Sony drops the price on many camcorders including the Sony NEX-EA50UH E-mount cam.

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A long list of Sony camcorders got a price drop at Adorama (Click here). The list includes the E-mount NEX-EA50UH camera.

Sony refurbished deals:
[shoplink 35456 ebay]Sony A7r for $1,399 (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 35457 ebay]Zeiss 16-35mm for $1,199 (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 35458 ebay]16mm for $149 (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 35459 ebay]55-210mm for $164 (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 35460 ebay]Sony A3000 for $199 (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 35461 ebay]Zeiss 55mm for $1749 (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 35383 ebay]A5000 double lens kit for $399 (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 35382 ebay]A6000 double lens kit for $649 (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 35381 ebay]NEX-5T double lens kit for $399 (Click here)[/shoplink].

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LOL: Naked guy says RX100m3 is radioactive :)

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A paranoic-vegan naked guy (let me have some fun describing him) made that very (un)scientific test to claim the [shoplink 35573 ebay]RX100m3[/shoplink] is a dangerous radioactive camera. And he used a $34 ghost hunting Gauss Master (here on Amazon) to measure the radiation (LOL!).
I saw the video posted on some forums and thought it would be good the debunk the myth also with the little help of Marc Morris. He commented the video and said:

Remarkable paranoia. I’m impressed with your commitment but remain thoroughly UNswayed. All communicative products have screens of various properties and have EMR output that is negligible at best. Your HDTV makes the camera look like a piker, your cellphone is ALWAYS on and and is either on or near your person: no lead carrier blocks the radiation you’re so frightened of. It’s unavoidable. Most Gaussmeters of the cost effective variety will give seriously false readings when placed too closely to portable electronics like a cell phone or a camera: you are using a device that is not built to measure portable electronics accurately. What that thing is saying is that this RX100M3 is putting out a reading that meets the average reading of a hair dryer at normal usage distances, or that of standing underneath a transmission line outside a home (http://www.arpansa.gov.au/radiationprotection/factsheets/is_magfields.cfm). Asinine. The camera in its most nuclear phase could not do so. Prolonged exposure would mean hours set aside, of days and days on end of looking through the viewfinder without blinking, when in fact it is for mere seconds at a time and it would take months of work to have looked through the viewfinder for an hour in total. The premise and the good will are noted and lauded. The lack of thorough education is, on the other hand, absolutely not.

So please don’t be scared by the video. Just don’t use your RX100m3 while drying your hair and you will be fine :)

Disclosure:
Dear vegan readers, I am not anti Vegan and I only tried to make some fun. So please take it easy.

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New Sony 30x camera hands-on roundup. And interesting Sony marketing forecast.

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Image courtesy: ePhotozine

The new Sony 30x zoom compact cameras got a hands-on by many reviewers:
HX90V Hands-On Photos at ePhotozine, Amateur Photographer and Photographyblog.
WX500 Hands-On Photos at ePhotozine , Amateur Photographer and Photographyblog.

And the preorder ars up at:
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX90V for $428 at BHphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX500 Digital Camera for $328 at BHphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).

The interetsing part is that I received a document disclosing why those 30x zoom cameras are important for Sony:

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I am yet not sure but the graph is likely to show the market in Canada. Sony expects that 45% of the compact camera market will be “owned” by High Zoom cameras.

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This week SAR readers photos selection.

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David Mathar on SonyAlphaForum.
Bavarian mornings
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1) Submit your picture with a message and picture here: facebook.com/sonyalpharumors or on the SonyAlphaForum image section.
2) Like and comment the pictures from other readers here: facebook.com/sonyalpharumors/photos_stream?tab=photos and on SonyAlphaForum.
3) A selection of most liked pictures by the community and by me SAR admin will be posted weekly on SAR.

Note: When sending a pic feel free to also add a link to your site to promote yourself!

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New list of Sony refurbished E-mount stuff.

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[shoplink 35456 ebay]A7r[/shoplink]

Here is the updated list of refurbished Sony E-mount stuff. It gives you a chance to save up to $500 (on the A7r):

[shoplink 35456 ebay]Sony A7r for $1,399 (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 35457 ebay]Zeiss 16-35mm for $1,199 (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 35458 ebay]16mm for $149 (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 35459 ebay]55-210mm for $164 (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 35460 ebay]Sony A3000 for $199 (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 35461 ebay]Zeiss 55mm for $749 (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 35383 ebay]A5000 double lens kit for $399 (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 35382 ebay]A6000 double lens kit for $649 (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 35381 ebay]NEX-5T double lens kit for $399 (Click here)[/shoplink].

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When a FAKE becomes so strong that it’s hard to make it go away.

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I want to make it 100% clear again that the A-mount strategy image posted by a commenter on SAR is 100% FAKE. And when I say 100% I mean I have proof and know for certain without any single doubt that it’s fake. I tracked back the author of the comment and he has a long history of publishing false information for fun on SAR comment system. So there is no doubt he made it up to create some buzz.

While I quickly removed the image from the comment system other sites like Petapixel, Photorumors, Cameraegg and so on picked up that image from the comment system without to question the validity of the “leak” taken from an anonymous(!) comment. I want to stress again that I did NOT(!) post the image as a valid “rumor” inside my own article. I contacted those sites and asked them to remove or mark the image as fake.

The issue still is that the image spread all over the web. And as I learned from my class in mass communication once an information has been spread out and magnified it becomes truth for many even if you try to dismantle it.

I ask all SAR readers who see the image posted on other sites and forums to make it clear this is a fake. If you want link back to this post if someone is interest to read the story of that fake image.

To all A-mount owners:
Sony will launch new A-mount lenses and cameras in future. I am 100% sure of that :)

 

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Very important Wikileaks update info! Roadmap is 100% true. A-mount document image is 100% fake.

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In the comment system of SAR someone made a bit of fun and posted a FAKE image of an FAKE Sony document saying that A-mount would be discontinued in July. I want to stress that there is no such document on Wikileaks. This has been made up by that commenter! Dear A-mount followers don’t worry. That was really a bad joke by an anonymous poster :)

Some of you said, well, why on the contrary the roadmap should be true. Because it can be found as an attachment on one of the email of Wikileas-Sony. So this is 100% real :)

Please spread that info on forums and other sites. I saw that plenty of people picked up the news!

UPDATE: I removed the direct link to the email for privacy reason. Just trust me on this that the roadmap can be found there :)

UPDATE_2: A couple of reasons why I know this image is fake:
– the original author said would send me the mail with the file and he didn’t
– the original author posted a link to wikileaks that leads to a blank page
– th original author posted other fake info on SAR comments system
– the original author commented his own leak comment with multiple fake names to increase the attention ont he discussion
– there is no such document that can be found on wikileaks and I spent 7 hours to check all the files :)

 

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