Stefan Fiedler sent me this:

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At the recent Photo+Adventure trade show in Vienna, Austria my photo and fine art printstudio SALON IRIS proudly presented the giant panoramic photo print “Twilight Light” by Brooklyn, NY photographer Lazarus Jean-Baptiste. It is what we believe is the biggest ever in one piece printed and mounted photo exhibition print.
http://www.photoadventure.at/
http://www.photoadventure.at/weltrekord-megaprint-by-salon-iris/

Printed by SALON IRIS with an HP L28500 latex printer at photographic quality with 1200dpi resolution at the gigantic dimensions of 8,2 x 31,8 feet and mounted in one piece we could impressively demonstrate state-of-the-art photo and printing capabilities.

Brooklyn, NY based photographer Lazarus Jean-Baptiste (a.k.a. LAZARUS2020) was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He moved to NY at the age of 11 where he became a successful make-up artist. Over the past years the skyline of Manhattan has become his prefered “model”. He describes his photographs as “UHDR2” (Ultra High Dynamic Range and Resolution Cityscapes).
http://lazarus2020.com/
Please also see Lazarus´ bio attached.

Lazarus shot 26 individual photos with a Sony Alpha 7II at two rows of 13 images which were stitched for the giant panorama. The lens he used was a Canon EF 200mm F2.8L. He shot from from the New Jersey shores 1,5 miles away. Still individual persons can easily be identified in the windows of the Manhattan skyscrapers!

Interesting side note: Stefan Fiedler only met Lazarus Jean-Baptiste recently and by mere chance in front of the Photoplus Expo 2015 at the NY Javits Center when they started talking about the same Sony Alpha 7RII camera that they had both hanging around their necks. Over a cup of coffee Stefan discovered the incredible talent of the self-taught photographer Lazarus and they both decided to show Lazarus amazing work to the world – starting with the sensational panoramic print and more fascinating ChromaLuxe prints at Photo+Adventure.

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SALON IRIS (www.salon-iris.com) is a leading photo- and fine art print studio. It was founded 1996 by Stefan Fiedler in Vienna, Austria. The studios name refers to the legendary Iris inkjet printer that the studio used in the early days.

The highly successful Photo+Adventure trade show in Vienna, Austria attracts more than 20.000 photo and outdoor enthusiasts every two years.

Lenspire posted the content of an interview with Zeiss product manager Christophe Casenave. Here are a couple of interetsing informations:

1) Sony Alpha is in a phase of professionalization: “Sony Alpha is one of the most rapidly evolving system, the one in which most innovation is brought at the moment and it is a system in a phase of professionalization. We believe that we can help making this system appealing to professional photographers by providing pro-grade lenses.”

2) Reason for the Sony A7 success: “Many people like to provide old lenses they owned, or sometimes their parents owned, a second life. Even if these lenses are not ‘up-to-date’ or modern in terms of quality, they provide some kind of nostalgic look. Only this system allows to adapt so many older lenses.”

3) Why they launched the Loxia series: “We remarked that many people were adapting our ZM lenses, even if they are not all optimal for the digital sensor. In addition, we figured out that the AF lenses, while still quite compact, compared to DSLR lenses, still tend to get bigger on this system. The combination of these three factors gave us the idea to develop a new family of very compact, very high craftsmanship manual lenses”

4) Why the Loxia 21mm has a complete new design (not borrowed from the ZM series): “We could not do a symmetrical design, because we needed to ensure that the ray angle is low enough to avoid any kind of aberrations in the corners. As such, we chose a Distagon, with a very light retro-focus.”

Personal note: “Sony Alpha is in a phase of professionalization”…can’t wait to see that coming true at Photokina 2016!

Links to all Zeiss made FE Loxia and Batis lenses:
Zeiss Batis 85mm f/1.8 lens in US at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto. In Eu at Amazon DE, WexUK. In Asia at Digitalrev.
Zeiss Batis 25mm f/2.0 lens at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto. In EU at Amazon DE, WexUK. In Asia at Digitalrev.
Zeiss Loxia 50mm f/2 Planar T* Lens for Sony E Mount at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama., WexUK, CameraPro.
Zeiss Loxia 35mm f/2 Biogon T* Lens for Sony E Mount at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, WexUK, CameraPro.
Zeiss Loxia 21mm f/2.8 FE lens at BHphoto and Adorama. In Europe at WexUK.

