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2015年2月14日土曜日

Sony is the only company without a product announcement at CP+. Your thoughts?

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The Zeiss 35mm FE cut in half at CP+ Sony booth (Source: Matthew Allard).

Well, Sony decided to literally skip the CP+ show and is as far as I know the only major photo company not having announced a new camera or lens. But also the other companies kept a low profile (Read Engadget articles about that). Canon’s 5ds will ship in June only and all other manufacturers did show many prototypes and much less “real” production cameras.

Just like it happened with the A7II launch Sony seems to prefer to launch major stuff off the big show to get more publicity. And here is the question to our SAR readers:

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New FE lens videos and a 3D view from the Sony booth.

Newsshooter at CP+ Tokyo 2015- Sony FE 24-240mm F3.5-6.3 lens first look from Matthew Allard ACS on Vimeo.

Newsshooter also posted a hands-on video and report with the 24-240mm FE lens:

I had a quick hands on with the lens at CP+ and while it looked to perform well from around 24-100mm, it did look noticeably softer at the far end of the focal range. Build quality was average but it was nice to handle and use.

And there we have also new “Estonian” hands-on videos:

The Distagon 35mm: http://ift.tt/1KVBhl8

The 24-240mm: http://ift.tt/1F8WlWI

Converters with 28mm lens: http://ift.tt/1F8WnOu

There is also Sony CP+ special site on their blog where you can see the interactive view from Sony CP+ booth. At the bottom of this site there are all Sony posts from cp+ – more will follow. http://ift.tt/1F8Wo4I

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2015年02月13日のつぶやきまとめを更新しました！

from レンズ沼探検隊ソニー沼担当のつぶやきまとめ@Seesaaブログ

Meike announces the new A7II Battery grip!

Meike announced a new battery grip for the A7II. You can get it via eBay seller KGhobbie (Click here) and Roxsen (Click here). It ships worldwide and with 2.4GHz wireless remote control included.

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2015年2月13日金曜日

Canon Pokes Fun on Nikon and Sony because they now have less pixels!

At Cp+ Canon is Pokes Fun on Nikon and Sony because their new Canon 5ds has more Pixels than the D800 series and Sony A7r. Well, I refuse to make any comments on this

P.S.: Canon even showed a new 120MP sensor prototype (Mirrorlessrumors).

found via CanonWatch.

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Newsshooter FE lens hands-on videos.

Newsshooter at CP+ Tokyo 2015- Sony Distagon T* FE 35mm F1.4 ZA First Look from Matthew Allard ACS on Vimeo.

Reminder: Without a single word Sony decided to postponed the FE lens launch. Back at Photokina the first shipment was promised to be in February. And even their current Sony Japan site advertise the new lenses. But at Cp+ Sony decided to not answer any question about that. Anyway, the real pricing and shipment announcement should come very soon as reported by DC.watch.

The Sony FE lenses at the Sony booth:

Newsshooter writes about the Zeiss FE 35mm f/1.4 lens:

The new lens felt very solid in the hand and although not a light lens it did not feel unbalanced on a Sony a7. The lens features a 72mm front and comes with a nice lens hood. From the limited time I had using the lens I was left with a positive impression. It is very sharp, produces nice bokeh and seems to have good control of chromatic aberration and vignetting.

Newsshooter also posted a Sony 28mm f/2.0 Hands-on video and writes:

The build quality is fair, but not in the same class as the 35mm F1.4 FE ZE. From my quick play with the lens, it optically looked pretty good. It also had pretty close focus ability that I estimated to be around the 30cm mark. Once you put the adapters on expect a drop in optical performance. The Ultra Wide Adapter had quite a lot of barrel distortion and definitely looked a little softer in the corners. The Fish Eye Adaptor does produce minor vignetting in full frame mode.

Newsshooter at CP+ Tokyo 2015- Sony FE 28mm F2 lens and Fish Eye and Ultra Wide Converters first look from Matthew Allard ACS on Vimeo.

DC.watch posted a new set of images. Click on them to enlarge:

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ウォークマン® NW-ZX2いよいよ明日発売！ http://bit.ly/1CcEj22 高音質を追求し、新たなフラッグシップになったウォークマン® NW-...

ウォークマン® NW-ZX2いよいよ明日発売！

http://bit.ly/1CcEj22

高音質を追求し、新たなフラッグシップになったウォークマン® NW-ZX2。

銀座ソニーショールームでは、2月24日(火)までNW-ZX2の体験イベントを開催中です。

内部パーツをご覧いただける分解展示や、ウォークマン35周年を記念した歴代のウォークマンの展示をしています。

また、ソニーストア名古屋・大阪では、NW-ZX2の開発メンバーによるトークショー（事前予約制）を開催します。

磨き抜かれた、高音質技術についてエンジニアがこだわりを語ります。

■開発者トークショー開催日程

ソニーストア名古屋：3月8日(日)

ソニーストア大阪：3月7日(土)

皆さまのご来場をお待ちしております。

* 銀座ソニービルは、2015年2月16日(月)全館休館とさせていただきます。

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