Taobab officially unveiled the price of the new 28-75mm f/2.8 FE lens. It’s ¥5300.00. A rough conversion (with tax included) leads to an extimated converted price of $850. The lens is listed at BHphoto with preorder opening soon.
The new Laowa 9mm f/2.8 APS-C E-mount lens is now available for preorder at VenusLens Store.
Here is a new 9mm review from Christopher Frost:
Kamlan released the new 55mm f/1.2 Full Frame E-mount lens. You can already buy it at Amazon US and Amazon DE. This lens has not to be confused with the Kamlan 50mm f/1.1 lens which is an E-mount lens made for APS-C sensor cameras.
This is an image sample shot at full aperture. Click on it to enlarge:
Looks good to me! More image samples can be found here: .sainsonic.com/collections/manual-prime-lens/products/kamlan-55mm-f1-2-prime-lens
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Press text:
Product Features
Amazing Aperture – The 55mm F1.2 Lens from Kamlan offers a standard 55mm focal length in the full-frame format and an amazing f/1.2 maximum aperture for effective low light capture, fast shutter speed shooting and shallow depth of field control. The lens can creates fascinating bokeh effect at and good sharpness at F1.2, which allows you to shoot more confidently and enjoy the charm of the large aperture lens.
Premium Optical Design – The optical design of the lens consists of 8 elements in 6 groups. Also, lens elements are utilized the NMC (Nano Multi-Coating) technology to improve light transmission and reduce flare and ghosting. 12 aperture blades creates a circular aperture for more attractive bokeh effect.
Excellent Image Quality – Not like another large aperture lens, Kamlan 55mm F1.2 features a great optical resolution performance, when compatible with the Sony A7RⅡ, this lens present a great sharpness via 42 Mega-Pixel sensor. As a standard lens, 55mm focal length provides a very natural viewing angle, perfectly for portrait, night scene, indoor scene, landscape.
Compatibility
Full-Frame/APS-C Digital Cameras, Such as SONY A9/A7/A7Ⅱ/A7S/A7R/A7, A5000, A5100, A6000, A6100 and A6300. The focus ring and aperture ring (Clickless) turns very smoothly and precisely, after a short term learning, you can get a great focusing efficiency with the assist of peak-focusing function.
Specifications
| Mount | Sony E-mount |
| Format | 55 mm Full Frame |
| Focal Length (mm) | 55 mm |
| 35mm Equivalent Focal Length (APS-C) | 82.5mm |
| Lens Groups / Elements | 6 Groups 8 Elements |
| Angle of View (35 mm) | 43° |
| Angle of View (APS-C) | 29° |
| Maximum Aperture (F) | F1.2 |
| Minimum Aperture (F) | F16 |
| Aperture Blades | 12 |
| Circular Aperture | Yes |
| Minimum Focus Distance | 0.2 ft (0.6 m) |
| Maximum Magnification Ratio (x) | 0.13x |
| Filter Diameter (mm) | 62mm |
Prior to Use
• Do not leave the lens pointed at the sun or another sight source for an extended period. Intense light may cause the image sensor to deteriorate or produce a white blur effect in photographs
• Do the best you can to try to avoid using the camera on high humidity days and during wet weather. Stay out of the rain
• If your camera does become wet, you’re expected to dry it immediately.
Package Includes
1x Lens
1x Front lens cap
1x Rear lens cap
1x Microfiber Cleaning Cloth
via Sainsonic.com
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Thanks Mistral!
Iridient Developer 3.2.2 update released with new RAW processing support for the Sony A7 III and RX0. This update also features greatly improved Sony pixel shift processing:
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Thanks Brian!
Dpreview met Sigma COE Yamaki and those are some of the hot news:
1) The native FE mount lens autofocus is faster than what can be achieved with the MC-11 adapter. This because:
What we did was to optimize the communication, for Sony. It’s faster, smoother, and we were able to utilize Sony [communication] protocols in the lenses.
2) About a possible size advantage of designing FF E-mount lenses from ground up for Sony only:
The wide-angle lenses would be smaller, yes. But any lens longer than 35mm, they’d be about the same size.
3) About the possibility of making new lenses designed for Sony FE only:
We are working on lenses designed from scratch for Sony E-Mount. This is just the beginning
4) About new APS-C E-mount lenses:
We’re going to release another APS-C lens for Sony E-mount this year, probably around Photokina. We need to see what the response from customers is like. If it’s good, we’ll continue development.
5) Sigma also offers mount conversion:
If you own a Canon EF mount version of any of them, we can convert your lens to a Sony E-mount version, for a charge. And if that user decides to go back to Canon EF in the future, we can even re-convert the lens back again.
To sum up: Don’t worry folks, Sigma will make lenses designed for Sony FF E-mount cameras! And the new APS-C E-mount lens he is talking about should be a new 50mm f/1.4 ;)
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Sigma FE lens preorder links:
All lenses listed on one page at BHphoto (Click here). In detail:
Sigma 14mm f/1.8 for $1,599 at BHphoto and Adorama.
Sigma 20mm f/1.4 for $899 at BHphoto and Adorama.
Sigma 24mm f/1.4 for $849 at BHphoto and Adorama.
Sigma 35mm f/1.4 for $899 at BHphoto and Adorama.
Sigma 50mm f/1.4 for $949 at BHphoto and Adorama.
Sigma 85mm f/1.4 for $1,199 at BHphoto and Adorama.
Sigma 135mm f/1.8 for $1,399 at BHphoto and Adorama.
Photosku posted that accurate size comaprison between the new Tamron 28-75mm and the Sony 24-70mm GM.
Note that Tamron said the image quality will be on par with the GM lens while the price will be similar to the much cheaper 24-70mm f/4.0 Zeiss (check at Amazon US and Amazon DE). The only big trade-off is the “missing” 4mm at the wide end. But you gain 5mm at the tele end and you have a much smaller and lighter lens.
Here is also a new interview with Tamron by Personal View (follow their Telegram channel):
CameraJabber reported this:
Sony has sold more cameras on Day 1 of The Photography 2018 than during the whole of the show last year, retailers have told us. In fact, we’ve heard rumoured figures that Sony sold £200,000 worth of gear on Day 1 of the show, largely driven by keen interest in the company’s new A7 III.
One retailer told us the business had sold more Sony equipment on Day 1 of The Photography Show 2018 than it did during the entire show last year, while other retailers confirmed to us that Sony gear is flying from their shelves.
Another retailer confirmed for us that of all the major camera manufacturers, Sony was dominating the sales at the show so far.
I had no doubt the Sony A7III would become a hotseller. In terms of performance-price balance this is the best Sony camera in years.
Sony A7III preorder links:
Sony A7III in USA at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon, BestBuy, FocusCamera, BuyDig.
Sony a7III in Europe at Amazon DE, Calumet Germany, Amazon UK, ParkCameras UK, WexUK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
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