Newsshooter at PPE 2015: Mitakon Speedmaster 135mm f/1.4 lens from Chuck Fadely on Vimeo.
Lomography LC-A Minitar-1 32mm f/2.8 Art Lens Review (ePhotozine).
I Repeat this Ken Rockwell test!. (are the quality of adapter important)? (SonyAlphaForum).
DEO Saker Falcon Lock ON AF test on Sony a7 II camera (SonyAlphaCameras).
This small camera shoots with 16 different lenses – at the same time! (TheNakedCamera).
The 7KG Bag (Mark Galer)
A short write up on Sony A7II , Nikon D810 and Nikon telephoto lens (Jorge Torralba).
Sony 28mm FE review at Mirrorlessons.
A7II and the LA-EA4 adapter tested at ilovehatephoto.
Canon FL 55/1.2, I really wasnt expecting this (SonyAlphaForum)
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More Ken Rockwell garbage! I couldn’t comment on her post but I’m so glad she proved him wrong! He’s always against Sony.
Rockwell’s Sony shot is clearly misfocused. This guy is a joke.
Still would be interesting if others could repeat the result with that canon lens.
Agreed, I continue to be baffled why Admin, or anyone for that matter, posts Ken Rockwell’s utter garbage. The guy is a total joke in the whole industry.
Fine for Mark Galer if he finds an airline allowing him this bp as board luggage.
Here in Europe it is a pain in the a…
55x40x20cm, most airlines 8kg, some 6 kg max weight.
(and since this year many airlines are changing width to 35cm…)
Every camera bag manufacturer are having backpacks in the line which up are not fitting. In most cases they fit length and width, but depth is mostly 23cm or more. (Thomas Cook’s charter airline Condor once declined to let my camera backpack on board for that reason, that’s when I started my eternal bag journey).
Not talking about weight… If (like Condor) you are only allowed to have 6kg board luggage, and you backpack is already 2kg empty, than try to fit your complete set for a journey.
Hardcases are available, but fitting width they are too small, but still heavy weight.
Same goes for (I considered that) a super-light-weight trolley with a custom made inlet regarding weight.
I can live with the size issue, but this restriction to weight is just ridiculous.
“Captain speaking, we are overloaded because the passanger seb took all his lenses and two fantasy novels with him.”
It is simply a bad joke.
That one year I mentioned, Condor screwed me with my backpack.
A year later, same airline, a guy entered the plane for a seat 2 rows in front of me – an oversized trolley (sure overweighted, too), a laptop backpack (which was more of an adventure backpack), a plastic bag and an iPad bag in the hand, and the guy was (estimated) around 130kg weigth (that would be roughly 50kg more than I weigh; a lot of trolleys…).
I asked the stewardess the way Michael Douglas asked the McDonalds girl in the movie “Falling down” – “Could you please indicate, what’s wrong with that image…”
Honestly. They are claiming money for everything. Why does no airline get the idea to put a , let’s call it “Photobag option”. Moderate oversoze and overweight to be paid, and restriction to put underneath the seat in front of you.
Everybody would be happy…
I’m smiling too about business women with a small suitcase, a laptop bag and the oversized gucci handbag. But to be honest, it does not disturb me, as long as there is enough place in the spare room above my head.
I can remember at situations where the airplane was fully booked and they asked to put the handluggage into the cargo room. Why not make it obligatory for any additional piece. They promise to handle it with care and you have to pay 50$ each (it shouldn’t be too cheap, otherwise everybody will do it and no one will come with checked luggage).
You forgot bunch of plastic bags from tax free shopping on top of suitcase, laptop bag and handbag. Every plane has couple people like that, each taking up full overhead bin or more.
Spot on! I have no idea why can’t they add an “Photo/video bag” or “Fragile equipment” option which allows moderate oversize and overweight for a reasonable price. Stored by staff when boarding and returned disembarking. Much like they do for pet cages, wheelchairs and strollers.
Because airlines recommend against putting electronics in checked luggage (due to theft) you can usually talk your way out of it and take the electronics as hand luggage.
Usually, calling ahead also works wonders.
Mike, you can be assured that I really tried evrything.
But calling in advance does not help always.
The only airline so far offering kind of a solution was Airberlin. The lady at the telephone provided me a telephone number, where I could request an individual permission prior flight. However it would not be guaranteed, that I would get one on every destination.
I used to carry Lowepro Vertex 200 AW when flying with my photo gear. I no longer do, the airlines have since lowered both size and weight allowances and have become much more aggressive enforcing those limitations. Since the switch to A7rII I now use Lowepro Transit 350AW, which is much lighter and slightly smaller, but still fits couple A7x cameras with 4-5 lenses, if you pack tight, and a laptop. I miss the extra space and ruggedness of Vertex tho…
By the way, most of the roller camera bags are at least 3kg empty, and people with roller cases are much more likely to be weighted than someone with a backpack, so I would not suggest those, unless you are travelling in business and no one cares.
This 16 lenses thing looks interesting. Maybe not the holy grail as they advertise it, but a fun product for rich people.
I’m not rich, but one day to shoot with it? why not. 🙂
It is anyway a very interesting innovative concept. I would like to play with this camera. Especially with the possibilities to compose images together from different focal lengths. That can produce interesting effects e.g. with DOF, bokeh distribution and so on. As well I appreciate the design of the product hiding 16 cameras in one compact and elegant body.
Rich people buys Leicas.
apart from the size, which I think is managable for what I do, I think this looks amazing and I want it.
Just plain STUPID marketing…
At $4G, and a year preorder… they should make available for ANY MOUNT.
Dumb A$$ marketing.
That is a monster.
I’m amazed that the adapter consistency issue keeps coming up with people saying “my one copy is good so obviously this entire problem is made up.” You got randomly lucky, person. Nobody ever said every adapter is bad quality, but rather that adapter quality is inconsistent. The two are different phenomenons. I’ve had $30 ones that were perfect and $400 ones so loose they wouldn’t stay on the lens (though I’ve more often had the opposite; I’m just making a point here).
So there are bad adapter out there. Does that make an adapter problem? No, as you said yourself. If you got a crappy adapter by chance, buy another one till you are set. I had a few I replaced with better ones. So yes, to me it is an made up problem.
I like this lens specification, in fact I love it. But that size/volume, I could also take out my Nikkor AIS 300/2.8 instead. Which of course I never do.
Around $100 the lomo could be a fun lens to have, but at $500 the Voigt Heliar is much more interesting and better built/IQ.