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2015年4月27日月曜日

おはようございます。今週の投稿も、αcafeの写真からスタート！ http://bit.ly/1GgtVbE 満開のチューリップ。赤、白、黄色以外にも、さま...

おはようございます。
今週の投稿も、αcafeの写真からスタート！
http://bit.ly/1GgtVbE

満開のチューリップ。赤、白、黄色以外にも、さまざまな色の花が！どの花もやはりきれいですね。

撮影：おにぎりさん

from Sony (Japan)'s Facebook Wall

2015年4月26日日曜日

Great official Sony US rebates! $200 off on the new A7II. And A7 now sells for $999 only!

This is a great news! Sony lowered the prices on the newest A7II camera by $200! And for the first time you can get the first generation Sony A7 for under $1,000 thanks to a big $300 off!

Sony Alpha a7II (Body Only) for $1,498 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, SonyStore.
Sony Alpha a7II with FE 28-70mm OSS Lens for $1,798 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, SonyStore.

Sony Alpha a7 (Body Only) for $998 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, SonyStore.
Sony Alpha a7 with FE 28-70mm OSS Lens for $1,298 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, SonyStore.

The A7r got a major price drop weeks ago ($1898 at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto). In that case the reason for the price drop is that the new A7rII will be available in June!

Sony refurbished deals:
Sony A7r for $1,399 (Click here).
Zeiss 16-35mm for $1,199 (Click here).
16mm for $149 (Click here).
55-210mm for $164 (Click here).
Sony A3000 for $199 (Click here).
Zeiss 55mm for $1749 (Click here).
A5000 double lens kit for $399 (Click here).
A6000 double lens kit for $649 (Click here).
NEX-5T double lens kit for $399 (Click here).

from sonyalpharumors

Sony announces Best Quarterly Profit in 7 Years.

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The new revised Sony financial forecast report.

It really looks like the big Sony financial crisis will be over soon. Playstation sales and Imaging Sensor Business made Sony post its best quarterly profit in seven years and increase its projection for annual sales. Sony now expects a full-year operating profit of 20 billion yen, compared with an earlier forecast for a 40 billion-yen loss.

Smartphone-selfie ready cameras and autocar cameras are pushing the Sony sensor sales. There is yet no specific info about how good the Alpha-RX cameras business is doing. But having a booming sensor business certainly helps the digital camera division to keep costs down and to get the best tech

Source Sony via Bloomberg.

from sonyalpharumors

2015年04月25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

This week SAR readers photos selection.

Anders Wotzke
Eye of the storm
A7II + 16-35mm f/4
35mm f/11 1/200 ISO200
http://ift.tt/1FmQgGw
http://ift.tt/1FmQgGy

1) Submit your picture with a message and picture here: http://ift.tt/1kvK0PS or on the SonyAlphaForum image section.
2) Like and comment the pictures from other readers here: http://ift.tt/13Yf6fV and on SonyAlphaForum.
3) A selection of most liked pictures by the community and by me SAR admin will be posted weekly on SAR.

Note: When sending a pic feel free to also add a link to your site to promote yourself!

Martin Diller
a stormy evening in steckborn (switzerland)
“sony alpha 6000″ and “sony sel 10-18 f/4 OSS”
ISO 100, 10 mm, 0 EV, f/6,3 1/15s
by: martin diller
facebook: “seensucht”

Kai O’Yang‎
At Cloudehill, taken with Sony A7R, Voigtlander Super wide 15mm Heliar III lens. ISO 640, F/11, 1/100s.
http://ift.tt/1KiaOzu

Kelly Padgett‎
Sony A7II
35mm F/2.8 CZ
I believe i shot this one at 2.8. This is inside a pagoda that i frequent often here in Ho Chi Minh City. Just as i got set up to shoot the rain came, and they closed the opening in the roof eliminating most of the natural light in this part of the pagoda, which actually worked to my benefit. I purposely shot these very dark. My edits are done in LR, a bit if split toning and a curve wash that gives it that hazy look to it. If you want to see the rest you can visit this link and have a look. http://ift.tt/1QuVt2H
P.S. the lines are straight, but so many things here in Vietnam are not built straight or level, you have to find one item (in this case the alter) and work from that. Things also can not be moved around, so you have to shoot them as they are and work with what you have.

Mathieu Legrand‎
Jump ! Sony A7II + Canon Mp-E65
http://ift.tt/Lewc7V

José Ramos·
“Synchronicity” Kirkjufell, Iceland
Sony a77 + Sigma 10-20mm
Aperture: f/11
Shutter speed: 30 seconds

Mike Van Schoonderwalt‎
One of the Calatrava bridges in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands. Shot with A99, with Tamron 24-70 @ 30 mm, f11, ISO 100, 1/320

Jake Jung‎
“Pink Pavement”
α6000 + SEL1670z
Fallen cherry petals in Kagawa, Japan
http://ift.tt/1wK6RkA

Ole Martin Handeland
Sony A7 II with the Sigma 150-500mm f5-6.3 for Canon mount (fully open and zoomed at 500mm). Taken at the opening of Hafrsfjord in Stavanger, Norway.

