Most voted SAR readers pictures of the week.

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1. A lot of these are amazing. I hope I reach those levels one of these days.

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2. I’m depressed now. These photo’s are spectacular. I’m going to go hug my camera and apologize for my lack of skill.

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   1. Lol! I’m a hack too. Obviously, a lot of good photography is having an eye for pulling stuff out others don’t see but a lot of it is opportunity as well. For example, I’ve just started taking pictures of birds but it’s winter here plus there’s a limited selection of birds near my city even in the best of seasons. So it’s not like I live in Costa Rica and can take pictures of exotic birds that would make even National Geo envious. ;^)

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3. yea! disqus is in! awesome, then.. awesome pics

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4. Beautiful photos taken with a range of cameras and lenses from the entry level A200 to the A99 and A7 which has taught me a lesson. I’m an A77 owner and I’ve been thinking of upgrading to FF but wondering whether I’ll gain any benefit from increased image quality. These terrific photos tell me to stick with the A77 and invest in a new lens instead 🙂

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   1. The same here.
      Now waiting for the new 90mm Macro G lens , just wonder if it will be an A-mount , too much of these E-mount these days.

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5. Quite telling how many of these are shot with non-native lenses

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6. The first prefessional review of the 18-105 F4 G Lens for the E Mount by ePhotozine:

   http://www.ephotozine.com/article/sony-e-18-105mm-f-4-pz-g-oss-lens-review-24056

   This one seems to be better value than the 16 70 Zeiss.

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   1. Price-wise the 18-105 looks good but it has disturbing levels of distortion and it looks a bit ridiculous on an NEX 7 body. There’s a fundamental philosophical disconnect with the concept of Sony’s tiny little NEX/axxxx bodies with their primary goal of being as light and small as possible with a relatively huge (e.g., 72mm filter) zoom lens like this one.

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7. how those pictures will give you traffic and ads clicks? after all you care only for traffic to click your banners and thats way you are posting bullshit after bullshit… pictures.. $100 discount.. lots of “rumours”… 🙂

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   1. Then don’t bother visiting SAR 😉

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   2. I don’t think you get how hard it is to keep up a web site like this with fresh content every day. I don’t think Admin is getting rich off our clicks and, if he is, more power to him. Like visiting here daily costs me more than a few minutes of my time when there’s a rumor lull like the one we’re in.

      Like any blog, don’t like the day’s articles then don’t read ’em. It’s unreasonable to expect fresh rumors every week much less every day.

      Based on the rumors he’s provided in the past, I expected a time-out after CP+. Sony’s big push was the a7/a7R last year. That’s why at CES they not only ignored the a-mount in their presentation but the only new mirrorless they put on stage was the ho-hum, entry-level a5000 that immediately laid a pre-order egg on Amazon (forcing Sony to quickly discount it to spark sales). The biggest part of Sony’s CES presentation camera-wise was featuring the a7/a7R and they didn’t want anything to take the spotlight away.

      CP+ they put out the a6000 which is the end of their APS-C mirrorless body run for the year. In the spirit of the a7/a7R is their main focus, the narrative for that line is consolidation. Admin has provided us with enough hints on the a-mount’s future to know consolidation is the 2014 narrative for that line as well. Apparently, Sony has tried to integrate mirrorless tech into a-mounts which explains the delays since this is a pretty huge engineering task. The big question we all need answered, of course, is the a79 going to be mirrorless or not? Sony may not even be able to answer that question at this point if, as admin has said, they’re co-developing a mirrorless a79 and an SLT one.

      Unfortunately, as I’ve speculated in the past, based on past rumors we’re not likely to see an a79 until June or so. Based on Sony’s track record, we can expect Sony to leak a dribble of rumors to SAR on it 2-3 months beforehand. They’ll get reliable about 2-3 weeks prior to any announcement. Since Sony is struggling a bit developing the a79’s future, it wouldn’t surprise me if dates slipped a bit.

      The bottom line is probably 2 new a-mounts are coming in 2014. The important thing is Sony does them right. Personally, I think they pulled the trigger a bit early on the a7/a7R but maybe Sony did this intentionally to suck the early adapters’ wallets dry to get the 1st FF mirrorless then drain them again 18 months from now when they upgrade the line to a more compelling package. ;^)

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   3. http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/category/rumors/ – That’s the link you want to use … and all other interested also in such stuff -like me- will still get the reviews, tidbits, images, that make us visit SAR very regularly.

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      1. thank you!

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8. All of these are quite wonderful. Kudos to all of the photographers.

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