You can now preorder the new 16mm f/1.4 E-mount lens at Amazon DE and Wex UK. And the shipment start of this lens got a 1 week delay. BHphoto says the Sigma will be in Stock on December 1.
Time.com named the top 10 gadgets of the year. And the A7rIII has the honour to be in this list:
With notable improvements over its predecessor and a cheaper price than Sony’s A9 Alpha, the recently unveiled Sony Alpha A7R III stands to be one of the best mirrorless cameras ever made. It can shoot at twice the resolution of the A9 and has an autofocus that’s twice as fast as the A7R II, although it’s worth remembering that the A9 offers faster burst shooting. But the lower price and heightened performance are likely more than enough to impress pro and novice photographers alike.
And Chris&Jordan from TheCamerastoreTV just posted his A7rIII test:
I keep receiving links to new A7rIII tests. Here is the latest roundup:
Jim Kasson wrote a new Star Eating post. It’s clear the new A7rIII has the same issues as the A7rII (SAR note: Sony fix this!!!). Dpreview writes about this:
while a lot of stars still survive ‘Star Eater’, the a7R III continues the trend of noise reduction that dims or erases small stars at exposure longer than 3.2s. There’s some sense in this: Sony is ostensibly using this algorithm to avoid hot pixels that might otherwise riddle long exposures. But some nightscape and astro- photographers wish to be given a choice as to whether or not this form of noise reduction is applied. Alternatively, the noise reduction could (reversibly) be applied in post.
20 secret features that will make you upgrade from A7rII (or A9!) (Marc Alhadeff).
Sony A7r III setup guide with tips and tricks (Wim Arys).
Starting from today you can download the new Luminar 2018 software at Macphun.com. If you missed the preorder deal you can use our coupon code “SAR” to save $10 at checkout on Macphun.com.
One more thing:
This special Photographer’s projects Collection contains the most popular products of the FRANZIS projects software series: sharpening, denoising, HDR and retouching – now only available for selected newsletter subscriber SAR readers, limited to 300 download packages. Get this $276 value package for $29.00 only if you preorder through this link (Click here). Full info about the single packages can be read here: projects-software.com
Sony Japan issues a statement to aplogize for delivery delays on the new Sony A7rIII. They say the real preorder numbers weremuch higher than estimated. They also issues a second statement saying there is a shipment delay on the A5100 double lens kit.
ZEISS Unveils High-Speed DSLR Lens: ZEISS Milvus 1.4/25 (Zeiss.com).
Camera Hack: Make A Mirrorless Camera Into A Digital View Camera (Alphauniverse).
canberra floriade 2017 (SonyAlphaForum).
Winston: “I thought you may be interested in my relaunched blog – wmlsays.wordpress.com (my winstonllamas.com domain redirects to that URL). I am an amateur who enjoys photography as a hobby. I will normally post pictures that I take along with writeups. No equipment review, just pictures and short about the pictures. I don’t discuss techniques, but you may find some of my ruminations useful. Just photography from an amateur’s point of view.”
David: “I would love it if you would share a video I made showing how amazing the Sony A9 skin colours are against the canon 5D mark 1V https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63-GMMTOmJ4“
Anonymous: “OCT 18, 2017 — Image & Nature, a french magasine about nature photography just published 4 pages about the Star Eater issue. Thierry Legault, Ian Norman and Frédéric Michaud were interviewed by Marie-Émilie Colle. Incredibly, Sony did not answered the questions of the journalist… https://www.image-nature.com/nouveau_numero.html“