For today only you can get the Rokinon 8mm fisheye lens for Alpha for $269 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here). I know this is not a “mainstream” lens but it’s always good if you can save some bucks!
What is way more mainstream and selling like hotcakes is that $50 discount on the [shoplink 18396 ebay]16GB iPad 4 with Wifi on eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink]. They sold over 1,849 iPad’s in 24 hours!!! UPDATE: The deal is now over and a new special offer started on the [shoplink 18409 ebay]iPad mini where you save $30 (Click here to grab it)[/shoplink].
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iPad is now made by Sony and is a Sony camera? wtf…
Give it a break.
well, I guess he needs to make some money from tht link
iPad is not made by Sony. It’s made by Apple (the Chinese actually). The sensor used in the camera function IS made by Sony. Just FYI…
I have that Rokinon fisheye. It’s a decent little lens. For that price, I’d gobble it up.
I have that Rokinon fisheye. It’s a decent little lens. For that price, I’d gobble it up.
Well since we seem to be branching off topic on cameras anyways… Save yourself the headache of Apple’s closed garden and buy a nexus 7 or 10 at already lower prices and superior resolution to Apple’s devices. I own a Nexus 10 and I absolutely love it. For 100 dollars cheaper, it seems to do just as much as the Ipad, if not more, thanks to Android’s open nature. It’s all about customization.
Anyways… this really isn’t Sony Alpha news is it? Lol… Although I will note looking at my photos on the Nexus 10 is blissful. Just a 5 dollar OTG cable, existing USB card reader, and “Nexus Media Importer” app, and you’re good to go. I’d still recommend doing all your editing on a pc or mac though, as neither tablet space offers the level of control that you get with Photoshop or Lightroom, or another equivalent program on the computer.
I must say that weed grows wildly in the other garden. If you really want to save headache, consider iPad.
Thank you for the usual “educational” rant. It is not all about customization, it is about having a useful device.
I have used an iPad for close to three years (it was a gift – it has the latest OS). My daughter has used MacBooks and IPhones for a lot longer – she got me the iPad. Recently, she expressed interest in the Note 8 – I got her one for Christmas. She has used my iPad many times – she is amazed at how much more she can do with the Note 8.
I have always used Windows PCs (I have spent limited time on her MacBook). The iPad is OK, but is very limited coming from a Windows PC environment. I have used an Android smart phone for the last year and a half – it can do things that are impossible on the iPad. I am finding the same is true, comparing the Note 8 to my iPad.
It’s not that the iPad isn’t useful, but I find I can do more things with Android – things the iPad won’t let me do – it is more flexible and therefor more useful.
Sligtly unfortunate spelling misstake in the headline 🙂
”DISO-CUNTED”
I own the Samyang 8mm fisheye for A mount which is basically the same Rokinon lens. It’s my favourite lens and well worth the money.
Andrea !! have a look here :
http://www.ephotozine.com/article/carl-zeiss-touit-lenses-faq-21946
Zeiss talk about a new firmware coming in August for all Nex cameras as (if I understand) for the earlier version of Nex 5-6-7 !!!
Great news the Sony’s RX1 fixed 35mm full frame compact has received the prestigious Camera Grand Prix 2013 title. The RX series is doing a great job. I’m sure RX Cybershot, as the fixed lens offerings and the “E” mount Alpha as the interchange lens offering for 2014 will move Sony camera into the limelight and be positioned well. Oh, just in case you don’t know – “A” amount is dead.
Dan
Oh, just in case you didn’t know, it’s about as dead as you are.
Maybe, but in the last year more new A-Mount lenes have been announced/released than have been in all the years since 2005.
And if its true a A-Mount roadmap is in the works we could be about to see a flood of new A-Mounts in 2014
Exactly what “A” mount cameras have been or are rumored to be released in 2013? As cited in DPreview for Sony releases this year, “The Sony NEX-3N is Sony’s entry-level NEX camera, replacing the NEX-F3” and, “the Sony Alpha SLT-A58, a mid-range SLT camera with a newly-developed 20MP sensor. The A58 will replace both the A37 and A57 models, helping to simplify the company’s lineup.” So one “E” mount and one “A” mount. From the rumors, no additional “A” mounts this years.
So only one “A” mount released in 2013 Steve. As they say in the South, “they ain’t buying it if you ain’t making it.” Sony ain’t making it, so there is your answer.
Last I checked, the A77/65/99 have not been discontinued. Plenty for buying.
By your simpleton logics the E mount is dead too then. Canon M series, the whole Nikon F mount, Fujifilm ILC’s…, so much death, I think I just died a little reading your posts.
Yeah, but you keep reading. So how’s your VCR and Walkman?
Hows your great grandmother doing?
Maybe they are discounting the 8mm Rokinon because there is a new A mount version out – HD8M-S – with updated optics, and a detachable hood. And there is a clickless version for Sony A mount as well.