As you may know Zeiss recently announced a new special case for Loxia lenses (available for $386 on BHphoto). The case is made to carry four Loxia lenses. Which means there is one more Loxia lens to be announced soon as we only have three in the range yet:
Loxia 21mm at [shopcountry 46456].
Loxia 35mm at [shopcountry 47046].
Loxia 50mm at [shopcountry 47047].

SAR readers Christian Schätzle got the chance to “test” the new Loxia bag and actually discovered a small interesting detail. The fourth “free spot” is actually around 1cm deeper than the 21mm Loxia spot (which is the longest lens of the three). This is another small indirect confirm that the next lens will be a tele lens (85mm likely) with 8cm lens length. Here is the video he shared today:

A source working for a major Australian store told me that due the Kumamoto earthquake that halted the Sony sensor production for over one month we will get the following camera shipment delay:

1. Nikon DL compacts are delayed till October
2. Limited production and supply of D750, D810
3. Not expecting new shipments of all Sony ILCE until late July or August

That is very bad news. I guess this also means there will be no new A7m3 or A99II or A9 product announcement in June/July.

Alpa camera with the new IQ3 100MP System with Sony sensor

SAR readers sent me a link to a “rumor” from CineMartin. They claim they got an info via a Sony Japan contact that a medium format camera will be announced at IBC 2016:

Sony working to release new 65mm DSLR style camera to compete with Hasselblad. Email received from Sony Japan source. New Sony camera will provide 120MP photos, video at 4K 60p and +15 stops of dynamic range. Sensor to have a size of 51.10 mm x 27.11 mm. CMOS. To be announced at IBC 2016. Price to be in the range..

I found that rumor very unlikely to become true…

The eagerly anticipated Sony FE 70-200 mm F2.8 GM OSS is listed at £2999.00 on Jessops.com.
Amazon US lists the lens with no price info yet but I guess the US price will be around $3499…

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Thanks Danny W. for this!

I have been told the price listed by Kamerahuset.dk is the right one. The Danish Krone price equals to around 3.000 Euro (or $3350). Of course you have to expect the real Euro or Dollar price to be slightly different due the different tax system. Interesting details of the Kamerahuset image on top: It uses one of the new FE teleconverters (the 2.x).

70-200mm GM lens is listed with no preorders option at Amazon US, BHphoto, BestBuy, Digitalrev.
Sony FE 1.4x Teleconverter at BHphoto.
Sony FE 2.0x Teleconverter BHphoto.

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This is not an Alpha related news but it may be interesting for some of our readers: A source just sent me this:

Also a successor to the market leading FDR-X1000V will be introduced by appropriate partners and into the market. It will feature improved image quality and video resolution and frame rate.
From what I gathered this can mean the IMX318 Sensor will be used:
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201602/16-013E/

I got this info from a Zeiss solid source (Thanks B!).

Zeiss has no plan to make a Batis 35mm lens because there are already several primes and zooms covering that focal length.

I want to remind SAR readers that we got solid rumors that Zeiss will announce new Batis lens(-es) in autumn. I guess telephoto primes or even zooms(!) could be the next lenses

This is what SAR readers would like to get from Zeiss:

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Batis store links:
Batis 18mm at [shopcountry 47045].
Batis 25mm at [shopcountry 45790].
Batis 85mm at [shopcountry 45791].

Note: The list is “insipred” by the current Zeiss ZM lens line up.
[shoplink 10875 ebay]Distagon T* 2,8/15 ZM (Click here to see price on eBay)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 9803 ebay]Distagon T* 4/18 ZM (Click here to see price on eBay)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 9804 ebay]Biogon T* 2,8/21 ZM (Click here to see price on eBay)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 9804 ebay]C Biogon T* 4,5/21 ZM (Click here to see price on eBay)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 9805 ebay]Biogon T* 2,8/25 ZM (Click here to see price on eBay)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 9806 ebay]Biogon T* 2,8/28 ZM (Click here to see price on eBay)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 9808 ebay]Biogon T* 2/35 ZM (Click here to see price on eBay)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 9808 ebay]C Biogon T* 2,8/35 ZM (Click here to see price on eBay)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 9809 ebay]C Sonnar T* 1,5/50 ZM (Click here to see price on eBay)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 9809 ebay]Planar T* 2/50 ZM (Click here to see price on eBay)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 9810 ebay]Sonnar T* 2/85 ZM (Click here to see price on eBay)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 9810 ebay]Tele-Tessar T* 4/85 ZM (Click here to see price on eBay)[/shoplink].