Dear sources: How to send me your A9III, Venice and Sony lens rumors ;)

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Dear Sources,
I am now collecting feedback on the upcoming A9III, Venice E-mount camera and new Sony lenses. If you know “something” and want to share the info use this anonymous contact box (Click here) or send me an email at sonyalpharumors@gmail.com.

I got some A9III “proof” of existence and would love to get some details about the exact announcement date and obviously specs ;)

Thanks!

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Youtuber reviews and tests of the Sony A7cII, A7cR and 16-35GMII

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Preorders:
Sony A7cII at BHphoto, Amazon US&EU, Adorama, FotoErhardt, Fotokoch, Calumet, WexUK. Sony AUS.
Sony A7cR at BHphoto, Amazon US&EU, Adorama, FotoErhardt, Fotokoch, Calumet, WexUK. Sony AUS.
16-35GMII at BHphoto, Amazon US&EU, Adorama, FotoErhardt, Fotokoch, Calumet, WexUK. Sony AUS.

As usual Sony did hand over new cameras to a massive amount of youtubers. Here is all the reviews I could find (but there are surely more I missed):

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First sales report: Sony A7cR sales are good, second best selling is the 16-35GMII and A7cII slightly behind the other two

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Preorders:
Sony A7cII at BHphoto, Amazon US&EU, Adorama, FotoErhardt, Fotokoch, Calumet, WexUK. Sony AUS.
Sony A7cR at BHphoto, Amazon US&EU, Adorama, FotoErhardt, Fotokoch, Calumet, WexUK. Sony AUS.
16-35GMII at BHphoto, Amazon US&EU, Adorama, FotoErhardt, Fotokoch, Calumet, WexUK. Sony AUS.

I talked to the stores I am in contact with in the USA and EU. They shared some early stats about the sales:

  • All three products do not sell in crazy numbers compared to the very good sales of the A7rV (the last Sony camera that sold very well).
  • On top of the sales we have the A7cR slightly ahead of the 16-35GMII which again is only slightly ahead of the A7cII.

This isn’t much different from our POLL which shows that more or less the preorders are equally distributed, except for the A7cR which is a bit behind:

What are you going to preorder today?

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Viltrox unveils new lens roadmap: 24/35/50/135mm FF E-mount “LAB” professional lenses coming!

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I do own the Viltrox 16mm f/1.8 FE lens and I am impressed by it’s performance considering it costs a third of similar competition lenses. So I am very intrigued about what’s coming next and indeed sounds the company is on fire and plans some BIG stuff!

Richard Wong visited the Viltrox  headquarter and he got some info about what’s coming next:

1) These three lenses will be big and from what I understood FF lenses. They will be announced by end 2023:

  • 22-220mm cine lens (manual focusing)
  • 30-300mm cine lens (manual focusing)
  • 42-420mm cine lens (manual focusing)

2) Very affordable 20mm pancake around $150. But performance will be high. More smaller lenses will be coming in future:

  • 20mm f/4.5 pancake autofocus Full Frame lens

3) New LAB series will launch soon:

  • 135mm f/1.8 autofocus Full Frame E-mount lens (First of the LAB series)
  • 24/35/50mm f/1.4 autofocus Full Frame E-mount LAB lenses coming later

The LAB series will be something like the OTUS line at Zeiss. The optical performance will be higher than the PRO series of Viltrox. I do love the idea of a high quality lens that does cost MUCH less than Sony. But I do hope that they will also work on lenses that aren’t the usual focal length. At the moment we have SIXTYONE 50mm lenses (source BHphoto)…do we really need another 50mm f/1.4?

Viltrox, Tamron, Sigma, give us some f/2.0 or f/1.8 zooms, some nice compact f/2.0 and fast f/1.2 primes. That would be something or not?

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