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Do I REGRET buying the Tamron 28-75mm F2.8? 6 Month Review

15 Last-Minute Photography-Related Gift Ideas (Explora).
Canon 55mm FL f/1.2 Lens Review for Sony E Mount by Clark James.
This Guy Mounted the Fujinon XF 56mmF1.2 on Sony A7R and Shows it Covers Entire Full Frame Sensor Area (Fujirumors).
DPReview TV: Sigma 70mm F2.8 DG Macro Art lens review
Sigma 56mm f/1.4 DC DN Contemporary E-mount Review (Lensvid).
Loxia 25mm Review by Eric Barger.

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New price drop: Sony A7II with kit lens is now $100 cheaper than the new Canon EOS-RP

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There is a new $400 price drop on the Sony A7II which now sells for $998 only at Buydig, BHphoto, Adorama and Focuscamera. If you get it with the kit lens you pay $1198 only which is still $100 cheaper than the new Canon EOS-RP. The new Canon has better autofocus but the Sony still has the better sensor performance and in body stabilization.

And you now get the first generation Sony A7 for $798 only at Buydig, BHphoto, Adorama and FocusCamera. It’s the cheapest new Full Frame camera you can buy!

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Zeiss ZX1 displayed at the Cp+ show but still no new info

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Zeiss did display the ZX1 at the CP+ show but did not unveil further details about the possible release date. Dpreview posted a new ZX1 hands-on report. This is their summary:

One advantage the Zeiss has over previous attempts at Android-based cameras is that it’s not trying to compete on price with less-sophisticated mass-market models, meaning (in theory) fewer corners should need to be cut in terms of processing power or memory.

The company say they’ve also stripped the Android implementation back to the bare essentials and focused on building a camera interface, rather than trying to use any of the operating system’s built-in camera capabilities. And even in this non-final form, this decision appear to have paid-off, with the interface working smoothly.

If anything, it’s Zeiss’s decision to include an ISO dial, rather than an exposure comp control (or an unmarked dial to let you choose which you want access to), that took us longest to adapt to in our brief time with the camera. Zeiss believes that a lot of people will manually set exposure, leaving ISO effectively playing the role of exposure compensation. I guess we’ll see how that feels once we get our hands on a testable camera in the coming months.

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Greg Waterman (video ontop): “Pitbull wanted a “historical-looking” video from Carnaval so my documentary style was perfect. He and Brazilian pop-star Claudia Leitte performed the song on the lead float of the parade in Salvador. Even though it was broadcast live, I was told to ignore the TV cameras and get the best scenes no matter what. David Rousseau directed and I shot on a Sony a9 using Zeiss lenses, mostly the Batis 25mm. We used a local drone operator for the aerials. And of course I made all my photographs later from the video footage ;)

Fujifilm X-T30 with XF16mm f/2.8 Size Comparisons vs Sony A6400, Canon EOS RP and More (Fujirumors).
TEST / Alpha 6400 (A6400) : le nouvel appareil hybride d’entrée de gamme de Sony (LesNumeriques).
The Lomogon 32mm F2.5 lens features perfectly round apertures on a rotating wheel (Dpreview).
Photo Editing on the Go with the Apple iPad Pro (Explora).

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(SR5) First info about the new Samyang 85mm f/1.4 FE lens

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Samyang is already teasing the next lens announcement and we know it will be a Samyang 85mm f/1.4 FE lens. We got this info:

  • The lens will be on market by May (SAR note: not sure when the announcement will happen)
  • The lens is a bit shorter and thicker than the version for Canon (SAR note: Probably means it’s a new redesigned version and not a copy of the Canon)
  • The autofocus performance will be improved over the other current Samyang FE lenses

Links to all current Samyang/Rokinon FF E-mount AF lenses:
14mm f/2.8 at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
24mm f/2.8 at BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
35mm f/2.8 at BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
35mm f/1.4 at BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
50mm f/1.4 at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.

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