Today Sony issued the new Q2 financial report. Compared to last years Q2 sales dropped by a small 3,5%. Also the unit sales dropped but that has to be expected as the camera as a whole is focusing on high profit cameras/lenses and moving away from the low margin compact camera business:
The forecast for 2019 remains unchanged with a total of 3 million cameras sold compared to the 3,6 million of 2018.
EU readers have two new deals today:
1) Save 200 Euro on the excellent Sony 24mm f/1.4 GM lens sold by Amazon Spain.
2) Save 130 Euro on the new Sony 35mm f/1.8 FE lens sold by Amazon Spain.
Reminder: Sony Europe launched a new up to 1.000 Cashback action (Check out your local Sony website like Sony.de) Examples:
150 Euro cashback on the Sony A7III at Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES, Calumet DE, WexUK, ParkUK, Calumet NL.
100 Euro cashback on the Sony 24-105mm G at Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES, Calumet DE, WexUK, ParkUK, Calumet NL.
100 Euro cashback on the Sony 24mm f/1.4 GM at Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES, Calumet DE, WexUK, ParkUK, Calumet NL.
Capture One 20 preorders are now finally available! And you have two days left to save money in two ways:
1) If you are an existing C1 owner you get 20% discount. And if you use checkout code “OCT-AF-QUW” you get additional 10% discount!!!
2) Til October 31 you save 10% on Capture One 12 using the checkout code “OCT-AF-QUW“. And the best part is that you will get the new Capture One Pro 20 as a free update in November!
Reminder: The AI powered new Luminar 4 (full details here) will be released in November too.
The A9II will start shipping out on Friday in the USA: If you use our BHphoto link to preorder the camera will have a chance to win a BH e-gift card of $1,000!
Note: Winner will be randomly chosen 30 days after the camera starts shipping.
We received some credible info about the Tamron 70-180mm f/2.8 FE. The lens shipment is scheduled to start in march 2020. I still got no info about the possible price yet…
Preorders:
Tamron 20mm f/2.8 at Adorama, FocusCamera and BHphoto.
Tamron 24mm f/2.8 at Adorama, FocusCamera and BHphoto.
Tamron 35mm f/2.8 at Adorama, FocusCamera and BHphoto.
Dpreview published a couple of Tamron 24mm and 35mm f/2.8 FE hands-on images. Check out their site!
Preorders:
Tamron 20mm f/2.8 at Adorama, FocusCamera and BHphoto.
Tamron 24mm f/2.8 at Adorama, FocusCamera and BHphoto.
Tamron 35mm f/2.8 at Adorama, FocusCamera and BHphoto.
Sony A6100 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, FocusCamera. In EU at Calumet DE, Park UK, WexUK.
The Sony A6100 is now in Stock and shipping. And right in time Dpreview published the full review of the new camera:
The Sony a6100 is able to act as one of the best family or travel cameras we’ve ever used. We said something similar about Sony’s RX100 VI and our reasoning is informed by the same thing: the simple and effective autofocus system. Combined with a touchscreen, there’s no camera that makes it so easy to get so many of your shots in focus, whatever the situation.
Although the camera and its menus could initially appear daunting, with a couple of settings changes, much of this can simply be ignored: you can concentrate on your subject and the camera will do the rest. It’s difficult, until you’ve tried shooting with the camera, to appreciate how simple the a6100 makes it to take consistently in-focus images, especially of people.
