Category Archives: Sony a7R II

B&H Photo is Now Selling 4 Zeiss Loxia Bundles

The Loxia lens series is designed for full-frame and APS-C Sony E-mount cameras and provides a fully mechanical operation that benefits both still photographers and filmmakers. Offering long focus throws and the ability to de-click the aperture, filmmakers especially can benefit from these compact optics. The 21mm, 35mm, and 50mm lenses included here offer a […]

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Sigma 35/50mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Sony Lens Kit

Sigma introduced two ART lens kits that include the MC-11 adapter for Sony cameras. Kind of an interesting approach in comparison to making a native ART lens. I am curious if others will emulate the practice. From what I understand Sigma’s MC-11 adapter has a custom firmware for each of the supported lenses, that temporarily takes the […]

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Sony Won 3 Awards Including Camera of The Year From Camera GP Japan 2016

Grand Prize – interchangeable lens type digital single-lens camera “α7R II” (ILCE-7RM2) “Α7R II” is the world’s first ※ 1 35mm full-size back-illuminated Exmor R® (Aix More Earl) equipped with a CMOS image sensor. The back-illuminated structure, while achieving the α series best effective about 42.4 million pixel resolution, combines the high sensitivity and low noise performance and […]

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DXO Reviewed The Zeiss Batis 85mm

DXO just released their Zeiss Batis 85mm f/1.8 test results and it looks like a good balance between price/performance for portraiture. This isn’t the sharpest lens you can put on a Sony A7, but it’s close enough for 99% of shooting. The design of the Batis lenses have interested me since their announcement and I hope to pick […]

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Sony ASe7ens

“2016 sees Sony celebrating its 70th birthday. We wanted to celebrate by doing something truly special. Armed with a7 series cameras, we enlisted the help of seven photographers and Instagrammers – otherwise known as the ASe7ens – to join us on a trip to Japan. Here we spent seven days exploring seven different themes that […]

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Metabones Canon EF Adapter Compatibility

There are a lot of options for adapting lenses to the Sony E mount, but the most trusted and well known is metabones. While doing research into their adapters found an excellent resource compiled by Brian Smith with the help of B&H Photo that is incredibly thorough and even includes generic alternatives. Brian has compiled a list of almost […]

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