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TheCameraStoreTV: Facebook Live Sony Portrait Lenses Thailand

The Camera Store TV did a factory tour for the new Sony FE 85mm F1.8 which might sound boring, but they found it very interesting. Sony had people trained to know the feel and sound of the lenses in operation, which they found surprising. They also asked Sony to produce more APS-C lenses in the future. Beyond that […]

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Image Resource Interview Kenji Tanaka

Image Resource interviewed Kenji Tanaka head of Sony’s ILC Camera business. Some sensors are reserved for Sony (Maybe this is why no one else is using their 42MP Full Frame sensor) Sony invested billions in sensor technology and lenses The Full Frame market is the most stable, but Sony wants to grow it slowly “Before 42 […]

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Sony at PhotoPlus Expo 2016

PhotoPlus Expo 2016 Day 1 Preview: What You’ll See At The Sony Booth On Day One (Thursday October 20th) of the 2016 PhotoPlus Expo, the Sony booth will be busy! Presentations from the Sony Artisans Of Imagery start at 10:15 and there will be live action on the Demonstration Stage all day long. You can […]

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Sony a99 Mark II Interview and Review

Lensvid just released their interview with Yann Salmon-Legagneur the general manger for product marketing in Sony Europe. The Sony a99 Mark II can shoot up to 60 images JPEG or 50 RAW at 12fps and the body is only about the size of the a77, so it’s about 18% smaller. Another surprising detail from the interview […]

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Imaging Resource Interviews Kimio Maki About The Sony a99 II

image courtesy of Imaging Resource Imaging Resource managed to get a few key details about the Sony a99 Mark II out of Senior General Manager Kimio Maki that no other outlet has, relating to their new LSI chip and how it might end up in future mirrorless cameras. I am surprised A-Mount is big enough to profit from body sales alone, […]

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Sony Has to Create Something New

Kimio Maki the Senior General Manager of the Digital Imaging Business Group at Sony gave another pretty typical interview with Amateur Photographer about the a99 except for one detail. “Are fast-focusing mirrorless cameras like the Fujifilm X-T2 a threat to Sony Alpha 7-series customers? KM: Yes. In terms of speed we have learned a lot from Fujifilm, […]

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