Author Archives: Louis Ferreira

IR: Sony CP+ 2019 Interview about AI AF, Computational Photography, APS-C, Canon, and More

IR interviewed Sony at CP+2019 and below are excerpts from the interview: While the overall ICL market was down 8% later year Sony was not Sony does not believe the market will be half in two year they believe it will be 80% of what it is today Sony believes that Full Frame mirrorless will […]

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7Artisans 60mm f/2.8 Macro With Large Extension Tube at CP+ 2019

7Artisans showed their 60mm f/2.8 Macro with a giant extension tube at CP+ this year mounted to a Sony a6000 that does 5:1 magnification. We knew the 7Artisans 60mm f/2.8 Macro was coming, but this is certainly an interesting way to show the lens. Fengniao captured it at CP+ in a video. Be sure to […]

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Sony a6400 Real-Time Tracking vs Canon 6D Mark II Dual Pixel Autofocus

Sony’s new real-time tracking is so sticky compared to other AF on the market at this time that even Canon’s dual pixel AF can’t come close to matching the a6400’s AF performance. It’s interesting that Sony keeps leapfrogging over the competition when it decides to focus on a feature and we can only hope that […]

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Deal Zone: MITAKON ZHONGYI 20mm f/2 4.5x Super Macro Lens Discounted Today Only

B&H Photo has the MITAKON ZHONGYI 20mm f/2 4.5x Super Macro Lens discounted for the remainder of the day.

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Sony a6000 Firmware 3.21 Released

Sony a6000 ILCE-6000 System Software (Firmware) Update Ver. 3.21  Benefits and Improvements from the latest update Improves stability of the AF operation Download Here Sony a6000: B&H Photo / Amazon /Adorama

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Kazuto Yamaki President of Sigma on E-mount

Kazuto Yamaki President of Sigma gave lenstip an interview, which I covered on 43Addict and he had some interesting things to say about E-mount and in the broader interview lens design for mirrorless: E-Mount Growing very rapidly and it impresses Kazuto Yamaki Sigma will release a short flange back lens for E-Mount this year The […]

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