Sony CES 2018 Starts Monday at 5:00PM PST 8:00PM EST

By Louis Ferreira | Published: January 6, 2018


Just a reminder Sony is live streaming from CES Monday at 5:00PM PST or 8:00PM EST this year and there may be some exciting announcements. While CES tends to not be a camera-centric event Sony has been trying to keep up with other camera companies lately, which is why the Sony a7RIII was released when it was, to combat the D850. Now the Fujifilm X-H1 is coming in February and Sony might try to preempt it’s announcement in some way with a camera like the a7SIII if we are lucky.

Sony also updated their Sony event apps for iOS and Android if you are mobile when the event starts, but the web is the place to be as the announcements are made and we will be live blogging and carrying the stream. Sony might surprise us at CES this year.

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New APS-C Sony E 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS Lens and Sony a6300 Silver Edition

By Louis Ferreira | Published: January 5, 2018

Sony announced some new products today without much notice. The Sony E 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS has an effective focal length of 27-202.5mm on APS-C NEX cameras with a variable aperture. You can see some sample images here and find details about the lense here.

The lens will be available at B&H Photo and Adorama soon.

New Compact, Lightweight E 18-135mm F3.5-5.6 OSS Features Outstanding Sharpness and Fast, Precise, Quiet AF for a wide variety of still and video applications
Sony, a worldwide leader in digital imaging and the world’s largest image sensor manufacturer, today announced its 46th E-mount lens. This new APS-C lens features a versatile 18-135mm focal length, aperture range of F3.5-F5.6 And Optical SteadyShot™ stabilization.

The new lens (model SEL18135) features a compact, lightweight design measuring only 67.2mm x 88mm and weighing in at a mere 325g, as well as a high magnification 7.5x optical zoom that covers the wide-ranging focal length of 18-135mm on APS-C or 27-202.5mm in 35mm equivalent focal length. The lens is an ideal fit for Sony’s popular APS-C sensor cameras including α6500, α6300 and α6000, and is an extremely useful tool for a wide range of shooting situations ranging from daily life to portraiture, landscape, nature and travel photography.

The E 18-135mm F3.5-5.6 OSS produces outstanding corner-to-corner sharpness throughout the entire zoom range thanks to its advanced design featuring one aspherical lens and two Extra-low Dispersion glass elements that minimise aberrations. This lens also allows photographers to produce close-up images with pleasing ‘bokeh’ or background defocus as a result of its maximum magnification ratio of 0.29x and minimum focus distance of 0.45m. It also offers built-in optical image stabilization to support handheld shooting.

Additionally, the 18-135mm F3.5-5.6 Zoom lens offers fast, precise, quiet AF performance thanks to a linear motor, making it a perfect complement to the high speed shooting and impressive video capabilities of many of Sony’s mirrorless cameras.

Pricing and Availability
The SEL18135 will be available from February 2018, priced at approximately $599.


Sony also released two new Sony a6300’s that are silver. They are available as a body only configuration (B&H Photo and Adorama) or with the 16-50mm zoom lens (B&H Photo and Adorama).

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Godox AD600 Pro Leaked

By Louis Ferreira | Published: January 4, 2018


Godox has become very popular this year when they added support for Fujifilm cameras. They have been around for a while, but many gave their flashes a second look and liked what they saw especially for the price in 2017. They make some of the best flashes for the price and will be releasing an update to the AD600 very soon. DIYPhotography grabbed some screenshots of the Godox site earlier today as the Godox AD600 Pro page went live and was later pulled, which you can see here.

You can see the major changes between the AD600 and AD600 Pro above, which seem to be largely tied to flash recycle time and quality. The only way in which the AD600 Pro is inferior to the AD600 is that it can only fire 360 full powered flashes, while the old AD600 could fire 500. The 38W modeling light and .9s recycle time along with stable color temperature mode are all welcome improvements, with USB-C being great if you have already upgraded.

The new AD600 Pro can be found on Adorama (currently on their front page) under the Flashpoint name as the Flashpoint XPLOR 600PRO TTL, which is $150 more than the XPLOR 600 TTL. As always you can mix and match your Godox gear with Flashpoint or just wait for the Godox AD600 Pro to start shipping from Amazon or B&H Photo in the near future.

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Voigtlander Nokton Classic 35mm f/1.4 Lens for Sony E-Mount Listed at B&H Photo

By Louis Ferreira | Published: January 3, 2018

B&H Photo listed the Voigtlander Nokton Classic 35mm f/1.4 Lens for Sony E-Mount today and if the price is right I will definitely be picking one of these up. These lenses were great fun on Leica M cameras and had lots of character, but they were most popular on the Leica M8 where they provided a close to 50mm equivalent focal length and utilized the center of the lens for maximum sharpness. Of course, the Leica M8 was one of the few large format APS-H cameras made so the crop was only 1.33× so there was a lot of interesting lens choices made for that camera. This lens will be great for the a7RIII and a6300/a6500/a6700.

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How The Sony a9 is Made

By Louis Ferreira | Published: January 2, 2018

Photo gear news gets an interesting look inside Sony’s a9 and Zeiss factory. The modular nature of Sony’s assembly lines that allows for the scaling up or down of production is kind of interesting and it makes me wonder how quickly they can run these lines since they run 24/7. Some issues in this line system probably caused the early overheating problems with the Sony a9, because the camera that I had for a few months never overheated once no matter how hard I pushed it and even though I wanted to keep it the a9 just wasn’t right for me. I still have files left to edit today from my time with it, because of how much it caused me to overshoot.

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SonyAddict Celebrities 2017 and Looks Forward to 2018

By Louis Ferreira | Published: January 1, 2018


2017 was a great year across the Addict sites thanks to readers and tipsters with FujiAddict leading the way. We doubled in size this year and hope to double in size again in 2018 with your help, so keep liking and sharing. Blogging about photography and shooting with the photographers that I have met along the way has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my professional life and I hope to do a lot more of it in 2018.

The community that we built on Facebook in 2017 is a great asset full of helpful members and great photos from just about every camera type you can think of thanks to our close partnership with Nikonrumors/Photorumors/Leicarumors/Pentaxrumors that will continue paying dividends going forward. Once again the Fujifilm GFX Owners group is by far our largest Addict group, with a variety of working professionals actively posting in it daily and I can’t thank them enough. Our communities have remained very professional and cordial since it was founded with members willing to help photographers of all skill levels become better at the craft of photography.

Of course, SonyAddict is growing nicely too, but more so towards the end of 2017, due to the release of the innovative Sony a9 and very desirable Sony a7RIII. It’s hard to say how these two cameras will affect Fujifilms momentum going forward, especially since Fujifilm has the X-H1 and X-T3 on the horizon, but both companies deserve a lot of respect this year. Similarly, 43Addict had a lot of spikes in interest with so many competent compact cameras being released, but the Panasonic GH5 by far was the big winner in 2017 for m43. As of right now, m43 seems to have a very loyal following, but there aren’t many photographers switching to them.

There truly never has been a better time to be in photography and the addict sites represent the companies that are pushing photography technologically forward. I believe true photographers need to amend the old saying that “The best camera is the camera you have with you” to “I should try to have the best camera with me that I can at all times.” I’m pretty sure this would have been the saying in the past if they had access to the cameras that we have today because there are so many great compact and light options. I can’t wait to see what 2018 brings and be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube and join our group’s bellow.

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