SAR reader GIl sent me that new deal info: You get a free $50 gift card with the A6000 at Amazon US (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).
And BestBuy has new Sony Open Box deals too (Click here). Special mention for those two:
Zeiss 55mm FE for $719 (Click here).
RX100 for $324 (Click here).
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New Sony A6300 owners may want to grab this one:
The perfect Tamron 18-200mm image stabilizated travelzoom lens got a $240 discount via Prodigital: You can have it in [shoplink 47625 ebay]Black (Click here)[/shoplink] or [shoplink 47626 ebay]Silver (Click here)[/shoplink]. If you want to read a few reviews of the Tamron check out the tests at Kurt Munger and ePhotozine.
New deals:
At BH: free accessories with the RX10II
At BH: $100 gift card with the A6000
At BH: $100 off on the RX100III kit
At BH: PNY card deals
Sony US officially reduced the A7II price. It’s now $200 off in all US stores like Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Also the first generation A7 got a $100 discount and sells for $998 at Amazon (Click here).
New FE lenses, Batis and RX10III in Stock:
The Sigma MC-11 adapter is in Stock for the first time at Amazon US (Click here).
Voigtlander 15mm III FE lens is in Stock at Amazon US (Click here).
50mm FE at BHphoto. Amazon. Adorama. FocusCamera. [shoplink 47526 ebay]eBay[/shoplink].
70-300mm FE at BHphoto. Amazon. Adorama. FocusCamera. [shoplink 47527 ebay]eBay[/shoplink].
Sony RX10III is in Stock at BHphoto (Click here).
Both Batis lenses are in Stock at BH, the 25mm Batis (Click here) and the 85mm Batis (Click here).
Some more A9 info from anonymous new source (therefore take it with a big grain of salt). He says he is in the Broadcast business and a Sony manager told him this about the A9:
From the small snippets I have gleaned:
Sensor around 70-80 Mpixel.
Better IBIS
They are going to sort out this buffer overflow issue
Better HDR whatever that means.
More “3D depth of sensor” I think they may be looking at some form of advanced “stacked sensor”
If the specs are correct this sounds ok to me! Just wondering how much it will cost if we already have to spill out $3,200 of the Sony A7rII.
But again keep in mind that this is a new source. What highly reliable sources told us so far about the A9 is this:
“The next generation flagship mirrorless camera from Sony will be a giant leap. It will drop a huge bomb in the imaging industry. It will not be A7III or A7RIII. It will be a new model above A7 series. I would say A9 (let’s name it as the new model). So the new A9 will have [shoplink 46602 ebay]dual XQD card slot[/shoplink], no CFast version, only XQD. A9 can do UNLIMITED RAW burst, UNLIMITED. The camera wont pause for buffering. The size will be bigger than [shoplink 46453 ebay]A7RII[/shoplink], but smaller than conventional DSLR, such as [shoplink 46766 ebay]5D3[/shoplink].”
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Sony 50mm 1.8 FE Lens Unboxing, AutoFocus and Image Test with an A7SII
Sony FE 50mm 1.8 First Impressions (Dsphotoblog):
wow really did not expect that kind of image quality and detail, also really beautiful bokeh and even some 3d pop on some images, so image quality is excellent. How is the autofocus? Well, unfortunately this is not a strength of this lens. First the autofocus is loud and it looks like there is a slow motor built in, so you will not get a silent and fast SSM lens here. It also looks like this lens will need a firmware update because it focuses back and forth till it gets the focus everytime and thats really not what you would expect from a native FE lens.
Gerd: “Since I just got the new nifty fifty from Sony Sony FE 50mm F1,8 and had the chance to test it on my Sony Alpha 7 MII today let me share my shots with the community. https://500px.com/gerdriedel/galleries/sony-fe50f18-lens-test The pics are mostly unedited (crop/rotation in some cases). 1 Shot was done also with an adapted Minolta MD 50 1,7 for comparison. I’m mostly happy with the lens although it searches for focus a lot, maybe a problem still with not using phase detection, not sure, i’m no pro.”
