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With the 24-70mm f/2.8 new Sony GM FE lens selling for £1799 (UK) and the A-mount version two 24-70mm f/2.8 for a full £100 more, the cost of a basic mid-range zoom to use with a camera like the A7RII remains very high. There are good arguments to be happy with the 24-70mm f/4 . . . → Read More: Sony 28-75mm f/2.8 SAM on mirrorless FF Share this:
I got to try out the first new Voigtländer Sony FE mount lenses with electronic aperture setting and manual focus control with a quick overnight test during the UK Photography Show at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre, on March 19th 2016. The pre-production 10mm f/5.6 Hyper-Wide-Heliar and 15mm f/4.5 Super-Wide-Heliar are two of a . . . → Read More: Voigtländer FE 10mm f/5.6 and 15mm f/4.5 III Share this: 12 comments - (Comments are closed)  Accessories - 3rd party, DK's ramblings, Lenses - E mount, News, NEX System, Sony Digital Cameras  10mm, 12mm, 15mm, David KIlpatrick, E-mount, Heliar, hyper, Leica, lens test, review, Sony, super, ultra, Voigtländer, Voigtlander 10mm FE, Voigtlander 15mm III, wide, wide-angle, wideangle With extremely expensive Sony-fit 85mm lenses in abundance and beyond my (economically sensible) reach, I’ve done good commercial work last year on the Canon 85mm f/1.8 USM and later the Sony 85mm f/2.8 SAM on A7RII. Some of my work relies on showing close-up details with strong differential focus, and hardly any lenses are free . . . → Read More: My new Sony 85mm… Share this: Comments are closed DK's ramblings, Equipment Reviews, Lenses - E mount, NEX System 85mm, A7RII, adaptor, Alpha, Camdiox, close-up, E-mount, f/2, FE, helical, Jupiter-9, lens, Russian, Sony 
On Tuesday, February 2nd 2016, Sony UK held a press event to which I was invited. Well, I’m in a different country and about 400 miles from their Weybridge offices, so as usual my trusted English office editor at large (and son) Richard made the still substantial journey from Leicester. The result was a . . . → Read More: Sony’s Master plan – new 85, 24-70, 70-200 and more Share this: One comment - (Comments are closed) Lenses - E mount, News, NEX System, Sony Digital Cameras 24-70mm, 70-200mm, 85mm f/1.4, A7, A7II, A7r, A7RII, A7S, Alpha, E-mount, f2.8, FE, GM G-Master, lens, lenses, mirrorless, OSS, Sony, SSM 
It’s been a while since my last review of Sony products here, and not because I have been inactive. The truth is that I’ve spent so much on Sony kit 24/7 working has been necessary, including a good few reviews and tests of the A7RII and lenses appearing elsewhere. It’s a real issue, I now . . . → Read More: Low-cost macro for the A7 series Share this: One comment - (Comments are closed) Accessories - 3rd party, Equipment Reviews, Lenses - E mount, NEX System, Photo Techniques, Sony Digital Cameras 60mm, A7, A7R II, A7RII, Art, close-up, coverage, DN, E-mount, extension tubes, FE, full frame, lens, lenses, macro, Meike, mirrorless, Sigma, Sony 
(Updated June 15th after press conference) The new Sony A7R II is the camera I’ve been waiting for, which everyone has predicted, and which seems to tick every box without having a huge price label on its own. I find the $3,200 (UK coinfirmed £2,600) matches its stated specifications well. Others may disagree, but . . . → Read More: Sony A7R II, RX10 II, RX100 IV – making everything else obsolete Share this: 2 comments - (Comments are closed) DK's ramblings, HD Video, Legacy Lenses, NEX System, Sony Digital Cameras 42 megapixel, A7R II, A7R MkII, Alpha, BSI, camera, CMOS, CSC, digital, E-mount, FE-mount, full frame, ILC, Mark II, mirrorless, phase-detect, professional, Sony, system 
Sometimes you find a chunk of glass which just works. One of the problems with lenses is that you can never have too many. They overlap, they duplicate each other, and yet they can be so different that you need every single one. The new Samyang 12mm f/2 for mirrorless APS-C systems is one . . . → Read More: Samyang 12mm f/2 NCS CS lens Share this: 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Accessories - 3rd party, Lenses - E mount, NEX System 12mm f/2, Bower, Canon EF-M, E-mount, Fujifilm, lens, mirrorless, NEX, Rokinon, Samsung, Samyang, Sony, superwide, ultrawide, wideangle 
Machined from brass and chrome-plated, in the tradition of lens mounts from 50 years ago and not necessarily the best solution for precision or lifetime wear, Fotodiox’s TOUGH E-mount is a replacement body mount bayonet which you can fit to your existing A7R, A7, NEX-7, A6000 or any other metal-mount E-mount body in a few . . . → Read More: The Fotodiox Tough E-Mount Share this: 7 comments - (Comments are closed) Accessories - 3rd party, DK's ramblings, Equipment Reviews, NEX System, Sony Digital Cameras, Troubleshooting A7, A7r, Alpha, bayonet, change, DIY, E-mount, exchange, fitting, Fotodiox, improvement, NEX, Sony, Tough, upgrade 
I guess that Zeiss must be working right now on full frame Touit lenses, because this is unprecedented value for those able to buy in dollars without steep shipping charges, duties or taxes – however, the links they emailed out today led to a wrong page on their USED section, and after a lot of . . . → Read More: B&H double Zeiss Touit lens deal for NEX Share this: Comments are closed Accessories - 3rd party, Lenses - Alpha Mount, NEX System, Offers 12mm, 32mm, B&H, Carl Zeiss, E-mount, lens, lenses, NEX, offer, Sony, Touit, Zeiss 
The A3000 is an E-mount camera which looks like an SLR but takes all your E-mount lenses and has a pretty good 20 megapixel sensor. It even has a metal lens mount. So what has been saved? You can now (2018) find these five-year old bodies for as little as £100. The saving . . . → Read More: Sony Alpha 3000 review by David Kilpatrick Share this: 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Equipment Reviews, NEX System, Sony Digital Csmeras 20 megapixels, A3000, Alpha 3000, body, camera, E-mount, E-system, EVF, ILC, ILCE-3000, mirrorless, mirrorless APS-C, NEX, SLR, Sony, Sony A3000, Sony ILCE-A3000, system |
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