Confirmed: Zeiss Ventum 21mm f/2.8 E-mount is a lens for aerial applications

Nokishita confirmed what we reported weeks ago: The new Zeiss Ventum 21mm f/2.8 is an E-mount lens meant to be used for aerial applications. It’s a stripped down Loxia 21mm lens: that is made to be as light as possible. Zeiss advertises this lens as:

– Lightweight lens for new perspectives
– excellent for aerial applications
– Fixed focus settings to reduce number of moving parts
– Splash-water and dust-regstant lens housing

The lens should be announced shortly…

Sigma CEO says compact (f/2.0?) primes for Full Frame mirrorless are in development…

Sigma CEO Yamaki got interview at Dpreview. There are two news that might be interesting for our readers:

  1. Sigma plans to launch a couple of properly designed Full Frame mirrorless L-mount lenses by end 2019. While Yamaki doesn’t mention it I am certain those very same lenses will be launched as native E-mount versions too
  2. Sigma is considering to launch smaller and more compact (f/2.0?) primes for mirrorless FF cameras. Nice idea!

Can’t wait to see all those new E-mount lenses!

 

This is the new Zeiss Otus 100mm f/1.4

We will soon et another new $5,000 lens from Zeiss. The Otus 100mm f/1.4 should be announced very soon and be available as usual in Canon EF and Nikon F mount version. This manual focus lens can be adapted on any Sony E-mount camera too. Here are the specs:

Lens constitution: 11 groups 14 pieces
Minimum shooting distance: 1.0 m
Maximum shooting magnification: 1: 8.6
Filter diameter: 86 mm
Maximum diameter: 100.7 mm
Focus ring diameter: 90.0 mm
Total length (including the lens cap): ZE: 152.3 mm ZF. 2: 150.1 mm
Total length (excluding the lens cap): ZE: 128.8 mm ZF. 2: 126.5 mm
Weight: ZE: 1405g ZF. 2: 1336g

via Nokishita

(SR5) On April 11 Sony will release the new 3.0 firmware for the A7rIII and A7III

One of our sources just shared this image to confirme the new 3.0 firmware for the A7rIII and A7III will be released on April 11. These are the expected new features:

Firmware Ver. 3.0 for α7R III and α7 III

Sony’s popular α7R III and α7 III full-frame cameras will both receive enhanced Real-time Eye AF performance with the upcoming firmware version 3.0. This will be available in AF-C mode with a simple half-press of the shutter button. Real-Time Eye AF for animals (i) will also be available.

The cameras will also receive interval recording functionality that will allow for simple creation of time-lapse movies (vii). The new feature can be set for anywhere between 1 and 60 seconds, with a total number of shots from 1 to 9999. AE tracking sensitivity can also be adjusted to “High”, “Mid” or “Low” during interval recording, allowing for reduced changes in exposure over the shooting interval.