Samyang/Rokinon just announced the new XEEN 20mm T/1.9 Cine Lens. It’s coming as E-mount version too:

Finally, XEEN 20mm is released!
Discover XEEN 20mm T1.9 to create NEW experiences.

XEEN 20mm T1.9 brings the range of XEEN cinema lenses to eight and compliments the existing lenses: 14mm, 16mm, 24mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm and 135mm.

The following is a guest post from Raiatea Arcuri:

I Painted My Sony A6000 Pink

I decided to paint my Sony A6000 pink for fun. Before you pick up the pitchforks, this A6000 is partially broken. Both camera dials do not work and it isn’t able to read the electronic connections on e-mount lenses. I can pretty much only use it with a manual lens in aperture priority. This was caused from numerous wave splashed shooting seascape photos.

The first thing I did was remove the grips. I would have disassembled the camera, but some of the screw heads are rusted out due to salt water corrosion.

Next I masked off some of the parts with masking tape.

I mounted my camera to a light stand and painted it with a can of pink spray paint.

Finished painting and put the grips back on.

This will be a fun camera to shoot with in public!

Two Wheeled Nomad
Bubbly jubbly.
This frozen 20 square mile lake seriously twisted my melon: it’s full of trapped methane bubbles (not Jason’s), suspended within a foot of ice, beneath which lies crystal clear waters about 65 feet deep and big trout that come cruising to the ice ceiling, attracted by our illumination. Quite surreal–well worth freezing our maracas off for.
Pictures taken at Abraham Lake on North Saskatchewan River in Clearwater County, western Alberta, Canada by Jason Spafford

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The rambling video autofocus mega-test (Philip Bloom)

Techart adapter review by Albert Dros.
CES 2017: Top 5 Weird Gadgets (Explora).
Top Instagram Photographers Worth Following in 2017 (Adorama Learning Center)
Does adding protective glass or Polarized filter causes loss in Picture Quality? (SonyAlphaForum).
Real World Review of the SP 150-600mm G2 Lens from Tamron (Contrastly).
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Tony: “New and latest information/details of our complete range of NOVO products: https://www.novo-photo.com/“

Sony published their 2016Q3 financial report (PDF file here). There is really not much news to report here. Operating income for the whole company and for the specific imaging business went down mainly because of unfavorable foreign exchange rates. But the forecast has been revised upward because they expect a weak YEN currency.

Sony Alpha a6500 Product Overview

Sony 50mm FE macro review at ThePhoBlographer.
FE 70-200mm f/4 G OSS Lens ALTERNATIVE? (SonyAphaForum).
50 Tips from 50 Years Behind a Camera (Explora).
Politics & 40,000 Frames: A Case Study in Digital Photo Storage (Adorama Learning Center)
How to Create Tilt-Shift / Miniature World Time-lapses (Rob & Jonas’ Filmmaking Tips).
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Meike 6.5mm Circular Fisheye for Sony e mount Unboxing and First impressions

This 60 Cent Ring Makes Your Camera Lens Harder to Steal (PetaPixel).
IFTLE on Sony, Tessera, SMIC News (Image Sensor World)
Understanding ISO (Explora).
5 Top Photo Editing Apps for Mobile Devices (Adorama Learning Center)
How Did Sony Start? (SonyAphaForum)
SmugMug’s Valentine’s Day promo is now live at https://www.smugmug.com/promo/valentines-day.

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Stepan: “For two decades I was using camcorders as my primary tool and cameras as secondary. Now I switched to Sony A6500 to do it all for me: https://youtu.be/0Fuq2-JMEXo”

Roman: “I shot the following video a while ago using the Sony PXW-FS5 and the wonderful Tokina AT-X Pro AF 28-70 f/2.6 (Version 1). https://vimeo.com/195638933“