New Sony A7LV April fools day images?
Kamera Express just showed it on this video! I still think this is an anticipated April fools day joke…but it’s so well done that it makes me doubt this might be real. The texture of the camera looks off so to me this makes me think this is FAKE…What do you think?
Here is the “product page”: kamera-express.nl/sony-a7l-v-pre-order
My thoughts:
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The new modular Grip sling has been successfully funded on Kickstarter (Click here to back it) .
Three more hot Kickstarter projects:
- If you need a flexible, portable high quality 4k Laser projector to show your images and videos than check out the new JMGO N1 Ultra on Kickstarter (Click here) . It’s the first gimbal and easily portable 4K Laser projector.
- The new Benro Theta has collected voer 1 million Dollars on Kickstarter (Click here) !
- Duovox successfully funded their new Night Vision and Sony
Survey in Australia: Sony ranks on third place among the most reliable camera makers
Photoreview asked their readers to rank the reliability of their products. Sony had a very good result with close to 90% satisfaction. I a surprised to see Canon perform that bad!
Announced: new Laowa 28mm f/1.2 FE lens
Laowa announced the new Laowa 28mm f/1.2 FE lens you can buy now at VenusLens worldwide shop (Check it out to see full specs and image samples) .
Sample Photos:
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Product Images:
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Some additional ZV-E1 info…
Within hours (March 29 at 3pm London time) Sony will announce the new ZV-E1 Full Frame E-mount camera. it’s basically an A7sIII powered vglogger camera.
A ZV-E1 tester shared the following info about the camera:
- ZV-E1 has new touch screen with swipe up feature
- new display menu screen with quick buttons
- new “Dynamic Stabilization” mode
- “cinematic mode” (built in black bars feature)
- z battery
- touch screen record button
- front tally light
- Quick
Tokina announced this Dot Sight SZ Super Tele Finder Lens and a new EF to E-mount adapter
This is their new EF to E-mount adapter ( press text here ):
- Kenko Tokina Co., Ltd. will start selling the mount adapter “SZ Mount Converter EF-FE (TA-019)” that allows Tokina’s EF mount lenses to be used with Sony FE mount cameras from March 24, 2023.
- Equipped with electrical contacts for autofocus and AE.
- Switch between mode 1 for still image AF and mode 2 for movie AF shooting.
- Recommended for use with models
Amazon Europe launched the massive Spring sale: Save big on E-mount lenses and SD cards!
You save up tp 40% on a ton of products sold on this pages at Amazon Germany , Amazon UK , Amazon France , Amazon Italy , Amazon Spain , Amazon Netherlands , Amazon Sweden . Some details:
Amazon Germany:
- Save big on Sony/Sigma/Samyang E-mount lenses (special mention goes to 160 Euro off on Samyang 85mm f/1.4II )
- Save big on Sandisk storage and SD cards
- Save big on Sony electronics
- Save big on Anker products .
Amazon UK:
One more leaked image of the new Sony ZV-E1: No EVF and similar ZV-E10 layout
I got one more image of the new Sony ZV-E1 that will be announced on March 29. It has no EVF (as suspected) and also similar ZV-E10 layout:
Summary of the Sony ZV-E1 specs:
- New ZV-E1 E-mount camera is based on the Sony As7III
- Same A7sIII 12 Megapixel sensor
- 4k60 & 4k 120 (no crop). But it appears 120p might be coming
AI imaging will change the way we work. My first attempts to merge it with real photos made with the Sony A7rV
I damn hate this AI tools. I hate it because it forces me to change view on how images are created, I hate it because it’s another step into a world were digital “fakes” will dominate authenticity. But I know there is nothing I can do to stop this.
Looking back, I hated the switch to digital photography, I hated to know that good Photoshoppers became more important than good Photographers, I hated the narcissism and lies of influencer photography.
The only good thing about AI photography is