Finally: Sigma double E-mount lens kit deal in Europe!

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[/shoplink] A couple of months ago there was a great $199 double Sigma lens kit deal. The 19mm and 30mm are great quality lenses. As usual with those kind of great deals it was available for our US citizen only.But finally also EU readers can grab it! The dual kit is in Stock for 189 Euro via [shoplink 18786 ebay]FotoMundus one eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

You can follow and get more deal news at DealsRunner.com.

 

P.S.: Now Sigma launched the new 19mm and 30mm ART lenses which do have the same optical design in a different case.

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A77 climbing the Amazon rankings. Free Metabones on every NEX-FS camcorder purchase!

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Sony US keeps launching great new deals! You now get a free Metabones adapter of your choice ($399 value) on every NEX-FS100/700 purchase! More info at Sony PRO.

Meantime the great A77 up to $600 in Instant Savings at Amazon, Samys, Adorama and BHphoto are psuhing the A77 sales. I think I never saw the A77 sales going that well after their launch in August 2011. it’s now on position 23 of the most sold DSLR cameras at Amazon (see the ranking here). And keep in mind that Canon and Nikon launched also some great deals too!

As usual such deals do not happen in Europe :(

A full overview on all photography deals can be found at DealsRunner. Full roundup of the hot deals of the moment:
60mm Sigma for NEX in Stock at BHphoto (Click here).
60% off SanDisk cards at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
$100 off on the Sony NEX-F3 kit at BHphoto (Click here).
65% off on the Sony 64GB SDHC/SDXC Class 10 UHS-1 R40 Memory Card on [shoplink 18793 ebay]eBay US[/shoplink].
Full A77, A65 and A58 deal page at Amazon (Click here).
New 20mm pancake NEX deal(Click here).
Canon PIXMA PRO-10 Professional Photo Inkjet Printer at Adorama (Click here).
SLTA77 Body $300 Instant Savings + Free vertical grip $300= $600 in Instant Savings at Amazon (Click here), Samys (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
SLTA77 with 18mm-135mm $300 Instant Savings + Free vertical grip $300= $600 in Instant Savings at Amazon (Click here), Samys (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
SLTA77 with 16mm-50mm $300 Instant Savings + Free vertical grip $300= $600 in Instant Savings at Amazon (Click here), Samys (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).

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(SR3) First possible hints about a NEX-5r successor

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The NEX-5r has been announced almost one year ago (on August 29). And for Sony time this means that a replacement is not very far away. A SAR reader wrote me the following message: “Just heard a bit of news when sent my NEX 5R for repairing. Since my cam has serious damage I consider getting a new one but the official repair company representative here in Northern Europe told me, that to get on my hands on Nex 5R I have to be quick, because they are taking it off production in June.”

Lately I pushed the A-mount rumors but I will soon post some more E-mount rumors too. Keep in mind that the NEX-7 successor, the 85mm f/1.4 and a fast zoom should be announced by end of August!

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Reminder (SR = Sonyrumor):
SR1=probably fake rumor
SR2=rumor from unknown sources
SR3=50% chance it is correct
SR4=rumor from known sources
SR5=almost certainly correct!

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up to 60% off on Sandisk cards (today only). Zeiss Touit should ship from today!

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SD card madness:
You gotta prepare yourself for the new 30+ megapixel A-mount cameras by buying plenty of these up to 60% off SanDisk cards at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here). Plus There is a 65% off on the Sony 64GB SDHC/SDXC Class 10 UHS-1 R40 Memory Card on [shoplink 18773 ebay]eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink].  Subscribe our DealsRunner.com to follow life (and get notified) when there will be new great deals.

Zeiss Touit:
BHphoto (Click here) still says that the Touit lenses will ship from today. I hope you will get your preordered lens soon!

SLT deals and more new deals:
Full A77, A65 and A58 deal page at Amazon (Click here). New 30mm pancake NEX deal(Click here).
Canon PIXMA PRO-10 Professional Photo Inkjet Printer at Adorama (Click here).
And these are the detailed deals on the A77:
SLTA77 Body $300 Instant Savings + Free vertical grip $300= $600 in Instant Savings at Amazon (Click here), Samys (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
SLTA77 with 18mm-135mm $300 Instant Savings + Free vertical grip $300= $600 in Instant Savings at Amazon (Click here), Samys (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
SLTA77 with 16mm-50mm $300 Instant Savings + Free vertical grip $300= $600 in Instant Savings at Amazon (Click here), Samys (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
$200 off on the Apple 16GB iPod touch with FaceTime – Black or White – 4th Generation for $159 at [shoplink 18765 ebay]eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink].
Think Geek (Click here) is giving 20% OFF on orders over $75!
Canon PIXMA PRO-10 Professional Photo Inkjet Printer at Adorama (Click here).

