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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 
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:Sony today announced the expansion of its Imaging PRO Support programme to include the UK. The programme is scheduled to start in the UK in September 2016 and continues to gain momentum as an increasing amount of professional photographers are switching to Sony cameras. Imaging PRO Support offers advice and help to members including a . . . → Read More: Sony launch UK PRO support Share this: Comments are closed Lenses - Alpha Mount, Lenses - E mount, News, NEX System, Sony Digital Cameras A-mount, A7, Alpha, backup, E-mount, free, NEX, pro, professional, scheme, service, Sony, support, UK 
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:
The latest edition of f2 Cameracraft contains our reviews of the Voigtländer 10mm and 15mm lenses, and also a review of the superb new Tamron SP 85mm f/1.8 VC and 90mm f/2.8 SP Macro VC lenses, plus Sigma’s 20mm f/1.4 and 24-35mm f/2 – all tested on the Sony A7R II which we use for . . . → Read More: f2 Cameracraft latest issue out now Share this: Comments are closed Equipment Reviews, Magazines f2 Cameracraft, lens, magazine, reviews, Sigma, Sony, Tamron, Voigtländer No doubt everyone’s seen the article on Petapixel which can best be described as successful clickbait – by Sator, essentially claiming that the whole idea of mirrorless full frame is flawed. Well, the good news is that this article is more flawed than the flaws it’s claiming to point out. First of, let’s simply dismiss . . . → Read More: Bad science and dissing the Sony A7 FE concept Share this: 6 comments - (Comments are closed) DK's ramblings, Legacy Lenses, Lenses - Alpha Mount, Lenses - E mount, NEX System, Sony Digital Cameras article, dissing, mirrorless, negative, opinion, Petapixel, Sator, Sony, view 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 
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 |
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