Tokina 8mm f/2.8 Fisheye lens review with samples
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Yesterday Tokina announced this new 8mm f/2.8 fisheye APS-C E lens. Christopher Frost has an exclusive review of this lens:
This week SAR readers photos selection
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“Winter Woods”
Aspen, Colorado
Sonya 7 iv
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Debunking a rumor: There is no hack to get uncropped 4k60p with the Sony A7IV
This week there was a rumor going around about a possible hack allowing for Full Frame 4k60p recording on the A7IV. Sadly, it got debunked by Undone and iPhonedo.
Sony Tidbits…
Voigtländer 65mm f/2 Macro APO Lanthar – surprising quality? Lens review with samples
Smartphone replaced DSLR for everything except wildlife photography (Reddit).
7 Artisans 25mm F0.95 test at SonyAlphablog.
Sony A7 IV – die hochauflösende Hybridkamera im Praxis-Test (Calumet Germany).
What Is the Best Camera for Sports Photography? (42West).
In Defense of Small-Sensor Cameras for Live Events and ENG Work (Explora).
Personal photos and tests from SAR Admin Andrea on Instagram, Facebook, Flickr and 500px.
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Ending tomorrow: 30% on Topaz Gigapixel. 25% off on Albert Dros class
Both deals end tonight:
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Wild rumors roundup: 100MP Alpha, A7Cr, A9III and 40MP APS-C sensor
About those rumors: I have no idea who sent them and 90% of the times they turn out to be wrong. But, it happened in the past that a couple of those were right. So I will post them today, and we all together can eventually keep track of this. If one of the sources turns out to be right than we will know we can trust it a bit more!
Source 1:
There is an Alpha with 100MP, 1/125s , 10fps@14bit .
Source 2:
42.4MP full-frame Exmor R™ back-illuminated CMOS sensor
Low noise images w/ ISO up to 204800 and 15+stop dynamic range
8x more powerful, next generation BIONZ XR™ image processing engine
759 selectable phase-detection points covering about 90% of the image
Next-generation full-frame 8K 24p 10-bit 4:2:2 chroma subsampling recording
Up to 4K 60p 10-bit 4:2:2 w/ Super35mm 5.2K full pixel readout in all rec. formats
8K oversampling full-frame 4K 30p 10-bit 4:2:2 w/ no pixel binning
Up to 10fps continuous shooting at 42.4MP with AE/AF tracking
Real-time AF tracking, Real-time Eye-AF (humans, animals, birds)
S-Cinetone, S-Log3, HLG and 10 Creative Look presets in-camera
5-axis in-body image stabilization and Active Mode for handheld movie
Source 3:
I know that you posted this while ago (www.sony-semicon.co.jp/e/news/2021/2021121601.html), but just wanted to say this tech may be available soon according to someone I know that works at sony.
I do not know if it is gonna start with their cellphone or camera. Person has said “soon”.
By the way, sony semicon has two new apsc sensors, one of them has more than 40MP.
Source 4:
Hello i have infos about the a9 iii
24 mpx stacked sensor
30fps burst shooting
same af as a1
6k 60p 12bit raw video
10 bit 4 2 2 4k up to 60p full frame oversampled from 6k
4k 100/120p in s35 mode.
Tokina has announced a new SZ 8mm f/2.8 fisheye lens for APS-C E-mount cameras
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The product page can be found here. And this is the press text:
Tokina SZ 8mm F2.8 X FISH-EYE and SZ 8mm F2.8 E FISH-EYE worldwide sales date announcement
Kenko Tokina Co., Ltd. is proud to announce the sales release of the Tokina SZ 8mm F2.8 FISH-EYE lens for Fuji X and Sony E (APS-C) camera mounts. SZ series offering a range of exciting products with specific features and valuable advantages.
Sales will commence on March 15, 2022.
The Tokina SZ 8mm F2.8 FISH-EYE is a compact and lightweight fast, ultra-wide prime, manual focus, full-frame fisheye lens designed exclusively for APS-C sensor mirrorless cameras. The line-up includes models for Fuji X and Sony E APS-C size camera mounts. Emphasized perspective and unique distortion makes this lens attractive for both still photographers and videographers.
Thanks to a compact, lightweight design and manual focus the Tokina SZ 8mm F2.8 FISH-EYE MF can be appealing to young active content creators from the price perspective. The suggested genres are landscape, nightscape, interior, architecture, street snap and pet photography. An ultra wide angle of view, unique perspective effect and a compact design allows this lens to be used for creating viral images for Social Networks such as Instagram as well as Vlogging.
Highlighted Features
- Lightweight (280g) and compact (overall length 52mm) construction.
- Fast f/2.8 lens for compact APS-C sensor mirrorless cameras.
- High quality built and sophisticated exterior design.
- Clickless aperture ring for smooth operation in video shooting.
- Minimum focus distance of 10cm to include close-up objects in front of a wide background.
- Detachable bayonet type hood to use with full-frame mirrorless cameras for achieving circular fisheye effect.