New European Black Friday deals on Sony

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Full Pre-Black Friday deals list on those pages at Amazon Germany, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.

Today we have those deals:
24-240mm FE for 759 Euro at Amazon Germany.
Sony A6000 with kit lens and SD car for 466 Euro at Amazon Germany.
RX10M3 for 999 Euro at at Amazon Germany.
Sony A6000 with kit lens for 439 Euro at Amazon Spain.
Bis zu 45% reduziert: Audio-Produkte und mehr von Sony at Amazon Germany.
Reduzierte Seagate Festplatten at Amazon Germany.

Sony A6300 for $699  at Amazon Germany.
Bis zu 25% reduziert: Solar-Powerbanks at Amazon Germany.
Bis zu 25% reduziert: Ausgewählte Multi-Kartenleser at Amazon Germany.
Bis zu 35% reduziert: Speicherprodukte von Transcend at Amazon Germany.
100 Euro off on the Sony LA-EA4 at Amazon Italy.
Save 10% on SMALLRIG Camera Cage at Amazon France.
Hasta un 20% de descuento en selección de estabilizadores Moza at Amazon Spain.

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Sony 24mm F1.4 GM review by Marc Alhadeff: “it is a new masterpiece from Sony”

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Sony 24mm f/1.4 GM lens at Bhphoto. Adorama. Amazon. Calumet Germany. WexUK.

Marc Alhadeff tested the new Sony 24mm GM lens. This is his conclusion:

The Sony 24mm F1.4 GM is a new masterpiece from Sony and well deserve its GM label. It is certainly one of the best 24mm if we consider all criteria together

  • Excellent sharpness wide open across the full field, even wide open (Note : for close distance corners are “only” very good at F1.4/F2)
  • Fast and accurate AF with very good Eye AF performance
  • Small and light
  • Excellent bokeh and very smooth background blur 
  • Fast Aperture : F1.4 : perfect for low light 
  • Very small focusing distance + F1.4 = perfect for small depth of field
  • Very good contrast and 3D effect at F1.4 for people portraits
  • No field curvature
  • Very low distorsion
  • Very low coma (suited for Astrophotography)
  • Suited for video thanks to click less aperture ring
  • Very good color rendition (but Zeiss Loxia 25mm F2.4 is excellent)
  • Very well built, weather sealed

There are however a few area where it is not “perfect”

  • Very small amount of CA
  • Resistance to flare is good but not excellent
  • Vignetting at F1.4 & F2 (a future Lightroom Lens profile will correct it)
  • Price (but in line with GM price range)

The lens is very versatile and will be the perfect choice for landscape, street photography, , low light, architecture, people reportage, full body portraits, astrophotography, and this  both in photo and in video

Sony 24mm f/1.4 GM lens at Bhphoto. Adorama. Amazon. Calumet Germany. WexUK.

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33% off on the Sony 128GB SF-M dual card pack sold by Adorama

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This special SD card offer is running for a limited time now at Adorama (Click here).

Voigtlander up to $150 rebates on four FE lenses:
Save $150 on the Voigtlander 10mm f/5.6 FE at BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama.
Save $150 on the Voigtlander 12mm f/5.6 FE at BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama.
Save $100 on the Voigtlander 35mm f/1.4 FE at BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama.
Save $150 on the Voigtlander 65mm f/2.0 FE at BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama.

All software deals:
1) You save 50% + additional 10% with our coupon code “AMBSAR” on the Capture One 2018 Styles Bundle (Click here). It includes 8 styles packs with a total of 112 styles.
2) Skylum launched the new Luminar 2018 with Sky enhancer tool. For a limited time you get this package with a $10 discount using our code “SAR” and extra Bonuses (see list below).

New Sigma E-mount lens preorders:
1) Sigma 40mm f/1.4 FE lens at Adorama, FocusCamera and BHphoto.
2) Sigma 56mm f/1.4 APS-C E lens at Adorama, FocusCamera and BHphoto.

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Nikon is confident they can beat Sony&Canon and become Number 1 in Full Frame “quite soon”

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I still have a fresh memory of the days when Samsung was claiming they would become the number one company in the system mirrorless camera world. Well it didn’t end well for them. I hope the following Nikon statement will not bring them bad luck too. In an interview released at Dpreview Nikon said:

“Our goal is to become number one in the full-frame market. We believe that we can achieve the number one position maybe quite soon”

Quite soon? Let’s pack folks, the game is over. Nikon won and your E-mount stopped to work as of today :)

On a serious note: My bet is Canon will still lead the pack in 3 years from now…

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Voigtlander 21mm f/3.5 FE Color-Skopar Review at Photographyblog: “excellent wide-angle prime lens”

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Voigtlander Color Skopar 21mm f/3.5 E-mount lens at Amazon and BHphoto.

Photographyblog tested the new Voigtlander FE lens and the conclusion is:

The super-compact and very lightweight Voigtlander 21mm F3.5 Color-Skopar is an excellent wide-angle prime lens that delivers great image quality. Shooting at the maximum f/3.5 aperture does reveal a very minor reduction in sharpness in the centre of the frame, but this is quickly resolved by stopping down to f/4. The edges aren’t quite so sharp, though, with f/8-f/16 producing the best results.

In addition to the edge sharpness, there are a couple of other image quality drawbacks to the Voigtlander 21mm F3.5 Color-Skopar. Vignetting is obvious wide-open at f/3.5, and still fairly evident at f/5.6, although in real-world use it’s less of a problem than when photographing a white wall/test-chart. The lens also suffered from some rather obvious purple and green fringing in high-contrast shots. The Voigtlander 21mm F3.5 Color-Skopar does deliver nice sun-stars though thanks to its ten-blade aperture.

The Voigtlander 21mm F3.5 Color-Skopar is a veritable pleasure to use, thanks to its superb build quality, smooth focus ring and tactile aperture ring. As this is a manual-focus only lens, you’d expect this aspect of the operation to be intuitive, and so it proved. Together with the A7R II’s excellent Peaking and Manual Focus Assist features, the Voigtlander 21mm F3.5 Color-Skopar delivered a very high percentage of keepers. The 20cm minimum focusing distance also makes the lens surprisingly versatile when shooting close subjects.

We did miss having a de-clickable aperture ring, though, which recent Voigtlander lenses designed from the ground-up for the Sony FE system have offered, making this lens less suitable for video use.

In summary, the Voigtlander Nokton Classic 35mm F1.4 is a very compact, extremely well-built and affordable wide-angle prime lens for full-frame E-Mount Sony owners. Highly Recommended!

Voigtlander Color Skopar 21mm f/3.5 E-mount lens at Amazon and BHphoto. In Europe at PCHstore.

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New European Black Friday deals on the Sony A6300 and accessories

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Today we got a new bunch of European Black Friday deals. Full deals list on those pages at Amazon Germany, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.

Some Highlighted deals:

Sony A6300 for $699  at Amazon Germany.
Bis zu 25% reduziert: Solar-Powerbanks at Amazon Germany.
Bis zu 25% reduziert: Ausgewählte Multi-Kartenleser at Amazon Germany.
Bis zu 35% reduziert: Speicherprodukte von Transcend at Amazon Germany.
100 Euro off on the Sony LA-EA4 at Amazon Italy.
Save 10% on SMALLRIG Camera Cage at Amazon France.
Hasta un 20% de descuento en selección de estabilizadores Moza at Amazon Spain.

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