German readers can check out the video review by K&G.
The 50mm FE f/1.8 lens is in Stock:
In USA at BHphoto. Amazon. Adorama. FocusCamera. [shoplink 47526 ebay]eBay[/shoplink].
In Europe at Calumet Germany. Amazon.de. WexUK. Jessops. [shoplink 47526 ebay]eBay[/shoplink].
In Asia at Digitalrev. [shoplink 47526 ebay]eBay[/shoplink].
The 70-300mm FE lens is in Stock:
In USA at BHphoto. Amazon. Adorama. FocusCamera. [shoplink 47527 ebay]eBay[/shoplink].
In Europe at Calumet Germany. Amazon.co.uk WexUK. Jessops. [shoplink 47527 ebay]eBay[/shoplink].
In Asia at Digitalrev. [shoplink 47527 ebay]eBay[/shoplink].
Sony A7M2 Review | John Sison
Sony Alpha 7 Aktion: Bis zu 80 EUR Rabatt auf ausgewählte Objektive at Amazon.de
The A7r is pretty tough! (SonyAlphaForum).
A7Rm2 review, interesting part at 3:02, A7R might be to sensitive to water if you dont have plastic cap on the hot-shoe (if that was the case in the first place): https://youtu.be/gk-IMJ5yC1Q?t=3m2s
question: Exposure ‘best practices’ a7II –coming from a Pentax digital body (SonyAlphaForum).
Test – Sony G Master FE 24-70 mm f/2,8 (Focus Numerique).
New Sennheiser MKE 440 Compact Stereo Shotgun Microphone at BHphoto.
Jacob: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLnZY0QoShg MC-11 Adapter working pretty fast with A6000, very good news in my opinion”
David: “One of our customers suggested that I check out SAR and I thought I should reach out. The company I represent functions as a repairs sub-contractor for Sony Professional Services. We typically repair camcorders like the PMW series, but since the beginning of this year, we have been repairing Sony A7 series cameras for their local customers. Here is a link to our page about Sony Alpha repair https://digitronav.com/repair/camcorder-repair/sony-alpha-repair/”
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You save $150 on the Open Box Sony RX100m4 sold by [shoplink 47598 ebay]Onecall on eBay[/shoplink].
New deals:
At BH: free accessories with the RX10II
At BH: $100 gift card with the A6000
At BH: $100 off on the RX100III kit
At BH: PNY card deals
Sony US officially reduced the A7II price. It’s now $200 off in all US stores like Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Also the first generation A7 got a $100 discount and sells for $998 at Amazon (Click here).
New FE lenses, Batis and RX10III in Stock:
The Sigma MC-11 adapter is in Stock for the first time at Amazon US (Click here).
Voigtlander 15mm III FE lens is in Stock at Amazon US (Click here).
50mm FE at BHphoto. Amazon. Adorama. FocusCamera. [shoplink 47526 ebay]eBay[/shoplink].
70-300mm FE at BHphoto. Amazon. Adorama. FocusCamera. [shoplink 47527 ebay]eBay[/shoplink].
Sony RX10III is in Stock at BHphoto (Click here).
Both Batis lenses are in Stock at BH, the 25mm Batis (Click here) and the 85mm Batis (Click here).
Zeiss announced a new special case for Loxia lenses. You can preorder it now for $386 on BHphoto (Click here). SAR reader Tanner made an interetsing observation:
More deduction that rumor, but B&H has an interesting new case for the Loxia lenses in stock. Notice there are slots for 4 lenses. Currently there are only 3 lenses in the series. That does confirm that a new 4th lens with the same small outer diameter as the first 3 lenses is on the way! And probably sooner rather than later, otherwise they’d release a 3 slot case and sell a bigger case later.
P.S.: BHphoto is also offering full case with lens bundles (Check out here).
