We got three new European deals:
You can now get the 35mm and 40mm SE lenses at Amazon US.
Here are the links to all newly announced lenses available for preorder:
Sony 12-24mm f/2.8 GM at BHphoto. Adorama. FocusCamera.
Sigma 100-400mm FE at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, FocusCamera.
Topaz released a new major update on their Video Enhance AI software. You can buy it for $170 instead of the original $299 price if you use our checkout code “RUMOR“
I am still not 100% sure yet but I am getting some early info about a Sony A7sII successor launch event around July 28/29. The camera is rumored to start shipping out in mid August.
Rumored A7sIII specs recap
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56mm f/1.4 at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
Opticallimits tested the Sigma 56mm f/1.4 DC DN and concluded
The Sigma 56mm f/1.4 DC DN Contemporary is an excellent example for how mirrorless lenses should be. It’s small and well built with a focus on the optical characteristics where it counts the most while compromising on secondary aspects that can be corrected without too many headaches. Namely the sharpness is very good at f/1.4 and downright superb between f/2 and f/8. The laternal CAs are very low. This can’t be said about the original distortion which is on the high side for a prime lens. Vignetting is also very pronounced at f/1.4. However, these two aspects are mostly corrected with image auto-correction either in-camera (with JPGs) or in RAW converters. A strength of the lens is the quality of the bokeh with nicely rendered out-of-focus highlights and a smooth blur in the focus transition zones. Bokeh fringing is present at large aperture but that’s rather normal for such a lens.
The overall build quality is very good. The lens body is made of metal and the big, rubberized focus ring is both smooth as well as very grippy. It also has basic sealing of some kind. On the downside, manual focusing is way too coarse to be useful at shorter focus distances. The AF is about average for a modern mirrorless lens – thus it’s quite fast, noiseless and accurate. You won’t use it for action photography though.
The sum of its qualities combined with the very reasonable price tag make the Sigma 56mm f/1.4 DC DN Contemporary an obvious choice in its class. Therefore – highly recommended!
56mm f/1.4 at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
Hrvoje sent me this:
We have a couple of news for Primers users, camera shooters and post Creatives.
1) We have reached the next level with our transformation colour science.
Improved precision, density, stability, richness, organicity…the list goes on.
We are updating existing Primers sets. Primers users will be notified and update is free of charge.2) We have just released Primers EQX for Sony FX9.
This set includes our latest transformation colour science from the start and achieves top class image performance from FX9. What you see with FX9 and like out of the box…it gets better.
Hats off to Sony team, FX9 is a very capable camera.3) Unified Colour Philosophy now brings even easier camera matching for Primers users.
4) Primers updates for Sony FS7/FS5 and F55 are coming soon.
Thanks to all who recognized Primers.
About Primers:
Primers are professional image transformation tools embodied into high precision 3DLUT set.
They are designed on thorough camera analysis for each sensor response, wrapped into camera makers base colour science, with implemented multiple image signal corrections and optimizations. Primers are designed for shoot and post and enable superior imaging performance from spot-on exposure decisions with more objective monitoring to high-quality post-production results.
More info here: omeneo.com/primers/sony/
it took a while but starting from today you can preorder the Sony 12-24mm GM lens at Amazon US (Click here) too.
Something else: If you are a Crypto fan like me today only you save big on Ledger hardware wallet at Amazon US (Click here).
And here you have some sexy real world images via Fengniao:
Preorders:
In USA at Amazon. BHphoto. Adorama. FocusCamera.
In Europe at CalumetDE. WexUK.
Of course not a surprise but we would have hated it if Sony wouldn’t have done it: The Sony A7sIII will have a fully articulating screen like the one used by the Sony ZV-1.
Rumored A7sIII specs recap
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