Owners of the RX1RII with the serial number between “6310198” and “6311127” will gte a free repair to fix the light leak issue. This is the official info via Sony Support:

Thank you for being a loyal Sony customer. We work hard to ensure your experience with our products and services exceeds your expectations.
Unfortunately we have found that in rare bright conditions, some of our DSC-RX1RM2 cameras may produce image files with unwanted light.
If you experience this problem and your camera falls within the serial range listed below, please contact us at 1-239-245-6360 for a free inspection and service. Please note this free inspection is available until March 31, 2018. If your serial number does not fall within this range, we can assure you that your camera will not present the symptom described above.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience you may experience.

It’s also good to hear that our source was right on the issue mention. Now dear source let’s hope your A6100 rumor becomes true soon too ;)

Jona (video on top): “I am a young 19 Years old Filmmaker from South Tyrol (Italy). I shot a lot of videos with my Dji Phantom 3 Professional over the last year and now I released my new video with all the amazing of the Dolomites. It is so difficult to share the videos, It would be so amazing if you help me sharing it !”

Sony DSC-RX10 Mark II tested at Photoreview.
Best Wireless Microphone Solution for A7RII? (SonyAlphaForum).

TheSpaniard: “While this isn’t strictly Sony, it is a story from our favourite lens manufacturer for our Somy cameras, Carl Zeiss. They’ve made a Smart glasses, ala Google Glass.
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/zeiss-smart-glasses/”

Immodoc: “Hi, the world’s first comparison of version 1 and version 3 of the VOIGTLÄNDER Heliar 4,5/15 on the SONY A7RII in difficult lighting conditions:
http://www.dslr-forum.de/showthread.php?p=13711226#post13711226”

Roderick: “Hi there, here is something I shot during my holiday last year in Costa da Caparica(Portugal) in between surfing, using A7s and mainly Noct Nikkor 58mm F/1.2 and 24mm AF-S F/1.4, and a 100mm AIS Nikkor E with a 2x extender for the kite surf shots. It was shot pretty much run and gun, but the surf shots were done using a monopod for stability. Mainly 1080p24 and 720p120 for the surf shots. https://vimeo.com/137879865“

Sony Japan issued an official press text to confirm that the RX1RII shipment will resume on February 19!
It’s also good to know that our source gave use that information in advance yesterday. And for you it will be even more exciting to hear that the same source confirmed the A6100 is coming ;)

RX1RII store search link: [shopcountry 44135]

The reason for the delay has not been mentioned by Sony but we can assume that the source who gave us the press information yesterday shared also the correct cause of the delay:

Apparently issue with new rx1 camera was caused by light leak when shooting under harsh direct light. Light was getting inside the camera only with evf up. Cameras that were sold with that issue will be replaced, new shipment of cameras doesn’t have that problem anymore. There should be official announcement tomorrow, dealers were already asked to trace back customers that bought rx1rm2
Good news is that they traced the problem themselves and didn’t follow Nikon “lets hope that no one will find out” path ?

Filming NYC with Samyang Cine lenses – 21mm and 50mm

Zeiss Distagon 2.8/28 on Sony a7 (Philip Reeve)
Zugspitze, Germany – First trip with A7II + Sony Zeiss 35mm f1.4 (SonyAlphaForum).
New SONY FS5 Promo Video shot with Libec Gear on Youtube.
Beatiful Venice shot on SonyAlphaForum.
21mm Loxia test at Kasayapa.

Firoz Ahmad‎: “https://vimeo.com/149952074 “Morning in Varanasi”, shot completely handheld with sony a7s in Slog2 picture profile with a prime lens FE 55mm Carl Zeiss Sonnar and color graded in Adobe after effect CC and Magic Bullet Suite.”

Bernie Aniciete: “https://youtu.be/_wMtVvyxK3s. Lyrics NSFW. Filmed in San Francisco with A7S and DJI Phantom 3 Pro.”

Baron: “Hi Andrea, will you be interested in our new short film featuring a Red Bull athlete shot with Sony RX10 II? Watch Red Bull athlete Abudi Alsagoff as he parkours in slow motion across the city. Filmed with Sony’s new RX10 Mk II at 250 frames per second in full HD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48dpQD4p5_0“

Sony CES 2016 Behind the Scenes

10 Best Features of the Sony A7R II and A7 II (David Busch)
28mm f2 conversion lenses. Which would you choose? (SonyAlphaForum).
Best Adapter for Tamron SP 150-600? (SonyAlphaForum).
Sony make official statement on ‘perceived’ FS5 image quality issues (Newshhooter).

