In your warm large bed have you ever dreamed of….owning a 200mm f/1.0 fast telephoto lens? Well such lens really exists! The 200mm F1.0 Germanium Thermal Lens can be yours for just $380,000 on eBay Uk (Click here). And even if you have the money for that beast you still have to figure out how to mount it on your camera.
And look at that massive 26cm front glass…magnificent!
US/UK folks hands on you credit card get the Sony A7sII which right now is on preorder at Amazon, BHphoto, FocusCamera, WeXUK xand Adorama! And if the A7s ISO performance isn’t enough for you wait for the Canon $30,000 mirrorless camera which will go on sale in November. But if you buy that cam add another $100,000 lawyer expenses you have to pay to cover the wife divorce trial…
And here are some deals you can grab :
$200 price drop on the 12-35m Panasonic X lens at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
At 11am New York time you have a Gold Box deal on the huge Sony 256GB(!) SD card at Amazon US (Click here).
At 11am New York time you have a Gold Box deal on the Samsung 16GB SD card at Amazon US (Click here).
At 18:00 Berlin time you have a Gold Box deal on the Samyang/Wallimex 85mm f/1.4 Full Frame E-mount lens at Amazon DE (Click here).
(High credibility rumor):
The current X-PRO1 with a photoshopped “2”. Yes, exciting change :)
Yes, the long painful wait for the new X-PRO2 is close to an end! The folks at Fujirumors got info from reliable source saying the camera will be announced in January. The major changes are expected to be inside the camera. The X-PRO2 will keep the original X-PRO1 design but (listen listen!) possibly feature a new Sony sensor! Will that mark the end of X-Trans? Probably not but Sony proved to make very high quality sensors and it would certainly help Fuji to use them to keep costs down. I can hear the lament of the Fuji folks on this :)
Masaya Maeda from Canon got interviewed by David Pardue from Imaging Resource. And there seems to be great news coming from Canon very soon. Mr. Maeda said:
Going forward, and this would be a repeat of what I said before, but we will put more effort into mirrorless, and also, naturally, we will continue to expand the EF-M lens group. In the very near future, I think that Canon will come out with a mirrorless camera that you would really like.
David from Imaging Resource added a note based on his impressions:
[This is very interesting indeed. While the EOS-M3 only recently came to the US, it sounds like a significantly more capable M4 may not be too far in the future. Mr. Maeda’s particularly emphasis that I would like it suggests it will be a model aimed particularly at the enthusiast market. We wonder what features it might include; improved AF seems like a must-have.]
This could be a new EOS-M4 but I think it could also be a much more high-end camera with 4K recording and DSLR style. Let’s see if I am right with my guess. And I think it’s highly likely the new Canon Mirrorless camera will be announced at PhotoPlus.
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found via CanonWatch.
Nice, we have a new A7sII with real 14 Bit RAW recording but …we cannot preorder it yet! You will have to wait exactly 24 hours from now (time of writing) to preorder it. The camera is now listed in many US stores like Amazon US (Click here), FocusCamera (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here). It’s also listed in Asia at Digitalrev (Click here).
P.S.: European folks should check out the Smayang 8mm E-mount Gold Box deal that starts at 18:00 at Amazon Germany (Click here).
What a cool trio! Tamron patented three Full Frame lenses for the Sony E-mount system. All lenses do have in lens stabilziation, 6 group and 7 lens design and a close focusing distance of 30cm. The three lenses are:
28mm f/2.8
50mm f/2.8
60mm f/2.8
We may finally get affordable and compact lenses for the FE system? Would be nice!
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Patent spotted by Egami.
Ah right in time! After months of pressure Sony today released an official statement that will excite all E-mount camera owners! They confirmed the new A7sII has real 14 bit uncompressed RAW! The A7rII and other E-mount cameras will get it too via future firmware upgrade! And to make that day even more perfect Sony said eight new FE lenses will be announced til early 2016. What more could you wish today from Sony? Ah yes, better battery life, better lens quality control, better support in US, better heat issue handling, better….ok you got me :)
Here is the full Sony press text via SonyAlphaRumors:
Sony Electronics, a worldwide leader in digital imaging and the world’s largest image sensor manufacturer, has today announced user selectable Compressed and Uncompressed 14-Bit RAW image capture will be featured in the new ?7S II once it arrives in stores this October.
Additionally, they have announced plans to add user selectable compressed or uncompressed 14-Bit RAW still image capture via firmware update to additional cameras beginning with the recently introduced ?7R II full-frame mirrorless model.
“The voice of our ? community remains the most important guiding force of our product development plans,” said Neal Manowitz, Deputy Vice President for Digital Imaging at Sony Electronics. “The addition of Uncompressed 14-Bit RAW processing is a direct result of customer feedback. Widely requested by photo and video enthusiasts, we believe the choice of RAW processing types will further elevate the performance of these extraordinary cameras.”
The ?7S II and ?7R II are compatible with Sony’s growing lineup of ? -mount lenses, which now totals 63 different models including 12 native ‘FE’ full frame lenses. By early 2016, Sony will add an additional 8 new lenses to its FE full frame lineup, bringing the FE total to 20 lenses and the overall ? -mount assortment to over 70 different models.
