Reminder: Today Sony will have a live CES show event at 5pm Eastern time. Do not expect any Alpha gear announcement! There are two reasons for that:

1. The 35mm f/1.4 GM lens will be announced on January 13 at 15:00 London time
2. Sony registered three new cameras months ago but because of a factory fire these announcement have been delayed by a bit. Expect the camera announcement to happen sometimes between late January and late February.

I can now confirm with 99,99999999% confidence that Sony will announce the new 35mm f/1.4 GM lens on January 13 at 15:00 London time! I don’t know yet if Sony will livestream the event. But I will liveblog the event here on SAR.

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On a personal note: I posted my first interview made within the COVID-19 intensive care unit. It’s in German dialect but I added English subs (select them). Sorry for some bad cuts but I had to post it on the fly. I shot this all on the Voigtlander 40mm f/1.2 FE lens because it allows me to blur out the background to hide the patients. And it also allows me to be very close to the doctors when they talk to me because it’s hard to hear them with all the face cover:

We know for a fact that Sony has registered a new 35mm f/1.4 GM lens in December. Well today over at Dpreview Forum people noticed that the last DpreviewTV video (minute 03:07) shows a Sony camera with a blurred lens image:

• First it’s obviously odd they blurred the lens :)
• It has a f/1.4 aperture but this isn’t the 24mm GM because the close focus of the 24mm lens is 0,24cm while this one shows 0,27cm.

My guess by now is that this is indeed the new 35mm f/1.4 GM lens! I hope Chris and Jordan aren’t pissed with me now :(