Mirrorless news roundup.


The timelapse is complete. 8000+ frames, 100GB of images, over 10 hours of shooting and 2 hours of render. The mountain and the milky way (SonyAlphaForum)

Speedmaster 25mm lens review by Photobyrichard.com.
2 months in Cold Wilderness with A7R (SonyAlphaForum).
Voigtländer zoomar – el primer objetivo zoom (DSLRmagazine).
PIX2015 – Sony Alpha 7R II Technology at the Sony Booth by Dpreview.
a7r II vs 5DsR Thermal noise test by Marcio Cabral.
Fujifilm X-T1 Versus Olympus E-M1 Image File Sizes (Thewanderinglensman).
Panasonic Lumix FZ300: análisis (Quesabesde).
Lensbaby velvet 56mm f1.6 lens review (Diyphotography).

Look at that video: Canon 250 megapixel camera with 800mm lens!

You remember that 250MP prototype Camera from Canon? On that video you can see why the hell that crazy Megapixel number matters! The tester sent me (And Also CanonWatch) that text:

The test with the 800mm lens is impressive!
A advertising on an hotel can read with the 800mm on top from 15km distance!
An human can see from 3km distance.
A big building can see from a distance 20-25 km with a normal lens!
And canon can stabilize the ,,fata morgana effect” (see at 2:04 min) from hot rising air. Canon call it ,,removal Turbulence”.

Cool!

Sony could launch an FE camera with 100+ Megapixels!

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Forget it guys. The Megapixel war will never be over! Just one month after the Canon 120 Megapixel prototype camera presentation Sony started the marketing counter offensive. Sony Manager Kimio reported at Amateur Photographer:

“If the customer needs 100-million pixels, if the customer needs more than 100-million pixels, we will create such kind of a product. Right now we don’t get a strong demand from the customers for this.”

I guess as soon Canon released their 120MP DSLR Sony will also launch a new A7rmarkIII with similar resolution.

First image of the new 20mm f/1.4 Sigma ART lens! Fastest wide angle FF lens yet!

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Tomorrow (Friday) Sigma will launch a new amazing 20mm f/1.4 ART lens. The lens will be available in Canon, Nikon Sigma mount but I guess Sony FE camera owners will be happy to know they can use that lens with full autofocus control if they buy the Canon version and use a Metabones adapter.

I am really excited about this lens. If I am not mistaken this is the fastest wide angle Full Frame lens on market right now!

Here are the full specs:
– Lens construction: 15 sheets group 11
– Large-diameter aspherical lens
– Two FLD lens, adopted five SLD lens. Correction of magnification chromatic aberration to the limit
– AF motor HSM. Adopted a new full-time manual mechanism
– Total length: 129.8mm
– Maximum diameter: 90.7mm
– Weight: 950g
– The diaphragm blades: 9 sheets and (circular aperture)
– Maximum magnification of 1: 7.1
– Thorough the flare and ghost measures
– Design distortion is very small
– The consideration of the sagittal coma flare
– Mounts for Canon, Nikon, for sigma
– Suggested retail price of ¥ 162,000 (over-the-counter price of around ¥ 120,000 in the lowest)

via Digicameinfo.

Leica SL will work with adapted Canon and Nikon lenses right from the start.

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The new Leica SL teaser at Leica.com.

A source (Thanks!) just sent me this:

“I learnt that the upcoming Leica Camera will be able to mount other manufacturers’ lenses (i.e. Canon, Nikon) by using specific adapters, that are already available.”

While the source didn’t metnion this I am pretty sure this means the Leica SL has a T-mount. Because for that mount we already have all those adapters (see them on eBay).

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Teaser info via Digicameinfo.