Mark Galer
FE 85 F1.4 G Master @ f/1.6 (1/3 Stop Down)
I feel that f/1.6 is the sweet spot for this lens – fabulous Bokeh and Tack Sharp
Captured with the A7RII
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The new Sigma 30mm lens will ship on March 17 for $399 according to Calumetphoto Germany (preorder here). You can also preorder the lens at WexUK for £299.

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Full preorder links at BHphoto, Adorama, WexUK and Calumet Germany.

Here are two more CP+ news:

1) Kenko announced a new 10mm and 16mm Extension Tubes Set for Sony E-mount (Source: Instagram)

2) Genus is showing that combined EOS-mount to E-mount adapter and electronic ND filter that uses liquid crystals to change the effective ND from between three to ‘between eight and ten’ stops. Video and info via Newsshooter:

Newsshooter at BVE 2016: Genus END from Dan Chung on Vimeo.

3) Godox announced the Sony compatible version of their X1S (trigger system) and TT685 speedlight (Source: Flashhavoc).

Here are the first pictures form the CP+ show in Japan. And we can finally see some more pictures of those new Voigtlander FE lenses. Above you see the new 10mm lens. Below all three new lenses (Source: DC.watch)

And here are the Sony and Tamron booth pictures:
Sony booth pictures from DC.watch.
Hands-on with Tamron’s new SP prime lenses (Dpreview).
Tamron booth pics from DC.watch.

Cosina Japan finally released the official price info (in Yen only) and shipment dates of the new FE lenses:

1. 15mm f/4.5 will be released in April and cost 115,000 YEN (at current conversion this corresponds to $1,000)
2. 10mm f/5.6 will be released in May and cost 155,000 YEN (at current conversion this corresponds to $1,380)
3. 12mm f/5.6 will be released in August (price not revealed yet)

Actual selling prices will tend to be below the list prices given in the press releases. Full lens spec sheets can be found at voigtlaender.com/e-mount.html. Newsshooter posted thw world’s first video shot on the 10mm E-mount lens:

At CP+ in Japan, Voigtlander have shown the World’s widest rectilinear full frame lens, the Heliar Hyper Wide 10mm F5.6 Aspherical. The lens is available in Sony E-mount and features CPU integration that allows manual focus assist, focus distance information, lens correction data and support for five-axis image stabilisation to be passed through to the camera

Newsshooter at CP+ 2016: Voigtlander announce the World’s first rectilinear 10mm F5.6 lens for full frame from Dan Chung on Vimeo.

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found via Digicameinfo.

German photo market: DSLR sales in RED. Mirrorless sales in Grey (Unit sold in tausend).

The German site Heise.de reports that Sony confirmed that in November and December they sold more Full Frame cameras than  both Nikon and Canon. Sony sold 34% of all FF cameras and surpassed Nikon and Canon for the first time.

Recently an interesting and extremely detailed analysis of the German market has been posted on MirrorlessRumors. In very short it shows that:
– The DSLR market is shrinking
– Lens sales are dropping too
– Mirrorless system camera market is slowly growing
– Action camera market is booming

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Thanks Anton for sharing the Heise news!

We got a new competition in the mirrorless system world. Sigma just announced their first two mirrorless camera: The SD Quattro with  “39 megapixel RGB equivalent” Foveon APS-C sensor and the SD Quattro H with  “51 megapixel RGB equivalent” Foveon APS-H sensor. Both cameras come with the standard Sigma SA mount which is the same mount used by their DSLR cameras. Full Sigma Quattro camera news coverage and specs at Mirrorlessrumors.

And our Sibuzaru shows us what shouls have been the real mount of those cameras…E-mount! That would have been nice!