Sony Tidbits…


Sony FS5 vs Samsung NX1 in 4K and 1080p
from Tim Shoebridge on Vimeo.

Sony RX1r on Gold Box at Amazon Germany.
Canon new FD 2.8/35 Review by Phillip Reeve.
Great Yashica ML 28/2.8 shots on SonyAlphaForum.
Batis 25mm f/2 vs the Sony 28mm f/2 (iLoveHatePhoto).
Red river Cano Cristales, Colombia (SonyAlphaForum).
Sony FE 90mm f/2.8 Macro G OSS Lens Review (SonyAlphaLab).
Sony A7R II Extensive Real World Review – Best Camera In The World? (Yannick Ciancianelli).

Matthias Kühle‎: I recorded this real time polar lights video with Sony Alpha 7s at ISO 25600 and more. This is a significantly compressed and resized version. For better quality watch it in HD at Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QFgxSillKE

Stan Moniz‎:https://youtu.be/Gd_hvvMBOh8 New video up now! A short film on water and light focusing on what the Sony A7rii can produce @120fps @720p in 35mm crop mode. Shot with AquaTech Elite a7 Series II water housing / Sony A7rii / Sony 28mm f2.0 and Hoya hd3 filter

New Nocturnus 35mm f/0.95 APS-C E-mount lens is now in Stock and shipping

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The new (and very expensive) Meyer Görlitz Nocturnus 35mm f/0.95 E-mount lens is in Stock for the very first time on [shoplink 42362 ebay]eBay Germany (Click here)[/shoplink]. These are the lens specs:

Technical information:
Light intensity & focal length: f0,95; 35 mm
Optical design: 10 elements in 7 assembly units
Number of aperture blades: 10
Minimum focusing distance: 0,3 m
Angle of view: 46° (APS-C)
Gewicht: 680g
Optimised for APS-C sensors

Characteristics:

  • Exceptional light intensity
  • Ideal for low-key situations and shooting with available light
  • Minimal chromatic aberration
  • Well-balanced bokeh
  • Near-silent aperture and focus adjustment
  • Also ideal for video use
  • Precise, high-quality workmanship

World record? Biggest photo print by SALON IRIS, shot with Sony A7II

Lazarus@Photo+Adventure1

Stefan Fiedler sent me this:

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/

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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.

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Interview with Christophe Casenave from ZEISS: “Sony Alpha is in a phase of professionalization”

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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.

Sony Tidbits…


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

Sony CES page and livestreaming. What do you hope to get: A99II, A6xxx or FE lenses?

CES

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:

What do you hope to see announced at CES on January 5?

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Handevision announces five new Full Frame E-mount prime lenses!

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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:

specs

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.

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HandeVision is May 2013, it announced the brightest IBELUX 40mm F0.85 as a mirror-less machine lens, became a big topic. Through the development period of it from two years, HandeVision is Germany and joint brand of China is pleased to announce the new lens family “IBERIT” of the corresponding full-size long-awaited.

Compact IBERIT is an optimized lens to the mirror-less system. It is sufficiently small in a variety of shooting scenes, and I will have a satisfactory brightness. For example, portrait, landscape photography, in street snap, and cut sharply the subject from the background. IBERIT is any visual image that you’ll want to take, it is a high-performance manual lens us to creatively realized.

For capitalize the benefits of development in the mirror-less system, we have paid close attention to the size and weight of the lens. In addition, this lens is compatible with both the full-size image sensors and APS-C image sensor.

Lens design while to follow the traditional optical design technology, it has been optimized to achieve the best performance in the digital image sensor. This product is compatible with Sony E mount and Fujifilm X-mount, but it does not correspond to the iris auto focus and electrons. However, the smooth focus ring of IBERIT, the photographer can freely control the focusing at their own will. Compared with the auto focus can be take advantage of the photographer’s experience, creative motivation is increasing and will be able to my thing more unique photo.

In contrast to the recent trend to intensive plastic, IBERIT was revisited in made an excellent metal to traditional and durability. Aluminum and anodized proven quality in IBELUX 40mm F0.85, such as brass for the focusing system, is always prepared in a material that is good at durability. IBERIT by high-quality manufacturing technology and design come in tired, we are striving to differentiate itself from other products.

This lens it is based on the “German engineering”. To perform development and testing in Germany, it was produced by the Shanghai factory in accordance with the quality standards of Germany. So to speak, is a product that dwells is Manufacturing of Germany flow.

IBERIT than early 1 月 年 2016, 35mm, 50mm, will be sold starting in such a 75mm camera specialty store. 24mm and 90mm is scheduled for released in 2016 year.

Retail asking price depends on the type and the corresponding mount, but is expected to be in 480 ~ 660US dollars.

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The total selling agency is Germany OSD optical system development company (OSD Optic System Development GmbH). The company is Shanghai Legend view shooting Co., Ltd. and joint-stock company of Germany IB / E Optics.
www.osd-gmbh.com
info@osd-gmbh.com