Sony Electronics Enhances Creators’ Cloud with Addition of Direct Transfers to Google Drive or Adobe Lightroom


Sony Electronics Enhances Creators’ Cloud with Addition of Direct Transfers to Google Drive or Adobe Lightroom
Sony Electronics Inc. has made updates to its Creators’ Cloud platform, enhancing the Creators’ App1 to streamline content management for creators with new automated cloud transfer options. Based on feedback from the creative community, this latest update simplifies workflows by enabling direct uploads from select Sony cameras2 to Google Drive or Adobe Lightroom, empowering creators to seamlessly integrate their work into widely used editing and storage solutions.

This release of version 2.6.0 of the Creators’ App marks another step forward in Sony’s ongoing commitment to supporting the creative process with practical, user-driven enhancements, that give creators powerful, intuitive tools to move from shooting to sharing with minimal steps, with fewer technical barriers. Read More »

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Tamron 200-800mm F6.7 and 200-600mm F5.6 Patents Found


Patents from tamron for the Tamron 200-800mm F6.7 and Tamron 200-600mm F5.6 have been found which you can read below:

overview

  • [Publication number] P2025019320
  • [Release date] 2025-02-06
  • [Title of invention] Zoom lens and imaging device
  • [Application date] 2024-11-28
  • [Show division] Division of P 2023010758 
    [Original application date] 2018-12-28
  • [Applicant]
    [Identification number] 000133227
    [Name or company name] Tamron Co., Ltd.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a zoom lens and an imaging device that are small and lightweight and have high optical performance.
  • [Background Art]
    [0002]
    In recent years, imaging devices using solid-state imaging elements, such as digital still cameras and digital video cameras, have become widespread. Accordingly, the optical systems of these imaging devices have become more compact and more powerful, and compact imaging device systems have become increasingly widespread. Furthermore, there is a particularly strong demand for compactness as well as high performance of the optical system in telephoto zoom lenses with long focal lengths.
  • [0003]
    Patent Document 1 proposes a zoom lens with a zoom ratio of about 4, a focal length at the telephoto end of about 600 m when converted into a 35 mm format, and an F-number of about 6.3. This zoom lens achieves a telephoto lens, i.e., a longer focal length than conventional lenses, while also being compact.
  • [0005]
    Meanwhile, in the zoom lens disclosed in Patent Document 1, high optical performance is realized by forming the first lens group using a positive lens made of a glass material having anomalous dispersion. However, the zoom lens disclosed in Patent Document 1 is not sufficient in terms of miniaturization and weight reduction of the entire zoom lens unit. In a telephoto zoom lens, the diameter of the lenses forming the first lens group is large, and the positive lenses are thick. In addition, glass materials having anomalous dispersion are expensive and have a large specific gravity. Therefore, if a positive lens having anomalous dispersion is arranged in the first lens group, the cost increases and the lens becomes heavy. Furthermore, if the first lens group becomes heavy, the driving mechanism for moving the first lens group along the optical axis during magnification change also becomes large, and the entire zoom lens unit also becomes large and heavy.
  • SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT EMBODIMENT
    An object of the present invention is to provide a zoom lens and an image pickup apparatus which are small and lightweight and have high optical performance.


Example 1

  • Focal length: 205.426-774.302
  • F value: 6.583
  • Half angle of view: 6.008-1.586
  • Image height: 21.633
  • Total length: 415.348


Example 2

  • Focal length: 204.385-583.896
  • F value: 5.704-5.706
  • Half angle of view: 6.042-2.103
  • Image height: 21.633
  • Total length: 354.884

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Samyang AF 35mm f/1.4 P FE Now Available


Samyang AF 35mm f/1.4 P FE: B&H Photo

The Samyang AF 35mm f/1.4 P FE was first announced a few months ago here, but now the lens is available from B&H Photo under the Samyang and Rokinon names.

Introduction to the Prima Series
The first lens of Samyang’s third-generation lineup and the debut of their new “Prima Series,” the 35mm f/1.4 P FE Lens from Samyang is a fast normal-length prime designed for Sony E-mount full-frame camera systems. Combining a tried-and-true focal length with a bright f/1.4 aperture, this prime is equipped to perform well during everyday shooting and in dimmer lighting conditions. Smooth and accurate autofocus is provided via the lens’s linear stepping motor, which works to reduce noise and minimize focus breathing so that both still and video capturing is reliable and efficient. Complemented with a compact design, the 35mm f/1.4 P FE weighs approximately 1 lb, aiding users during extended shoots.

Redesigned for Improved Quality
The lens’s outer barrel matte finish helps reduce reflections and glare, prevents fingerprints from dirtying it, and enhances overall grip for better handling.

Micro-pattern rubber provides a textured grip for better user control and improved durability.

A sleek, subtle red ring on the front of the lens barrel adds to its professional look.

An optical design with 12 elements in 10 groups, including one HR, one ED, and three aspherical lenses for enhanced image sharpness and contrast.

Additional Lens Benefits

  • USB-C port in the interior of the lens barrel for conveniently making firmware updates which enables the latest features and improvements
  • Weather-sealed construction protects against dust and moisture and allows use in harsher conditions
  • UMC coating reduces lens flare, prevents ghosting, and improves image clarity

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Sony a7C Showing Up As Discontinued


The Sony a7C is now listed as discontinued at B&H Photo, but you can still find new cameras on Amazon and Adorama.

Sony a7C: Amazon / Adorama.

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Viltrox 35mm f/1.2 LAB Coming Sooner Than Expected

Viltrox AF 135mm f/1.8 LAB FE:
B&H Photo / Amazon

When we first leaked the upcoming Viltrox 35mm f/1.2 LAB it was expected at NAB in April. Now the Viltrox 35mm f/1.2 LAB is expected to be unveiled at CP+ in February 2025.

According to reports, Viltrox’s new AF35mm F1.2 LAB full-frame autofocus lens will be unveiled during CP+ in February 2025. This lens is Viltrox’s first full-frame F1.2 large aperture autofocus lens. It is expected to have Sony E and Nikon Z mounts. The lens body will be lighter than the Nikon Z35mm F1.2S lens, and the estimated price is only about a quarter of the Nikon Z35mm F1.2S. At present, there are no other more parameters.

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Sigma 800mm f/6.3 Likely Coming Soon


Sigma used to produce a Sigma 800mm f/5.6 EX DG HSM APO Ultra for SLR, but now according to weibo Sigma will produce a Sigma 800mm f/6.3 lens for E-mount. 

Recently, multiple domestic and overseas sources have pointed out that the specifications of the super telephoto prime lens that Sigma is about to release are basically confirmed to be 800mm F6.3! It was mentioned before that Sigma CEO Mr. Yamaki Kazuto said in an interview that the “super telephoto lens with unprecedented specifications” will be released soon, and the source pointed out that there will be two lenses, one fixed and one zoom. This column has previously inferred that the focal length of the fixed lens will be 800mm (confirmed)

Hopefully, Sigm can produce the Sigma 800mm f/6.3 at an attractive price point.

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