2014年10月26日日曜日
2014年10月25日土曜日
2014年10月24日金曜日
Enjoy a deep dive into the shared history of the ZEISS Group and SCHOTT AG with...
125 years Carl Zeiss Foundation: Journey with Light - Part 1/2
Jena-based physicist Ernst Abbe was way ahead of time, as evidenced by his foundation and company constitution. At the end of the 19th century, the 8-hour wo...
from ZEISS Group's Facebook Wall
2014年10月23日木曜日
Sony RX1 marked as discontinued at Digitalrev…
The Sony RX1 is marked as discontinued at Digitalrev (Click here). They invite you to buy the RX1R instead but a real successor is likely to appear in early 2015. And I bet high this will have a curved sensor and 35mm f/1.8 Zeiss lens as shown on the patent here:
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from sonyalpharumors
Big Zeiss 16-35mm f/4.0 FE review at Mobile01!
Image courtesy: Mobile01
Note: UPDATED Zeiss FE 16-35mm preorder links list:
Zeiss 16-35mm FE at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Sony Store US.
Zeiss 16-35mm FE in Europe at Sony DE, UK, ES, IT, FR, CH, AT, NL, BE, FI, SE, NO, PT.
Zeiss 16-35mm FE in Australia and Asia at Sony AUS and Digitalrev.
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The very first full Zeiss 16-35mm FE lens review has been posted by the Chinese site Mobile01 (bad google translation here). Note that google translation tool misses to load all images therefore click on the original korean link to see them all. You can download all images (RAW and JPG) here. Because the google translation tool sucks on showing the images I directly link you to the test images:
Sharpness test at 16mm (center left and corner right): image here
Sharpness test at 35mm (center left and corner right): image here
Distortion at 16mm: image here
Distortion at 35mm: image here
Vignetting test: image here
Cool “astral” test: image here
Flare test: image here
aperture dispersion suppression test: image here
These are some of the reviewer thoughts on the lens:
– Very high optical quality (good resolving power even on the edge). It only gets soft from f/16 towards.
– Slight flare issues in some conditions
– Some purple fringing wide open (easily to correct in PS)- not really fast autofocus on the A7s- no barrel distortion, results are perfect (and that’s one of the key reasons you buy a wide angle lens!).
Zeiss FE 16-35mm preorder links:
Zeiss 16-35mm FE at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Sony Store US.
Zeiss 16-35mm FE in Europe at Sony DE, UK, ES, IT, FR, CH, AT, NL, BE, FI, SE, NO, PT.
Zeiss 16-35mm FE in Australia and Asia at Sony AUS and Digitalrev.
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And this is just one of the great images posted at Mobile01:
Image courtesy: Mobile01
from sonyalpharumors
For our Australian friends: Big Sony A7 flash sale! $300 off! And Sony flash deals in UK/DE.
Lucky dy for our Australian readers: You get $300 off on the A7 cameras sold at CameraPRO (Click here) and SonyStore (Click here). Deal lasts til October 26 only!
There is also a double Amazon Europe Gold Box deal:
Sony 10-18mm lens at Amazon DE (via DL).
Sony A6000 with lens at Amazon UK (via DL).
Reminder: The price of the Sony A7 dropped down to $1,299 or €1.200 at Digitalrev (Click here). I contacted them and the price includes free(!) FedEx or UPS express shipment (3-6days) and in case of Europe all import taxes are included! And the 55mm FE Zeiss got a great price too. It sells for $759 or €755 at Digitalrev (Click here).
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