Due to overwhelming demand, you now have to pay $600 extra on Amazon (Click here) to have the privilege—and the guarantee—of getting the Sony A7V camera before Christmas. This is via AVC Photo and Amazon correctly writes:

Sony A7V preorders:
In USA at at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, Henrys.
In EU at  Fotokoch, FotoErhardt, Calumet, Foto Köster, WexUK, Clifton, Park UK, Fnac FR.
In Australia at: Camera Pro, Sony Australia.

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At the A7 V launch, Kai discovered a few of his third-party Chinese lenses weren’t behaving correctly on the new body. That sparked instant speculation that Sony was deliberately hobbling third-party glass. Nope. As I said right away, this wasn’t a targeted lockout.

Petapixel reports a message from Viltrox:

Nothing we’ve seen so far suggests any intentional behavior on the camera side. This appears to be part of the normal post-release optimization that often occurs as new camera systems are introduced, It’s fairly common across the industry for lens firmware to be fine-tuned after new camera bodies are released, as manufacturers validate performance across a wide range of real-world scenarios.

Bottom line: the “conspiracy” a few were pushing was exactly that—baseless.

At minute 2:55 Cammackey says Blazar will release a 1.5x anamorphic lens with autofocus and full-frame format. As you know Blazar currently makes 1.33x E-mount autofocus anamorphic lenses. Having 1.5x makes it way more “true” anamorphic.

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Thanks Aida ;)

You can preorder this manual focusing lens for $99 at Amazon and Pergear.

7Artisans will soon announce this new 6mm f/2 APS-C manual focusing fisheye lens for E/Z/RF/X/MFT mount cameras.