Interbee 2015: Want more lens flare? Try Technical Farm’s see-through lens adapter (Newsshooter).

Shooting a Video with a 1950 Plastic Camera Lens by Stern Mathieu on Youtube.
Spanish A7sII test at DSLRmagazine.
Sony Alpha QX1 (ILCE-QX1) Review (ePhotozine).
Sigma 20mm F1.4 DG HSM A Canon mount review: Tempting new addition (DxOmark).
Minolta APO 100-300mm + Sony A7II Video REVIEW (SonyAlphaForum).
TEST / Sony RX1R II : dites oui au viseur pop-up, non au capteur 42 Mpx (Lesnumeriques).
I’m really thinking of selling off Canon Gear (SonyAlphaForum).
A7rII Fashion Portraits W 55mm 1.8 (SonyAlphaForum).

Brad: “One of the main reasons I upgraded to the a7s ii was for the slo-motion capabilities in full HD. I recently had the chance to document a brother/sister team who create unique and fun artwork out of metal junk.  This was a fun opportunity to really push the 120 f/second feature.  Shot entirely on a Sony a7s ii with the Loxia 35mm lens. https://vimeo.com/147804423“

An anonymous source sent me the link to that special Sony CES page: https://blog.sony.com/CES/. Sony will announce new products on January 5. And you can watch the announcement live via UStream here on SonyAlphaRumors.

He also added: “Sony will announce a new APS Camera at the CES next year according to their blog at“. But I have not found such a statement on any Sony site or social network. I may ask the source to send me the link to it?

Keep in mind the CP+ photography show will take place in February. So we don’t know yet what of the rumored new FE lenses, A6xxx and maybe new A-mount stuff will be announced at CES or at CP+.

Just curious:

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In one single day we got five new Full Frame E-mount lenses! They have been announced by Handevision and unlike the [shoplink 43033 ebay]super expensive 40mm f/0.85[/shoplink] they announced last year those new lenses are quite cool and affordable:
35mm f/2.4 (ships January 2016).
50mm f/2.4 (ships January 2016)
75mm f/2.4 (ships January 2016)
24mm f/2.4 (ships later in 2016)
90mm f/2.4 (ships later in 2016)

The price is said to be around $480 and $660.

Here is the spec table and the full press release found via Fujirumors:

HandeVision IBERIT f2.4 / 24,35,50,75 and 90 mm announcement

HandeVision│ Germany OSD optical system development company (OSD Optic System Development GmbH) is pleased to announce a 35 mm full-size correspondence of IBERIT (Iberitto) Series. With this product, a single-focus lens of open F2.4, focal length 24mm, 35mm, 50mm, 75mm, and the line up 90mm. The lens barrel is in two colors, black and silver. Mount to release first, the Sony E mount, Fujifilm X-mount, with three types of Leica M mount, Leica M mount is compatible with rangefinder.

Sigma 20mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens 1st Impression (feat. Canon 24mm f/1.4L)

Sony A7S II Review at Photographyblog.
Hands-On with the Sony RX1R II Full-Frame Compact Camera (Popphoto).
Long review in video and french of the A7rII (SonyAlphaForum).
Any way to speed up focus when vintage primes are on a7II? (SonyAlphaForum)
Sony A6000 Short Film “Imagination” (SonyAlphaForum).
Sony A7rII vs Phase One IQ160 by Photogy on Youtube.

Gary: “http://www.f8photography.com.hk/blog/2015/11/20/apec2015. I used only Sony A7RII and A7SII to shoot exclusive images ‘behind the scenes’ at APEC 2015 of 20 Heads of State. The Sony cameras were perfect for this job with great low light capability and small size for discretion when working in close proximity to these VVIPs.”

Derrick: “This is first 4K Pregnant Video using Sony A7R II from our team. https://vimeo.com/147101024”

Sebastian: “I thought I could at least contribute at least a little:
There are currently some A7R and A7S available in Switzerland for as low as CHF1498.-! -> http://www.fotopro.ch“

Neuert on SonyAlphaForum.
South Iceland with Sony A7, Zeiss Batis 2/25mm and Voigtländer 4.5/15mm Heliar III

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