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The 2017 Sony World Photography Awards, the 10th anniversary of the world’s largest photography competition, is now open for entries.

Free to enter and open to all photographers, each year the Sony World Photography Awards attracts both emerging talent and established artists and presents the world’s best photography from the past 12 months to a global audience.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Awards, with exciting new categories in each of the competitions.

“We are extremely proud to reach our 10th anniversary. We are committed to challenging photographers to push their creative boundaries in the years to come.”  – Scott Gray, CEO, World Photography Organisation

Photographers are welcome to enter their work for free into any of the awards’ four competitions: Professional, Open, Youth and Student Focus.

“The award changed my life and beyond the great visibility obtained allowed me to create solid relations of friendships and professional collaborations that I otherwise would not have been able to obtain” – Andrea Rossato, 3rd Place, Professional, Candid, 2016 Sony World Photography Awards

The National Awards
An expert panel of judges is also tasked with uncovering and honouring the best single image taken by a photographer from each National Awards country. Entries submitted to the Open competition are automatically entered into the National Awards based on nationality (please check if your individual country is participating).

worldphoto.org/swpa

Sony RX10 Mk III Takes on Sony a6300 and Zeiss Batis 85mm f/1.8! Full review at Hughbrownstone.com

Lens Test: Rokinon 21mm F/1.4 ED AS UMC (Popular Photography).
Adaptador Sigma MC-11, prueba de campo (DSLRmagazine).
Review: Godox Thinklite TT685S TTL (ThePhoBlographer)
Review: Flipside 10L AW (Video) on SonyAlphaForum.
Sony A7rII review by Naturewindowsphoto.
4K Time Lapse Technique – Bob Krist | Artisan of Imagery | Sony Youtube

Mark Hadden‎: “A look at my first year with the A7Rii so far with weddings in the Netherlands http://www.markhaddenphotography.com/blog/wedding-photography-with-sony-a7rii”

Juha Hansen‎: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw4_N9eBggs This is a short film we shot on RX100IV in HFR and on A7R with Zeis Batis 18mm a few day back in Brussels. It is a snippet/production diary for a longer doc we shoot in UK on A7R and S cameras at the moment. Feel free to comment.“

What’s In My Bag – Bob Krist | Artisan of Imagery | Sony

24-70mm GM lens review by ThePhoBlographer.
Best Cameras of 2016: RX10 III / ZS100 / A6300 (TheDigitalDigest)
2016 Roundup: Interchangeable Lens Cameras around $500 (Dpreview).
Northern Lights (Meteor, Satellite and Aeroplane) at SonyAlphaForum.
Zeiss Loxia 21mm f/2.8 Review at Movingelectrons.net
Sony Group to Provide Additional Support for Kumamoto Earthquake Relief Efforts (Sony.net).
Best 300 mm f/2.8 & adapter for my A7R II (SonyAlphaForum).
Batis 18mm review by Naturewindowsphoto.

Josselin Cornou‎: “Yo sony bros, here is a new one from the A7r2 about antarctica. check more : http://instragram.com/untitledshot, to know more about the trip !”

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The image above shows the [shoplink 48350 ebay]Maxxum 7D[/shoplink]

Ten years ago Sony officially acquired Minolta (Source: DC.watch.). And since than a lot changed. Nowadays the Alpha DSLR system is struggling to survive. Sony focus is on the new E-mount system development. Sony keeps promising they want to keep the A-mount system well alive. It would have been a smart move from Sony to somehow launch some cool A-mount product today to bring back some excitement.

A bit of history:
The first A-mount film camera was the [shoplink 48353 ebay]Minolta Maxxum 7000[/shoplink] (February 1985).
The last digital Minolta A-mount camera was the [shoplink 48348 ebay]Konica Minolta Maxxum 5D[/shoplink] (July 15 2005).
The first Sony A-mount camera was the [shoplink 48349 ebay]Sony A100[/shoplink] (June 5 2006).

The new Nissin i60A for Sony was expected to ship on June 8 at BHphoto. But Nissin Japan just issued an official press release stating that the release got postponed to August. The reason is that they are still working on the final firmware.

Sony PlayMemories Time-Lapse Camera APP

Sony RX1r II and Suitability as a Street Photography Camera (SonyAlphaForum).
Zeiss Loxia 50mm vs Sony/Zeiss 55mm (Dario Cannone).
Video: Introduction to Macro Lenses (Explora).
Sony A7rII and Leica Summilux-M 50/1.4. A match made in heaven? (DearSusans).
kingfisher loves SONY mirrorless (SonyAlphaForum).
Emin Kuliyev and his handmade bokeh (Vimeo).

Emin: “New article about my switching to sony from canon-nikon http://shotkit.com/emin-kuliyev/”

Colin: “Recently on my YouTube channel I released a cinematic-style short video that I shot on my RX10. (I’ve been shooting all of my videos on this camera for about a year now, but it still surprises me just how good the footage is out of it!). Here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWH29u-L60k“

Chris and Jordan analyzed the current camera shipment situation after the major Kumamoto Sony sensor production damage. They predict that there will be a major delay in product shipments (including the new A6300). And they expect the situation to get back to normal by this fall only.

Sony has (or had?) a scheduled product announcement event in June. But it’s now unclear if Sony will announce those product at all because of the sensor shortage.