Samyang 75mm f/1.8 FE at Adorama and in Germany at Fotokoch. Two new lens reviews have been posted by Nic Taylor and Cuno De Bruin.
Tamron 70-180mm FE preorders:
You can preorder it now at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama and FocusCamera. In Eu at FotoKoch DE, Calumet DE, WexUK and ParkCameras.
Today Lensbaby announced the new Velvet 28mm f/2.5 E-mount lens you can get now at Amazon and Bhphoto. There is also this hands-on review at Explora.
Press release:
Portland, OR — Lensbaby – makers of award-winning DSLR & mirrorless lenses, optics and accessories announces today the availability of its newest lens, the Velvet 28, a 28mm, f/2.5 all-metal, hand-crafted art lens that, at its brightest apertures, captures tack-sharp detail beneath a layer of radiant glow. Velvet 28 also features exceptional 1:2 macro capabilities.
Built with landscape, adventure, travel, street photographers & videographers in mind, the Velvet 28 offers Lensbaby’s popular variable glow effect at a wide 28mm focal length, with a design that makes flat light interesting and harsh light more pleasing.
“With this solid, beautifully crafted lens, every hour is magic hour. There’s no need to take the day off from shooting between dawn and dusk,” says Craig Strong, Lensbaby Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder. “The amount of effect in your image is up to you. Add as much or as little variable glow as you like by changing your aperture. The Velvet 28 offers more effect at brighter apertures – then stop down for corner-to-corner sharpness.”
Lensbaby’s Velvet effect lenses add an ethereal mood to scenes. This unique, in-camera creative effect elevates imagery with depth, dimension and soulful expression. The Velvet 28’s close-focus capabilities, combined with effects varying from impressionistic to just a touch of velvety smoothness, provides a set of visual tools that will help creative shooters expand their vision of the world.
#Velvet 28’s 1:2 macro capability makes it an ideal in-camera effects lens for photographers & videographers who like to shoot wide, while also offering the versatility to capture closer details. The lens allows image makers to move seamlessly from shooting street scenes or capturing landscape, adventure & travel images to capturing details such as a subject’s clothing or wildflower blooms and butterflies in an alpine meadow.
The Velvet 28 comes in standard lens mounts, including Canon EF, Nikon F, Canon RF, Nikon Z, Sony E, Fujifilm X and Micro Four Thirds. It will be available for order on April 21, 2020 for $549.95.
Velvet 28 Product Specifications
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Just recently BCNranking reported a 50% drop in camera sales on the Japanese market. Well it got even worse in the USA:
Retail intelligence firm Stackline analyzed ecommerce sales across the U.S. and compiled a list of the fastest growing and declining ecommerce categories (March 2020 vs. March 2019). Camera sales dropped by 64%!!!
Peter Forsgård on why the camera business is dying…but still will survive :)
It was bad enough to see the Panasonic S1H beating the A7sII in terms of specs. But today we learned more about the new Canon EOS-R5 too and yes Sony can’t wait a day longer to at least start teasing something about the new A7s camera!
Specs Summary (via CanonWatch):
Here are the first impression reports from youtubers:
You can now preorder them at BHphoto:
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You can now use our checkout code “RUMOR” to get an additional 15% discount on all TOPAZ products (Click here). This is what you save on the single products:
Exactly a year ago Sony announced a joint partnership with the Light company. And finally we are getting an idea of Sony’s plan with that new tech:
I just spotted this newly published Sony patent disclosing the design of a future E-mount Light Field Lens! The patent shows how you mount the lens on the Sony A7 to create multiple images on the sensor. Those images will than be combined to created a Light Field image.
A Light field image gives you completely depth of field control. And you can select what has to be in focus AFTER you have taken the image. The drawback is that you need a lot of fine tuned computational power to get rid of possible artifacts.
For now we know this is just a patent. We will see if Sony management will give this idea a green light in the near future…
Samyang has officially announced the new 75mm f/1.8 FE lens. All details can be read at samyanglensglobal.com. Samyang 75mm f/1.8 FE preorders at Adorama.
There is already a first review on ePhotozine:
Whether the photographer sees this as an unusually long standard lens or as a slightly shorter portrait lens, the 75mm length proves in use to be very equitable. We can approach our portrait subjects quite closely, but not so close as to cause distortion of the features. On the other hand, as a general-purpose lens there is some merit in having a longer focal length and having more space in which to work. In a similar way, 100mm macro lenses tend to be more popular than 50mm ones.
As for performance, this is just exemplary, the Samyang AF 75mm f/1.8 FE is an outstanding lens indeed. Along with a moderate, realistic price tag, compact size and great handling, the only caveat is the lack of sealing against water and dust. This still leaves us with a superb lens and an obvious Editor’s Choice.
Here is the first look from John Sison:
And this is the official product launch video:
