I made a post today on Sony Alpha Camera (Facebook). It is about the idea of a vertical battery grip with an integrated 1TB SSD and a USBc port to record videos in better codecs like an external recorder (e.g. Atomos) and remove the 30 minutes recording limitation. There are many positive reactions to this.The photo shows the grip on an SSD. So the handle wouldn’t get much higher.
I think this is a smart idea. Wonder if someone will contact Christoph to jelp him produce and sell this gear.
KIPON DROP-IN FILTER ADAPTER! Canon EF to Sony E Mount Adapter! (Photokina 2018)
Sigma 24mm F1.4 | ART Sony FE: Hands On First Look | 4K by Dustin Abbott.
Sony A7rIII Review review at Indergaard.net.
Market challenges and predictions, late-2018 edition (Ming Thein).
Sony FE 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 GM test at Learningvideo.
Zeiss Touit 50mm F2.8 Macro review (Sonyalpha.blog).
Leica says other Lens manufacturers could join the L-mount world (Mirrorlessrumors.com).
Shooting photos using an ice lens was my dream for almost 2 years. After some research I saw that almost no one ever tried this crazy idea, mainly because it’s hard as hell to find pure ice, and even harder to get a clear image.
So I had the choice to give up on my idea because it was too hard, or to just level up in the craziness. If it’s hard to find pure ice in my city, maybe I should go where I could find some 10 000 year old pure ice : Iceland’s famous ” iceberg beach”.
The night before the experiment, there was a huge storm, all the icebergs were dragged away from the beach, so we had no choice but to wait some days.
Three days later, we arrived on the beach at 5AM and had the chance to see some huge icebergs all over the beach.
We stayed there for almost 6 hours in the cold to create… only one true working ice lens.
Now the facts : – First of all the life-span of a lens made of ice is very short, so you can’t move very far from where you create the lens. – Focusing is extremely hard because of the water melting on the lens itslef. – Shaping one ” lens” takes 45 min because of the ambiant cold. – If your lens breaks in the mold, you have to start all over again – I hacked a Japanese cocktail ice ball maker to create half spheres. – The housing of the lens was made using a home made 3D print model. – All photos where shot during the 1 minute of the last ice lens. – The video at the beginning of the video was shot in the last usable seconds of the last ice lens. – No I didn’t ruined my camera with water damages, even if it was pretty dangerous, I managed to keep the inside dry. SonyAlphaRumors.com Now if people asks me “Are you happy with the result ? it’s a bunch of blurry photos !?”, my response would be : “this project is a scientific, artistic and poetic project, I never imagined the result would look like the photos that comes from an ultra modern lens, but I was amazed by the strange beauty of the images I made with the first ever 10 000 year old lens.”
This is not a project for everyday photography, it was an adventure and a bet that when you have a crazy hypothesis, you should do everything to experiment it in the field.
Wang Hao, the head of Sigma China has been interviewed by a member of the biggest photography gear rental company irentals.cn. A reader sent me this translation:
Q: So there are four big players in the FF mirrorless market now, what’s Sigma’s strategy?
A: Our distribution of R&D resource really depends on the sale of the bodies. But we also have our own prediction, what I can say is that FF mirrorless is definitely the future.
Q: Since Sigma already has a well-established F1.4 ART prime line, what are you going to do next? Maybe even larger aperture?
A: Actually we’ve noticed that mirrorless users values compactness over shear sharpness, so we are thinking about going that direction.
Q: We noticed that there is no compact 35mm equivalent lens for Sony E-mount right now, not from any manufacturer. The rumor says Sony has some restriction to protect the RX1 series, is that true?
A: As far as I know there is no such thing. Sony E-mount is the most open lens mount we’ve ever worked with.
Q: Nikon & Canon hasn’t opened their new lens mount protocol, so what’s Sigma’s plan about R/Z mount?
A: At the moment there is no official partnership between Canon-Nikon and Sigma. We have to get the camera bodies first to see what we can do.
Is the Sony A7 system still worth buying into? | Amateur Photographer
Brand (dis)loyalty, mirrorless and why it’s good for everybody (Ming Thein). Gary Vee signing an a7
The Nissin i400 Flash is Perfect for Beginners (Explora).
New study reveals insights of first-time interchangeable lens camera owners (Dpreview).
Two more Photokina videos about the new 40mm f/0,85 II Ibelux and Alpa 4k 100 Megapixel camera! (Mirrorlessrumors.com).
7Artisans 50mm F1.8 review (Sonyalpha.blog).
Weeks ago I posted about the new Life+Guard A7III and 400mm GM protection skin. Many readers wanted to buy them. I asked the company about their plans to sell them internationally and they confirmed they are soon going to launch an online store in english.
Their skin works for nearly all kind of FE lenses too:
Sony RX100V Natural Light Portrait Photography Session | Breakdown with Miguel Quiles
Cameras with 1-Inch Imaging Sensors (Explora).
Photokina 2018 Highlights – Panasonic S1R / Fuji GFX 50R Previews (TheCameraStoreTV).
Is Sony’s Color Science Really That Bad? (PetaPixel).
The 24-200mm zoom of the Sony RX100 VI brings with it both the good and the bad (Imaging Resource).
Yelangu Motorized Slider (Personal View).
Ryadoug: “I wanted to share with you my latest work for Etihad Airways in Paris (4K).
The full video is made by a Sony a7iii + Sony 28mm f2.
Here is the link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnSxcZIHoE4“21576632