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(SR2) New A77 firmware info.

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I know from trusted sources that a new A77 firmware is coming this summer. Yesterday a new source sent me some details. I don’t know yet if what I got is correct or not. So don’t get to excited yet. As usual I hope trusted sources can answer me soon on this to tell me if it’s correct or not. Thanks!

The source told me that the new A77, A65, A57, A37, A58 firmware with new jpg engine will be released in early July. The changes will be:

1) Added Lens Correction
2) Updated Jpg Engine (based on the honami smartphone project).
3) Revisions to menu structure
4) Revisions to video capture rates

As usual with SR2 rumors you know that they can’t be trusted for now! Certainly I would be very happy if that one turns out to be correct! That would be the second good news after yesterdays amazing A77 price drop:

SLTA77 Body $300 Instant Savings + Free vertical grip $300= $600 in Instant Savings at Amazon (Click here), Samys (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
SLTA77 with 18mm-135mm $300 Instant Savings + Free vertical grip $300= $600 in Instant Savings at Amazon (Click here), Samys (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
SLTA77 with 16mm-50mm $300 Instant Savings + Free vertical grip $300= $600 in Instant Savings at Amazon (Click here), Samys (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).

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For readers: Subscribe the RSS feed (Click here) and Twitter (Click here) stream and the Facebook fan page (Click here) in order to not miss any news!

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Reminder (SR = Sonyrumor):
SR1=probably fake rumor
SR2=rumor from unknown sources
SR3=50% chance it is correct
SR4=rumor from known sources
SR5=almost certainly correct!

 

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Lens Turbo roadmap released.

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[/shoplink] MXcamera (Click here) released the full Lens Trubo for NEX roadmap:

[shoplink 18692 ebay]Pentax K (here one Bay)[/shoplink] and [shoplink 22693 ebay]Minolta MD/MC (here one Bay)[/shoplink] are available now.
[shoplink 18694 ebay]Contax C/Y (here one Bay)[/shoplink] release this week.
[shoplink 18695 ebay]M42 (here one Bay)[/shoplink] will be released on 1st week of June
[shoplink 18696 ebay]Canon FD (out of stock out) (here one Bay)[/shoplink] will be restocked on 1st week of June.
[shoplink 18697 ebay]Nikon Ai-s (out of stock out) (here one Bay)[/shoplink] will be restocked on 3rd week of June.
Canon EF will be released on 4th week of June. Save this search in Slidoo to get notified when there will be an auction.
Leica R will be released on 1st or 2nd week of July. Save this search in Slidoo to get notified when there will be an auction.

 

SAR reader Andrea sent me his Lens Turbo first impression:

“First of all congrats for your great blog, I usually follow your updates every day.
I bought a lensturbo for canon fd lenses by the Shanghai eBay seller you posted  the link.
I received it two days ago. I tested it with my 50mm and it is fantastic to see the larger frame and, it seems, a better contrast and sharpness. The weak point is the already known issue of the blue spot when facing a light or the sun, but is not such a big issue.

The real problem came when I tested the lens turbo with the canon fd 20mm. I almost risked to ruin the rear/back lens of the 20mm! The fact is that when you are trying to reach the infinity focus the rear lens of the 20mm protrusion hit the front lens of the lens turbo!!

That problem is not mentioned by the seller and also by the reviewer (the martist, you linked in a post). I wrote to both. The reviewer only write to me he doesn’t have this problem. This is strange because the lensturbo seller just wrote to me:

Hi Andrea,
Thanks for the message…
Indeed the FD 20/2.8 can not use… the rear lens protrusion will hit the lens… sorry… I think you can only focus up to 3 meter, right ?
except for the 20, the other lenss 28, 35, 50, 85 all can use..
best,
R.J.
– jinfinance

Therefore I’m writing this to you because I want to avoid that the same thing happens to others.

I’d also like to know if other lensturbo buyers had the same problem as I did.

Thx for your time.
Best regards“

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