Tony Northrup shared his thoughts on the latest financial extraordinary loss report. In his view Nikon is not doing “as bad as it sounds”. And he believes Canon is doing even worse.

ePhotozine posted the full Sony 85mm F/1.8 FE lens review:

The Sony FE 85mm f/1.8 lens is superb to use, and also superb in many ways in terms of its performance. The lower cost compared to most 85mm lens does not seem to have reduced the performance at all. So full credit to Sony for achieving this. The one weakness is the tendency to flare against the light, which is a shame, but it need not be a deal breaker, depending on the sort of image making we do.
To summarise, an excellent performance from a well-priced lens and one that can easily be Highly Recommended.

New Sony FE lens preorder links:
85mm f/1.8 FE at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon DE. Amazon UK. Amazon IT. Amazon FR. Amazon ES. PhotoPorstNeuwied.
100mm f/2.8 STF FE at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon DE. Amazon UK. Amazon IT. Amazon FR. Amazon ES. PhotoPorstNeuwied.

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And this is Jason Laniers latest 100mm STF test:

Battle of the G Masters! Sony FE 100mm STF vs. the 70-200 f/2.8 Sony G Master.

And Blog Naver also posted their full 85mm FE review.

Dpreview posted their quick impressions on the FE 85mm f/1.8 lens:

1. balances superbly on Sony’s a7-series bodies
2. Focusing is silent and fairly quick
3. excellent sharpness wide open
4. Bokeh appears very smooth
5. lot of purple and green fringing wide open

They also notices something interesting:

Of particular interest is our observation that this lens, currently, focuses wide open* on an a7R II (or, technically, opens up to F2 if you’ve selected an aperture smaller than wide open). This addresses one of our largest complaints with recent Sony lens releases that focus stopped down, often slowing focus in low light or forcing otherwise capable phase-detect AF systems to revert to contrast detect-only. It appears that, at least for now, Sony’s recent 100mm STF and 85mm F1.8 lenses address this issue, and without an image cost to boot

That’s a very good news!

New Sony FE lens preorder links:
85mm f/1.8 FE at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon DE. Amazon UK. Amazon IT. Amazon FR. Amazon ES. PhotoPorstNeuwied.
100mm f/2.8 STF FE at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon DE. Amazon UK. Amazon IT. Amazon FR. Amazon ES. PhotoPorstNeuwied.

The Sony A7 is the cheapest FF camera yet. You get it for $999 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.

Mattias Burling gives you the 5 Reasons to Buy a Sony A7 in 2017. One of them is that this is a Medium Format on a Budget…

The following is a guest post from Phillip Reeve

Why manual lenses on the Sony a7 series are a smart choice

Do you think about how to improve your kit to take better pictures? In this article I want to tell you why buying cheap manual lenses is often the smarter choice than spending a huge amount of money on the very expensive native lenses.

Above you can watch the test of the cheapest native FE lens you can buy on Amazon US, Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR. It’s the Viltrox FE 35mm f/2.0. It’s your call if the lens is worth the $149 :)

We got two new A6500 reviews. On top you can watch Marc Galer’s video review. And ePhotozine posted the full text review and concludes:

Ignoring the price, the Sony Alpha A6500 offers a wide range of features, including excellent image quality, fast focusing and continuous shooting, all in a compact camera body, with good build quality. There’s also a good range of lenses available. We’re not really a fan of the menu system update, but saying that, there are worse menu systems out there, and it shouldn’t take long for users of this camera to get used to it. 

Sony A6500 at [shopcountry 55972]

And here is Tony Northrup take on the A6500