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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Sony’s world sensor domination plan made one step further. They announced the definitive acquisition of Toshibas Semiconductor Fabrication Facilities:

Tokyo, Japan, December 4^th, 2015 — Based on the memorandum of understanding entered into between Sony Corporation (“Sony”) and Toshiba Corporation (“Toshiba”) on October 28, 2015, the parties today announced that they have signed definitive agreements to transfer to Sony and to Sony Semiconductor Corporation (“SCK”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony, certain Toshiba-owned semiconductor fabrication facilities, equipment and related assets in its Oita Operations facility, as well as other related equipment and assets owned by Toshiba (the “Transfer”).

Under the agreements, Toshiba will transfer semiconductor fabrication facilities, equipment and related assets of Toshiba’s 300mm wafer production line, mainly located at its Oita Operations facility. The purchase price of the Transfer is 19 billion yen. Sony and Toshiba aim to complete the Transfer within the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016, subject to any required regulatory approvals.

Following the Transfer, Sony and SCK plan to operate the semiconductor fabrication facilities as fabrication facilities of SCK, primarily for manufacturing CMOS image sensors.

The parties expect to offer the employees of Toshiba and its affiliates employed at the fabrication facilities to be transferred, as well as certain employees involved in areas such as CMOS image sensor engineering and design (approximately 1,100 employees in total), employment within the Sony Group, upon the completion of the Transfer.

via Engadget

Sony Distagon T* FE 35mm F1.4 ZA Product Overview

Sony A7s II & Hitting Things – film riot on Youtube.
Sigma 20mm f/1.4 DG HSM A1 MTF Curves (Lensrentals).
Zeiss Milvus 21/2.8 on a7RII (SonyAlphaForum).

Andrè: “This holiday video was shot on the A7S in summer 2015 in Croatia! A beautiful destination! It was a great challenge to try and capture a variety of shots with 50 people! But with a small full frame camera like the A7S it was quite effortless simply because of its portability. Sony really started something special with their A7 range. Something I believe many of their rivals are rushing to imitate! Please share this link with the SAR community to see.
Croatia Holiday Video
http://youtu.be/anfdbSqScvc
More content shot on A7S & Leica M (typ 240)
www.amgv.london”

Julio: “I work in downtown Manhattan and shoot street almost every day. I’ve been posting to Tumblr for a couple of years, my Sony Rx1 is my go to street camera but I recently got the A7r2 and love it so I thought I would send you a link. http://sloppy96.tumblr.com”

Chuck: “I wanted to share a video that I made covering the current line of Sony A7 Cameras: https://youtu.be/g4Amfujo6RI“

Time Stood Still – An Extreme Low Light Video – Sony a7SII & SLR Magic 50mm f/1.1 from Johnnie Behiri on Vimeo.

The new SLRmagic 50mm f/1.1 FE lens was actually supposed to ship on December 10 according to BHphoto (Click here). But after some concern raised by early reviewers SLR Magic sent a message to Cinema5D:

From the two weeks of real life testing by several testers, we received 3 main concerns.
– Corner softness at infinity
– Sharpness at f/1.1
– Lens flare
We are currently making some changes within our capability to address the issues. The new changes would improve corner sharpness at infinity by approximately 20% but do not expect perfection after the changes. Sharpness at f/1.1 is not affected. Lens flare would be addressed with an optional lens hood.

So it’s yet unclear when the lens will actually ship.

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