Samyang Announcement XEEN 135mm T2.2

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July 18th, 2016, Seoul, Korea

The global optics brand, Samyang Optics (http://www.samyanglens global.com) announced the release of XEEN 135mm T2.2. Along with the existing five lenses of 14mm T3.1, 24mm T1.5, 35mm T1.5, 50mm T1.5 and 85mm T1.5, XEEN 135mm T2.2 offers outstanding image quality from resolving power for 4K+ production for filming video and cinema.

XEEN is a specialized brand in professional video-cine lens launched by Samyang Optics in 2015. The XEEN lenses are designed with Samyang Optics’ know-how and have outstanding optical performance for 4K+ with the X-Coating Technology, ensuring maximum image quality to create a cinematic look.

The 24mm x 36mm negative size allows XEEN to not only work with full frame cameras, but also with Super 35, APS-C and APS-H cameras. The lenses are available in five different mounts – PL, EF, F, E, and MFT and two different focus scales – metric and imperial units. Also, the aluminium metal housing is known for its reliability in various shooting conditions.

The new XEEN 135mm adds telephoto angle to the existing XEEN set, enabling to capture the sincere emotions and details of characters in films and videos. Also the bright T2.2 offers high quality footage with clear contrast and impressive colors, even under less-than-optimal lighting conditions. The large aperture also creates a pleasing bokeh effect for a cinematic look.

Moreover, Samyang has announced to release a total of five lenses throughout five weeks as a 2016 Summer Samyang Blockbuster campaign starting from XEEN 135mm. The other four lenses will be announced on every Monday from July 25th to August 15th.

Via Samyang

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Optimizing Photos in Lightroom CC 2015

B&H Photo put together a lengthy Lightroom tutorial to help you make your photos pop.

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Lightroom Mobile 2.4 and 2.1

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Lightroom Mobile finally has the ability to edit RAW files on the go that is equal to Lightroom CS. If you want to know more about the Lightroom Mobile update blamethemonkey has in-depth coverage of the newly released update.

Lightroom 2.4 for iOS: What’s New?

  •  A new raw technology preview has been added, which allows you to import raw photos directly to either your iPad or iPhone, edit them and after that share them anywhere you’ve got a connection;
  • You can now perform local adjustments with radial and linear selection, meaning that you can either add or modify existing selections that have been made to photos and use the tools to draw attention to certain parts of a photo;
  • You can now use the keyboard shortcuts with physical keyboards connected to iPads;
  • You can now add copyright to all imported photos;
  • More bugs fixes and improvements.

Lightroom 2.1 for Android: What’s New?

  • A Pro mode for the built-in camera will now allow you to control the ISO, shutter speed, white balance and more;
  • The new Lightroom Camera widget will also allow you to access the camera directly, which means that you will be able to take photos faster;
  • The functionality to export full resolution photos has been improved (if the photos are available somewhere within the Lightroom ecosystem, the Lightroom application will allow you to download the photos at full resolution version.

Via Apple

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Sony Lens Firmware Updates?

Sony July 2016 Firmware

Sony released firmware updates for a few FE lenses that seem to have been pulled for an unknown reason. The links below reflect the July firmware updates, but when you click through to the downloads only the March firmware updates are available. Version 02 also reflects the March firmware updates.

35mm f/1.4 FE firmware download
35mm f/2.8 FE firmware download
55mm FE firmware download
24-70mm FE firmware download
28-70mm FE firmware download
70-200mm FE firmware download

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Sony Planar T* FE 50mm, FE 70-200mm and Flash Preorders

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I will update this post as other preorder links become available.

Sony Planar T* FE 50mm f/1.4 ZA Lens at B&H photoAmazon, Adorama
Sony FA-WRC1M Wireless Radio Commander at B&H photo, Amazon, Adorama
Sony FA-WRR1 Wireless Radio Receiver at B&H photo, Amazon, Adorama
Sony VMC-MM1 Multi Terminal Cable at B&H photo, Amazon, Adorama
70-200Sony GM
Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS Lens at B&H photoAmazonAdorama
Sony FE 1.4x Teleconverter at B&H photoAmazonAdorama
Sony FE 2.0x Teleconverter at B&H photoAmazonAdorama

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Amazon Prime Day

 

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There are a lot of Amazon Prime Day Deals this year for Sony fans! I would link you to each one, but the lenses and accessories listed below are limited time offers.

Amazon has 20% off select open box lenses for Amazon Prime Members
Full Frame
Sony 24-70mm f/4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS
Sony FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS

APS-C
Sony 28-70mm F3.5-5.6 FE OSS
Sony SELP-18200

Alpha
Sony 50mm f/1.8 SAM DT
Sony 16-50mm f/2.8 Standard Zoom Lens
Sony Zeiss 16-35mm F/2.8
Sony Zeiss 24-70mm F/2.8
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