With that “thing” attached on the A7s you can cool down the sensor by 18 degrees. And this will improve the noise performance of the camera. Cool!

More info on SonyAlphaForum.

The Spanish site DSLRmagazine interviewed Mr. Yamaki the CEO from Sigma. And there are some additional new info:

1. The SD Quattro cannot record video because the Foveon sensor has too much data to process.
2. Yamaki said that you can record video with Foveon but you need “more resources” to make it work. And anyway video it’s not a priority yet for Sigma
3. Autofocus us yet slow but it will be faster on the final production versions of the camera
4. Also interesting: Sigma decided to make a SA mount mirrorless and not a SA mount DSLR because mirrorless has no micro-camera shaking.

Sony announced a new E-mount camera today. But this one is meant for industry use! It’s a super low light capable 4K  camera. It uses a 12 megapixel Full Frame sensor and it will ship in August. Those are the google translated specs (original source Sony Japan).

With the never-ending Megapixel, Speed and video recording resolution race you have to be sure that memory cards can actually do their job. SDA announced their new 5.0 memory card standard and here are the full details:

Dpreview posted an interview they made with Canon Manager Tokura. I will quote the part regarding the mirrorless future:

There are some features, such as AF, which have not yet caught up with DSLRs, so given the current state of affairs it would be a little unrealistic to say that we will suddenly start offering a professional mirrorless camera. There’s still a performance gap that needs to be addressed.
This is just my personal opinion. In my view there are two key features that have to be addressed. The first is autofocus, particularly tracking of moving subjects. The other is the viewfinder. The electronic viewfinder would have to offer a certain standard. If those two functions were to match the performance of EOS DSLR camera performance, we might make the switch.

Well of course Tokura is probably just hiding his cards form the eyes of the competition…

Image via DSLRmagazine

At a CP+ speech Sigma CEO Yamaki shared some more info about the new SD Quattro mirrorless system cameras:

1) Compactness was not a goal when designing those cameras
2) The real benefits of mirrorless cameras are AF accuracy, AE accuracy, lack of mechanical shock
3) The new Foveon sensor has 1 stop ISO imrpovement over the sensor used in [shoplink 301816 ebay]their DP cameras[/shoplink] 4) 40% faster EVF than the EVF used by DP cameras
5) The DP Quattro is likely to ship before summer. The SD Quattro H will launch before the end of the year

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via Digicameinfo

Guys, I am sure you didn’t see that coming :)

The guys from Technical farm announced the world’s first transparent adapter for E-mount and MFT cameras! And guess why it’s transparent….

….well Techfarms says the adapter allows light to deliberately “leak” into the camera to create a sort of “Old Lens” effect. Which means you get a lot of flare and non contrasted images like the one shown below:

And here is the adapter fittedt on MFT-Sony cameras:

And I bet they will still seell quite a few of those :)