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REVIEW: 50mm f/1.1 lens for £150! – Kamlan 50mm f/1.1 lens

New Data: Sony DSC-RX100M5 Photographic Dynamic Range (PDR) and Read Noise and Heatmaps (PhotonstoPhotos).
Loxia 21mm vs Tokina Firin 20mm (Mirrorlesscomparison).
Italian A99II review at Tomshardware.
Sony 85mm f/1.8 review by Ken Rockwell.

Javier: “I just wanted to share with you and the Sonyalpharumors followers the Timelapse I made with the Sony a6000 and the Sony a7. I shot this during my last tryp to Canary Islands ( La Palma, La Gomera and Tenerife ) on September 2017.
Thank you and keep on going with your amazing work!Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUm0gg4S-1E“

Herbert: “You missed the big show of the Baldachin-Spider yesterday in your garden? Look at my blog http://fotosaurier.de/?p=827 All photos shot with Sony A7RII and accessible in high resolution at flickr.”

Maarten: “Just finished a little HFR slowmotion video trying 100FPS and 250FPS: It looks really good! 1000FPS is continues and with sound!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY__nfYi-Gw”

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Still one more day to grab the PhotoPlus specials

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These deals at BHphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here) will last til tomorrow midnight.

Preorders:
Sony A7rIII at Amazon, Bhphoto, Adorama, FocusCamera, Calumet DE, Wex UK.
Sony 24-105mm at Amazon, Bhphoto, Adorama, FocusCamera, Calumet DE, Wex UK.

Sony savings:

FF cameras:
The Sony A7rII  now sells for $2,398 with lot free extras at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama and Focuscamera.
The Sony A7sII also sell for $2,398 with free extras at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama and Focuscamera.

APS-C cameras:
$70 off on the Sony 6300 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama and Focuscamera.
$100 off on the Sony 6000 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama and Focuscamera.
$100 off on the Sony 5100 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama and Focuscamera.
$200 off on the A6000 dual kit at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama and Focuscamera.

 

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New Sigma 16mm f/1.4 lens info by Dpreview and hands-on by Jason Vong

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We still have no info at all about the new Sigma 16mm f/1.4 pricing and shipment start. But at least we got a short Dpreview’s 16mm hands-on report. This is what they had to say about the new lens:

– In person, the new lens is a relatively small, but beautifully well-made prime
– At 405g (14 oz) it’s relatively heavy for its size
– While Sigma typically doesn’t make any specific claims about weather-sealing, a thin rubber ring around the lens throat should help keep dust and moisture from entering the camera.

Hands-on by Jason Vong:

Here is also a short interview with sigma by Cameta:

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This week SAR readers photos selection

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Pavel ‘Pasharome’ Vavilin‎
“Noname”
Mount Subasio, Italy
Sony E 35/1.8
ILCE-6000
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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.

Note: When sending a pic feel free to also add a link to your site to promote yourself!

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Sony A7rIII is the second best seller camera at Amazon system camera sales ranking

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Of course this isn’t a scientific sentence: But the Sony a7rIII is the second best camera at Amazon system camera sales ranking (Click here to see it). By comparison not event the a9 or A7sII camera reached the top three position. Still take those Amazon rankings as a pure relative indication.

The “bad” news is that the new 24-105mm FE lens doesn’t even make it into the top 100 ranking. But usually people doesn’t hurry so much on lens preorders anyway.

Preorders:
Sony A7rIII at Amazon, Bhphoto, Adorama, BuyDig, FocusCamera, Calumet DE, Wex UK. Sony Australia.
Sony 24-105mm at Amazon, Bhphoto, Adorama, BuyDig, FocusCamera, Calumet DE, Wex UK.

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

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Early estimated A7rm3 DR range from Photons to Photos sees no improvement over a7rm2

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Photonstophotos.net posted this chart based on estimated (Not actual measured”) Dynamic Range. I saw in the past that those estimations can be very off. So I wouldn’t read too much into it. Som why did I post this now? because this chart being shown on many website and I wanted to make it clear that is yet NOT the measured Dynamic Range.

Sony said that at low ISO the new A7rIII will be around 1 stop better than the A7rII. The chart above shows no such improvements. But my bet is on Sony and that actual measurements will show this improvement at Low ISO.

Preorders:
Sony A7rIII at Amazon, Bhphoto, Adorama, BuyDig, FocusCamera, Calumet DE, Wex UK. Sony Australia.
Sony 24-105mm at Amazon, Bhphoto, Adorama, BuyDig, FocusCamera, Calumet DE, Wex UK.

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

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