Sony Australia has just launched a new photography platform called Sony Scene – there will be tonnes of events around Australia hosted by Sony Digital Imaging Advocates. It was announced late last year, but the site goes live today. Link: https://scene.sonyanz.com/
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The upcoming weeks we expect multiple E-mount related announcements from both Sony and third party manufacturers. I made a list of Facts, Patents and Rumors about the future Sony and other third party gear:
Sony Cameras:
FACT: Sony registered a new RX0 camera model which should be announced within the next few months (article here)
FACT: Sony confirms professional APS-C cameras are on their roadmap (article here).
RUMOR: One more E-mount camera will be announced in Q1-Q2 (90% reliable – article here)
RUMOR: Sony A7sIII not going to hit the market in first half 2019 (70% reliable)
RUMOR: Sony 8k sensors and new codes specification (90% reliable – article here).
Sony Lenses:
PATENT: Sony patented new 100mm f/1.4, 135mm f/1.8, 500mm f/4.0 and 600mm f/4.0 FE lenses (article here and article here).
RUMOR: Next Sony E-mount lens announcement before the WPPI show in February (80% reliable – article here).
RUMOR: 135mm f/1.8 to be announced within Q1-Q2 (70% reliable)
RUMOR: New APS-C lens to be announced within Q1-Q2 (70% reliable)
RUMOR: New 35mm f/1.8 FE lens is on the roadmap (70% reliable – article here)
RUMOR: New 200-600mm FE lens is on the roadmap (50% reliable)
Third party lenses:
RUMOR: Tamron might announce a new 70-200mm f/2.8 FE lens within Q1-Q2 (50% reliable – article here)
RUMOR: Samyang FE autofocus lens announcement within the next weeks (90% reliable)
RUMOR: Sigma will soon be ready to launch their first FE zoom lenses (70% reliable)
RUMOR: Sigma will launch the first proper mirrorless designed FE lenses in 2019 (70% reliable)
RUMOR: Yongnou is working on the first FE autofocus lenses and some info might be spilled out in March (90% reliable – article here)
RUMOR: New 50mm f/1.0 FE lens being developed by a chinese manufacturer (90% reliable – article here)
One more thing:
PATENT: Sony patented a new drone camera (article here).
Panasonic is the ultimate killer of the myth saying that Mirrorless is smaller than DSLR :)
Courtesy fo CameraSize.
Sigma 56mm f/1.4 DC DN ‘C’ lens review with samples
Baby Needs New Legs-New Tripods from Robus (Explora).
A Proposal with 3 Sony prime lenses (Enthusiastphotoblog).
Lume Cube AIR review (Newsshooter).
2019 camera and lens manufacturers’ New Year’s resolutions (Dpreview).
DC.watch awards.
Marc Alhadeff: “Full frame : 121 lenses, 101 tested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3qjFUSuRL0. APSC : 70 lenses , 64 tested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeeakGlS_ds&t=49s. With these 2 videos , you see all 191 lenses for Sony E mount as of 31 Dec 2018 with their summary tests and ratings”
Personal photos and tests from SAR Admin Andrea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and 500px.
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Sony A7sIII group and Sony A7sIII page
Sony A7III group and Sony A7III page
Note: In groups you can post your own stuff like images, news and questions. While on pages you will read the specific camera news from SAR.
Well that’s going to piss off some Fuji managers: The Fuji X-T3 Amazon page recommends the Sony A6500 as a “newer model”. I want to see how long it will take to see this removed :)
via Fujirumors
On February 14 Canon will launch five new RF lenses:
RF15-35mm F2.8L IS USM
RF24-70mm F2.8L IS USM
RF70-200mm F2.8L IS USM
RF24-240mm F4-6.3 IS USM
RF85mm F1.2L USM
Canon is rapidly trying to catch up with the Sony FE lens lineup. All five lenses are spot on and highly desirable. And I do think Sony has to launch a f/1.2 autofocus lens lineup too. Just recently Sony stated that while f/1.0 or faster lenses would not make sense they are considering making f/1.2 af lenses.
Sony is rumored ot have an E-mount lens announcement before the start of the WPPI and CP+ shows in late February!
Here are the images of the other four lenses:
via MirrorlessRumors via Nokishita
