Sony a7 III now for $1298 only at Amazon and BH


And now comes this: Youtuber claims that soon E-mount will be abandoned

I know this sounds crazy and maybe even “clickbaity”. But Michael Leidel brought a list of arguments why this might be happening within the next years. In very short:

  • The E-mount lens system is saturated

According to him, we are now close to a point where it becomes difficult to sell new lenses because we already have a ton of excellent lenses for all kinds of photographers. And even though the new generation lenses that are coming out now have actually improved in terms of image quality, af performance and


Japanese market: Here are the best-selling cameras in May


Sony Tidbits…


AP correspondents using the Sony A9III to cover the Normandy news

Our reader Dmitry spotted this:

Browsing CNN front page I see that AP correspondent in this case, whose photo was published by CNN, is using the Sony A9III to take historic photos of Biden and Zelensky at the Normandy landing celebration.  CNN always leave all the EXIF information intact so you can see that this was taken with A9III and judging from 94mm at F2.8 probably 70-200/2.8 lens ,  ISO2000 does not look too


Lowest price ever on the Sony 128GB Tough SD card


A clarification on Adobe Terms of Use

Adobe recently made a  major change in their Terms of Use that amide it clear they had access to your photos. many did complain about that change and Adobe now did post an update to clarify why they made this change:

We recently made an update to our Terms of Use with the goal of providing more clarity on a few specific areas and pushed a routine re-acceptance of those terms to Adobe Creative Cloud and Document Cloud customers. We have received a number of questions resulting from this update and want to provide


Sony Tidbits…


Reminder: All Sony camera/lens USA deals are ending on June 10


Sony 85mm f/1.4 GMII still confirmed to be announced very soon

So folks, lately I have been silent on Sony rumors because of two reasons:

  1. The personal stuff that is keep me busy, told you about here and I can tell you know this will take a lot of more time than expected
  2. Sony has postponed the release of most gear and I am awaiting new info on the new launch dates

I don’t know why Sony postponed the ZV-E10II launch and other product launches. But this is not unique to Sony! Also Canon ( read here ) and