New Sony A7IV youtubers review

A7IV at BHphoto. Amazon. Adorama. FocusCamera. BuyDig.

Here you have four new videos about the new Sony A7IV:


Sony a7 IV Setup Guide for Hybrid Users | a74 Photo & Video Menu Settings


Sony A7IV vs Sony A7R IV A – Hybrid vs High-res Special


Doing More with the Sony a7IV: Episode 2 Real Estate Photography with Full-Frame cameras & lenses


Sony A7 III vs A7 IV In-Depth Comparison – Part 1: Photography

World’s first Samyang 135mm f/1.8 review: “For the money the Samyang is unbeatable”

Samyang 135mm f/1.8 FE preorder at BHphoto, Adorama. Calumet DE, FotoKochDE, WexUK.

SonyAlphaBlog tested the new lens and concluded:

The Samyang 135mm F1.8 AF and the Sony FE 135mm F1.8 GM are clearly ahead of the Sigma, Zeiss Batis and Samyang MF.
The Samyang is the best one in term of sharpness , level of CA, resistance to flare It delivers very crunchy images and beautiful background blur , bokeh and excellent color rendering. It has a very efficient AF , It is lighter and 2 times less expensive than the Sony. Its only weaknesses is the AF in burst mode for sports. Let’s note also a strange battery drain (50% more battery consumed than normal)
The Sony is also outstanding in term of sharpness but a tiny bit less sharp than the Samyang, It is the best one in term of AF for sports , it has a little bit better bokeh balls (more rounded as of F4) and a mure subtle and gentle color rendering
Between the 2, if money is not important, it is a matter of taste in term of rendering with more crunchy image with the Samyang , more subtle for portraits with the Sony and also a matter ofAF efficiency for Sports where the Sony is superior and the only one compatible with 20fps on A9 and 30fps on A1
For the money the Samyang 135mm F1.8 AF is unbeatable

Tokina 23-33-56mm review by Opticallimits

End of 2021 Tokina announced these three new APS-C E lenses that are now in Stock at BHphoto. Opticallimits tested all three of them:

Tokina 23mm f/1.4 at Opticallimits:

The Tokina lens isn’t perfect but it combines the creative potential of a high-speed aperture and sane pricing.

Tokina 33mm f/1.4 at Opticallimits:

Overall, Tokina atx-m 33mm f/1.4 E is a very good value package with a few hiccups.

Tokina 56mm f/1.4 at Opticallimits:

The most difficult aspect around the Tokina lens is not its performance but the sheer amount of competition that it faces in E-mount.

Sony 70-200mm GMII Review at ePhotozine: “powerful offering “

Sony 70-200mm GM II Lens at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama. BuyDig. FocusCamera. FotoKoch DE, Calumet DE, WexUK, ParkUK.

ePhotozine published the full review and concluded:

As cameras have become more and more demanding, needing sharper and sharper optics, so lenses have become better and better. There can be no better example than this new Sony lens – faster, lighter, more compact and with higher performance than what was already a really excellent lens. If we add to that the very nature of the 70-200mm lens, so very versatile, covering portraits, architecture, flower close-ups, close up sports, landscape, animals and many other possibilities all in an easy to use package, we have a powerful offering indeed.
A great lens at a par for the course price and a comfortable ‘Editor’s Choice’.

Triple Brigthin Star review: 50mm F0.95, 55mm F1.8 and 23mm F5.6

Brigthtin Star seems to be a rebranded version of the Mitakon lenses. You can find these lenses on Amazon US, Amazon DE, Amazon UK.

Marc Alhadeff from SonyAlphaBlog reviewed three of them:

Brightin Star 50mm F0.95:

The Brightin Star 50mm F0.95 (389$) is a typical F0.95 lens the provide super smooth bokeh, decent sharpness wide open and excellent as of F4 with a very good color, rendition and very good build quality
The Brightin Star provides very poetic and nice pictures for portraits or for object details with lot of background blur
The key difference with the other F0.95 lenses is the price: it is 2 times cheaper that other F0.95 while providing very similar performance !
The lens has some weaknesses : not circular bokeh balls with aperture closed down , more vignetting and situation than competition and lower resistance to flare
But for 389$ it is a bargain

Brightin Star 55mm F1.8:

The Brightin Star 55mm F1.8 (116$) provide globally very good portraits with very good bokeh balls, good background blur, very good color rendition. Sharpness could be a bit better wide open but for 116$ is does as good as the Sony 50mm F1.8 while having a better rendering for portraits

Brigthin Star 23mm F5.6:

The Brightin Star 23mm f5.6 (100$) is a very nice , light and compact pancake lens. Sharpness is very good to excellent on most of the fields but with only average corners. The color Rendition is very good
The main drawback is the bad resistance to flare , the average corners , the slow aperture of F5.6 (if you like small depth of field effect) and of course no AF