José Ramos Photography‎
“The Spirits Return”
Sony a7R + Zeiss 16-35mm f4
ISO: 1600
Exposure: 30 seconds
Focus: Manual
Wireless Shutter Release
Manfrotto 055XPRO3 tripod

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There are still a few left in Stock so grab them: Sony A7s with $850 discount and 1 year US seller warranty on [shoplink 41880 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

New RX1rII, A7sII, Loxia 21mm store links:
Sony A7sII is now shipping in USA at Amazon, BHphoto, FocusCamera, Adorama. And in Europe/Asia at ParkCameras, WexUK, Jessops and Digitalrev.
Loxia 21mm FE lens at BHphoto and Adorama. In Europe at WexUK.
RX1rII at Bhphoto, Amazon and Adorama.

Reuters reports that Sony is acquiring the Toshiba image sensor business. This is quite a big news! Both Toshiba tech and production facility will help Sony to increase their market share. Right now Sony produces 40% of the worldwide sensor production.

I am wondering how other companies like Samsung and Canon can keep up with Sony’s sensor powers. Maybe in 2-3 years from now Sony’s E-mount cameras will be a generation ahead over the competition…

There is a list of PhotoPlus specials running at BHphoto (Click here to see them all).

And there is another new deal: You get the 55mm FE Zeiss lens for $729 and 3 years US seller warranty at [shoplink 41837 ebay]GetDigital on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

A long list of new refurbished Sony items can be found on Amazon and eBay. Here a few of the hottest deals with link to the ebay page:
[shoplink 41843 ebay]Sony A7s $1899[/shoplink].
[shoplink 41844 ebay]Sony A7r $1299[/shoplink].
[shoplink 41840 ebay]55mm FE for $749[/shoplink].
[shoplink 41841 ebay]24-240mm FE for $749[/shoplink].
[shoplink 41842 ebay]Sony A7 $829[/shoplink].
[shoplink 41846 ebay]18-200mm APS-C E-mount lens for $569[/shoplink].

Lensrentals tested a few E-mount lenses and confirms that Sony has some issues on delivering consistent quality on their lenses. There are larger copy-to-copy variations than with Nikon and Canon lenses.

Mostly we are just starting with FE lens testing. Over the next few weeks, we should get a good handle on how the Sony lenses compare to each other.
I think there’s no question we’ve seen support for what a lot of people are claiming: the [shoplink 41854 ebay]35mm f/1.4 ZA lens[/shoplink] is very likely to have some tilt with one corner or side out of the plane of focus. Depending on what you photograph this may make no difference to you, or may be a huge issue. But I doubt sending copy after copy back is going to make much difference (you may trade a soft right upper corner for a slightly soft left side, etc.). We’ve taken a couple of these apart and there’s not a ton of optical adjustments that can be made: there are a set of shims behind the front group that can be modified a bit, but it’s a crude and very time-consuming adjustment, so I don’t think it’s generally going to be something that can be fixed.
The [shoplink 41856 ebay]55mm f/1.8[/shoplink] is really a good lens, very sharp and consistently made. The [shoplink 41855 ebay]90 mm f/2.8[/shoplink] is a decent lens, reasonably sharp, but there seems to be a fair bit of copy-to-copy variation in overall sharpness.
All that being said, these lenses may look better on-camera than on the optical bench because there seems to be at least some modification of files as the raw is written. We’ll get a better handle on that as we test more lenses.

In short: Sony really has to improve the quality control on the production chain.