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Some SAR readers sent me their impression and reports about the Photokina event. Her eis the list…Thanks guys!
1) Anonymous: Sony A99 footage at http://fil.io/FL82vTNAM/Sony%20A99%20raw%20photos%20and%20footage
2) Thomas: “I’m at Photokina. I put my modified Samyang 7.5mm MFT lens on the Sony full frame E-mount VG-900 Handycam. Here are the shots.
http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g433/thomash3/full-frame-1_zpsa6fffe82.jpg
http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g433/thomash3/full-frame-2_zps9a39046d.jpg
http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g433/thomash3/full-frame-3_zpsead2db3e.jpg
http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g433/thomash3/full-frame-4_zps00b73140.jpg
http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g433/thomash3/full-frame-5_zps05537291.jpg
Thomas website: http://www.thomashuang.net/products/npym180/npym180.html
3) Alexander: “The Zeiss Lenses are just mock-ups but the Lens-Design is going to stay the same:
32mm 1.8 Planar will be a planar. its very small! Sames size as 35 1.8oss but with 52mm filter
12mm 2.8 Distagon is short but huge and the distagon lens design is inevitable so it will be a distagon at the and
the 50mm is most likely going to be a planar (macro)
I also have Raw+jpeg files from the 16-50 pancake to see of it has any distortion at its widest setup.
From what I can see it has alot of it. Unfortunately the wide angle zoom for E-mount was not available for testing.
The phasedetect focus for now only works with the 16-50mm and the 55-210 it did not work with my Zeiss 24mm! But the firmware is only 0.95
The Focus is fast! and the speed does not vary in bad conditions as much as my nex5n with 24mm does. In contrasty conditions the nex6 + 16-50 was only slighlty faster then nex5n + zeiss @ same f stop and focal.
4) Nexblog: We (NEXblog) haven taken some pictures of the SEL1018 zoomed in and out. While zooming, the lens is 10mm longer at its maximum. Something that you as a user do not suffer from, as it occurs under the hood. On the pictures below you can see cleary the bayonet connection of the hood. Not very huge news, but I have never seen this on the internet. So mayby it is usefull for SAR readers. This is our article: http://nexblog.be/2012/09/19/eerste-indruk-van-de-10-18mm-f4-e-mount/2884/
5) Michal: “I’m travelling back to Poland from photokina. I have photos videos and interview about new Hasselblad/nex7 camera. I also have nikon d600 and a99 jpg/raw iso tests. Just trying to upload this from car 🙂
Hasselblad is almost the same camera as nex7. Hassel’s specialists talking about own firmware but preproduction model’s menu is 1:1 like sony. Very nice cameras, with good feeling. Useful grip, but this 2 upper wheels are not so easy to use. Canera is solid. Lots of sony lenses around, but no Hassel’s.”
6) Don: Sony A99 ISO samples on Flickr.
7) Something weird: Anton G.: I spotted this truck in iceland, it made me chuckle.. Alpha powrrrr! good job on sar its the place to go to get news in the morning and read canon fanboys crying in the afternoon… Her eis the image: http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj524/picrumors/DSC_0550-1_zpsfc647c10.jpg
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Sad news re: 1650pz lens. Was hoping it would be at least on par with 1855 kit. Now what? Great body with subpar lens? Crossing my fingers that the final product will be better (if tested in studio). Is there any chance NEX-6 has a built-in correction like Alphas do?
They already have that.
Well, that’s the problem when you want to compress full-size zoom into pancake. Something must suffer. Panasonic for example suffers from enormous aberrations at wide angle, and huge distortions both: at wide and tele end (with acceptable one at middle)… not even saying about -2 EV vignetting.
Cause you see – lenses are in the size they are for some very specific reasons. It’s not like engineers make them large because they know no other way.
How many times are we having this argument over and over and over and over again? Lenses are an exercise in compromises. If you want summicron size, for summicron aperture and summicron performance, pay for it. You can’t make all lenses the size of the 16mm and expect them to be amazing at f2.
Even worse when making zooms. Indeed, the Panasonic design suffers like skywalker says.
I just want to know….will there ever be a firmware update for NEX7? I am on the edge of selling it….><
f/w for A77 too!!!
Any major concern why you want to sell it and what are you expecting in the firmware update?
All the bugs being fixed maybe?
This may sound ignorant but which bug are you referring to? or did you mean enhancements and modifications rather than fixes?
Not ignorant at all, people confuse bugs with enhancements. So anyone, what BUGS does the NEX-7 have out of interest?
I won’t be selling my NEX-7, but one improvement I’d like a lot would be being able to browse pictures while magnified. As it is, all three wheels will increase/decrease magnification when a picture is zoomed in on. On “two wheel” Alphas, the front wheel browses, while the rear wheel changes magnification – and that’s great.
I also miss it on NEX
Yup, it’s really handy to use the front wheel on the A77 to swap between two magnified images to see which is sharp.
Forget about it, it’s a Sony.
If it’s Sony then we can be quite sure about firmware updates. AFAIK every single high-end camera from Sony got at least one firmware update, so I think they’ll keep the streak and release update for NEX7. At least to add compatibility with LA-EA3 or lens correction for pancake zoom.
The 10-18 zooming and hood system is a combination of pure genius.
This way the hood can be larger and work better for all focal lengths.
I’d say it’s only a matter of time before the more serious zoom lenses will start to incorporate this method.
Innovation right there 🙂
I kind of wished Thomas mounted a non-Sony full frame lens instead the m4/3 fisheye lens.
The A99 ISO samples on Flickr look very promising. Even ISO 12k is still usable! Nice one.
Unfortunately, I can’t view the RAW files, ’cause Lightroom 3/ACR 5.5 does not support the A99. This sucks pretty much.
I want the truck…
Anton G. a canon fan boy will cry when sony will make a 200 + mmm lens that is not crap ahahha!
RAW images for the Sony A99 are for download on the forum but Why would they be for download if we cannot even view them? Anyone have a solution? I tried converting them with Adobe DNG converter but that didn’t work and Lightroom 4 wont support either. Would really like to see some full-res raw files. Does anyone have a solution?
works perfectly fine for me
Is it just me or were the ISO pics kinda disappointing. I think the 1600 ISO pic looked pretty soft and lacked detail.
Am i the only one who spotted this, is that a black ev1s ? I going to buy one soon, if they are making a black one i’ll definitely hold out. `Silver is just too hideous, I do street photography, i can’t exacting be unseen by people with that thing on