I know you all couldn’t wait to spend $42,600.00 Cooke miniS4/i Cine Lens Set of Six Lenses (Click here). Well, if you really have the money there is good news for you as Cook just announced the E-mount adapter to fit all those PL-mount lenses on any E-mount camera:

Cooke Optics, the multi-award winning manufacturer of precision lenses for film and television, is pleased to announce that it is introducing multiple mounts for its acclaimed miniS4/i lenses, enabling more cameras and productions to benefit from the ‘Cooke Look®’. The new mounts, including Canon EF, Nikon F, Sony E and micro 4/3, will be available to view at IBC 2016 on Stand 12.D10 and will ship from October 2016.

A single mount will fit every focal length lens in the miniS4/i series. For existing miniS4/i lenses, users can simply unbolt the PL mount that comes as standard, bolt on the replacement mount, and shim as required. The mounts can be used on any miniS4/i lens, regardless of delivery date. For new miniS4/i deliveries, starting from October 2016, the lenses will be available with the mount of choice from the factory. The mounts are designed for the MIRRORless cameras.

Les Zellan, Chairman and Owner, Cooke Optics, said, “The miniS4/i lenses are steadily gaining popularity for many genres of production, since they have all the coveted attributes of Cooke prime lenses in a smaller, lighter and more affordable form. With the introduction of these interchangeable mounts, we can now bring the Cooke Look to many more cameras and productions, giving even more choice to directors of photography.”

miniS4/i lenses were recently used to shoot the popular UK TV drama Midsomer Murders and the Spanish feature film El Pregon.
Cooke will also show the new 35-140mm Anamorphic/i zoom lens at IBC 2016, alongside a variety of Anamorphic/i, 5/i, S4/i and miniS4/i lenses.

Battle of the Bokeh(mon): Sigma 30 f/1.4 vs Sony 35 f/1.8 vs Mitakon ZY 35 f/0.95

Zeiss 18mm Underwater (SonyAlphaForum)
Macro Lens Buying Guide (Explora).
Illustrated Photo Tips with Daniel Norton: Folding a Large Reflector (Adorama Learning Center)
Sigma 30 mm f1.4 DC DN: prueba de campo (Quesabesde).
Sony A7II review at Roamaroo.
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Hanna Saba: “My new video on comparing the 85mm f1.4 g master vs batis 85mm f1.8 vs fe90mm f2.8 all outstanding lenses for portraits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H0RA14Owg4”

Drasko: “In my latest blogpost i want to show you my personal latest highlight this summer. End of July i visited beautiful, enchanting Hallstatt in Austria and took a lot of images there with my Sony A7II + Sigma 24mm 1.4, Canon 70-200 F4 L & the Sony FE 50 1.8. Have a look at my results!
http://www.dsphotoblog.com/?p=2313”

Tamron officially announced the SP 150-600mm G2 A-mount lens. The good news is that not only does the lens look better but it has also an improived optical design and performance! The new 150-60mm Tamron A-mount lens can be preordered at Bhphoto (Click here).

And we also got two new teleconverters:

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Zeiss just announced the new Lightweight Zoom LWZ.3 21-100mm/T2.9-3.9 T*. it has an interchangeable mount system and can be fitted onS ony E-mount cameras too. Zeiss writes:

Calibrated scales, consistent imaging quality across the entire image field, no vignetting and focus shift, the efficient reduction of reflections through the well-known ZEISS T*® anti reflective coating and the color matching with lenses of the Compact Prime CP.2 family complete the overall package.

The ZEISS LWZ.3 will be available from the end of January 2017 at a retail sales price of EUR 9,900 (incl. 19 % VAT), or USD 9,900 (excl. VAT).

More info at Lenspire.

