Sony announces a production delay for the α7S III


Latest Sony financial statement reports surprising good camera sales and increased their forecast revenue

Sony published their latest financial report. Between April – June 2021 made almost 3x more money with cameras+videocameras compared to same quarter in 2020. Almost 700 million dollars more revenue. They also revised upwards their forecast. They write:

Sales are expected to be higher than the April forecast due to the impact of foreign exchange rates as well as higher-than-expected sales of digital cameras due to higher unit sales, partially offset by lower-than-expected sales of

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Sigma 150-600mm FE now available for preorder at Amazon US too


POLL: Will you consider to buy the first f/2.0 zoom announced by Tamron?

Preorders (only listed yet):
35-150mm at BHphoto .
28-75mm II at BHphoto .

We finally got our first zoom that starts at f/2.0. This is an impressive achievement from Tamron. We have no details about the image quality and the price of the lens. ut let’s assume price isn’t crazy and image quality very good, I wonder:

Will you consider to buy the new Tamron 35-150mm lens

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Tamron announced the development of the new 35-150mm f/2-2.8 Di III VXD FE lens and the updated 28-75mm f/2.8

Today Tamron announced the development of two new FE lenses. The first is the 35-150mm f/2-2.8 which also marks a world’s first for E-mount: It’s the first zoom with a f/2.0 aperture! And the second lens is the updated version of the 28-75mm f/2.8. Here is the press text:

TAMRON Announces the Development of the World’s First Mirrorless Zoom Lens with a

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Sigma 150-600mm FE lens officially announced

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Live stream: Sigma 150-600mm FE announcement

Today we will get the new 150-600mm FE lens. Follow the live stream above!

Specs:

  • lens configuration of 25 elements in 15 groups
  • minimum shooting distance of 58cm-280cm
  • maximum shooting magnification of 1: 2.9 (at 180mm), and 9 aperture blades (at 180mm). (Circular aperture)
  • filter size φ95mm
  • size φ109.4×263.6mm

Sony EDU specials at BHphoto

Check out all EDU specials at BHphoto (Click here) .

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7 Artisans 60mm F2.8 Macro II available on Amazon (and first review by SonyAlphablog)

The new 7Artisan 60mm f/2.8 Macro II APS-C E-mount lens is now available at Amazon US , Amazon DE , Amazon UK .

SonyAlphablog published the full lens review and concluded:

The 7 Artisans II is a significant upgrade from the 7Artisans 60mm F2.8 Macro in term of ergonomics, color rendition, level of Ca and flare but not very much in term of sharpness. Globally results are very good in macro but a bit less for portraits. The