The Mitros Experience from QBetaStudios on Vimeo.

Gerald (video on top): “Hi. Here is a very detailed flash tutorial for Sony Alpha system using the Phottix Mitros flash. Pictures were shot using an a7s. Your readers might find it informative. Thanks. https://vimeo.com/110535701”

Trip Report: Scotland, Lake District and Wales with the Alpha 7 (SonyAlphaForum).
How to Shoot Zombies (Ilovehatephoto).
Sony Reports Image Sensor Sales Growth, Updates Forecast (Image Sensor World).
My SONY FE System And Mix And Match Lenses – Disadvantage? Or Creative Option? (SoundImagesplus).
How to Use Keystone Compensation with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 (TheDigitalStory).
That’s how an Alpha Shooter looks like (SonyAlphaForum).
Great Sony NEX-6 double lens kit savings in Europa (DealsRunner).

Andreas: “My name is Andreas Fernbrant and I’m a photographer and filmmaker from Sweden. A couple of hours ago I released my second time-lapse film from a small town in Southern Sweden. The first one is viewed over 82.000 times form almost every country in the world. My new one focuses on people in the city and I hope it will be the same success as the first one. What sets this apart is that this time-lapse video was entirely done on Sony A7s. Mostly I used the FE35 and FE55 and there are some shots in the time-lapse that wouldn’t be possible without the electronic (silent) shutter of the A7s, like the scenes in the concert hall or the theatre. It took me roughly 6 months to make and contains 6600 still images (in total over 15.000 images was shot) and roughly around 800 hours of work. View the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oFPFE8mHdo“

Samyang/Rokinon announced the new Rokinon 12mm T3.1 ED AS IF NCS UMC Cine DS Fisheye Lens for Sony A and E-Mount. You can read the full specs and preorder it at BHphoto:
Rokinon 12mm A-mount (Click here).
Rokinon 12mm E-mount (Click here).

Back in 2011 Hasselblad founded the Hasselblad Design Center in Treviso. The goal was to create unique camera designs. In the years after they launched the [shoplink 22672 ebay]Hasselblad Lunar (here on eBay)[/shoplink], [shoplink 22673 ebay]Stellar (here one Bay)[/shoplink] and the Hasselblad HV (here at BHphoto). And as you likely know these camera were objects of quite some large amount of “irony” on the world wide web.

But today Photoscala reports that Hasselblad has closed the Design Center in Treviso. It is not yet official but this could mean the end of those super “luxurified” Sony A and E-mount camera versions. Maybe Hasselblad wants to focus on a Sony-Hasselblad-Zeiss partnership for a new mirrorless medium format system instead?

It’s hard to belive all those sceptical people who A-mount is dead when you see this: The brand new Canon 7DmarkII comes nowhere as close to the excellent Sony A77II performance according to DxOmark sensor tests. Anything else to say? ;)

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A77II: Up to $500 off on the body and kits at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and SonyStore.
A6000: $100 off on the body and kits at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and SonyStore.
A5100: $100 off on the body and kits at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and SonyStore.
A5000: $100 off on the body and kits at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and SonyStore.

Catching up with a news I didn’t post: Fotodiox 10-Stop ND filter adapter for E-mount now ships at:
Canon EF to Sony E-mount at BHphoto (Click here).
Nikon F to Sony E-mount at Amazon (Click here).
Minolta MD to Sony E-mount at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).

Instead of going through long press releases to understand how this works…just watch those two videos:

Five Facts about the ND Throttle: Why Put A Variable ND Inside A Lens Adapter?

FDXtra: Variable ND Lens Adapter – the Vizelex ND Throttle

Reminder: Though full metal E-mount replacement at Amazon (Click here to preorder) and BHphoto (Click here to preorder).

Found via PetaPixel.

Sony unveiled at DSLRmagazine (google tranlsation) that they still are not working together with Olympus when it comes to develop cameras. For now the only real collaboration is on the medical business.

An interesting “psychological” analysis from DSLRmagazine. When they asked Sony about a possible future RX medium format camera Sony didn’t answer but the “poker face interpretation” from DSLRmagazine makes them believe the camera is coming for real :)