Dpreview interview with Tamron

Dpreview had a chat with Tamron manager Kota Misawa. A couple of take always:

Misawa provides an optimistic overview: “The number of cameras sold last year was 101% compared to the previous year and 104% in value,” Misawa tells us. “And the number of lenses sold was 99% compared to the previous year and 107% in value. So we think we have hit the bottom and we predict the market to remain at the same level as last year.


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Japanese mirrorless market share: Sony overtakes Canon and now leads!

BCN reported the mirrorless market share for the month of June:

  • Sony 33%
  • Canon 25.7%
  • Nikon 17.4%
  • Fujifilm 10.7%
  • Others 12.9%

Sony took the top spot with 33.3% of the manufacturer’s market share, overtaking Canon to regain the top spot. Fujifilm came in fourth with a 10.7% share. This was the first time the company had been in the top four in 24 years. The release


Tamron patented two massive Fresnel zoom lenses!

Asobinet spotted two brand new Tamron patents that disclose two unique telephoto zoom lenses with Fresnel design:

  • Tamron 400-1000mm f/10-11.5
  • Tamron 250-700mm f/6.5-13

The Fresnel design allows those lenses to be more compact than “classic” lenses. The downside is that you loose a bit of Image Quality and Speed. An example of such a lens is the Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 300


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Fiveskin made a Pentax skin for the Sony A7IV camera :)

Some Pentaxians may be frustrated that their company does not produce FF mirrorless cameras. This might ease their pain: Fiveskin has produced this skin for the Sony A7IV camera with the “Asahi Pentax” logo. This is the closest you will ever get to a Pentax FF mirrorless :)

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Curiosity: Only Sony cameras spotted during the Biden speech

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A SAR reader sent me this picture of Biden’s last speech. He noticed that there were only Sony cameras in the room: Sony A1 , A9 , FX3 and FX9 ! Let me know in the comments system if you can describe the exact cameras and lenses I circled in this cropped section. Let’s see whom of you can find them all ;)

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