First images of the new Laowa 28mm f/1.2 FE lens!

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At the Cp+ show Laowa displayed the new Laowa 28mm f/1.2 FE lens! Dc.watch posted those images and some specs. I also got additional info from my source which I included here:

Specs summary:

  • Laowa 28mm f/1.2
  • Full Frame E-mount
  • manual focus
  • lens construction is 13 elements in 7 groups.
  • number of aperture blades is 13
  • shortest shooting distance is 500mm
  • maximum shooting magnification is 0.073x
  • Supports click ON/OFF switching of the aperture ring
  • 562g
  • $599
  • 600g
  • good sharpness even at f/1.2
  • High CA wide open
  • Canon RF, Sony E, Nikon Z, L mount
  • Release on March 28

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RUMOR: Laowa will release a 28mm f/1.2 FE lens in March?

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One source claims that Laowa will announce a new 28mm f/1.2 FE lens in March. It would become the widest and fastest Full Frame E-mount lens on the market. Sigma is the current king with their 35mm f/1.2 FE lens.

Specs summary:

  • Laowa 28mm f/1.2
  • Full Frame E-mount
  • manual focus
  • $599
  • 600g
  • good sharpness even at f/1.2
  • High CA wide open

Thanks to the source! Hope you can share the images soon ;)

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Sony’s Creators’ Cloud Opens Up to Individuals; Bringing Together the Power of Camera & Cloud to Creators Worldwide Through a Single Platform

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Sony Electronics has announced the next generation of its Creators’ Cloud platform, opening a host of new cloud-based applications and features designed for individual content creators and small content teams.

The Creators’ Cloud platform includes Ci Media Cloud for collaborative media workflows, and Discover, a platform to discover and connect with peers. The Creators’ Cloud platform, aimed at independent professionals, will soon include Creators’ App, a content transfer application from camera to cloud.

Creators’ App will be the successor of Imaging Edge Mobile Plus​ and will act as an extension of a camera to upload, view, and manage photo and video content shot on select Sony cameras and stored in the cloud. Sony offers 5GB of cloud storage free for any Creators’ Cloud account user, and 25GB for owners of select Sony cameras.

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Sony 50mm f/1.4 GM review by Lenstip: “virtually without any flaws”

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Preorder links: Sony 50mm F/1.4 GM at BHphoto. Amazon. Adorama. FotoKoch. FotoErhardt. Calumet DE. WexUK.

Lenstip tested the new Sony lens and concluded:

The Sony FE 50 mm f/1.4 GM was a surprise for me personally and for more than one reason. First, I didn’t expect such a launch, especially as less than two years ago the system got two other 50 mm devices. Second, I didn’t expect that a new 50 mm lens might be optically more complex than its faster brother, the FE 50 mm f/1.2 GM. Thirdly, I didn’t expect such a high price tag, amounting to 1700 Euro.

If you forget about these surprises for a while and focus on the most important thing, you can only praise the new Sony FE 50 mm f/1.4 GM as it is virtually without any flaws. Its physical dimensions are smaller than these of many direct rivals and yet its optical system is able to correct properly chromatic aberration, distortion, coma, and astigmatism. At the same time it is so exceedingly sharp in the frame centre that it is able to beat all resolution records with a healthy margin and, additionally, it offers excellent image quality on the edge of both types of detectors.

Significant vignetting is something we expected up to a point; as a kind of consolation we should add that the Sony still can outperform some of its rivals in this category.

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