If you are an Amazon Prime subscriber you get $20 Amazon credit when downloading and using their Photo backup service (Click here) . This service is FREE for all prime subscribers and you will get your credit within a few days. And after that you can continue to use it or get rid of it if you don’t like the service. But you keep the $20…it might be useful when you buy the future $8,000 Sony A1II :)

PolarPro announced the new Defender Body cap you can buy now at BHphoto (Click here) and at Amazon (should be listed soon) . It has a secret storage for Airtag or SD card or CFexpress card. I would have ZERO doubts that it would be best to store your own Apple Airtag (here on discount at Amazon) . It’s your best chance to find your camera if you get robbed!

This is how it works:

The second option to keep track of your camera is to buy this Quick

Sony A9III at BHphoto . Amazon . Adorama . FotoErhardt . Fotokoch . Calumet . WexUK .

PetaPixel reports that “ More than 50 a9 III cameras and 145 lenses were available for photographers and Sony Pro Support was on hand, too. ”

Angelbird was the first company to offer more “affordable” Type A cards for Sony. But now they officially discontinued their famous 1TB card. You can still find few cards in Stock at Amazon US and BHphoto . Angelbird did not unveil the reason for the abrupt production stop.

The “affordable” 1TB alternatives you can get now are the:

• Pergear Type A card sold by Amazon US (non certified but also the cheapest card)
• Exascend 1TB card sold by Amazon US and BHphoto (VPG 200

Today Sony released the full Q3 financial report . The company as a whole is doing great and they made record sales in Q3. Sony shares nearly no info about how the camera business is doing. The only data you can find shows that in Q3 the “Still and Video Camera” sales did increase by 10,2% compared to last year.

Europeans have a couple of new deals today:

Amazon Germany:

• 30% off on the Samyang 35-150mm f/2.0-2.8 FE lens
• 16% off on the Samyang 75mm f/1.8 lens
• Sony 70-350mm FE lens for 598 Euro only
• Samyang 24mm f/1.8 for 339 Euro only

WexUK:

• Sony cashback and discount codes

For me this means I have to wake up early and live blog at 2am my time :(

Sigma will announce those two new lenses:

• 500mm F5.6 DG DN OS | Sports
• 15mm F1.4 DG DN DIAGONAL FISHEYE| Art

Sigma 500mm f/5.6 specs:

• Lightweight lens…less than 1,5kg and so the lightest telephoto prime lens you can buy.
• Very fast AF on Sony A1 (lens has linear motor)
• The

Preorders for the new Laowa 10mm f/2.8 FE lens preorders will open on Feb 20. Price should be $799.