World first review of Zenitar 35mm f/2 for Sony E mount

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SonyAlphaBlog tested the new Zenitar 35mm f/2 FE lens and concluded:

The Zenitar 35mm F2 , (700 euros) is a niche artistic lens. Its build quality is good , it is compact and small , but ergonomics are a little bit weird with no aperture ring but more an aperture crown on the front lens.
The image produced have a lot of field curvature which means there will be only one region in focus. In that zone the sharpness will be good to very good wide open which is rare for such artistic lens.
Contrast and colors are good , but the key signature of this lens is the bokeh balls at F2 that looks like trioplan Soap bubble bokeh, together with some background blur that looks like a zoom effect. You only get that effect at f2 , with light in the background and with your subject being between 50cm and 100cm. In those circumstances for portraits or flowers it produces images with a unique signature that I found better than the Trioplan 35mm F2.8 by Meyer Optik Görlitz, that had bad sharpness and not very little visible soap bubble bokeh at 35mm
This is definitively not a generalist 35mm manual lens, but if you like special rendering of bokeh / background blur this is definitively a lens to consider like the Helios 40-2 and Helios 44-4 , or Lomography Petzval 55mm F1.7 MkII
If you look for an all purpose 35mm generalist lens , I recommend you the Kipon Iberit 35mm F2.4, that give very nice results for a small price (350 euros)

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Today only: Save big on Laowa 15mm FE, Lexar SD cards and Vello adapters sold by BHphoto and Adorama

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On top you can see the deals listed by Adorama (Click here). And below the ones from BHphoto (Click here):

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Wild rumors roundup: A7RV

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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:

A7r5 might have 8K@30 FF and S35.
No 4K@60, just 30.

Source 2:

ILME-FX9 has ILME-FX6 style body, with same 61M CMOS as α7RV. Provide oversampling 8K/30p (FF Only), oversampling 4K/60p (FF & S35).

Source 3:

A7r5 has 8K@30.

Source 4:

100mm f1.4 GM priced at 1599$,  and weight 950g, it will be the most light lens like this. (macro feature will be avable too)

Source 5:

FE 150-400mm f4.0

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Sony Tidbits…

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Adobe launches new Black Friday deals: Up to 70% off!

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There is a big new Black Friday deal at Adobe US (Click here). But a similar deal also runs at Adobe Germany, Adobe UK, and other European countries.

Software deals ending soon:

  1. Til November 15 you save up to 30% on all DxO products (Click here).
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  3. Topaz launched a major update for Video Enhance AI. And til November 16 you save $130 using our checkout code “RUMOR”.

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