Voigtländer just announced three new E-mount lenses: 10 mm f/5.6 Hyper-Wide-Heliar 12 mm f/5.6 Ultra-Wide-Heliar 15 mm f/4.5 Super-Wide-Heliar Shipping will start in early 2016. Voigtländer already has the 40mm f/2.8 Heliar lens for Sony E-mount. Here is the full press text:
Today Sony announced that they are splitting their sensor business into a separate new company:
Sony Japan announced that their new uncompressed 14-bit RAW firmware update for the A7rII camera will be officially released in mid-October. There is no information regarding the A7sII firmware update.
After Digitalrev, The Camera Store also posted their Sony A7R II hands-on review and a comparison with the Canon 5Ds R camera (another comparison between both cameras can be found at focus-numerique):
Sony has a new promotion where you can get up to $250 trade-in bonus towards the purchase of a7 series camera or full frame E-mount lens in addition to the value of your trade-in. Check out the details at Adorama and Amazon. This offer is valid from 9/27/2015 – 10/31/2015.
Alexander White published his new guide book for the Sony RX100 IV camera. Additional information on the Photographer’s Guide to the Sony DSC-RX100 IV:
Those two videos show a Sony A7s camera hacked to record 4K video internally:
Grey market Sony Alpha a7s cameras are now available for $1,699 on eBay. This is a new low price for that model – it was $100 more the last time I reported it. The original a7s price is $2,498, refurbished models are now $1,998.
Sony released firmware update 1.10 for the ILCE-7RM2 mirrorless camera with the following improvements:
Sony has a new patent for phase detection and contrast detection autofocus systems. See the detailed explanation over at Imaging-resource:
