a powerful smile from Mike Kobal on Vimeo.

Sony A7 for wedding photography at Hamburg-hochzeitsfotografen.
Sony Zeiss 16-70mm f4 review at ThePhoBlographer.
Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* E 16-70mm f/4 ZA OSS Sample Images (Photogrpahyblog).
Zeiss 55mm FE lens test at Fotopolis.
Zeiss 24-70mm FE lens test at Fotopolis.
Funny A5000 bag at DC.watch.
A7 vs A99 at Ronmartblog.
Hypothesis: DxO doesn’t actually test every lens with every camera (Leicaboss).
Sigma 24-105 Comparison by Lensrentals.

Robert: “My name is Bob and I work at a photographic store in New York city. Everyday customers come into the store to try out cameras and most of the time they end up taking photos of me. I’ve started to assemble a collection of those photos and post them online. Recently a prototype of the Hasselblad H5D-50C was brought in for the medium format department to preview. A photo from that camera is the newest addition to my collection.
You can find it here: cameracounter.tumblr.com”

Lisa Shu: “I could not help informing you this great news for Camera360. The v5.0 has been finally released globally.
Please check the Android version by the link below:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vStudio.Android.Camera360&hl=en
Please check the iOS version by the link below:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/camera360-ultimate/id443354861?mt=8”

Graham: <“em>Like you, I’m a photographer and use Sony cameras. In fact, I bought the Sony A7R shortly after it was released, and just yesterday I finished a Sony A7R Review with Canon EF Lenses: http://www.A7Review.com YouTube video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMOHrtFp2ko”

Massimo: “new impressions of the A7R with the 17TS: http://www.thevisualexperience.org/web/sony-a7r-canon-17-ts-e-iridient-developer/”

Alexandre: “Hello Andrea, My review of the Sony A7r / Zeiss 55mmF1.8 has already more then 13 000 views on Youtube. You can share it if you like. I included 12 photos samples (with Exif Data) and 5 video samples. I made as well a test of the famous shutter sound in 7 different environment with different levels of noise.
http://traveljournalist.com/sony-a7r-zeiss-fe55mmf18-review-unboxing/“

Anonymous: “Just came across this and thought it could be of some interest: “Sony digital SLR camera 2012 – Number of Parts 580”
http://intotheorchard.com/2013/06/11/whats-on-the-inside/“

Bruce: “Thank you, Andrea! BTW, I’ve been shooting Sony exclusively since dumping Canon gear almost two years ago. Here’s a video I shot with a NEX-7/Leica 90 f2 as well as an a99 with the Zeiss 135mm f1.8: https://vimeo.com/74488196“

The same source that told us the 4K camera would not come in April but much later this year also told us that Sony would give a ProRes update for the F5 & F55. Well, Sony just announced ProRes and DNxHD support for F5 & F55 camera. This means the source is likely also right on the 4K photocamera coming later this year :)

This is the official Press Text from Sony:

Sony has been at the forefront of, and has vast experience in developing advanced compression technologies that led to the visually lossless HDCAM SR, a standard in the production industry since 2001.
Based on our knowledge and experience in this area we then selected the highest Level and Profile of the H.264 standard as the core compression technology for the F5, and F55 cameras. Named XAVC, it offers exceptionally high quality, with the ability to scale from HD, 2K to 4K with very modest data rates, and with frame rates up to 180fps.
XAVC has proven robust, and is well accepted by “mission critical” genres such as Episodic Television, Documentary and feature film. The adoption of XAVC by commonly used platforms has been exceptionally fast, and as a result XAVC is supported by all major workflow applications in the fields of editing, grading, transcoding and media management.
Sony is firmly committed to the continued advancement of the XAVC codec with exciting developments planned for the future. Sony is also committed to our customers and with your feedback the need for diversity and flexibility to support codecs that have been used in our industry for some time.
Our mission is to continue developing the most feature rich cameras on the market. In so doing we are excited to announce support for ProRes and DNxHD codecs as a future hardware upgrade option for both the F5, and F55 cameras.

Stay tuned for more information!

I can confirm via multiple trusted sources that Sony will launch new Full Frame E-mount cameras within the next 5-6 months. I guess it means they will be launched right before the Photokina September show. NONE(!) of them will be a replacement of the current A7 and A7r models. All we know for sure about these new models is that they will have an advanced hybrid AF system similar to what we got inside the newly announced Sony A6000.

The surprises: I can already tell you that there will be many more cameras in the months to come (RX and Alpha and E-mount). I am working on those rumors right now….be patient ;)

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Two anonymous sources sent me small bits of A77 successor info:

– (SR4) Announcement will be made the first week of May (and availability in June!)
– (SR3) Camera can do 14 fps.

I am still not sure yet if Sony will also use new RX cameras and new A/E mount lenses. Hope to get SR5 confirmations soon!

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Image on top shows the silhoutte of the current Sony A77.

Many(!) trusted source just told me the A77II announcement is actually scheduled for May. They didn’t share any specs yet. All we know is that it has a very fast new autofocus system, no EVF lag and very speedy processor.
I also have been told that the announcement event is quite “big”. There is a fair chance Sony will also announce some other stuff like new lenses for both A and E-mount! Hopefully new FE lenses will be announced too :)
Stay tuned on SAR, I am working on plenty(!) of amazing rumors. Some of time are a huge surprise ;)

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The new Sigma 50mm ART lens is supposed to give a very close Zeiss Otus performance. But we still don’t know yet what the price will be. But according to Photorumors we can expect Sigma to ship the lens in May. This is what Sigma stuff present at the Photography show in NEC (Birmingham) told to a Photorumors readers.

Sigma already confirmed the lens will come in A-mount too (article here). And a first quality comparison with other 50mm lenses has been posted last week (article here).