Author Archives: Louis Ferreira

The Voigtlander Heliar-Hyper Wide 10mm 5.6 Aspherical Review: E or M-Mount That is The Question…

The Voigtlander Heliar-Hyper Wide 10mm 5.6 Aspherical is a unique rectilinear full frame lens that come for E-mount and M-mount. It is the widest of its kind produced and it caught a lot of photographers, attention when it was announced for Sony E-mount and Leica M-mount. At the time of their announcement, I highly doubted […]

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Phottix Odin II Firmware 1.01

New firmware for the Phottix Odin II for Sony is available for download. What does v1.01 do? Fix the following issue: While pressing the shutter button on Sony cameras, the Odin II is unable to trigger Strato II receiver/Mitros+/Indra500/360 in Strato II RX mode The v1.01 Firmware can be downloaded at Phottix.com. A Phottix Mac-compatible firmware upgrade […]

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Sony Fell From 2nd to 3rd in BCN Awards

Sony fell from 2nd to 3rd place behind Canon in mirrorless sales for 2016 in Japan according to BCNranking. The 7.9% drop was likely due to the the Sony A6300 and A6500 being the only “new” Sony cameras for 2016. Hopefully we will see a new a7R this year along side an a7S and a7. Canon dominated thanks […]

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Red Helium 8k S35 Pushes The Sony a7RII Down DXO’s List Another Spot

The Red Helium 8k S35 pushed the Sony a7RII further down DXO’s list, by scoring an unbelievably high overall score of 108. DXO might have to rethink their testing methodology soon. It’s also interesting that they included a camera in their rankings that seems to do some denoising, but still refuse to include Fujifilm in their […]

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Sony a5000 Deeply Discounted

Amazon discounted the silver and white a5000 $150, but the black is still full price. There is a chance that the black could be discounted soon so if you must have the black keep an eye on the listing.

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Dave Dugdale Expands on Philip Bloom’s AF Test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOUtRfpqJp8 Dave Dugdale decided to expand on Philip Bloom’s AF test Part 1 and Part 2, with two test of his own using the Canon EOS-1D X Mark II and Sony a6500. His methodology is a little different and uses different lenses, the  Sony Zeiss 55mm F1.8 Sonnar T* FE ZA and Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM, but he has come up […]

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