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Sigma 56mm f1.4 review BEST portrait lens SONY e / M43

e-Front Curtain Shutter – Switch it OFF or Leave it On? (Marc Galer).
Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG HSM for Sony E-Mount Review (Photographyblog).
A personal wishlist for the next Sony A7r4 (A9r ?) by Dearsusans.
Sony E 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 OSS review at SonyAlphaBlog.
20 Tripods That Are Not Really Tripods (Explora).

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New Luminar and Aurora HDR Holiday offer. And Sony FE 28-70mm for $209 on Massdrop.

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Skylum launched a double holiday offer:

1) Aurora HDR (Click here) for only US$89 and get a bonus of 1 year SmugMug Portfolio plan during this limited time offer.
2) Luminar & Aurora HDR Bundle for US$139 (instead of US$168)

On Massdrop you get the 28-70mm FE lens for $209:

Til January 1st you save 10% on the new Capture One 12 software (Click here) when using our code “AMBSAR“. Grab it now before it ends!

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Bokeh for $6,000: real world images of the Nikon 58mm f/0,95 Z lens

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These are the first images of the real world and final production Nikon 58mm f/0,95 Z lens shared by Nikon photographer Yusuf Kathawala. As you know their whole marketing machine runs on this Z-mount size argument. And they need this lens to show of their serious intentions. But despite all these slogans the truth remains that this is going to be:

1) A huge lens (below you can see it compared with the already very big 105mm f/1.4 F-mount lens)
2) Manual focus only lens (good luck focusing with a few cm of depth of field)
3) The price is rumored to be around $6,000

Don’t get me wrong, this Nikon lens is a stunning piece of glass. But I am pretty sure Sony could so such an f/0,95 lens too. But I agree with Sony’s manager statement when he said that making an autofocus f/1.2 FE lens would be the more sensible choice.

 

via Nikoneye via Petapixel.

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DPReview TV: the 2018 DPReview Awards

35/1.4 Comparison in German.
Images of the Limited edition Gold 7Artisans 50mm f/1.1 E-mount lens on DC.watch.
7artisans 50mm f1.1 – Affordable Noctilux, or No Luck? (Jamescater)
Sony E 10-18mm F4 OSS review at SonyAlphaBlog.
New CIPA results for October: Time to give up any hope in a possible recovery? (MirrorlessRumors).
Luxury that Lasts: Camera Bags, Straps, and Fashions for Photographers (Explora).

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(SR5) More Sony Full Frame sensor news: 36MP sensor has six different native ISO settings!

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Two Sources sent me this graph. As a reminder: The IMX251 and IMX309 are existing sensors.  The yet to be announced sensors are:
IMX435 is a new 36Mp 8K sensor (article here)
IMX 551 is a new 60MP 8k sensor (article here)
IMX455 is a stripped down version of the IMX551 (article here).
Source 1 told me this:
IMX455 is electricity saving type Affordable price CMOS, half power of IMX251. Perhaps it target in third party market.
IMX511 order better Dynamic Range (20/6)Log10(52000/1.762)≈14.9EV, (IMX455~14.4EV), but watse more power. It’s unfriendly to the third party camera manufacturers which wanna make a High resolution camera without high speed. Also, IMX551 may is not for sell.
IMX435 STARVIS use Hecx Native Conversion Gain to Produce more SNR in Dark Scene:
(ISO 15 ~ 17.5EV/ISO 100 ~ 15.4EV/…/ISO 409600 ~ 6.9EV)
If readout all Conversion Gain, the Landscape can be extended to 120dB, like the high SNR sensor sony displayed on IEDM 2018. But IMX435 seems impossible to do this. It’s not a still picture style sensor.
Source 2 told me this:
“The star of the show IMX435 sensor has 6 native sensitivities (from base to top as seen in the table):

ISO50 = Conversion Gain -18dB, EI +12dB, DR 17.4EV
ISO200 = Conversion Gain 0dB, EI +6dB, DR 15.4EV
ISO800 = Conversion Gain +18dB, EI 0dB, DR 13.4EV
ISO12800 = Conversion Gain +36dB, EI +6dB
ISO102400 = Conversion Gain +54dB, EI +6dB
ISO1638.4K = Conversion Gain +72dB, EI +24dB

Its full well capacity at base is particularly impressive at 605k e-, A7SII sensor IMX235 is “only” 159K e- with much bigger photosite. This again highlights the power of Exmor RS.”

To be clear:
1) These sensors are open to be used by third companies too
2) To use the full potential you need to buy the rights to use the Sony proprietary SLVS-EC interface
3) Don’t expect these sensors to be used with their full potential on small compact mirrorless cameras. Camcorders are likely to use them first (bigger more powerful processor and bigger ventilation system)
My guess is that future Sony Alpha cameras will use “variations” of these sensors.
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