Those are impressive new Type A cards! Super rugged and with up to 2TB capacity! For comparison, the Angelbird Type A card at Amazon US and BHphoto are still a tiny bit faster and also cheaper. But they don’t have that ultimate rugged durability.
Sigma is testing a new Sony FE lens in the field right now, a Sigma 14mm DG DN with a diafragma of f/1.4. It’s a heavy boy of 1.3KG, pretty similar to an 35mm f1.2 . Although it’s a slimmed down version of the 14mm DG HSM it’s still a huge chonker.
While I have no announcement date I guess the lens will be announced sometimes in June. The full specs have been leaked a couple of weeks ago:
14mm F1.4 DG DN | Art
Lens construction: 19 elements in 15 groups (3 FLD glass elements, 1 SLD glass element, 4 aspherical lenses)
Shortest shooting distance: 30cm
Maximum magnification: 1:11.9
Number of aperture blades: 11 (circular aperture)
Size: 101.4 x 149.9mm (151.9mm for E-mount version)
Trusted sources told me that there is a sort of new Cine E-mount camera going to be available this summer. That’s all I know with 100% certainty. But now an anonymous source sent me those images and specs of an allegedly new Sony FX10 camera. I still cannot tell you if those images and specs are real or not. SO PLEASE TAKE THIS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT. I hope trusted sources reading this will eventually see me a feedback and tell me if this is legit or not.
Now let’s move on to the rumor:
As you can see the new ALLEGED(!) FX10 looks nearly exactly like the FX30. The main exterior difference is that the FX10 goes rid of the mounting holes:
The mounting holes are also gone from the side of the camera as you can see from those leaked FX10 images:
I also got the following specs info:
The ILME-FX10 is a cheap but professional model for long time live steaming or lightweight aerial photography.
It has an FX body with cooling system
10 megapixels (3:2 still picture) APS-C Exmor R sensor
To maximize its recording time, a low-resolution sensor is used for pixel-to-pixel 4K readout up to 60p (10bit 4:2:2 internal recording or live streaming via full size HDMI) and eliminates the mechanical shutter, eND, and IBIS, freeing up the performance of the active cooling system.
It is the lightest model in the ILME-FX line.
Like I told you before I cannot confirm yet to you if those images and specs are legit, but l would love to hear from you what you think about this camera. To me this makes a lot of sense as a drone camera and the biggest surprise is the use of a new 10MP sensor.
The AstrHori 18mm F8 probe goes beyond of what you could ever think and is very fun to use. But professional results will require a lot of time investment and some add-on material (motorised rail and additional lights)