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Sony RX100 for travel & vlogging

Sigma 85mm F1.4 DG HSM Art for Sony E-mount sample gallery (Dpreview).
24-70mm GM review by Mari Pack.
Lilliput A5 Field Monitor Review (Personal View).
Canon FL 55 f1.2 – Razor-thin DOF on a budget (Theweekendlens).
Print on the Road with these Six Portable Printers (Explora).
Alpha On Location At Coachella With J. N. Silva

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New Samyang 85mm f/1.8 ED UMC C lens for Sony E announced

Samyang announced a new 85mm f/1.8 manual focusing lens. This is made for APS-C E-mount cameras. It will start shipping out in September for £319.99.

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Samyang unveils the MF 85mm F1.8 ED UMC CS lens for mirrorless cameras with APS-C crop sensors

Samyang Optics launches a new manual-focus lens for mirrorless shooters: The MF 85mm F1.8 ED UMC CS is designed for use with APS-C sensor mirrorless cameras in the following mounts: Sony E, Fujifilm X, Canon M, and Micro-Four-Thirds. It is competitively priced and light-weight. This medium telephoto lens inherits the renowned image quality of Samyang’s manual focus series and also boasts beautiful out of focus bokeh and availability for a variety of cameras.

Ideal portrait lens, with a fast, bright maximum aperture…

This manual-focus 85mm F1.8 ED UMC CS lens is a medium telephoto lens, with a similar angle of-view to a 135mm lens when compared to full-frame cameras. The Samyang MF 85mm F1.8 ED UMC CS is designed with 9 lens elements in 7 groups and it delivers high resolution from the centre to the corners of the image. A high-refractive and an extra-low dispersion element, along with Ultra Multi-Coating (UMC) help minimise chromatic aberrations and deliver clear, vibrant images. This lens is ideal for portraits, with beautiful bokeh from its floating-element system. Its low-light performance and shallow depth-of-field are especially useful features. mirrorlessrumors

Wide range of uses, with crystal-clear resolution…

The compact and light-weight design offers the portability and comfort needed for a long day’s shooting. This lens would be the ideal choice for keen photographers who want to capture everyday moments in high-resolution. The Samyang MF 85mm F1.8 ED UMC CS has a host of features including its outstanding optical performance. Its wide range of uses include portraits and other close-ups such as food, as well as landscapes and many other situations.

More fun with Manual Focus lenses…

The MF 85mm F1.8 ED UMC CS lens is perfect for shooters who want to have more involvement and express their own characteristics through their images. The Samyang MF 85mm F1.8 ED UMC CS weighs in at just over 300g and measures approximately 8cm long (without the hood and lens caps). Photographers can expect superb, emotional and unique images from this compact companion.

Price: suggested retail price £319.99

Availability: from September 2018

This week SAR readers photos selection


Alex Phan‎
I’ve been trying to capture the frontal view of the owl catching the figeaters beetle with “both eyes open” for the last 3 months and still not be able to get it yet. The season is ending today. This is as much as i can do. Until next season.
A9+ 100-400G Master + 1.4x TC
1/2000 sec. f/10 560mm , AFC / Zone / CH/ E-shutter / sensitivity: 2
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Phase One just published The Learning Hub for their Software Capture One Pro

Phase One just published The Learning Hub for their Software Capture One Pro.

The Learning Hub is the place to go for Capture One tutorials and webinars made by Phase One. The content is quickly filtered, making it fast and easy to find exactly what you’re looking for. Whether you need a quick 2-minute tutorial or an in-depth 1-hour webinar, the Learning Hub offers it – completely free

Learning Hub | Capture One

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Sony Tidbits…


SLR Magic Anamorphot 65 Adapter Review – Your Alternative to Anamorphic Lenses?

Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 test on the Sony A7II (STKB).
Canon FD 50 f1.4 SSC – is it worth the weight? (Theweekendlens).
A7 III vs A7R III at MirrorlessComparisons.
Sony RX100v tours the White House (Enthusiastphotoblog).
8 Tips for Photographing Sailboat Regattas, with Maritime Photographer Onne van der Wal (Explora).
Sony 400mm FE GM test at DC.watch

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Nick:

Hey, this is Nick Smyth. I’m a popular Instagrammer with a rapidly growing YouTube channel focused on photography education and gear reviews. I just made an announcement for a new project I’m working on and I was hoping you would be willing to cover it and share with your readers.

To summarize for you, I’m making a TV show for photographers by photographers. The show is called Bokeh and Brews. The premise is each episode I meet with a different professional photographer at a local coffee-house, bar or brewery and we have an interview focused on their life, work, and challenges we all face in the industry. Afterwards we accompany the photographer on a shoot and they teach a crash course on their workflow and style. The goal is to provide free, high quality, easily accessible education to photographers all over the world.
We’re going to fund the project through IndieGoGo and right now we’re in a pre-launch campaign where we’re collecting emails for those who would like to be involved in helping make it happen. We’re also doing a free giveaway for a professional camera, the winner can choose between a Sony A7RIII, a Nikon D850, a Canon 5D Mark IV or a Fujifilm X-H1 with a 56mm 1.2 lens.
I wanted to send this to you because when we reach funding we’re going to be buying all Sony cameras for video! Hopefully the A7SIII will be out by then!
Here’s the links to the announcement video, the indiegogo, the giveaway and my Instagram.
I’m really excited about this project and I want this to be a huge success, so it would mean a lot to me if you would share this news with your readers. Thank you so much for your time.