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

By Louis Ferreira | Published: May 22, 2016

Camera GP Sony 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 wide dynamic range. In addition, the world largest ※ 1 399-point image plane phase difference high-speed, high-precision AF performance by the AF sensor loading of, all of the α lens with a valid body built-in optical 5 Jikute shake correction, high-resolution 4K video recording, etc. , is a camera that was realized in the compact and lightweight body to no video experience to this regardless of the still images and video Read More »

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DXO Reviewed The Zeiss Batis 85mm

By Louis Ferreira | Published: May 22, 2016

Batis 85mm DXO

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 one up in the near future. Hopefully we will see how the Batis compares to the Sony FE 85mm F1.4 GM soon.

vai DXO

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Sony ASe7ens

By Louis Ferreira | Published: May 21, 2016

“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 celebrate seven decades of Sony. Over the next few months we’ll be recounting these stories in more detail through the eyes of our ASe7ens photographers and the words of the people that we met. We’ll also be talking to Sony’s engineers and designers to learn how our own history and culture has influenced their feelings, thoughts and dreams as we look to move forward for the next 70 years.”

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Soviet Lenses

By Louis Ferreira | Published: May 20, 2016

Mathieu Stern’s 4 Jupiter lenses (Jupiter 9 85mm f/2, Jupiter 11 135 f/4, Jupiter 11A 135 f/4, and Jupiter 21M 200mm f/4) have been making the rounds to build momentum for individual reviews, but you don’t have to wait to see reviews of some of these lenses because Blunty received 4 Russian lenses from a fan years ago and posted some individual reviews of them. Read More »

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Metabones Canon EF Adapter Compatibility

By Louis Ferreira | Published: May 19, 2016

Metabones Smart Adapter IV
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 every Canon EF mount lens you can think of and how well it performs on the following different adapters.

Metabones Canon EF Lens to E-Mount (both perform the same, but the T is designed to be antireflective)
Metabones T Smart Adapter IV
Metabones Smart Adapter IV

Fotodiox AF Adapter for Canon EF to E-Mount B&H Photo
Fotodiox AF Adapter for Canon EF to E-Mount Amazon
Viltrox Auto-focus Canon EF to Sony E-Mount Adapter II

If Image stabilization is important then you will want to stick with metabones, but beyond IS all three of these adapters appear to be good choices for the vast majority of lenses available. I highly recommend checking out Brian Smith’s list if you own one of these adapters or are considering one.

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Sony FE 85mm f/1.4 GM vs Zeiss Otus 85mm f/1.4

By Louis Ferreira | Published: May 18, 2016

If you have ever wondered how the Zeiss Otus 85mm f/1.4 compares to the Sony FE 85mm f/1.4 GM DigitalRevTV might be able to help.

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