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).

New A7rIII video reviews:

Preorders:
Sony A7rIII at Amazon, Bhphoto, Adorama, BuyDig, FocusCamera, Calumet DE, Wex UK. Photo Porst Neuwied. Sony Netherland. Sony Australia. Sony Japan.
Sony 24-105mm at Amazon, Bhphoto, Adorama, BuyDig, FocusCamera, Amazon DE, Calumet DE, Wex UK.

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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.

Preorders:
Sony A7rIII at Amazon, Bhphoto, Adorama, BuyDig, FocusCamera, Calumet DE, Wex UK. Photo Porst Neuwied. Sony Netherland. Sony Australia. Sony Japan.
Sony 24-105mm at Amazon, Bhphoto, Adorama, BuyDig, FocusCamera, Amazon DE, Calumet DE, Wex UK.

Join the A7rIII facebook group to discuss the camera features and tests!

Fantasea FA6500 Underwater Housing Review

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“

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Sony released the new Imaging Edge software. Those are the features of the new software:

• Viewer:
  • Browsing and searching images
  • Filtering images by ratings

• Edit:
  • Adjusting the brightness and color of images
  • Applying Creative Styles to images
  • Cropping images
  • Straightening crooked images
  • Converting adjusted images into the JPEG or TIFF formats

• Remote:
  • Shooting images according to settings on the computer when the camera is connected to the computer via USB. You can display the shooting screen on the computer in Live View, and shoot images seamlessly while adjusting the shooting settings.
  • Shooting with a higher resolution by combining four images shot with the image sensor shifted one pixel at a time (Pixel Shift Multi Shooting).

Planar 80mm F/2.8 V lens mounted on Sony

Rayqual announced the new Hasselblad V to Sony E-mount adapter. It’s priced at 27.930 Yen (around $250).

We will might find this adapter soon on [shoplink 9029 ebay]eBay (Click here to see the current Rayqual adpaters on eBay)[/shoplink].