First image of the new Primagon 24 f/2.8 E-mount lens

This is the first image of the new $4,399 Primagon 24 f/2.8 FF E-mount lens. Dr. Stefan Immes from Meyer Optik says about this lens:

“For this lens, we are concentrating on creating an extremely high resolution. As a result, we have designed the lens with a slightly smaller initial aperture than is typical for this lens class. With this design, we are able to achieve almost the same sharpness over the entire aperture range. This is something special and opens up many possibilities for design.
The pictures promise to be almost three-dimensional in the way the subject will pop out from the blurred background. We are very excited, as our test photographers interpret the possibilities of our lens in the test shots. This is often the most exciting part in lens development and part of our incentive to create new products.”

The lens will go on Kickstarter sometimes later this year. And unlike the other Meyer Optik E-mount lenses the Primagon is completely redesigned from scratch and not an adaptation of older exisiting lenses.

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Tanveer:A timelapse created with A7 andTamron 15-30 f2.8 of the night sky. We are made of STARS https://youtu.be/l54vPtF_7yI?t=12s

Competition news: Nikon announced the D7500. Ricoh-Pentax camera business shrinking?

We got two news from the competition:

1) Nikon today announced the D7500 (specs here on Amazon). It has the same D500 20 megapixel Sony sensor. This is basically a D7200 upgraded with the new D500 features. A bit surprising is that Nikon did get rid of the dual SD slot from the D7200 (the D7500 has one slot only). And the battery life is 15% shorter.

2) Ricoh-Pentax seems to be in trouble with their camera business (as so many do). They had to revise down the profit forecast and also announced that they will reduce their camera business to focus on High Value cameras only. Full story at Mirrorlessrumors.

Sony Commercializes the Industry’s First High-Sensitivity CMOS Image Sensor for Automotive Cameras

How life changes everything: The big future market for Sony sensors is the Automotive Industry. We are going to see a lot of tech’s first applied on such cameras that may trickle down to the very small digital camera business.

And today Sony announced it’s First*1 High-Sensitivity CMOS Image Sensor for Automotive Cameras, Delivering Simultaneous LED Flicker Mitigation and High-Quality HDR Shooting. You can read the full specs here: https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201704/17-034E/index.html

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