Sony A99 – DSLR Fast Start (part 1)
Speed Booster sales info in Japan at DC.watch.
First Look: Rokinon 24mm f/3.5 Tilt-Shift. Part 1 and Part 2.
Nex-6 and Zeiss 2/35 Biogon (part 1) at PreferredAperture.
Sony 20mm E-mount lens test at DC.watch.
Sony A58 review at Trustedreviews.
Firmware update Ver.2.00 for HDR-AS10/AS15 (Sony UK).
Wedding Photography with an (NEX) APS-C Sensor… Is It Possible? 500px.
Unlimited Creative Possibilities: The Sony F5 and F55 Cinealta 4K Cameras at The Studio-B&H Technology Center (BHphoto).
Deniz: “Everyday we put a photo with exif and equipment info which was taken by a Sony Alpha and publish them http://www.twitter.com/alpha_turk and http://www.facebook.com/sonyalphaturk. If it is possible could you write this news from your site, our aim is to be known by everybody that Turkey have Sony Alpha users.”
Agostino: “Hi, I just wanted to report you that the Italian photo magazine NADIR (www.nadir.it) has recently published good tests of A37, Nex6, Nex7, RX1 cameras. For your Italian readers can be a good read. 🙂“
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I thought I have missed something. Then I realized that the 20 mm E-mount lens is reviewed, not a 200 mm.
Also, the A58 review is from the same author as the one on WhatDigitalCamera. Apart from the wording, it seems to be the same.
Me too!
I thought a prime 200mm lens for nex?!
oh… it ‘s a 20mm
There’s an answer to the number of clicks – look at dyxum – the place for all minolta/sony-alpha fans, there’s been a recent discussion + solution for this – there’s a program on the internet that solves this problem. Just upload the last taken picture or calculate the number yourself. There’s also a link with downloadable tools for it too.
There is a critical shortage of macro and long focal length lenses available for E mount.
I realize that nex is small and lightweight but without lenses of these categories nex does not even resemble a system.
A lot of comments criticize sony for not working more on lenses and less on cameras.
I differ somewhat on that issue.
Sigma and Tamron make a substancial line of lenses of both the high quality and modest price.
If we add that to the sony and ziess selection thats a lot.
Therfore I actually do want to see the lion share of sony resources go to camera development.
I would of course like to see both a super high res camera and a super low light high iq camera .
Tbis way all sony customers will have a camera to love. Hopefully cannikon customers might find a little love too.
Sorry, NO! Some of us want to enjoy photography more than gadgets. My NEX-7 is fine. I just need lens. Slower camera releases gives us a break and allows us to enjoy taking photos. I know what it’s like to have gear lust. We all do, but it was getting a little ridiculous. So many new cameras, and no one knew the difference between last year’s model and this year’s. Their entire engineering department was busy adding minor changes instead of transforming NEX into something more significant. I’d like to see NEX 7 and NEX 9 turn into more of a pro camera. Weatherseal, better battery, built-in GPS, time lapse, multi-frame captures, better video.
What Sony is doing is right. They are turning their photo division from gadget makers to photography gear makers… atleast for NEX. Who the heck cares what happens to A-mount?
I agree with some of what you say.
The nex7 is a good camera. I use primarily long and macro lenses so for me the system is useless even though the camera is good.
I require extremely high resolution and sony can take a camera break after they produce one.
I agree that sonys minor improvements for each camera are a waste and we need big steps.
The features you ask for do not concern me as I care almost exclusively for high resolution still images.
A system must have everything a photographer needs in order to be a sysyem.
Sony needs to produce both the products I am aing for and the products you are asking for and they must work tgether.
Those wedding photos are so bad they are like an advertisement for FF DSLR. Yes, mirrorless can be employed at weddings, and yes, your photos are still as bad as the photographer taking them.
Wedding photographers any one of you using the Sony a99 with the Sony HVL – f60M
flash?
I have this combo. However, only just got the flash and haven’t used it for work yet. I don’t actually use flash much anyway, only really for a bit of rear sync stuff.
I have been using 2 A99s and an A850 at weddings with F60s and F58. I love the F60, FINALLY I can go below 1/32 power of the F58! The 1/3 stop adjustment is also very nice. Overall the flash is superior to the F58- the F58 plus adapter on A99 was terrifying (I always taped it).
I have been shooting with the A99s for about 3 months with minor issues but mostly praise- phenomenal AF and IQ. I’ve only used the F60 at 3 jobs but its been great so far- seems a little more prone to overheating compared to the F58 but a simple battery slot open/close fixes that right up 🙂
Of course APS-C is usable. However, no camera can save the bad execution from the photographer.
I love that he says SLT is the camera of the future, as it dies. Hahah
He was clearly talking about EVF cameras in general. And who’s to say the next cameras won’t have EVF’s….
No his words were SLT, don’t try to rewrite history. This was after a long speech about SLT technology and how it differed from SLR.
Dan he was referring to EVF, come on now. Lets not be intentionally thick.
Re watching the video, I certainly feel he was referring to the whole SLT concept, not just EVF. And whilst SLT has been romoured dead, the rumour specifically referred to APC-S. Has anyone found reference to full frame concerning this?
Ok, so I watched part one. Don’t think I could take a part two. Today I checked back and see that its been pulled from youtube. Now that is interesting. I vote for killing off this Tidbit as the video link is dead and seems to only be posted to generate traffic to the website. Just my opinion.
John Kidd
Halifax Canada
A700, A77 and A58
Nice to see such a video public 🙂
Hast anybody found out how to switch between fullframe and crop mode quickly without having to deep dive into the menu?
Sometimes I like to use my 24mm as a 36mm(or want smaller raw files) and switch to crop.