Tony & Chelsea Northrup posted that over 1 hour long video about the Sony Alpha & Minolta Camera History.

At the end Tony even says he would now pickl the A99II over any Canon or Nikon DSLR :) And he also thinks Sony will catch Canon in the number 1 position…

Sony FE 85mm f/1.4 GM Lens REVIEW vs Sigma 85mm ART

Intervalometer for automatic shooting with A7Rii (SonyAlphaForum).
How to Turn Helios Lenses into a DIY 30$ tilt Lens Baby (Mathieu Stern).
Sony 85mm GM vs Sigma 85mm Art (Sonder Creative)
Rokinon 20mm FE test at ThePhoBlographer.
‘Popular Photography’ magazine and PopPhoto.com to close after nearly 80 years (Dpreview).

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Lenin: “I just wanted to share my last post on Travel Tripods. Here is the direct link to it: http://bit.ly/2lJu6Z0”

Yamin: “i have some idea to improve manual focus for our loved sony camera :D
i already posted to sony community, but i want to share here to. Hope you have some interest in it and posted too :D
i really hope these idea can be implemented by sony in the future
here’s the link
http://community.sony.com/t5/Join-the-Inspiration/New-Manual-Focus-Method-for-Sony-ILCE/idi-p/620046“

Metabones released the new PL to Sony E-mount T CINE Speed Booster ULTRA 0.71x. This is the press text:

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Sharper corners, less distortion, reduced vignetting

New optical design: advanced 5-element/4-group optical design incorporating ultra-high index tantalum-based optical glass to achieve extraordinary optical performance with improved corner sharpness, distortion and reduced vignetting.

Like the revolutionary original Metabones Speed Booster announced in January 2013, the Speed Booster ULTRA has a magnification of 0.71x, and so it effectively reduces the crop factor of mirrorless cameras with DX-sized sensors and Super35 camcoder, such as Sony E-mount, Fuji X-mount cameras Sony FS7 MARKII, from 1.5x to 1.07x. However, the new ULTRA design makes very effective use of exotic materials at the furthest limit of glassmaking technology, and as a result is well corrected for use with virtually all fullframe SLR/Prime lenses regardless of exit pupil distance. (More information can be found in the press release here)

Features and benefits

Design for attaching full-frame PL Prime Lens to Sony E-mount cameras/camcorders
Increase maximum aperture by 1 stop.
Increase MTF.
Makes lens 0.71x wider.
Advanced 5-element/4-group optical design incorporating ultra-high index tantalum-based optical glass by Caldwell Photographic in the USA (patent pending).
New positive-lock PL lens mount. (Patent pending).
Felt material flocked inside the opening to reduce internal reflection.
Compatible with Sony FS7 Mark II camera.
The tripod foot is detachable and compatible with Arca Swiss, Markins, Photo Clam ball heads.
Only support full-frame PL Prime lenses, e.g. Compact Prime CP.2 Lenses. Super 35 PL Prime lenses are NOT supported.
Speed Booster ULTRA is designed to cover an APS-C/Super35 image circle which is not big enough to cover a full-size 36mm x 24mm sensor. On a full frame camera body (A7 series, NEX-VG900) the camera needs to have “APS-C/Super 35mm” set to either “Auto” or “On”.

How to Get Better Battery Life From Your Sony Camera

Sony A99 vs A99 II: Should you upgrade? (Digitalrev).
Sony A6500 review by PCmag.
A7II review by Ken Rockwell.
Sony A6500, a review (Seb Imagery).
Kai and my Charters pole video with the a6300 (Dan Chung).
Zeiss Loxia 35mm f2 Review (Movingelectrons)

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Greg: “Free camera apps (star trails and multiple exposure) for UK owners if they register their camera before end of april. More details on the sony UK site http://www.sony.co.uk/regional/camera-apps#section-eligible”

Matthew: “I made a video of some tests I did on wind noise on the Sony A6500.  I thought it might be of interest to your site:
https://youtu.be/v-cdS-VBlZM”

Sigma released the new firmware update for the MC-11. Here is the press text:

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We would like to announce the firmware update for the SIGMA MOUNT CONVERTER MC-11 EF-E. This firmware update allows it to be compatible with the SIGMA 135mm F1.8 DG HSM | Art (Release: April), SIGMA 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Contemporary (TBD), Cine Lens 50mm T1.5 FF EF mount from FF High Speed Prime Line (TBD) and so on.

For customers who own the SIGMA MOUNT CONVERTER MC-11 EF-E, please update the firmware via SIGMA Optimization Pro by connecting it to a computer using a supplied USB Cable.
※ Before updating the MC-11 firmware, please ensure SIGMA Optimization Pro has been updated to ver. 1.4.1 or later for Windows, and ver. 1.4.0 or later for Macintosh from the following download page.

【SIGMA Optimization Pro Download page】
http://www.sigma-global.com/en/download/lenses/sigma-optimization-pro/

For SIGMA MOUNT CONVERTER MC-11 SA-E, firmware update announced on March 10th, 2017 allows it to be compatible with SIGMA 135mm F1.8 DG HSM | Art and SIGMA 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Contemporary.

【Applicable product】
・ SIGMA MOUNT CONVERTER MC-11 EF-E

【Benefits of this firmware update】
・It has become compatible with the SIGMA 135mm F1.8 DG HSM | Art and SIGMA 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Contemporary.
・It has become compatible with the Cine Lenses; SIGMA 20 mm T1.5 FF EF mount, 24 mm T1.5 FF EF mount, 35mm T1.5 FF EF mount, 50 mm T1.5 FF EF mount, 85 mm T1.5 FF EF mount from FF High Speed Prime Line, and 24-35mm T2.2 FF EF mount from FF Zoom Line.
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Sigma MC-11 at [shopcountry 55627].

Sony FE 85mm f/1.4 GM Lens REVIEW vs Sigma 85mm ART

Sony 35mm 1.8 vs Sigma 30mm 1.4 vs Sigma 30mm 2.8 (Mirrorlesscomparison).
Sony 85mm GM review by Ken Rockwell.
SIGMA Cinema Zoom Lens Review: 18-35mm T2.0 and 50-100mm T2.0 (Cinema5D).
100mm STF hands-on by Focus Numerique
Buying Guide: The Best Cameras for Vlogging (Adorama Learning Center).
The Tripod Explained (Explora).

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Frank: “tamron 70 200 G2 short test
http://frankster.digital/tamron-sp-70-200mm-f2-8-di-vc-usd-g2-image-test-quick-test/
http://frankster.digital/better-canon-holy-trinity-%EF%BC%9Ftamron-sp-70-200mm-f2-8-di-vc-usd-g2-short-review/
already made english version for english readers =D”

Bart: “I recently shot this short travel video on a7sII https://vimeo.com/204266089 . Fantastic camera. I thought some of the readers might be interested in seeing what you can pull off out of slog3.
If you feel like this might be interesting to the community, please feel free to share!“

This is the first image of the new IRIX Canon EF to Sony E-mount autofocus adapter. ePhotozine spotted the adapter first and writes:

Irix are also also showing the new Irix ILA-FE2EF Sony E-Mount Adapter, which is “coming soon”. The ILA-FE2EF is designed to let you used Canon EF mount lenses, such as the Irix 11mm f/4 and Irix 15mm f/2.4, on Sony E-Mount cameras. Pricing and availability is not yet known.

So it sounds like the adapter is optimized to work with IRIX lenses first. Other Canon EF lens might work less…”effectively”. This sounds a lot similar to how the Sigma MC-11 adapter works.

You can find IRIX lenses at Amazon US, Adorama, Amazon DE and Amazon UK.