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Sony has just announced yet another 50mm, and this time it’s different – a truly affordable 50mm 1:1 macro, only $500 US. We reckon this will become the most popular standard 50mm lens by far, even more so than the budget 50mm f/1.8. Now you can photograph your food properly at last! It certainly . . . → Read More: Sony FE Macro 50mm f/2.8 – only $500 Share this:Some worthwhile Sony lens cashbacks – some applying to in-stock lenses which may not have suffered the August price-hike yet – can be found from UK dealers such as WEX Photographic. Amazon.co.uk has a reasonably good list of lenses too and the 70-200mm f/4 FE OSS G can still be found for under £1k . . . → Read More: Sony UK cashbacks end Sept 4th Share this: Comments are closed  Lenses - Alpha Mount, Lenses - E mount, NEX System, Offers  2016, cashback, deadline, E-mount, lens, optics, promotion, reward, Sony, summer, system 
It’s still current (published in June, but it’s our July/August edition) and it’s free to read now! Includes Sony EL-Skyport Plus HS, Samyang 135mm f/2, Sigma MC-11 EF-E, Cullmann Titan 935 tripod, Nikon D500, Canon 1DX MkII, Fujifilm X70, brilliant steampunk book project story, NYC Dance Project portfolio, five top photographers on Industrial Photography and . . . → Read More: Free! July-August f2 Cameracraft magazine Share this:Sony today announced the availability of a new radio-controlled lighting system to meet the growing demands of professional and advanced amateur Sony photographers.Designed for compatibility with Sony’s α interchangeable lens cameras[i] and external flash units[ii], the new lighting system will include the FA-WRC1M wireless radio commander as well as the FA-WRR1 wireless . . . → Read More: Sony new RF wireless flash system Share this: Comments are closed Flash units, NEX System, Sony Digital Cameras flash, lighting, radio, RF, Sony, strobist, system, trigger, wireless Sony Releases Full-Frame FE 50mm F1.4 ZA Prime Lens A quintessential wide-aperture 50mm “normal” lens, the new ZEISS® Planar F1.4 offers high resolution, high-contrast and overall exceptional performance Sony today introduced a new full-frame lens for their E-mount camera system, the Planar T* FE 50mm F1.4 ZA (model SEL50F14Z). (Press release 2pm UK time) . . . → Read More: Sony Releases Full-Frame FE 50mm F1.4 ZA Prime Lens Share this:
If you want to get a 70-300mm which works on the Sony A7RII, the A7 series body with the best on-sensor phase detection/contrast detection mix, your first choice should be the new Sony FE 70-300mm f/4-5.6 G OSS. But that demands a wallet opened with £1,150 (UK SRP) in it. In return you get . . . → Read More: Tamron’s super value 70-300mm USD on the A7RII Share this: 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Accessories - 3rd party, Equipment Reviews, Lenses - Alpha Mount, Sony Digital Cameras 70-300mm, A7, A7RII, budget, cost, focusing, LA-EA3, lens, performance, price, Sony, Tamron, telephoto, USD, zoom 
This is expanded from the feature which appears in the July/August issue of f2 Cameracraft magazine. We’ve been using the Elinchrom EL-Skyport Plus HS for Sony Multi-Function Accessory shoe since its arrival on May 28th as the first test unit released by Elinchrom. If you wonder why I don’t immediately do a clickbait blog . . . → Read More: Elinchrom EL-Skyport Plus HS for Sony MFA Share this: Comments are closed Accessories - 3rd party, Equipment Reviews, Flash units, NEX System, Sony Digital Cameras A7RII, EL-Skyport, ELB 400, Elinca, Elinchrom, fast, flash, Hi-Sync, HS, HSS, hypersync, Plus, Quadra, shutter, Skyport, Sony, speed, Studio, sync, synch, synchronisation, timing, trigger 
There’s been a controversy surrounding Steve McCurry, a photographer I have listened to on the edge of a conversation a couple of times courtesy of Kodak who were always great sponsors and put his ‘Afghan Girl’ on display at photokina 2012 where McCurry’s work was celebrated. Here’s the story – he’s been changing, or allowing . . . → Read More: Is retouching acceptable? Share this: One comment - (Comments are closed) Darkroom, DK's ramblings, Photo Techniques alter, argument, change, controversy, digital, manipulation, McCurry, modification, original, photographs, photojournalism, Photoshop, retouch 
We are able to offer, now, the complete 28-issue digital archive in page-turn format for the final eleven years of Minolta Image and Photoworld (as it became) from 2002 to 2011. For only £10, a one-off payment, you unlock the complete collection of digital versions of the printed quarterly magazine. This collection forms a . . . → Read More: Photoworld and Image – complete digital 28 issue archive! Share this: Comments are closed Accessories - 3rd party, Accessories - Minolta/Sony, Bags, cases and trivia, Cameras (DSLR), Cameras (Film), Equipment Reviews, Flash units, Legacy Lenses, Lenses - Alpha Mount, Lenses - E mount, Magazines, Minolta History, NEX System, Scanners, Sony Digital Cameras club, collection, David KIlpatrick, digital, Dynax, film, group, image, independent, Konica Minolta, magazine, Maxxum, Minolta, Minolta Club, official, owner, photography, Photoworld, quarterly, Sony Sony has released new firmware 3.20 for the A7RII and 2.10 for A7SII to enable XAVCS video recording on SDHC (rather than the larger XC) cards. The European updater is, as usual, not on line when the US/Americas Sony site has got it all ready to go. They are the same software so it’s safe . . . → Read More: New firmware for A7RII, A7SII Share this: |
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