Sony Tidbits…


Sony FE 100-400 F4.5-5.6 GM OSS | Initial Sports Review

Laowa 15mm f/2 Sony FE Review (Albert Dros).
Review: Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 Art DG (Canon EF, Tested on Sony FE) by ThePhoBlographer.
Cascable 3.4 adds support for Sony α7R III, α7 III, α9, and more
Microsoft Surface Pro, an Ideal Mobile Video Editing Machine? (Explora)
IK Multimedia ARC System MEMS Microphone Interview (Personal View)
Sony’s 1.2x Crop in 30p mode – Does It Matter To You? (Peter Gregg).

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Sony Tidbits…


Sony FS5 II Camera, Interview about real improvements

Zeiss Loxia 25mm f/2.4 Hands-on Photos (Photographyblog).
Sigma CEO gives rare insight on future tech: Plastic Glass, Curved sensors and more… (Mirrorlessrumors).
The Pixel Wars are Back, and That’s Great! (Explora).
EDIUS 9 In Depth Interview (Personal View).
Which Sony Alpha A7 camera? How to choose the right model (CameraJabber).
Las cámaras de los World Press Photo 2018: Nikon gana y las réflex siguen arrasando con un 85% (Photolari).
New Capture Dedication photography competition.

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Dpreview wild speculation: could Nikon adopt Sony’s E-mount? :)

Dpreview posted a new article summing up what they learned from the interview with all company managers at CP+. For them it’s clear that:

The reign of the DSLR is almost over…Full-frame mirrorless will become the norm, and it will happen pretty soon

Yes, I think that statement is 100% correct. But the big question is: How will Canon and Nikon’s FF mirrorless be? This is where they go a bit into the wild speculation:

Canon has a slightly easier task ahead of it, since the EF mount was designed from the beginning to be fully automatic, and to support very wide-aperture lenses. As such, it could presumably make a relatively simple adapter to allow continued use of legacy EF lenses for as long as necessary. Nikon’s transition to mirrorless will probably be trickier. It’s worth remembering though that the Sony E-mount is an open standard – Nikon already has a relationship with Sony, could it adopt the company’s lens-mount? It’s an intriguing thought…

I give it a 0,00000001% chance that Nikon will adopt E-mount :)

What are your thoughts on this?

Lightroom Classic CC 7.3 supports ARQ (Sony Pixel Shift) files

Marc Alhadeff reports:

A little gift from Adobe , not even present in the release notes of Lightroom:
The Lightroom Classic CC 7.3 issued in April 2018 and that was announcing the support of the A7III, also supports the display and editing of the ARQ files of the A7RIII
As a reminder an ARQ file (343Mo) is created from 4 ARW files created via the Pixel Shift Option of the A7RIII
You still need Sony software View/Edit to transform the ARW files into an ARQ, but then this ARQ file is directly readable and editable in Lightroom , no need to convert it anymore to a dng proxy (see below)

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Pavel ‘Pasharome’ Vavilin‎
“Landscape with snow 2”
Monte Livata, Lazio, Italia
ILCE-6000
E 35/1.8
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Cascable 3.4 released, including support for the α7R III, α7 III, α9, and more!

Daniel from Cascable sent me this:

I’m contacting you because we’re releasing updates to our products that I think will be of great interest to your audience.
We’ve just released the latest update to our mobile toolkit for your WiFi-enabled camera, Cascable.

This release adds support for Sony’s newest lineup of cameras, including the α7R III, α7 III, and α9. Unfortunately, Sony has removed several remote control features from these cameras, which affects the features Cascable is able to provide when connected to these cameras.

We’re disappointed that Sony have gone backwards in this area. Their Smart Remote Control app provided an open and powerful platform for remote control over Wi-Fi, and crippling their newer cameras with reduced remote control functionality hurts what are otherwise an incredibly impressive lineup of cameras.

We hope Sony re-adds this functionality in future firmware updates.

Additionally, this release adds a great quality-of-life feature: Quick Connect. Now, with any camera that displays a QR code on its display when using WiFi, you can scan that code with Cascable to automatically join that camera’s WiFi network and connect to it!

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For more information on this release, including details on the limitations with these new Sony cameras, please see our blog post: https://cascable.se/blog/cascable-34-released-with-modern-sony-quick-connect/.

Sony Tidbits…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiKxA8SJ5kw
Terry Donnelly Shooting with the Sony A9 and 85mm f/1.4 G Master Lens

A7RIII Portraits in Haiti: Letting Haitians Be Haitians by Patrick Murphy-Racey
Zeiss Batis 135mm f/2.8 User Experience Review (Jason Vong).
NAB 2018: New from Syrp, the Genie II 3-Axis Motion Control System (Explora)
Joe Cornish and the Sony A7R II (Photogearnews).
CIPA results for February: Tremendous decline of worldwide camera shipment. DSLR beating mirrorless this month. (Mirrorlessrumors).
Haida Nano Video Filters Interview (Personal View).

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