Alphagvrd launched this new E-mount sensor cap with built-in Airtag support. You can preorder it now (Click here) with a 15% discount using the checkout code “Creative Weapon”.
Reminder: Since last week you get the 4-Pack Airtags for $64 only at Amazon (click here) . I use them to track all my gear with these tools .
300-600mm lens at BHphoto . Amazon . Adorama . FotoErhardt . Fotokoch . WexUK .
Darek Dariuszbres tested the Sigma 300-600m lens and concluded:
Technological masterpiece , a top-shelf telephoto lens, which includes 500 4 and 600 4 class primes. Bright, fast, sharp throughout the entire range, universal, giving plastic frames, stuffed with the latest technologies and… above average sexy!
And this is a review from Seth Miranda from Adorama
16-300mm at BHphoto . Amazon . Adorama . FotoErhardt . Fotokoch . WexUK .
The new Sigma 16-300mm lens launch got a bit undermined by the gorgeous 300-600m launch and the curios BF camera. Chris from PetaPixel tested this lens and concluded:
I expected the optical issues that are inherent to the design of a superzoom and despite them, still had a wonderful time traveling with the 16-300mm lens . All’
A $180 Lens Has No Business Being THIS Good
Today deals at Amazon , BHphoto , Adorama , Amazon DE , Amazon UK , Amazon FR , Amazon IT , FotoErhardt DE , FotoKoch DE .
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Adapting Vintage Lenses to your Mirrorless Camera ( Fotodiox ).
Samyang + Schneider-Kreuznach | 14-24mm F2.8 FE vorgestellt [Deutsch] by ValueTech .
Sony
Until 30 March, you can save 30% on your Luminar purchase (click here) when you use our checkout code ‘ SAR30 ’.
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Recently I leaked the first image of the new FujiFilm GFX100RF ( my video is here ) and of the Hasselblad X2DII ( my video is here ). Both will use the well known Sony 102Mp sensor.
And this once more reminds of the fact, that I would love Sony making a medium format system camera too. And if patents are any indications than if Sony would go medium format they would really do it differently than competition:
The Nikkei newspaper has published an article about the current state of digital camera shipments based on data from CIPA. Digicameinfo had access to the article behind the paywall and wrote this summary:
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Last year I reported that Sony completed the production run of the Sony RX10 IV and there is no plan for a successor model. DigitalCameraWorld now makes the case why we still need those superzoom bridge cameras. They write:
Bridge cameras offer zoom that smartphones and even some mirrorless can’t reach, so why are there so few of them?
the bridge camera is the point-and-shoot but with a bazooka of a lens on the front, with zoom ranges from 20x to even 12
Mapcamera listed the top 10 best selling cameras in February:
Sony is starting to fall behind with no new affordable camera in the past 8 months: No A7V, no fixed lens RX, no true vintage model. We need something new from Sony don’t you