Some more background rumor noise on next week Sony’s event…

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I am getting some more confirmation that indeed Sony has organized a major Journalists and Blogger gathering for next week. This is by far no 100% reliable proof that there might be a product announcement. But for sure there is a major effort from Sony to get them all together.

Only one source which has been sometimes correct in the past (but also wrong 1-2 times) said that for sure Sony will announce new lenses. Here is his message:

Big Sony E-mount announcement is coming very soon. Lenses for sure, maybe APS-C camera too.

Still, I cannot rank this rumor with SR4 or SR5 yet.

All I know with 99% certainty is:
1) that No A7sIII is coming yet
2) that the next E-mount camera should be announced soon and it should be a High End APS-C
3) 135mm f/1.8 GM should be announced too along a new APS-C lens

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CamFi Announces CamFi Pro Plus

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Press text:

Guangdong, CHINA—DECEMBER 18, 2018—CamFi, maker of wireless camera controllers, announced the release of CamFi Pro Plus today. This new product adds the wireless tethering feature for 500+ cameras, including Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, Pentax and more. All DSLR cameras which support USB tethering can be supported by CamFi Pro Plus.

“This is a big step for tethering technology,” said Mark Ma, the CEO of CamFi Limited. “It will improve the productivity for the professional photographers greatly, without any study cost.” With wireless tethering, there is need for a USB cable to connect the camera and computer. CamFi Pro Plus also allows photographers to keep using familiar tools, such as Capture One, Lightroom, EOS utility, Sony Pixel and so forth, directly via WiFi.

CamFi Pro Plus adds the third party tethering service. It can send USB data to the client device directly through a WiFi connection. When a camera is connected with CamFi Pro Plus, the laptop which connects to it will act as if the USB device plugged into it directly. In tests, the maximum Wi-Fi speed can achieve 10M Bytes/second. For a 20M raw photo, for example, this translates into need only about three seconds to transfer with Capture One.
The third party tethering service of CamFi Pro Plus supports Windows and Mac. The price of CamFi Pro Plus is $339. It can be ordered via CamFi web site. All the existing customers of CamFi Pro can order the upgrade service for $40.
For more information, visit http://cam-fi.com/en/product/camfi-pro-plus.html

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New Sony patents discloses details about the new 135mm f/1.8 and 100mm f/1.4 FE lenses!

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Well this is an exciting news: I just spotted these newly published Sony patents describing the optical design of two new fast lenses:

135mm f/1.8 FE
100mm f/1.4 FE

Of course a patent is never a guarantee that Sony will bring those lenses into mass production. But I think in that case there is a very high chance these lenses are coming for real! I bet the 135mm f/1.8 will be one of the next E-mount lenses we will get from Sony!

Here are all details:

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