The recently announced Samyang 16mm f/2.0 lens will ship for $449 on July 8th. Preorders are being accepted by BHphoto (Click here). There is no pricing yet for Europe or Asia. Keep in mind that this lens sells under different brands: In USA as Rokinon, Samyang, Opteka, Bower and in Europe: Samyang, Rokinon, Walimex, Falcon, Vivitar.
There is a short delay with the Zeiss Touit for NEX shipments. They will now be in Stock on June 13 according to BHphoto (Click here). First Zeiss Touit are shipping in [shoplink 18803 ebay]Japan via eBay[/shoplink].
A great news comes from Amazon. They now offer a 4% reward on all cameras and lenses (Click here to read the details).
Samyang (also branded as Rokinon or Bower) is offering two deals: $70.00 off on the 35mm f/1.4 lens at BH (Click here) and $40.00 off on the 8mm Ultra Wide Angle f/3.5 Fishey lens at BH (Click here).
All deals roundup:
A77 up to $600 in Instant Savings at Amazon, Samys, Adorama and BHphoto.
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).
The Olympus 5 axis stabilization presentation video.
Great news folks! As you know the next bunch of A-mount cameras is expected to be launched in early 2014. And of the brand new key features will be the 5-Axis SSS developed in partnership with Olympus! As you know the Olympus E-M5 and the brand new E-P5 have that kind of tech. Sony and Olympus engineers are now developing it further to make it work on Sony’s next Full Frame cameras!
You can see the advantage of the 5 axis IS over the regular 2 axis stabilization on that video:
In short, not only will be the new 400mm f/4.0 A-mount lens be designed with Olympus. Also the new A-mount cameras will get some of the best tech from Olympus. I also hope they will use Olympus JPG engine knowledge to make Sony JPG’s look better.
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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.
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).
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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You can download the full “Corporate Strategy Meeting” PDF file at http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/info/strategy2013/pdf/presenE.pdf. No big surprise here. Focus goes on Image Sensor Development, on Mirrorless and High End photography market.
