Chris Burkard Takes The α7R III Into The Desert Southwest

“We’ve put them through the paces. Cold wind, sub-zero temperatures, sand, heat – and they performed beautifully,” says Burkard.

Join our new Sony a7rIII group if you plan to own this camera!

Preorders :
Sony A7rIII at Amazon, Bhphoto, Adorama, BuyDig, FocusCamera, Calumet DE, Wex UK. Sony Australia.
Sony 24-105mm at Amazon, Bhphoto, Adorama, BuyDig, FocusCamera, Calumet DE, Wex UK.

New videos by BH, Hugh Brownstone and Jared Polin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWyQz6Y1Zuk

New Samyang 35mm f/1.4 FE lens reviews by Hanna Saba, Daniel Gangur and Nic Taylor

For half the price of the Sony-Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 FE lens. you get this new Rokinon 35mm f/1.4 FE lens at BHphoto (Click here). But is this lens as good (or almost as good) as the Sony version?

Hanna Saba writes:

The overall performance of this lens has performed really well, producing great images that are sharp, Stunning bokeh and colours straight out of camera. This lens is ideal for basically any situation and the 1.4 aperture is a bonus especially for low light work. If you’re in the market for an affordable Native 35mm f1.4 lens for Sony E Mount and is able to use all of Sony features. Have a look at the Samyang you won’t be disappointed.

Daniel Gangur writes:

One of the most common comments that come up when it comes to Sony’s own lenses is cost, both the Sony F1.4 G and Sony Zeiss F1.4 full frame lenses cost over $2000 here in Australia, the Samyang AF 35mm f1.4 FE will be between $899-$950 so it is considerably less, this and it’s great performance makes it a very attractive option.
I’d definitely recommend the Samyang AF 35mm f1.4 FE lens as an alternative to Sony’s lenses on the Sony mirrorless system.

Nic Taylor writes:

From my time beta-testing the pre-production model I found that the lens resolves really well even at wide open apertures. It delivers crisp, sharp images throughout the aperture range as you can see from my selection of images below. There was some slight vignetting in the corners when shot wide open. Chromatic aberration (CA) is kept to a minimum due to the number of elements in the lens’ construction and as such I didn’t notice any during my time with it. However, as mentioned in my previous reviews CA is quite an easy fix in Lightroom with a click of a mouse.

New image samples shot with the Rokinon 35mm f/1.4 FE lens. And new review with the Voigtlander 40mm FE lens


Rokinon 35mm f/1.4 FE lens for $799 at BHphoto (Click here).

SLRclub posted a set of images shot with the new Rokinon lens. Hard to judge from those images how good this lens is.

Fred Miranda published their full Voigtlander 40mm f/1.2 FE lens reviews:

Voigtlander knows it has something unique with the CV 40/1.2 and priced it accordingly. It renders a special look being moderately wide while capable of high amount of blur and smooth rendering.
One can get a lens capable of similar or higher blur but it won’t match its combination of IQ, wide focal length and size. On top of that one gets full Sony E-mount native electronics.

Cinema5D posted their full Sony RX0 review:

The Sony RX0 is a great concept and a true technical achievement. I’m sure that it can shine in other types of filming scenarios, but for me as a documentary film shooter it leaves a lot to be desired. Sony would be wise to implement autofocus during video recording in the future (probably at the expense of an even shorter battery life) and to try to reduce or control the noise patten currently found in the picture.

Tested: RX0 at 1000fps

The new RX0 and RX10m4 cameras will start shipping out tomorrow. And this video shows how the RX0 1000fps looks like:

Maarten:

Wrote up my experience with the RX10IV and example pictures: http://www.maartentoner.net/filmmaking/gear/rx10-iv-set-phase-detection-on-stun/
And a short example of video with this crazy zoom: http://www.maartentoner.net/filmmaking/rx10-iv-lord-of-the-zoom/

Sony RX10m4 at Amazon, Bhphoto and Adorama.
RX0 at Amazon, Bhphoto and Adorama.