Image courtesy: Sony via Spectrum.
The image of this Sony curved sensor created quite a buzz but some people argued that this tech may not coming any time soon. Well this is wrong. Sony already made a first mass production run and realized 100 sensors. Sony device manager Itonaga said it clearly: “We are ready“.
And as we shared before. The first lens coming along this sensor will be the 35mm f/1.8 Zeiss (Source SAR):
Mike Van Schoonderwalt
Central Station Rotterdam A77 M2, ISO 100, 20 mm, F10, 1/160
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DEO Contax G – Sony E AF adapter Mk III a6000 AF test
Imaging Resource posts RX100 III Gallery.
Canon FD 4/300 L reviewed on the A7 at Phillipreeve.
DCfever posted an early A7s image test.
Sony RX100 III sample gallery images: Small in the pocket, Big on the trail (Imaging Resource).
A7s test at DC.Fever.
A6000 is the best mirrorless camera for SonyAlphaLab.
Maarten: “Here’s my video review of the A6000 with the SEL1670Z and the Zeiss Touit 12mm. Lots of great photos from Ottawa’s Tulip Festival and detailed visual demos of features. http://youtu.be/hkBnze9wUQU”
Massimiliano: “it’s my pleasure to invite you to my upcoming exhibition at Gallery Imagineo in Paris where I’ll be showcasing Oculus Asini in a collective show named “S”. More info here: http://massimocristaldi.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d0a83849f8161130788a06474&id=f54cda2255&e=50aba2f4c4“
Tomer: “I would like to share with you the best two weeks of my life. It was a combination of of a great location (NY), great camera and equipment and a seven month pregnant amazing wife. For years I have been using Sony cameras and a year ago I’ve decided to “switch camps” and go with Nikon’s DSLR. Short while after I moved to Nikon, the passion of spontaneously taking the camera and take photos simply faded, it was not as fun as it used to and I really felt bad about that. After a year of long and hard work, I have decided to do a vacation together with my wife in NY. I have visited all over Europe but never been to the states. I timed the trip to the launch of SONY A7 and sold my Nikon camera along with all other equipment, wanted to do a fresh start, who knows, maybe the passion will come back with the A7. This meant that I flew to NY without a camera, something I would never do because taking photos is one of the most important parts of my every day life. I remember the fear I had of being in NY, the place I always wanted to explore without a camera or worse, being with a camera and equipment I have no idea on operating, did I do the right move? First photo I did was with the Iphone, it was a photo of “We’ve landed and we are safe” for family and friends. The hotel informed us that we have to wait 5 hours for check in, I left my wonderful seven month wife in the lobby after 16 hours of flight (Tel Aviv to New York City) so she can rest and i ran to B&H to get my hands on the A7 with 20% battery on my phone and google maps…
2 hours later and 3 hours for the check in, I studied the camera and its features as much as I possible could because this was the only free time I had for it, afterwards my wife’s vacation starts and I have to focus on her.
So, here it goes, these are the photos I’ve took with the best camera I’ve ever held in my life while traveling with the woman I love in the greatest city on earth. If you like my post you can see some of the picture in
www.tomervaknin.com”
Image courtesy: Sony via Spectrum.
What you see here is the first image of the Sony CMOS curved sensor! Sony says they create a unique bending machine to curve it and after that they use ceramic to stabilize the sensor. Interesting: The sensor has the same level of curvature found in the human eye!
On a curved sensor light rays will hit the corner pixels straight on instead of obliquely. The lens doesn’t have to use extra lenses to correct for distortions, vignetting, aberrations in corners and other issues. Therefore you can pair the sensor with flatter and larger aperture lenses. Curved sensors are 1,4 times more sensitive in the center and 2 times more sensitive in the corners.
Sony showed a 43mm (Full Frame) and 11mm (for mobile devices) curved sensor at the 2014 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits. And as we reported earlier on SAR the Full Frame curved sensor is likely to come on the new RX2 paired with a 35mm f/1.8 Zeiss lens! Exciting tech!
SAR reader Adam sent me this:
Sigma 24-105mm not coming any time soon for Sony A-mount.
Sent an E-mail to Sigma inquiring about it’s availability for A-mount and received this response:
Good morning,
Unfortunately we do not have a release date for this yet. My parent company hasn’t put it on our backorder report yet which means it’s at least 3 months out. So I would estimate maybe late September but unfortunately I cannot know for sure.
Please let me know if you have any questions. Have a great day!Best regards,
xxx
Sigma Corp of America
The lens can be preordered at Amazon US (Click here).
Today Panasonic announced the FZ-1000 superzoom (25-400mm) camera and specs and price info can be read at Amazon (Click here). At that point you will think. Why should we care about this camera? Well there are many good reasons:
1) The camera uses the same Sony RX100M3 1 inch sensor. For the first time Sony is selling their famous 1 inch sensor to an external company!
2) As suspected the RX100M3 sensor is capable of 4k. The new Panasonic FZ-1000 records 4k at 30 fps with 100mbit/s. This lead to one question. Why is this feature not enabled on the RX100M3 or RX10? I got some “word” that it has to do with a possible heating issue on the Sony’s. Something Panasonic was capable of solving.
3) The FZ1000 is an amazing competitor of the RX10: wider zoom range, 4K recording and costs $400 less! Looks like Sony has to lower the price or offer a RX20 soon…
It’s good to see competition finally starting to challenge Sony. It will force Sony to lower prices and innovate more!
This week we reported the new 18-35mm f/1.8 A-mount lens (on preorder here at Amazon) will finally ship from June 20. It’s a superb APS-C zoom and we cannot wait to see what is coming next from Sigma: Egami spotted a series of Sigma lens patents (which also includes the already known 18-35mm lens). And according to them Sigma is working on a new 16-50mm f/2.8 and a new 12-24mm f/2.8 ART lens.
Now let’s just hope Sigma will increase their production to be able to ship A-mount lenses along the usual Canon and Nikon mount versions!
