2014年5月14日水曜日
New Lens Turbo II generation now available for Canon, Nikon, Minolta and Pentax lenses.
The new Lens Turbo II focal reducer adapter is now available in four different versions at MXcamera:
Canon EOS EF to E-mount (Click here).
Nikon F AI-S to E-mount (Click here).
Minolt MC MD to E-mount (Click here).
Canon EOS EF to E-mount (Click here).
The optical performance should now be very close to the one of the double as expensive Metabones Speedbooster. A first unboxing article with pictures of the new Lens Turbo II has been posted at Kameravalg.dk.
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Silver A6000 and Zeiss kit in Stock at Bhphoto and Amazon. Mitakon 50mm FE for $750.
The Silver A6000 si for the first time in Stock in USA via BHphoto (Click here). And so the Silver kit (Click here). The kit is also in Stock at Amazon (Click here). Also the great A6000+Zeiss kit is in Stock in all combinations at BHphoto (with $300 off).
The superfast 50mm f/0.95 Mitakon Full Frame E-mount lens can be preordered at MXcamera eBay store (Click here). There is also another (to me unknown) store selling the same lens for $50 less at MXcamera eBay store (Click here).
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2014年5月13日火曜日
空間におけるテレビの価値を再定義し、新たにデザインする http://bit.ly/1jbvkaS 「Monolithic Design」から「Sense o...
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「Monolithic Design」から「Sense of Quartz」を経て見えてきたブラビア™のデザインコンセプト「Pure Geometry」。
究極的な幾何学形体を突き詰めていくことで、空間に調和しながら存在感のある3タイプの特徴的な造形が生まれたエピソードなど、Sony Designならではのデザインが生まれるまでのストーリーを、ぜひご覧ください。
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Sony TidBits…
PlayMemories Camera Apps “Smooth Reflection”
Best primes for the A5000 (DxOmark).
IBELUX 40mm f0.85 lens first seen in flesh at Newsshooter.
Making compact technical camera for A7/A7r at Chiek.co.kr. youtube http://ift.tt/1mk4n4p
Quick test of A6000 with Zeiss lenses (in Swedish) at Fotosidan.
A7r RAW is not all that raw. The full discussion is at Dpreview forum.
Zeiss is having a Touit photo contest, 1st prize is a free touit (including the new 50mm)… “One year of Touit – show us your best image!” http://ift.tt/1iCXIwo
Alex: “Now I did something new. Again with the A7R + 50 Summilux 1.4 ASPH FLE I had an event at a bar where people had the chance to get a professional portrait. The best pictures I posted on my new Facebook page: Faces . All of them where shot at 1.4 or 1.8 and the difficulty was to get the people motivated while try to stay on focus because only a slight movement of few millimeters was enough to get the whole picture blurry. The challenge was also to not get one guy shot right but 12 on the same evening. I was very happy that I could hold my promise and every one got one really nice and professional portrait 
So even though I wished I had autofocus it’s also possible to shoot manual if you try hard enough.”
James: “Sony HK has brought their pro camera support program online. I hope we get this in the US soon.”
Andres: “Not a rumour, but some findings about A6000:s PDAF system. It does not work with all lenses, and I guess it depends on what kind of focus motor is used. Here are the findings with the lenses I’ve tested:
Sigma 19mm f/2.8 – does not work
Sony 18-55/3.5-5.6 (old kit zoom) – does not work
Zeiss 24mm f/2.8 – works
Zeiss 16-70 mm f/4 – works
Sony 35mm f/1.8 – works
Sony 50mm f/1.8 – does not work
Zeiss FE 55mm f/1.8 – works
Kinda dissapointing since the 50/1.8 is one of my favourites, and I was looking forward to fast AF performance with that lens 
Michael: “Know you´re busy with the a77 stuff. But found this in a forum, and thought it was funny and a nice little feature (had in my powerzoom Canon years ago) that nobody talks about. I mentioned it to you some weeks ago: in a video it seemed as if the a6000 in fact allows you to take a still-picture while video-recording. Apparantly it does
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