This week SAR readers photos selection.

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Stan Moniz
A 6 image panoramic stitch of the Milky Way rising over a beautiful single tree in the Carizzo plains. Shot with the Sony a6300 and Tokina 11-20mm f2.8

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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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Super FE deals at Adorama: Free $200 Gift Card on the new Sony GM 24-70mm f/2.8 FE lens. $100 on the FE 70-300mm and more!

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There is a first superdeal on the new 24-70mm GM lens. You get a free $200 gift card with the lens at Adorama (Click here). And $100 gift card on the new FE 70-300mm lens too (Click here). But there are gift cards on many current E-mount lenses:

FE lenses:
$100 gift card on the Sony 16-35mm (Click here).
$50 gift card on the Sony 24-70mm (Click here).
$50 gift card on the Sony 24-240mm (Click here).
$25 gift card on the Sony 28mm (Click here).
$150 gift card on the Sony 28-135mm (Click here).
$50 gift card on the Sony 35mm f/1.4 (Click here).
$50 gift card on the Sony 35mm f/2.8 (Click here).
$50 gift card on the Sony 55mm (Click here).
$100 gift card on the Sony 70-200mm (Click here).
$50 gift card on the Sony 90mm (Click here).

APS-C E-mount lenses:
$50 gift card on the Sony 10-18mm (Click here).
$25 gift card on the Sony 16-50mm (Click here).
$50 gift card on the Sony 16-70mm (Click here).
$25 gift card on the Sony 18-55mm (Click here).
$50 gift card on the Sony 18-105mm (Click here).
$50 gift card on the Sony 18-200mm (Click here).
$50 gift card on the Sony 18-200mm (Click here).
$50 gift card on the Sony 18-200mm PZ (Click here).
$100 gift card on the Sony 24mm (Click here).
$25 gift card on the Sony 28-70mm (Click here).
$25 gift card on the Sony 30mm (Click here).
$50 gift card on the Sony 35mm (Click here).
$25 gift card on the Sony 55-210mm (Click here).

More Sony deals:
The Zeiss Batis 85mm is in Stock now at BHphoto (Click here).
The Batis 25mm lens is in Stock at FocusCamera (Click here).
$300 off on the Zeiss 12mm lens at BHphoto (Click here).
New Vello Nikon F to Sony E autofocus adapter is available for preorder at BHphoto (Click here).
Open Box [shoplink 46662 ebay]24-7mm FE for $857 (Click here)[/shoplink].
Open Box [shoplink 46663 ebay]35mm FE for $559 (Click here)[/shoplink].
Open Box [shoplink 46664 ebay]16-35mm FE for $1,149 (Click here)[/shoplink].

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85mm GM lens seems to have (temporary?) autofocus noise issues

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Crispyphotos on SonyAlphaForum shared that video where you can hear the autofocus ring noise. The noise is heard by all lens owners and is reported on other forums too (Fredmiranda and Dpreview).

Few readers reported that after a couple of hundred shots the noise seems to become less worse. So maybe that’s just a temporary issue that goes away after some use. SAR readers are free to comment thsi post to share their experience!

GM lens store links:
85mm f/1.4 GM FE at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, BestBuy. Amazon Germany. Calumetphoto.de. WexUK. Jessops.
24-70mm f/2.8 GM FE at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, BestBuy. Amazon Germany. Calumetphoto.de. WexUK. Jessops.

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(SR5) Zeiss announcement on April 14 at 11am London time!

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The Zeiss teaser at Zeiss Lens Russia (here on Facebook).

We got a confirmation that Zeiss has scheduled a product announcement event on April 14 at around 11am London time. It’s yet not 100% confirmed but it’s highly likely they will announce at least a new Batis 18mm lens!

Just least hope Zeiss will increase the production of all current Batis lenses too!
Batis 85mm in Stock status at [shopcountry 45791].
Batis 25mm in Stock status at [shopcountry 45790].

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Sony Tidbits…

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Sony A6300 vs A6000 comprehensive comparison and review

Sony with APS-C sensors-will they ever be obsolete? (SonyAlphaForum).
Master E Mount lens list from PMRphoto.
2016 January Cipa report: Digital camera sales dropped by 20%! (Mirrorlessrumors).
Cactus V6 Mk II S promises Sony users the abilty to shoot with almost any brand of flashgun – off-camera and HSS (Amateur Photographer).
Sony’s RX10 III is an impressive but overly expensive camera (Engadget).
70-200mm f/2.8 an unbelievable mess on the Amazon (SonyAlphaForum).

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Zeiss Batis 85mm in Stock at BHphoto (after exactly 12 months of waiting!)

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The Zeiss Batis 85mm is in Stock now at BHphoto (Click here). And it took exactly 11 months and 16 days to get to this point…to see the lens in Stock at BH! :)

More Sony deals:
Free $200 gift card with the 24-70mm GM lens at Adorama (Click here).
The Batis 25mm lens is in Stock at FocusCamera (Click here).
$300 off on the Zeiss 12mm lens at BHphoto (Click here).
New Vello Nikon F to Sony E autofocus adapter is available for preorder at BHphoto (Click here).
Open Box [shoplink 46662 ebay]24-7mm FE for $857 (Click here)[/shoplink].
Open Box [shoplink 46663 ebay]35mm FE for $559 (Click here)[/shoplink].
Open Box [shoplink 46664 ebay]16-35mm FE for $1,149 (Click here)[/shoplink].

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Bad science and dissing the Sony A7 FE concept (David Kilpatrick)

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David Kilpatrick on Photoclubalpha  argumented with founded tech background dismisses the groundless myth that a shorter mount to focal plane register (body thickness) cause any problems with lens design.

In fact the E-mount makes it possible to design slightly smaller medium to long zooms and very much smaller wide-angles, and normal sized standard lenses. Where there is potential for Sony native lenses to be small, there’s very limited potential for this with DSLRs.

Thanks David for this!

P.S.: Also Photochirp explained some facts around the E-mount system.

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