For some mysterious reasons the Sony 50mm FE macro lens got a $150 price drop at Amazon US (Click here). This is directly sold by Amazon itself and I bet this deal will be over soon.
UPDATE: There is also a $90 discount on the Sony 50mm f/1.8 E-mount lens.
It’s always terribly hard with Sony to know exactly what’s going to be announced. But that little I can tell you for sure: We will get one more announcement within the next 4-6 weeks. I am not sure if the announcement will be made before the Photoplus show in NYC or 2-3 weeks after the event (A7II was announced 3 weeks after the show on Nov 20, 2014).
Following logic and rumors A7III would be mature for an announcement. But also the RX1rII, A5100, RX100 cameras are in need for a replacement. 135mm and 400mm FE lenses are also hot candidates for an announcement.
I hope this time the announcement will be more exciting than the previous one for the RX10mIV.
If you do own A-mount glass you might be interested in this: K&F announced a new adapter that let’s you use Sony A-mount lenses on Leica M-mount cameras. It’s going on sale in Japan for ¥ 4.800 (tax excluded).
Shooting Sports with The Sony A9 & Sigma 120-300mm f/2.8 DG OS HSM Sport, MC11
Meyer-Optik-Goerlitz Primoplan 58mm f/1.9 Review (Photographyblog).
News from the International Broadcasting Convention 2017 (Explora).
Sony Support for Mexico Earthquake Relief Efforts
Falcon Eyes Flexible RX-18TD Led Light (Personal View).
The ON1 Photo RAW 2018 Beta has been released: on1.com/promo/photo-raw-2018-beta/
Macphun released an updated for their Aurora HDR 2018
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The Contax 645 to Sony E-mount autofocus adapter is in Stock for the first time at Amazon US. It’s expensive but on the other hand if you do own a set of those super Contax lenses it might be worth for you to buy it.
Those are all 645 medium format lenses you can use with autofocus support:
[shoplink 39632 ebay]Distagon T* 35/3.5 (ebay search link here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 39633 ebay]Distagon T* 45/2.8 (ebay search link here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 39634 ebay]Distagon T* 55/3.5 (ebay search link here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 39635 ebay]Vario-Sonnar T* 45–90/4.5 (ebay search link here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 39636 ebay]Planar T* 80/2 (ebay search link here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 39637 ebay]Sonnar T* 140/2.8 (ebay search link here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 39638 ebay]Sonnar T* 210/4 (ebay search link here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 39639 ebay]Tele-Apotessar T* 350/4 (ebay search link here)[/shoplink].
David Braddon-Mitchell tested the new Voigtländer 40mm f/1.2 Nokton FE lens and concludes:
“This lens has some very beautiful aspects. The bokeh is just glorious in many situations. Its speed means you can use a 40mm lens for portraits and get blur comparable to a 1.4/50, thus reducing the one disadvantage, to my taste, of a slightly wider standard lens for environmental portraiture.
What makes it possibly attractive is the speed: for street, for environmental portraits, for playing with the glorious bokeh in the lit-up nighttime of the city (sorry I have no samples of that sort yet!) For all that, it appears give to give excellent results across much of the field stopped down. Of course this will be a lot less appealing if chromatic aberration , flare and backlit bokeh aren’t good, so that’s what I’ll be testing next.”
The Lens is listed at Amazon and BHphoto without a pricing info.
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Dancing Lights
I had a long evening/night trying to capture the lovely lights dancing in the sky.
Gear used: A7II + 28mm f/2
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