Much earlier than expected the first batch of Sony A7s shipped tonight via BHphoto. I haven’t got any info about Europe and Asia yet. These are two of the mails I received from SAR readers:

UPDATE: BH released that note:

B&H Photo apologizes for inadvertently releasing a small quantity of Sony A7s preorders due to a transitory error that also made this item available on our site for a brief time. We are sorry for any confusion as to our intentions with regards to provision of the A7 and stand by our initial declaration of a July 1st ship date for inventory claimed via pre-order and in stock at that time.

And Henrick sent me this: “This is a test video I shot with the a7s. It appears to indicate the camera processes video at 2.7K internally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1x3jPqntmM”

Sony A7s preorder in USA/CA at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Sony USA, Sony Canada.
Sony A7s EU pages: Sony DE, UK, ES, FR, IT, NL, BE, AT, CH, SE, NO, FI, PL. And Wex UK.

Sony Cyber-shot DSC- RX100M3 vs Alpha A6000

Carl Zeiss 16-70mm f/4 Vario-Tessar T* ZA OSS review by Admiringlight.
Full review of the Sony PZ 18-105mm f/4 G OSS is up on Admiring Light.
Quick Test: Sony A7s and the Voigtlander 15 Heliar (Steve Huff).
Sony A77II shooting report at Yodobashi.
Sony Action Cams are ready to stream live internet video (Engadget).
Metabones SpeedBooster: 9.8mm f/2 Ultra Wide on Sony A6000 (Diglloyd).
Das VNEX Fokussystem für Vergrößerungsobjektive (SystemKameraForum).
Cambo ACTUS View Camera (Captureintegration).

Thomas: “I’m a daily reader of your site and it’s a great site for news and inspiring stuff. I thought you might find this to be interesting for you readers: We shot 4 promo-videos with the SONY NEX 7 for our startup company COSYSPEED. COSYSPEED has a unique bag system for mirrorless cameras, the CAMSLINGER bag (which fits perfectly to the SONY NEX/Alpha 7 and 3/5/6000). When we were planning our first Promo-Video for the CAMSLINGERs back in August 2013, it was a basic requirement that our videos have to be shot with a mirrorless camera. Jan, director, and Birgit, camerawoman, first were absolute against. “You can`t do that with such a tiny thing” they said. But I pushed my idea and bought a NEX 7 and some lenses. And then we shot the first video about a shootout between a mirrorless guy and a DSLR guy – and you know what? They loved the NEX 7! Inbetween we made 3 more videos all with the NEX 7 and the results are very nice. Recently we bought the a6000 for our future videos and Birgit, the skeptic camarawoman, owns now the NEX 7 we were using before :-) Here are links to the Videos:
The Mirrorless Hero – Always ready for the next photo (it’s just new)
The Mirrorless Hero – Shootout with the past (it’s from August 2012)
A Photoblogger’s Philosophy – Chris Gampat in Berlin
A Photoblogger’s Philosophy – Thomas Leuthard in Frankfurt
Here is a “Making of“, of our first video.
And this is a link to our website www.cosyspeed.com and Shops in Germany (Enjoyyourcamera), USA (B&H), France (MMF-Pro) and the international shop on our website.”

Skyler announced a new Handgrip for the R10 (Hands-on at DC.fever).

Voigtlander announced two Inner claw lens adapter (Nikon S and Contax mount) you can attach on the VM-E close focus adapter for Full Frame E-mount (Source: DC.watch).

Romain Hennequin‎
Here is a picture I took in Paris near Notre-Dame with my sony Nex 6 and an old Industar 69 lens (28mm). ISO100, 3s, about f7.

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2) Like and comment the pictures from other readers here: facebook.com/sonyalpharumors/photos.
3) A selection of most liked pictures by the community and by me SAR admin will be posted weekly on SAR.

Adobe released the new CameraRaw 8.5 which now supports the three new Sony cameras (A7s, RX100m3 and A77II). There are also two new lens profiles for the Sigma 30mm F1.4 DC HSM (A-mount) and Sony Alpha 28-75mm F2.8 SAM. Here are the links and a note on a known RX100M3 bug:

Camera Raw 8.5 and DNG Converter 8.5
Mac – http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5793
Windows – http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5794

Lightroom 5.5:
Mac – http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5791
Win – http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5792

Known Bug

• Customers using the Sony RX100 M3 and capturing images at ISO 125 may find the default rendering in ACR and Lightroom too dark. This is a known issue and we are working to improve this in a future update.

Sony is one of the big sponsor at the Football World Cup in Brazil. Even photographer are “forced” to wear Sony 4K advertising vests. But as you can see from the 360 degree pics posted at Visualise.com not a single of them shoots with a Sony. It’s all about Canon (and few Nikon). Let’s hope Sony will mae a real Alpha Full Frame Sports camera that will convince some of them to switch over to Sony!

Thanks Marald for finding and sharing the pics!

Adobe launched a series of new products and updates. Here is the list:

1) And Update of CC with new Focus masks feature (adobe.com/products/photoshop.html)
2) Photoshop Mix for iPad (itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-photoshop-mix-creative/id885271158).
3) Lightroom and Photoshop CC for $9,99 monthly sub (creative.adobe.com/plans/offer/photoshop+lightroom).
4) And Lightroom mobile. (adobe.com/products/lightroom-mobile.html)

Nothing really groundbreaking. Still hope they will get rid of that monthly subscription fee. It’s the one big thing that annoys me most :(