This week SAR readers photos selection

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Igor Pavloff on SonyAlphaForum
sony A7s 55mm fe + 16-35mm + 85mm 1.8 batis

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3) A selection of most liked pictures by the community and by me SAR admin will be posted weekly on SAR.

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Gold Box deal on the Rokinon 8mm f/2.8 E-mount lens!

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There is a new Godl Box deal on the Rokinon 8mm f/2.8 APS-C E-mount lens at Amazon US (Click here).

Newly announced Sony, Tamron and Zeiss on preorders:
Sony 50mm f/2.8 FE macro lens at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon and FocusCamera. And in Europe at Cyberport and Wexphotographic. Will begin shipping Fri, Sep 30.
Zeiss 21-100mm T2.9-3.9 Compact Zoom LWZ E-mount lens at BHphoto (Click here). Will begin shipping January 2017.
150-60mm Tamron A-mount lens can be preordered at Bhphoto (Click here). Will begin shipping Wed, Sep 28.
Sony MDR-1000X Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones at BHphoto (Click here). Will begin shipping Sun, Oct 16.

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Two new APS-C E-mount lenses from Meike: 12mm f/2.8 and the 8mm f/3.5 fisheye

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Today Meike released two new ASP-C E-mount lenses:

  1. The new 12mm f/2.8 (Chinese presentation page at MKgrip)
  2. 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye

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Meike already had four E-mount lenses in their portfolio before today’s announcement:
Meike 50mm f/0.95 at Amazon and [shoplink 48585 ebay]eBay[/shoplink].
Meike 28mm f/2.8 at Amazon and [shoplink 48583 ebay]eBay[/shoplink].
Meike 35mm f/1.7 at Amazon and [shoplink 48584 ebay]eBay[/shoplink].
Meike 50mm f/2.0 at Amazon and [shoplink 48582 ebay]eBay[/shoplink].

found via ePhotozine and Mirrorlessrumors.

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Kipon launches new medium format focal length reducer adapters for Pentax and Mamiya lenses!

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Kipon announced plenty of new medium format focal length reducer E-mount adapters. They now offer a total of four adapters:

BAVEYES HASSELBLAD-SONY E 0.7x
BAVEYES PENTAX645-SONY E 0.7x
BAVEYES PENTAX67-SONY E 0.7x
BAVEYES MAMIYA645-SONY E 0.7x

Kipon did yet not unveil how much these will cost and when they will ship. All their current Baveyes adapter can be found on [shoplink 51057 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

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Sony Tidbits…

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1 SimpleTrick to Adapt any Lens on your Camera

Camera Releases and Cadence (Infographic at Senzo)
More flora via adapted lenses on A7II (SonyAlphaForum).
Review: Taking the ‘Zero Distortion’ Lowa 12mm f/2.8 for a Spin (PetaPixel).
Sennheiser Wireless Mics Operating in the A1 Frequency Band (Explora).
To write a guest post on SAR follow the instruction on that page.

Ivan:I’ve shoot a small funny ad spot on Sony A7SII and Sony 24-70/2.8 ZA lens using available light of a night city.
Here it is https://vimeo.com/180015417

Hans:This week I got my Sony 70-200/2.8 G-Master and shot my first pics. Some with 1.4x and 2.0x tele converter. The results are in this album on Flickr: https://flic.kr/s/aHskCigy9s

Evan:https://youtu.be/m-NIk5jTxFs. I also put up a blog for the behind the scenes action and details: http://EvanWasHerePhotography.com/2016/08/09/bts-elliana-test-shoot/

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Amazon Gold Box deal on the Godox Thinklite TT685S TTL High Speed Flash for Sony

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The Godox Flash for Sony is on Gold Box at Amazon US (Click here).

Newly announced Sony, Tamron and Zeiss on preorders:
Sony 50mm f/2.8 FE macro lens at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon and FocusCamera. And in Europe at Cyberport and Wexphotographic. Will begin shipping Fri, Sep 30.
Zeiss 21-100mm T2.9-3.9 Compact Zoom LWZ E-mount lens at BHphoto (Click here). Will begin shipping January 2017.
150-60mm Tamron A-mount lens can be preordered at Bhphoto (Click here). Will begin shipping Wed, Sep 28.
Sony MDR-1000X Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones at BHphoto (Click here). Will begin shipping Sun, Oct 16.

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Curiosity: Last APS-C E-mount lens was announced over 3 years ago!

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First curiosity: You should check out the top seller lenses list at Amazon US (Click here). And you will notice a surprise. The three best selling Sony lenses are not GM or FE lenses but all APS-C E-mount. Surprised? Me not!

Second curiosity: Back in August 27, 2013 Sony announced the very last ASP-C E-mount lens, the Sony E PZ 18-105mm F4 G OSS. And just like it happened with A-mount Sony stopped every ASP-C E-mount camera development and release to focus on the FE lenses. Sony’s big argument for that step is that FF E-mount lenses can be used on ASP-C E-mount cameras too. But obviously there are three caveats with this:

  1. FE lenses are designed for a specific FF focal length. Example: The 24-70mm FE lens is going to be a pretty useless 36-105mm lens on the A6300.
  2. FE lenses are more expensive than ASP-C lenses (mainly because they have to be bigger)
  3. FE lenses are unneccessary bigger because they are designed to cover a much larger image circle. This means you end up with things like this: The 85mm f/1.4 GM is a lot bigger than the Fuji 56mm  f/1.2 lens (84mm FF equivalent)

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Image via Camerasize.

This post is simply a reminder for Sony to not forget proper APS-C lens development! You know…you probably will sell them all anyway! :)

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