A new (free) issue of the Alpha Universe Magazine has been released. Download on Itunes (Click here) or Google Play (Click here). It also has been optimized for view on the new [shoplink 31752 ebay]iPhone 6+[/shoplink].

Those of you who preordered the new 24-105mm Sigma A-mount lens will certainly be unhappy to read this: SAR reader Keith got this note from Sigma US:

Good afternoon,

Unfortunately, production of the 24-105mm has been halted in all mounts.  It was originally supposed to be released for Sony this month, but now production is on an indefinite hold.  I will save your e-mail address and get back to you when we know more.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Have a great day!

The Dutch Store DeWinkel (found via DL) listed the first price info for the new Tamron SP 15-30mm f/2.8 lens. The US price still has not been unveiled at BHphoto (it’s listed with no preorder option). If the price info from the Dutch Store is real that’s quite cheaper than the 2.089 Euro you have to pay for the 16-35mm Zeiss A-mount lens at Sony Germany.

Following last weeks update on the DNG converter (Mac and Windows) Adobe today released Adobe Lightroom 5.7.1 which adds A7II support. Download here:
LR 5.7.1 for Mac (Click here)
LR 5.7.1 for Windows (Click here)

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USA/Canada A7II links:
Sony Alpha a7II (Body Only) for $1,698 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, SonyStore and Sony Store Canada.
Sony Alpha a7II with FE 28-70mm OSS Lens for $1,998 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, SonyStore.
Sony 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G SSM II Lens for $1,148 at BHphoto.

EU A7II links:
Sony Alpha a7II (Body Only) for 1.799 Euro at Sony Germany, Sony UK, Jessops UK, Sony France, Sony Italy, Sony Spain, Sony Austria, Sony Switzerland, Sony Netherland, Sony Belgium, Sony Portugal, Sony Sweden, Sony Finland, Sony Norway.
Sony Alpha a7II with FE 28-70mm OSS Lens for 2.099 Euro at Amazon Germany, Wex UK, Jessops UK, Verkkokauppa.

Asian/Australia A7II link:
Sony A7II at Sony Store Australia, Digitalrev and Amazon Japan.

FotoHansKeuzekamp sent me theses pictures to show the A7II is now shipping in Europe too. I do hope you all will get your preorders before Christmas. According to Sony Stores if you order the camera now you will get it after Christmas only. There is also a new hands-on by SonyAlphaLab and Iridient Developer 3 beta 4 now has support for the Sony A7 II.

Note: German readers have a triple E-mount lens deal on the 16-70mm (Click here), 18-105mm (Click here) and 18-200mm (Click here) lens.

EU A7II links:
Sony Alpha a7II (Body Only) for 1.799 Euro at Sony Germany, Sony UK, Jessops UK, Sony France, Sony Italy, Sony Spain, Sony Austria, Sony Switzerland, Sony Netherland, Sony Belgium, Sony Portugal, Sony Sweden, Sony Finland, Sony Norway.
Sony Alpha a7II with FE 28-70mm OSS Lens for 2.099 Euro at Amazon Germany, Wex UK, Jessops UK, Verkkokauppa.

USA/Canada A7II links:
Sony Alpha a7II (Body Only) for $1,698 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, SonyStore and Sony Store Canada.
Sony Alpha a7II with FE 28-70mm OSS Lens for $1,998 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, SonyStore.
Sony 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G SSM II Lens for $1,148 at BHphoto.

Sony PXW-FS7 Unboxing / Review / Test from 12FPS on Vimeo.

There is an E-mount camera we don’t talk a lot about here on SAR. But it’s a hell of a great camera: The 4K E-mount FS7 camcorder. There is a good news to report: Dan Chung from Newsshooter got word from Sony that they will fix the FS7 slow aperture response. Hope that fast way to fix stuff will be streamlined to all current Alpha cameras :)
The camcorder is also in Stock for the first time in US via Amazon third party resellers (Click here).

Camcorder preorders:
Sony PXW-FS7 body only at BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and Amazon (Click here).
Sony PXW-FS7 with 28-135mm lens at BHphoto (Click here).
Sony VCT-FS7 Lightweight Rod Support System for PXW-FS7 at BHphoto (Click here).
28-135mm at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
28-135mm powerzoom in Europe at Sony DE, UK, ES, IT, FR, CH, AT, NL, BE, FI, SE, NO, PT.
Sony 128GB XQD Memory Card G Series 400MB/s at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sony 64GB XQD Memory Card G Series 400MB/s at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sony 32GB XQD Memory Card G Series 400MB/s at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).

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Shot with my Sony A7 with Zeiss 55mm 1.8. This is my grandmother holding a pair of baby booties after I told her that me and my wife are having a baby…her first great grandchild.

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