Lensbaby launched a new $70 discount on their lenses which runs til February 28:
$70 off on the Lensbaby 5.8mm f/3.5 Circular Fisheye Lens for Sony Alpha A Mount at Adorama and BHphoto.
$70 off on the Lensbaby 5.8mm f/3.5 Circular Fisheye Lens for Sony Alpha E Mount at Adorama and BHphoto.
The Loxia 50mm is back in Stock via Poppflash on eBay US (Click here).
Open Box:
Sony A7 and 1 year warranty for $1,150 at Samys (Click here).
Sony A7r and 1 year warranty for $1,849 at Samys (Click here).
Makoto Kanai from the Sony Lens design department explains the advantages of Sony E-mount (Image by DSLRmagazine).
The Spanish site DSLRmagazine interviewed Akihiro Egawa and Makoto Kanai from Sony. And here are some of the key info:
1) Asked why the new FE lenses are so big the answer was that if you want goo optical quality you cannot reduce the size of the lenses.
2) The interviewer asked if the short flange distance and the limited E-mount diameter is a major limitation for Sony lens designers. The answer was no, for small focal distance lenses this kind of design helps us. The opposite occurs with the classic DSLR mounts. But there is a “But”: Sony said E-mount is maybe challenge when it comes to design longer focal lenses.
3) We only plan to get rid of Anti Aliasing filter on High Resolution Cameras. This because Moirèe tends to become less an issue when the spatial resolution is high.
4) When asked if the current FE lenses can resolve future 50+ Megapixel FF sensor the answer was yes!
Obvisouly…when asked…Sony did not share any information about the new FE lens release or any future possible new FE camera.
Portrait Photography: Using a scrim to soften harsh sunlight in
Testing IBIS on the Sony a7II (Kasson).
A high-end 35mm lens shootout between the ZM 35/1.4, the Summicron 35/2 and the great little FE 35/2.8 ZA (DearSusans).
Zeiss Otus 85/1.4 mounted a the a7R (SonyAlphaForum).
Review of the ZM 35/1.4 lens at VeryBigLobo.
Sony’s new FE lenses almost ready for prime-time (Dpreview).
Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 16-35mm f/4 ZA OSS Lens review at SonyAlphaLab.
Slow motion with the FS7 (Newsshooter).
Drone Shoots Firework with Sony AS200V (ActionCameraRumors).
Minolta MC/MD lenses images thread (SonyAlphaForum).
