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5 Reasons to Get A Grip: The Breakdown with Miguel Quiles

Human Color Vision Enhanced to 4 Colors (Image Sensor World).
How to Lock🔒 Your Sony a6500 Exposure Settings (That1CameraGuy).
35mm f/2 AF compact lens- when if ever? (SonyAlphaForum).
How To Shoot Massive 10 K Photos With A Mirrorless Camera And A Very Old Lens (Mathieu Stern).
ikan Beholder MS-PRO 3-Axis Gimbal Stabilizer for Mirrorless Cameras (Explora).
Retrofitting a USSR 50mm f1.2 projectors lens to Sony E-mount with 3D printed parts (Imgur.com).
Sony FE 100mm STF test at Focus Numerique.
Review: Irix 15mm f2.4 Blackstone at Neumayr Art.

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The Sony FE 85mm is back in Stock at Amazon and BHphoto!

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The Sony FE 85mm lens is back in Stock at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.

Today only you save $30 on the Bolt Flash for Sony cameras sold by BHphoto: And Europen readers have a gold box on the Sony A7r at Amazon DE (Click here).

New Sony USA deals:

Sony A7 cameras:
$200 off and free extras on the A7rII at Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.
$100 off on the A7sII at Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.
$50 off on the A7II at Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.
$50 off on the A7 at Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.

Sony A6300-A6000-A5100:
$150 off on the A6300 with 16-50mm lens at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon.
$100 off on the A6300 at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon.
$300 off on the A6000 Dual lens kit sold by Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.
$100 off on the A5100 with 16-50mm lens at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon

Full Frame E-mount lenses:
$100 off on the Zeiss 5omm f/1.4 lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
$100 off on the 70-200mm G lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the 16-35mm f/4.0 Zeiss lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
$100 off on the 24-70mm f/4.0 Zeiss lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
$100 off on the 70-300mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the 24-240mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the Zeiss 55mm f/1.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.

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(SR3) 135mm FE will be announced months after the 16-35mm GM (and few specs)

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Image on top shows the Mitakon 135mm f/1.4. The new Sony FE should be f/1.8 or 2.0

Yesterday a trusted source confirmed both the 16-35mm f/2.8 GM and the 135mm FE lens are due to be launched this year. Today a new source shared few more details that I think could be correct:

There’s almost no chance the new 135 GM will be anounced together with 16-35 GM. The zoom is ready right now and the 135 is still being developed. We are pretty sure we will have to wait AT LEAST 3 months.

What is almost sure for about FE 135 GM:
– lack of stabilization
– weather sealed
– aperture is still a question but for now we can say it will be f/1.8 for 80% chance. There were ideas that it should be even f/1.4 as the target of the new lens is to be a killer for other portrait lenses but PERSONALLY I don’t give big chances on that. The value of f/2.0 is rather impossible.

Thanks Source!

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Sending a Sony a7S to the stratosphere to film the Northern Lights

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I just got this mail from Bryan:

My name is Bryan Chan, representing a group of aerospace researchers and engineers called Night Crew Labs. I’m writing to share a story and video about sending a Sony a7S to near-space to film the aurora borealis (northern lights) from the stratosphere, for the first time ever! The camera payload reached a max altitude of 78,254 feet.

My team traveled to Alaska and launched a weather balloon along with a Sony a7S with a fast f/1.4 lens at ISO 51,000, and Atomos Ninja Flame external recorder to capture video with sweeping views of the aurora. The recovery of the camera was another adventure in itself, as we had to hire a plane to find it and snowshoe out several miles in freezing temperatures.

The aurora stratosphere video we put together can be found here: https://youtu.be/vlyavVJ-ZXE  (SAR note: I embeded the video at bottom of this message)
Recovery video here: https://youtu.be/BsIEGbRTOQ4
More information behind the project is here: http://nightcrewlabs.com/projects/alaska/aurora/

Thanks,
Bryan

Great work folks!

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Schneider Optics, NAB 2017

how to color your photos (using the hsl tool) at Brevite.
Sony a6500 review at CameraJabber.
Top 50 Best Sony Alpha / A Mount Lenses 2017 (ePhotozine).
Things We Love: Leica Table Tripods and Ball Heads (Explora).
Shooting Weddings with the Sony a99ii (Leonardo Studios).
Sony FE 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G OSS Review (Mirrorlessons).
New images of the production ready Light L16 camera! (Mirrorlessrumors).
Sony Funds Three TPS Member Projects (Thephotosociety)

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