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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:After testing the Sony Carl Zeiss 55mm f/1.8 FE in 2014, I was less than impressed. I may have had a decentred example (it happened to dPreview and at least one photographer I trust to know his lens performance expectations). It was, certainly, pin-sharp on a test chart or a brick wall but the moment . . . → Read More: The best 50mm for A7RII Share this: 4 comments - (Comments are closed)  DK's ramblings, Lenses - Alpha Mount, Uncategorized  50mm, bokeh, lens, macro, Minolta, performance, Sony 
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 
Twenty years ago I was operating one of the first full service digital photo studios in the world. I had already published, back in 1986, the world’s first desktop published commercial periodicals and won the UK Printing Industries Research Association inaugural DTP Awards, in 1987, for this. We’d bought the first Apple laser printer in . . . → Read More: Sharp vintage glass – and subject Share this: One comment - (Comments are closed) Accessories - 3rd party, DK's ramblings, Flash units, Lenses - E mount, Photo Techniques A7r, Alpha, close-up, ELB400, Elinchrom, flash, lighting, macro, mirrorless, Paterson, Pentax, SMC, Sony, still life, Studio, Takumar That is, the next slot in Sony’s programme of new product releases. Almost exactly five years after the Alpha 100 was launched to the world (also a Wednesday in the second week of June, back in 2006) Sony selected an auspicious date to announce the NEX-C3 and the Alpha A35. But these cameras, rather like . . . → Read More: Wait for the NEX SLT, folks… Share this: 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), HD Video, News, NEX System 30mm, A35, Alpha, firmware, HVL-F20S, macro, NEX, NEX-C3, Sony, update Tamron Co., Ltd (Mr. Morio Ono, President), a comprehensive manufacturer of optical products with its head office in Saitama City, has announced the development of the SP AF60mm F/2.0 Di II LD (IF) MACRO 1:1 (Model G005), a life-size macro lens designed exclusively for digital SLR cameras with APS-C size image sensors* that offers a . . . → Read More: Tamron’s new 60mm f/2 1:1 macro Share this: 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Accessories - 3rd party, Cameras (DSLR), Lenses - Alpha Mount, News 1:1, 60mm, f/2, launch, lens, macro, Tamron Sony say that the Alpha 100 has a 230,000 pixel rear screen and the Alpha 700 has 920,000 pixels. What they don’t make entirely clear is how many individual R, G or B pixels are used to create each ‘pixel’ of the image (complete RGB). In fact the 920,000 pixel screen is VGA – 640 . . . → Read More: A700 and A100 rear LCD screen resolution Share this: One comment - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Equipment Reviews Alpha 100, Alpha 700, camera, closeup, diode, display, DSLR, LCD, macro, micro, resolution, screen, Sony, structure, technology |
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