Sony G Master 70-200mm & Canon 70-200mm f2.8 [Focus Breathing]

Sony FE 50mm review by ThePhoBlographer.
Wideangle lenses for the Sony Alpha 7 series (Phillip Reeve)
Sony Introduces the Cutting-Edge HXR-NX5R Camcorder (Explora).
Die Canon 5D Mark IV kommt (vs Sony) – langweilig oder Game-Changer? (Youtube)
Slow-motion video w/ the Sony a6300 & 85mm G-Master lens (Move To Mirrorless).
Was ich zu einem Outdoor Shooting mitnehme (Batis 85mm video)
A7RII + Voigtlander 40mm 1.4 SC – B&W (SonyAlphaForum).

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Rarely filter news were that exciting :)

SLR Magic just announced the new Image Enhancer Pro. Unlike IR and ND filters the new SLR Magic solution claims to be able to block all unwanted wavelengths and preserve the full “natural” colors. To read exactly how this works check out the article at Newsshooter  writes:

From the quick tests our Newsshooter team did at the show, the filter certainly seems to work well. If you look closely you can see the difference it makes to getting rid of IR pollution and colour shifts. I look forward to a more thorough evaluation in the coming weeks

Newsshooter at BIRTV 2016: SLR Magic Image Enhancer Pro filter for better colour from Dan Chung on Vimeo.

PRESS RELEASE

NEW: SLR Magic Image Enhancer Pro

Hong Kong, China (August 24, 2016)  – SLR Magic introduces the The SLR Magic Image Enhancer Pro (IE Pro), a unique filter suitable for use in both photography and cinematography to help increase image clarity and restore color shift issues introduced by light contamination beyond the visible spectrum to digital sensors. The filter will be officially introduced during the BIRTV 2016 show in Beijing.

The IE Pro is a unique filter that optimizes the light spectrum from 200nm to 1,200mn to ensure light rays passing through the filter are natural to the human eye. The digital imaging sensors’ greater susceptibility to infrared light contamination leads to colorcasts when shooting subjects at instances where the light source has increased levels of infrared light that is not visible to the human eye.

Traditional UV/IR filters are commonly used to address color shift and infrared contamination. However, hot mirror type UV/IR filters sold as 680nm, 700nm, 715nm, or 750nm rating typically cut out the red spectrum along with infrared spectrum to produce blacker blacks but will create an unnatural skin tone reproduction. At times, traditional UV/IR cut filters produce a green or red color shift when certain lenses wider than 35mm are used.  The SLR Magic IE Pro is designed to work with lenses from wide angle to telephoto.

The SLR Magic IE Pro is designed for use on digital cameras for both photography and cinematography. The light spectrum curve with IE Pro shows the optimization of light transmission through unique attenuation of light in the light spectrum leading to improved clarity within the image and more tonal depth.  IE Pro can be positioned in front of your lenses with or without electronic ND filter or in front of your ND filter or variable ND filters.  50-layers of multi-coating is used in the IE Pro to minimize reflections and flare, thus achieving a unique level of optimization across the entire light spectrum as well as attenuate UV and Infrared light to minimize chances of colorcasts and ensure cleaner blacks and truer skin tones.

SLR Magic Image Enhancer Pro will be available from authorised SLR Magic resellers by October, 2016.

Andrew Chan
Product Manager

Bror (video above first posted on SonyAlphaForum): “Im a 16 year old from sweden who makes videos that revolve around freestyle scootering, this photo was filmed with an Sony A7, Nikkor-h 85mm 1.8, Nikkor 20mm f4, Nikkor 35mm 1.4.”

Review: Sony A6000 & Switching From a Canon DSLR to a Sony Mirrorless (Photoraces).
Laowa 12mm f/2.8 Hands On (Albert Dros).
Venus Optics LAOWA STF 105 mm f/2 review at Lenstip.
The Sony a6300 camera: Stunning photos and videos in a tiny package (David Pogue).
Batis 18mm vs Loxia 21mm (Mirrorlesscomparison).
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Jorge: “Just a heads up. Today I started www.50mil.com a site dedicated to standard format lenses. Typically 50mm.  Please stop by and browse around.”

Volodmyr: “Camera freezes, but the pictures make that the focus of which hangs and screens https://youtu.be/Orn6jkQj3zg“