Amazon ranking: Sony A7rIII is the best selling Sony system camera

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First a weird note: Amazon lists the action camera in the system camera category.

According to Amazon system camera sales ranking (Click here) the A7rIII is best Sony selling camera. And as usual also the A6000 sales are very strong. When it comes to the lens ranking lets see if you can guess what lens is selling best (Guess and Click here to see).

To see the rankins in all different Amazon countries go here:
Camera ranking at Amazon US, Amazon CA, Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon IT, Amazon FR, Amazon ES.
Lens ranking at Amazon US, Amazon CA, Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon IT, Amazon FR, Amazon ES.

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Sony Tidbits…

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Meike 35mm F1.7 Lens Review | John Sison

Hands-On with the Simple-Interfaced Rhino Motion Slider Systems (Explora).
Shooting at night with the Sony A7R III (CameraJabber).
Sigma 16mm F1.4 DC DN Contemporary for Sony E-mount sample gallery (Dpreview).
Sony Alpha 7R III im Einsatz: Das Ende aller Wünsche? (Photoscala).
Why You Need a 135mm f2 Lens (Micael Widell).
Moza Air Review (Max Yuryev).

More informal and personal photos from SAR Admin Andrea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube.

We have our own Facebook camera groups and pages you can join to discuss the upcoming new cameras in detail:
Sony A9 group and Sony A9 page.
Sony A7rIII group and Sony A7rIII page
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.

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Sony A7RIII pixel shift with a vintage lens and a Sony A7rII star eater workaround

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Image from the Star Eater Petition which asks Sony to fix the issue

David Kilpatrick from Photoclubalpha tested the Sony A7RIII pixel shift with a vintage Takumar lens. The conclusion:

Multi-shot pixel shift images, though only 120MB uncompressed, are so detailed that some won’t compress much at all. I have only ever seen this before from medium format, and that includes the Extra Fine single shot regular files.

And Jim Kasson found a Sony a7RII star-eater workaround:

The good news: The a7RII star-eating spatial filtering that takes place at 4 seconds and longer exposures does not occur in continuous low or continuous high shutter modes.
The bad news is that you have to put up with a little more noise and 12-bit precision. As bad news goes, that’s pretty good. The increase in noise is small, and the read noise at ISO 640 provides sufficient dither that you won’t miss those missing bits (at higher ISOs there will be even more read noise, and the increaded noise from the 12-bit conversions will be less significant). There is some question about what that horizontal periodicity means for astrophotography, and I would be interested in hearing from people who use this workaround on real stars.

Sony A7rIII at Amazon, Bhphoto, Adorama, BuyDig, FocusCamera, Calumet DE, Wex UK. Photo Porst Neuwied. Sony Netherland. Sony Australia. Sony Japan.

Join the A7rIII facebook group to discuss the camera features and tests.

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Sony A9 firmware update 2.0 released. And new 500 Euro price cut too.

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Sony released the new firmware update for the Sony A9. At the same time in Europe there has been a 500 price cut on the camera like you can see here at Calumetphoto.de.

Benefits and improvements from the latest update

  • Enhance Continuous AF
    • Enhances continuous auto focus on moving subjects
    • Enhances AF-C stability while zooming
  • Adds new or enhanced functions for sports/news media photography professionals
    • New function: assign protecting images to custom key
    • New function: FTP transfer protected files at once *1
    • Displays wired LAN MAC address
    • Inputs IPTC metadata to files *2
    • Inputs camera serial number to metadata
  • Others
    • Improves all-round operational stability
    • Improves the accuracy of the overheating warning

*1: Only the images protected on Ver.2.00.
*2: Need to create IPTC information beforehand by using the “IPTC Metadata Preset” software.

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Sony Tidbits…

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Best A7RIII Camera Settings for Shooting Action, Wildlife and Sports

6 Common Mistakes of the Low-Budget Filmmaker (Explora).
Sony 100-400mm review is it good enough for fashion (David Oastler).
The Sony A7rIII is named “DSLM camera of the year” at the german site “dkamera.de”
Canon SL2 Review vs Sony a6000 Series Cameras (Photorec).
My Favorite Sony Camera and Lenses of 2017 (That1CameraGuy).

More informal and personal photos from SAR Admin Andrea on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube.

Jon: “I have a gallery of images made with a combination most people wouldn’t normally see, if you’d like to share.   Sony a7R III with the Sony 24-240mm.   As of Jan 6, 2018 every photo in this gallery made with the a7R III was made with the 24-240.  It’s a much better combination than many people would believe.
Here is the link:
http://www.thephotographyhobbyist.com/CAMERAGEAR/Sony-a7R-III-Gallery/”

David: ” youtube video showing the a9 in use for a 3 model low light session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euO5pHcM4AU“

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