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Did you know we had an Alpha 9 may years ago? This is what ChemicalCameras writes about the [shoplink 53982 ebay]Minolta Alpha 9 Maxxum camera (here on eBay)[/shoplink]:

The Minolta Alpha 9 (a.k.a. Maxxum 9 or Dynax 9) is arguably the finest professional grade 35mm SLR camera ever made. It just oozes with ruggedness and quality. It is one of those cameras that once you pick it up you don’t want to put it down. It was released in 1998 with a feature set that left most of the competitors far behind. It was the last professional grade camera made by Minolta.

Great camera! And honestly, I would have loved Sony to make the body a bit bigger and more “Minolta” alike. Not just because of a matter of personal taste. But I think a bigger body would have served well for many different reasons (improved ergonomic, bigger battery, XQD card, heating control…). Maybe the future A9II will get a different design…

And we also have a new full review of the “new” Sony A9 by Imaging Resource:

Pros
New sensor offers incredible performance; Excellent image quality at low & high ISOs; Very good dynamic range; Phenomenal 20fps burst speed & deep buffer; Very good battery life for a mirrorless; 4K video; Dual card slots.
Cons
Slow buffer clearing; Only one UHS-II card slot; Touchscreen underutilized; No lossless RAW compression option; No 4K/60p option.

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Minolta Maxxum A9 camera auctions on [shoplink 53982 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Sony A9 at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon, BestBuy. FocusCamera. Calumet.de. Park UK. Wex UK. Jessops.

Just recently Mr. Goto Teng from Nikon said that mirrorless ain’t really for Professionals yet. So let’s see some of these Sony amateurs at work:

Sony Artisan of Imagery Chris Burkard shot this breathtaking documentary about surfing on the Arctic. On Adventurejournal you can see what gear he is using to create his work.

Sony 100-400mm F4 Lens First Look

HDR Photography w/ HDR Efex Pro II & Lightroom Using Sony A99 II Image Files (SonyAlphaLab).
65/2 Apo-Lanthar 1:2 field flatness (Jim Kasson).
Laowa 15mm macro review by Mark Alhadeff.
Top Memory Cards for Photo and Video Recording (Explora).
Falcon Eyes Sophiez SO-108TDX Led Lights (Personal View).

Oliver: “Ich habe mit der Sony A7sII und der Sony A6300 einen Film über einen Extreme Full Distance Triathlon gemacht. Würde mich freuen, wenn Du den Link bei den Sony Tidbits integrierst…http://bit.ly/2hSsMoW“

Sony 12-24mm F4 G Series Lens Review | John Sison

The Old Prison Shot with Sony A6500 at 4K (Jeff Remas).
3 Photographers Test-Drive the Lensbaby Velvet 85mm f/1.8 (Explora).
The Gear Behind Top Gear – with director Avi Cohen (Cinema5D).
Sony RX10 Mark IV review-so-far (CameraLabs).
Viltrox 35mm f2 review by Jake Glauninger.

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Just recently Mr. Goto Teng from Nikon said that mirrorless ain’t really for Professionals yet. So let’s see some of these Sony amateurs at work:

Chelsea Northrup had the pleasure to meet National Geographic Ira Block. In this video he gives some advice on how to take pictures. And as a side note…he uses Sony gear.

The Swedish store Scandinavianphoto did mark the Sony RX1rII as “discontinued”. Now it’s unclear if this means that the store simply decided in solo to not sell this camera anymore or if Sony officially doesn’t ship them this camera anymore. Other stores like Amazon and BH still show this camera regularly in Stock.

But for sure the Sony RX1rII is due for a replacement. And because I am a dreamer: A RX medium format camera would be fine for me :)

UPDATE: Our reader Matthias said:

“Out of the 10 stores/chains in Sweden that used to sell the RX1rii. Zero have it in stock.”

Sony FE 12-24 F/4 G Lens Review

Mobile1 (translation here) tested all 24-70mm f/2.8 lenses from Sigma, Canon, Nikon and Sony.
Fantasea Releases New Housing for the Sony a6000 Entry-Level Mirrorless (Divephotoguide).
100-400mm GM review at Thephoblographer.
Auto-Focusing Toy Lenses – Holga and Diana Lenses on the PRONTO Auto-Focus Adapter (Fotodiox).
What’s In My Bag: Keeping Light With The ‘Bear’ Necessities (Alphauniverse).
The Feiyu a2000 Gimbal: Improved Over its Predecessor (Explora).

Harv: “I made a video about how to never get green tint in your Sony footage again https://youtu.be/-s4jIixacE8 enjoy!”

Dustin: “We recently saw that you post some videos of sony creators and figured that I would send you our recent travel film that was shot completely on a sony rx100v with a zhiyun crane m and some DJI Mavic Pro clips: https://vimeo.com/231220305“

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