One Week with Sony A7 and Bolex anamorphot from Seb Farges on Vimeo.
A young fashion photographer posted a great article at Mirrorlessrumors about how he used the RX1 for some fashion shooting. Great images, but Sony should do a RX2 with 50mm lens for portrait shots 🙂
Sony RX100 II final review at Imaging Resource.
Sony Cyber-shot RX10 Vs Sony Cyber-shot R1 Comparison Review at ePhotozine.
Tamron 150-600mm Canon mount lens review at Wzswig.
Finally a remote for the Nex-7 via Kickstarter
A SAR friend created a new APP that some of you coul find to be very useful: iOS App texBlend and it’s is available in the App Store (Click here). More info about it at Outbackphoto (Click here).
Neef: “Not a Rumor or news , just some interesting things http://news.sina.com.hk/news/20131223/-101-3148817/1.html Hong Kong Civil Engineering and Development Department Using a R.C.Helicopter to capture image for land survey , but the most interest things are…. the camera use for the survey is a NEX camera~ i’m not sure which model it is . but it seems to be NEX 6 or 7 , maybe you can identify it clearly? it’s not a new technology , but something interesting…”
Animalsbarry: Extreme z shift test. To determine the effect of z shift on internal focus lenses I did a quick test…numbers are approximate. I used a 50-500MM. Lens at 500MM. Min focos about 10′ and 1/5 magnification. I added a 60MM extension tube..now at 10′ the magnification increased to 1/3 and the new minimum focus was about 6′. This is a much more extreme improvement in close focus than would be expected with the same extension tube on a normal lens. The reason for this is internal focus lenses focus by changing the focal length rather than by moving the entire lens. The extensiion tube allows focusing at a longer focal length for any close focus distance and closer than expected minimum focus distance because mininimum focus occurs at a shorter focal length on this type of lens. This test simulates the impact that sensor shift focusing would have on close focusing if it became available.
James: “I have been follow Sony flash F60M overheat problem is not being fixed by SONY yet, but look like will be soon after a new ‘tech fail’ article is written by ‘major tech website’. thought you should know about this one. it will be newsworthy as F60M overheat shutdown plague so many user around world. plz share! http://community.sony.com/t5/Alpha-SLT-DSLR-Cameras/HVL-F60M-Flash-Overheating-Unusable/m-p/258689#M2721″
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I am Happy to here sony made a list of electronic fails for 2013. There flash system need to be exposed for being so well designed yet flawed in actual use.
I just purchased the F43M and it works well on the a7 (maybe, not a flash user) but on the a3000 it does not fire correctly.
It can’t be switched to manual and the TTL is metering way to dark, flash is set to weakest setting and the AWB comes out red tinted.
If you switch it to manual than TTL is off – you have to adjust the flash output yourself (1/1 or full power, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, and so on).
Read the manual. You may be doing something wrong. I had that flash but sold it a month ago as well as my nex-6. The 43 is the best flash out of the 58 and 60. I heard the 43m is also good. The 43 still overheats but not as bad as the other two. the 60 is the worst. I shoot full manual now. I may or may not get the 60m when it is fixed or if I can get it at a good price, there is a place that will fix it for a hundred.
That kickstarter gadget looks great. A definite buy.
Yeah, I got one for my NEX 7 as the remote I have always needs to be at the front and sometimes the angle needed makes it not usable.
NEX-7 here too. I want to use it for time lapse. At the moment, the cheapest two alternatives I’ve found are hacks involving soldering intervalometers and ir releases. this looks like a rather elegant, yet cheap solution.
yeah, I’m planning to get the kickstarter gadget as well as it seems Sony app support such as timelapse has some serious limitations like you cant adjust exposure once the timelapse starts. And it’s annoying that Sony App Remote takes freaking long time to connect and that all my current settings will have to be readjusted as the app has its own functions. So much potential when app support was announced but the execution is pretty bad in my opinion.
I think that’s everyone’s opinion 🙂 I hope someone will use the Sony API to make a decent app for controlling the camera. There are plenty of solutions out there (either expensive or requiring some DIY work), but it is indeed frustrating, when Sony could just hire a programmer for a week to add the proper functionality to the camera.
From what I heard, the Sony API is very restricted which makes any app development become pointless.
some people were concerned that sensor z shift might not work for internal focus lenses.
The test I did shows that not only will it work but it will have the added benefit of allowing close focusing at longer focal lengths than using the lens alone for focusing.
That “tech fails of 2013” article featuring the HVL-F60M sounds like a bluff – I don’t buy it.
Why? The F60 flash has a defective design that causes it to shut down in normal usage, when it thinks it’s overheating. No previous Sony (or Minolta) flash had this problem. I have both the F60 and F58 flashes, and the F60 repeatedly fails in conditions where the F58 has no problems. Inasmuch as the F60 is the high-end flash designed to work natively with the A99, that it suffers from such a significant design flaw should be pointed out and publicized as much as possible both to warn consumers of the problem and to shame Sony into perhaps one day addressing the problem. Though Sony has been repeatedly told of this problem for at least a year by consumers, it has done nothing to address the problem and refuses to publicly acknowledge the problem. The F60 is a very expensive flash, and consumers buying it should get the performance they expect for a flash at that price, and not get ignored by Sony.
The 43 58 and 60 all have the same problem. Whats funny is the problem gets smaller as the numbers go down. I really love the design of the flash and for a while I was shooting manual 80% of the time with the 58 but still kept it because of the design. Company’s tend not to fix things until they are publicly made a fool of or think that such a event may occur. We need a petition or something. It really is too bad I sold all my sony flash’s. I could have made a video comparing them to other flash’s and posted it on youtube and any other place I could.
I don’t have the F43 flash, but what you say is simply not true regarding the F58 and F60 having the same problem. I have shot with the F58 flash for years (since it came out) and never encountered the overheating problem in routine event shooting as I have with the F60, which I got early in 2013 when I discovered how easily the flash adapter fails on the A99 with an F58 flash. Thus, I have considerable experience with both flashes. Nor am I aware of any other photographers who encountered overheating issues with the F58 the way they have with the F60.
either way I hope someone with lots of viewers/subscribers etc makes it very public so they do something about it. The problem is ridiculous for such a expensive flash.
I’ve been banging on about the Sony flash problem for years with no success –
http://community.sony.co.uk/t5/Alpha-NEX-interchangeable-lens-cameras/HVL-F60M-overheating-and-useless-support/td-p/553777
and
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/50307877
I doubt that even a published article would bring about a change now!
Ahh, but a public boycott on numerous web sites might get their attention.
Even better, start posting on Canon and Nikon forums WARNING their user base to stay away from Sony because they would loose so much of their strobist functionalities on so many levels, including third party support.
Just tell it like it is. No need to exaggerate at all.
I remember reading both of them. We just need to keep doing this until there is enough people for them not to ignore it.