Federico: “In the spring I have organized a photo shoot with some friends: the theme was the tradition of our land, the Po Valley in the North-West of Italy and the vast ricefields near Vercelli. The rice culture is present in our countryside for nearly a thousand years, you can imagine how deep and how strong this has shaped the land and the people. In the mid-eighteenth century, the farms became small villages, where dozens of families lived. In the spring the weeders arrived: women working in the sweltering heat of the ricefields.
Since 2004 Mr. Mario Donato has created a museum of rural culture and tradition in the farm “Colombara”: the workshops of the blacksmith and the saddler, the apartments of the farmers, the school, the old stables, the dormitory of weeders that we used as a set. As models we involved the local company of actors “The Camalli” who were dressed and made up in the style of the Po Valley countriside in the early twentieth century.
All photos were taken with my new Sony A7II and a good old Contax Zeiss 50mm f1.7.
You can see the photos on my dedicated 500px gallery https://500px.com/federanghino/galleries/italian-rice-fields-old-lifestyle
The gallery is “trending” on 500px https://500px.com/galleries?show=trending“

Cameraquest is taking $100 deposit for those of you who want to preorder the new Voigtlander FE lenses.

“In October 2015, Voigtlander announced their new Sony E-Mount Lens line including the Hyper-Wide 10mm f/5.6 – the widest production full frame lens ever!  Along side the Hyper-Wide 10mm f/5.6, Voigtlander is bringing the updated versions of the 12mm f/5.6 and the popular 15mm f/4.5 III to the Sony E-mount line.    Voigtlander is also bringing both the new 10mm f/5.6 and updated 12mm f/5.6 to their Leica M-mount Line.”

and

“We estimate delivery in April.”

via MirrorlessRumors.com. Thanks James!

UPDATE: Busted! The info is not correct and a trusted source gave us the 100% correct reasonf or the delay here: http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sony-fixed-the-rx1rii-issue-official-press-text-to-be-released-soon-maybe-tomorrow/

Just for fun this is the WRONG information I got:

Currently Sony has low yield production output for the RX1RII. It is a specialty product that in this 2nd generation has gotten more interest than Sony originally predicted. There is a small team of specialized engineers and assemblers that put these cameras together, mostly by hand for most of the stages. The two most critical parts of this camera, are obviously the sensor and the lens. I want to confirm with you, that the hot on the production of this camera in the recent weeks has been do to an unusually large amount of negative feedback regarding not uniform focus or sharpness issues on the far corners of the image area. No just a few units have been proven to be the fault,because of the high cost of this camera and the reputation that Sony puts behind it, sony has decided to reengineer the way the assembly is done between the key two components, the sensor and the lens. This is the most critical part of the manufacturing and because of the increased resolution of the new sensor compared to the previous version and a slightly different amount on the lens that attaches to the body of the camera, in some instances it has been detected that not uniform assembly could be properly achieved among all samples being produced. The issue has been resolved, and Sony will guaranteed the elimination of this problem. Furthermore, all current cameras that are affected by sharpness issues due to the state of problem, have priority at all Sony repair and support centers, for immediate replacement with a new camera, or a realignment of the key components of the existing unit. I would like to confirm with you that full production capabilities and shipment of the revised camera assembly will begin shipping within less than 3 weeks from now. To date less than a hundred samples of this camera, have been confirmed by Sony to be default for the reason for which the production was halted. And though this is a very low number, it was large enough for Sony to take the decision to correct the problem at a very early stage of the production run and not later. Also, I would like to inform you, that this specific camera will always have a higher image quality output then the other cameras featuring the same sensor like the a7RII, because Sony specifically picks up after thorough testing of each sensor sample, the best units of each production run. This means that from all the sensors that’s Sony produces and tests before they are integrated in the camera bodies, the ones we better yields and the highest performance, will go into the RX1RII. Though the differences are extremely small and variations between the sensors are really minimal, this is the reason why consistent benchmarking the rx1r will always most likely top the a7R2. yes, the senses are the same, but in fact they are not the same. The best components that Sony produces will always go into the RX1RII.

Thanks to the source for sharing this! And I will post the “second part” of your message soon too ;)