Jonathan Ferland-Valois‎
Siwash Rock, Vancouver. A6000 + SEL3518 @ f/11, multiple exposures.

Pedro Santos‎
A7r + FE 35/2.8

Bruno Vais‎
Sony A7R
It took a while for the sun to decide whether to come out of the clouds or not, but when it did it was magical.
www.brunovais.com

Andreas Elste‎
Sony A7 + Minolta 17-35 2.8-4
@24mm | F3.2 | 1/200s | ISO100 smile emoticon

Meng Keat‎
Pacu Jawi, traditional cow race in Padang, Indonesia.
Best view here: http://ift.tt/1QuVqEc

Davide Atzei‎
A7s 5 long exposures merged. www.davideatzei.com

from sonyalpharumors

$100 off on the A5000 with kit lens (limited quantity). FREE 246 SSD card with Atomos Shogun.

Camerland is selling a couple of brand new (US warranty!) A5000 kit cameras with a nice $100 discount on their eBay Page (Click here).

More new deals:
New Rokinon A and E-mount 100mm lens is in Stock at BHphoto.
Lexar SD cards savings at Amazon US (Click here).
The Atomos Shogun 4K recorder for the A7s comes with a free 256 SSD card at Adorama (Click here).
Free $50 gift card with the Sony CLM-V55 at Adorama (Click here).
$300 off on the A58 with lens and Flash kit at BHphoto (Click here).
There is a long list of Mother’s Day deals on that special eBay page (Click here). Here is the direct link to the Sony stuff:
Sony Cameras (Click here).
All lenses (Click here).

And the new Lightroom 6 (or CC as cloud version) is now available for preorder:
Lightroom CC at Adobe (Click here).
Lightroom 6 at Adobe (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).

The four new Batis and A-mount lenses:
Sony 24-70mm f/2.8 ZA SSM II at Amazon, BHphoto and at Adorama.
Sony 16-35mm f/2.8 ZA SSM II at Amazon, BHphoto and at Adorama.
Zeiss Batis 85mm f/1.8 lens at Adorama, Bhphoto.
Zeiss Batis 25mm f/2.0 lens at Adorama, Bhphoto.

from sonyalpharumors

2015年4月25日土曜日

Samyang 135mm f/2 first impressions and samples (Guest post by Tomasz Kałużny).

This is a Guest post from Tomasz Kałużny. The text and images are copyrighted and have been reposted on SAR from the orginal authors site Darkshape.

Samyang 135mm f/2 first impressions and samples
by Tomasz Kałużny

Today I had a rare pleasure to lay my hands on an extraordinary lens: Samyang 135mm f/2. Thanks to the guys at infoto.pl who made this possible. It’s one of the latest releases from Samyang and I have been waiting for this for quite some time since the lens had a pretty good word of mouth right from the moment it was announced.

But first things first. Since the last time I have seriously upgraded my camera. I went from a Sony NEX5n which I still love to the 24MP Sony A7 so the quality of the photos should be much improved. I will try to post a complex review of the camera in the near future, but I will just say it’s an amazing piece of gear and it surpassed my expectations in every aspect.

The Samyang 135mm is quite a bulky lens, but achieving such wide aperture at that focal length just takes its toll and there’s no way those laws of physics can be bypassed. The first thing you notice are just huge front and rear optical elements, which are a promise of good optical quality and the first photos you take just confirm that 100%. If I could summarize the experience in just one sentence, it would be: “that is the sharpest lens I have ever used”. I have seen a couple tests online prior to using it, but taking the photos myself and then seeing them on a large screen I just couldn’t believe my eyes.
Some of my samples, all taken at f/2 because stopping down is not necessary here (and several 100% pixel per pixel crops):

100% crop

But the sharpness is not all. This lens has got amazing colour rendition and contrast…

….and spectacular bokeh…

….and the chromatic aberration is basically nonexistent.

Every one of 24 million pixels is put to use by this lens. You can see on some of the crops that the detail is almost finer than the digital ‘grain’, I would love to see some samples from a Sony A7R or Nikon D600. I have not corrected chromatic aberration on any of the photos.

Using this lens I camer to had to remember to keep my exposure times short (as it is a tele lens) which was more than easy during the day, but in the afternoon I had too boost ISO100 to ISO800 to stay in the safe zone.

There is an old rule of thumb for exposure times. When handholding your shots your times shouldn’t be longer than 1/(focal length), so basically for this lens the value was 1/135s and 1/160s when you round it off to an existing value. You have to remember though that this applies to full frame, when using a crop sensor, you need to calculate the equivalent. So when using Sony NEX5n (crop factor of 1.5x) with this lens the safe exposure time would be around 1/200s as 1.5 times 135 equals 202.5. You have to remember that this rule just tells you what is the longest eposure time you can safely handhold, it does not mean that all of those shots will be sharp. Shaky hands can ruin everything, but if you are steady, you can just as well pull off a longer exposure time. But still I think this is very useful to keep that in mind.

* The lens I tested was a Nikon mount and I used an adapter to mount it. This does not change anything, but I thought some people might wanna know that.

edit 19.04.15 – I’m adding some more samples: