A6500 and RX100m5 now available for preorder at Amazon US as well

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After BH and Adorama also Amazon is now accepting preorders on the new A6500 (Click here) and the RX100m5 (Click here). The A6500 will start shipping out on December 6 while the RX100m5 will ship much earlier on October 28.

New Sony A6500 and RX100m5 preorder links:
A6500 at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama. In EU at WexUK. PCHstore.
RX100m5 at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama. In EU at WexUK. PCHstore.
New Underwater housing for all RX100 cameras at BHphoto, Adorama.

All other new Sony stuff on preorder:
Sony A99II at BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon. Calumet Germany and WexUK.
Loxia 85mm f/2.4 at BHphoto and Adorama.
Tamron 150-600mm G2 A-mount lens at Bhphoto.Rokinon 35mm f/1.2 APS-C E-mount lens at BHphoto.
Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 autofocus FE lens at Amazon and BHphoto.
Lensbaby Trio 28mm E-mount lens at BHphoto, Adorama and WexUK.

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Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki confirms in video interview they have a Sony FE lens roadmap

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Lensvid interviewed Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki. At minute 3.45 you can hear him confirm that they “have a plan to do FE lenses”.

Few more tidbits:

  • They will consider making APS-C E-mount kit zoom
  • They are considering making macro E-mount lenses too

As a side note watch the full video! He is funny and very honest when he takes about why he is keeping the DP Camera business. I have my highest respect for Mr. Kazuto Yamaki!

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Sony Tidbits…

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FíRIN 20mm F2 FE MF

ZEISS Milvus 2/135 – The Ultimate Portrait Lens (Lenspire).
Cristina Mittermeier Honored By The Imaging Alliance (Alphauniverse).
Photokina 2016: The first PL-mounted medium format 4K video camera you can actually buy…from Alpa and Hasselblad (Newsshooter).
14 days in Iceland only with A7r2 & 24-70 2.8 GM (SonyAlphaForum).
Fujifilm X-T2 vs. Sony a7S II (Cinema5D).
Sony Bravia 4K HDR Tv commercial behind the scenes by Alin Popescu.
Sony Planar T* FE 50mm f/1.4 ZA Lens my first pics of my friend Liuthier (SonyAlphaForum).

Lensvid: “We just published another interesting video from Photokina – this time it is a quick demo of the Techart PRO AF adapter:
https://lensvid.com/gear/lensvid-exclusive-techart-pro-adaptor-demo-turn-any-mf-lens-into-an-af-lens/
You probably reported this early this year but they claim that with an extra adapter you can adapt basically any MF lens (Canon/Nikon etc.) to be an AF on a Sony body. B.T.W. in the article I mentioned what Leica thinks about this :)
P.S. the strange focus issue in the start of the video – the A6300 + Sigma 30mm f/1.4 miss focus – annoying (I really hope Sony will come up with a new version – the lack of IBIS on this camera drove us crazy during the show as well as the low battery and super annoying menus and buttons).”

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An interesting “hint” about a possible Batis 135mm f/2.0 lens…

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SAR reader P. sent me this:

This email is a bit weird haha, but I think I might have worked out what the next zeiss lenses might be for e-mount. If you look at this site, http://www.zeiss.de/corporate/de_de/zeiss-corporate-newsroom/news/pressemitteilungen.html?id=photokina-2016-new-industrial-lenses you can see four “interlock lenses”. ZEISS Interlock Compact: Planar T* 2/50, Sonnar T* 2.4/85, Distagon T* 2.8/21, Biogon T* 2/35. These are the aperture and focal lengths of the zeiss loxia lenses and they look like them too; the weights aren’t the same however. Then recently they announced a 15mm f/2.8, a 18mm f/2.8, and a 135mm f/2.
 “New members have also been added to the ZEISS Interlock family of industrial lenses: ZEISS is expanding the series with three fixed focal lengths: 2.8/15, 2.8/18 and 2/135”. There’s already a zeiss batis 18mm f/2.8 lens, so my theory is that the 15mm f/2.8 is too close to the zeiss batis 18mm f/2.8, so that will be a Zeiss Loxia. Then the 135mm f/2 will be a Zeiss Batis (this makes more sense since the filter size will fit).
 This makes quite a lot of sense, because you can have a 15mm, a 21mm, 35mm and an 85mm in the zeiss loxia line, then in the zeiss batis line you can have 18mm, 25mm, 85mm and 135mm. None of the focal lengths step on each other and they’d be evenly spread out.

Photochirp is just speculating…but we know a Batis lens is coming and that it’s likely to be a tele lens. The specs could be close to the 135mm f/2.0 Interlock lens (PDF sheet here).

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