FE 28-70mm OSS Lens for 2.099 Euro at Amazon Germany, Wex UK, Jessops UK, Verkkokauppa.

Asian/Australia A7II link:
Sony A7II at Sony Store Australia, Digitalrev and Amazon Japan.

More Sony CES news: Shows the FE lens prototypes!

If you missed the Sony announcement you can play the video on top to watch it again. While there was no new A or E-mount stuff Sony talked quite a lot about their Alpha range. And they are also displaying the new FE lens prototype lenses on their CES booth (images here at Amateur Photographer). We already saw these prototypes back at Photokina and Sony doesn’t add any info today. But full specs and pricing info will be announced in 4 week right before the start of the CP+ show!

So far the rumored price info is (source SAR article with VBL):
– 28mm f/2.0 G should cost 499 Euro (February shipment)
– 35mm f/1.4 Zeiss should cost 1399 Euro (March shipment)
– 90mm f/2.8 G macro should cost 999 Euro (March shipment)
– 24-240mm f/3.5-6.4 should cost 1099 Euro (March shipment)
– both converters should cost 229 Euro each (March shipment)

You can also preorder the new CES stuff:
USA: 4k action camera at BHphoto (Click here). 4k camercorders at BHphoto (Click here) and Sony Store (Click here).
Europe: Sony Germany, Sony UK, Sony France, Sony Italy, Sony Spain, Sony Holland, Sony Belgium, Sony Austria, Sony Switzerland, Sony Portugal, Sony Sweden, Sony Norway, Sony Finland.

One more thing:

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All AX100 camcorder owners will get a new firmware update soon. Sony writes:

The FDR-AX100 will also support XAVC S 4K 100Mbps high-bitrate recording through a firmware update scheduled for March 2015.

All info about the new 4K action camera and camcorders.

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Sony CEO Hirai talked a lot about the A7s, A7 and great Sony sensor technique. But there were no new A and E-mount announcements today (as expected). For that we have to wait just 4 weeks more (early February).

The focus at CES was on TV’s and other stuff including the new 4K actioncamera and 4K camcorders. All that stuff can be seen on that Sony special CES page (Click here).

And here are some info:
Action Cam HDR-AS200V Promotion Movie (Sony Action Cam Youtube). And many more sample videos at youtube.com/user/ActionCamfromSony/videos
Action Cama nd Camcorders hands-on pictures at Engadget.
Videos about more of their new CES stuff like TV’s at Sony Youtube.
New 4K Handycam FDR-AX33 (FIRST LOOK) at Sony.
New 4K ActionCam FDR-X1000V (FIRST LOOK) at Sony.
ActionCam Press at ThePhoBlographer.
German FDR-AXP33 hands-on at Videoaktiv.

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This week SAR readers photos selection.


Richard Timewell‎
Hong Kong Harbour Light Show – a6000/16mm

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Sony Tidbits…


Sony A6000 – How To Shoot Action Photography – 3 Mandatory Steps by Gary Fong.

Zeiss Loxia 35mm lens test at DC.watch.
Tokina Japan confirmed the AT-X 11-20 PRO DX is coming for Canon and Nikon mounts only.
Whi Sony is better than Leica (Jorge Torralba).
Sony LenStyle QX1 takes the Land, Sea, Sky & Space (SonyAlphaForum).
Sony SXS PRO+ C memory cards – optimized for 4K High Frame rate shooting? (Newsshooter).
Community Challenge: Just One Photo in December (Dpreview Forum).
FS7 shoulder rig by Movcam (Newshooter).
A500 first impressions at iLoveHatePhoto.
Sony RX100/B Point and Shoot Digital Camera Review (Wrbdigitalcamerareviews).
Sony 18-105 f/4 OSS lens review at Betterfamilyphotos.
Sony Announces the Development of a Compact, Lightweight Single-Lens Display Module with OLED Technology That Enables Superior Image Quality (Sony.net).
Sony A7II review at DC.fever.

Ramesh:We recently shot a 15 minute short film using A7r as the main camera and A6000/Nex 7 as camera B. It is an inspirational film in English and hope we can share with your community. We have more exciting projects coming our way, so would like to get feedback from the community too. http://youtu.be/62HH8N_SlWI

Sony Tidbits…

Church on Boxing day – a Nebula 4000 Lite test from Dan Chung on Vimeo.

Easy tutorial on Color Grading Slog from the A7S on Youtube.
RX1R review at Graverholtfoto.
Sony RX100 III, Canon G7X, Canon G1 X II, Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX100 and Fujifilm X30 battle at Lonelyspeck.
Atomos SHogun first look (Updated) on 3D-kraft.
The Absolutely Amazing Sony A7s (Soundimagesplus).
A change.org petition asks Sony to remap the video record function to the shutter release button in movie mode.
Gimbal for the RX100m3 at Walkera.
TEST / Ninja-Like Sony Alpha 7S Works Swift & Silent in the Dark (Digitalversus).
A6000 test at Dime.
Back-Button AF using a Sony Alpha A7 camera (Alpha Creative Skills).
Your A7s has a major design flaw (HDwarrior).
Zeiss Loxia Lenses Score for Manual Lens Aficionados (Photographicwanderings).