A foul ball destroyed this Sony 400mm GM lens from well known photographer Jim Rassol. His fiend J Pedroso told me that sadly the insurance doesn’t cover those kind of accidents. On a positive note, better the lens than his head!

Here you can see the “killer shot”:

That was a very expensive foul ball! pic.twitter.com/81eudySIRt

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ZV-E1 at BHphoto , Amazon , Adorama .

Also Inverse seems to really like the new ZV-E1. They reviewed it and concluded:

Vlogging as a one-person team is a massive challenge in itself and Sony wants to make that much more approachable. As someone who has historically shied away from shooting video, the ZV-E1 showed me that it can be fun and simple. Even with my lackluster videography skills, I kept the camera on the Intelligent Auto mode for the most part and

You get those two deals at BHphoto (Click here) .

Reminder: You can now preorder the Heipi 3-in-1 Travel Tripod at Heipivision (Click here) . $40 OFF with code “ QV654S8DATAZ ” for a limited time!

In China Sony registered the next new camera code “WW499972” for a camera that still has to be announced. In summary we now have two codes of cameras to be released. Both seem to be more “high end” models as they have dual 2.4GHz/5.1GHz support:

• WW499972 2.4GHz/5.1GHz (Registered today on June 25)
• WW542541 2.4

Sony Japan officially announced the production stop of the ZV1. Kind of obvious after the ZV1II announcement.

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You can now preorder the Heipi 3-in-1 Travel Tripod at Heipivision (Click here) . $40 OFF with code “ QV654S8DATAZ ” for a limited time!

Hard disk deals:

• Samsung 4TB T7 external SSD (now $130!) off at Bhphoto (Click here) and Amazon (Click here) .
• $700 discount on the fast Sandisk 4Tb hard disk sold by Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here)

BCNretail posted an interesting article. Sony ZV camera sales BOOMED and now account for 48.4% of the sales volume (number of cameras) and 22.9% of the sales value (total of earnings in the camera business). This means the new ZV-E1 and the new ZV-1II are selling extremely well.

Here is the Google translated text from the article that includes statements from Sony manager Yuki Saito:

• Sony’s VLOGCAM is performing well. We asked Yuki Saito,

This is the first autofocus lens from Astrhori so it’s interesting to read at SonyAlphaBlog if this lens can keep up with the best:

The AstrHori (279$ / 319 euros) can provide very good results in term of sharpness and very nice portraits withy smooth background blur and very nice bokeh balls. But at this stage with V03 of the firmware the AF is not very reliable at f1.8 so you either take each photo 3 times or you better use it at F