We got two news from the competition:

1) Nikon today announced the D7500 (specs here on Amazon). It has the same D500 20 megapixel Sony sensor. This is basically a D7200 upgraded with the new D500 features. A bit surprising is that Nikon did get rid of the dual SD slot from the D7200 (the D7500 has one slot only). And the battery life is 15% shorter.

2) Ricoh-Pentax seems to be in trouble with their camera business (as so many do). They had to revise down the profit forecast and also announced that they will reduce their camera business to focus on High Value cameras only. Full story at Mirrorlessrumors.

How life changes everything: The big future market for Sony sensors is the Automotive Industry. We are going to see a lot of tech’s first applied on such cameras that may trickle down to the very small digital camera business.

And today Sony announced it’s First*1 High-Sensitivity CMOS Image Sensor for Automotive Cameras, Delivering Simultaneous LED Flicker Mitigation and High-Quality HDR Shooting. You can read the full specs here: https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201704/17-034E/index.html

How to Remove Fungus from a Camera Lens FAST & EASY

Pop Shots Like a BOSS with Sony Battery Grip VG-C2EM (The Hunter Report).
SF-G Series UHS-II SD Memory Card at Sony UK.
Sigma 85mm f/1.4 HSM DG ART review at Photozone.
Sony FE 100 mm f/2.8i STF GM OSS – Portrait-Objektiv im Kurztest (ValueTechTV)
Completing the Teardown of the Sony FE 70-200 f/2.8 GM OSS: Part II – A Trail of Tears (Lensrentals).
5 Tips for Shooting a Lunar Eclipse (Adorama Learning Center).
What You Need To Know About Thunderbolt™ 3 (Explora).

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Sony A99II Review – Look Out World

Camera Basics – Aperture (Apalapse).
Sony A7RII Buffer Speed with Fast SD Card or NO? (Jeff Remas).
Sony Planar T* FE 50mm F1.4 ZA Product Overview (Dpreview on Youtube).
Toby from Photorec.tv reviewed the Laowa 12mm f/2.8 Zero-D on Sony A7
Review of the new Sony 18-110 f/4 lens (Prairiepictures).
Sony FE 1,8/85 mm test by Peter Schrolle on Dyxum.
100mm STM test at Mapcamera.

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Depositphotos analyzed 44 million commercial photos and created an infographic dedicated to the most popular cameras, settings and seasons for taking photographs. I noticed that there seems to be a small over balance of photos on Eastern Europe and Russia. So I am not sure how representative this is. Anyway, according to their data only 3% of the photos have been taken with a Sony camera:

The following is a Guest Post from Phototraces about Sony’s Smooth Reflection App (available here):

Experimenting With Sony Smooth Reflection App

I switched from a Canon DSLR to a Sony Mirrorless two years ago.

Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 Contemporary Review on Sony A7RM2 | John Sison

Let’s Talk: Visual Arts and Activism (School of Visual Arts)
6 Tips For Getting Better Skin Tones In Video (Sony Alpha Cameras) by Harv Video.
Best Cameras for Teenagers (Adorama Learning Center).
a6000 and photographing in the snow (SonyAlphaForum).
Vintage Lens Review: Non-Retrofocus Ultra-Wide-Angle Lenses (Explora).

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