Benor now collected over 1,5 million dollars on Kickstarter (Click here).

Two more hot Kickstarter projects:

1. If you need a flexible, portable high quality 4k Laser projector to show your images and videos than check out the new JMGO N1 Ultra on Kickstarter (Click here). It’s the first gimbal and easily portable 4K Laser projector.
2. Duovox successfully funded their new Night Vision and Sony Starvis powered Monocular on Kickstarter.

I understand Dpreview forum was a home for many Alpha shooters that also follow this website. Well, if you find a new home checkout the SonyAlphaForum I am in charge with Andreas J. Let’s make this the place were we can catch up with good Sony Alpha discussions: https://www.sonyalphaforum.com/

Laowa is teasing the launch of a new lens. I know this is the 28mm f/1.2 FE lens that they already displayed as a prototype at the CP+ show! I also got additional info from my source which I included here:

Specs summary:

• Laowa 28mm f/1.2
• Full Frame E-mount
• manual focus
• lens construction is 13 elements in 7 groups.
• number of aperture blades is 13
• shortest shooting distance is 500mm
• maximum shooting magnification is 0.073x
• Supports click ON/OFF switching of the aperture ring
• 562g
• $599
• 600g
• good sharpness even at f/1.2
• High CA wide open
• Canon RF, Sony E, Nikon Z, L mount
• Release on March 28

Sony posted the official teaser for the ZV-E1 launch! The teaser page is also up at BHphoto and Fotokoch. Some testers also gave me a first feedback on this camera:

So this is the Summary of the Sony ZV-E1 specs:

• New ZV-E1 E-mount camera is based on the Sony As7III
• Same A7sIII 12 Megapixel sensor
• 4k60 & 4k 120 (no crop). But it appears 120p might be coming later via firmware update
• no pixel binning
• 409k ISO
• AF from a7r V but it has even better detection
• Body overheats a lot at the moment
• Lots of new AI features, very innovative
• Similar body style of the ZV-E10, but in the size of the Sony A7c and with some FX3 elements
• Price slightly below $2,500
• Announcement on March 29, 3pm London time

There will be plenty of rumors and also possibly image leaks. So be sure to follow my new Youtube channel, Discord channel, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter to not miss news and rumors.

Small correction form yesterdays rumor: The new Samyang has not a constant f/2.8 aperture but actually the same Tamron lens specs! So it’s a 35-150mm f/2.0-2.8 lens! Compared to the Tamron the Samyang is said to be much more affordable (don’t have exact pricing info yet). The lens will likely be announced next week!

Just a note: A trusted source made a mistake and misread the NDA agreement date disclosure. The Sony ZV-E1 will be announced on March 29 and not on March 23 as he stated this morning!

P.S.: New Samyang leak will follow soon on SAR ;)

Adobe FireFly is the first AI tool that doesn’t steal your content. It will eventually become also a new way you edit your photos and videos. I joined the Beta and hope to be able to show you soon how I can modify my photos taken with my Sony A7rV :)