2014年12月5日金曜日

Three questions for... ...Ana. Ana is 25 years old and comes from Brazil. She i...

Three questions for...



...Ana. Ana is 25 years old and comes from Brazil. She is currently working as an Application Engineer for ZEISS in Oberkochen, Germany. We talked to her about her career path and her experience of living in Germany:



You have had quite an interesting career path, involving a brave decision. Could you tell us a bit about it?



I studied engineering in Brazil. During my studies, I had the chance to work as a student in the lab of the university. My supervisor at the university did his PhD with ZEISS. As I was interested in working abroad, he supported me in securing an internship position at ZEISS in Germany. The internship started in 2011 and lasted eleven months. The department where I completed the internship is the department I am working in now. My supervisor for the internship additionally gave me the opportunity to complete another internship with ZEISS in Shenzhen, China. After successfully completing my studies in Brazil, I received a job offer from ZEISS in Oberkochen, Germany.



When you were offered the position, were you slow to accept it? What was it like leaving everything behind to follow your career path in Germany?



I didn’t hesitate and accepted the job offer promptly.

Many people cannot understand me leaving Brazil and moving to Aalen in South Germany, but for me the decision was easy – working for a great innovative company like ZEISS is really exciting.



What challenges do you face living in Germany? If you had another chance, would you take the same decision again?



The various German dialects represent a personal challenge for me. However, I do not regret my decision to work for ZEISS in Germany. I think I made exactly the right decision. Nevertheless, I travel home to Brazil regularly to visit my family and friends – and to escape the rain and snow in Germany!



Ana, muito obrigada for this interview! We wish you all the best for your future in Germany.









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2014年12月3日水曜日

Zeiss Loxia 50mm no more in Stock in almost any worldwide store. New review by Varietyoflight.

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This is very strange: For many weeks now the Zeiss Loxia 50mm lens is out of Stock in almost any US-EU-Japan store!

It’s not in Stock at BHphoto or Adorama. It’s not in Stock in Germany. Only Store having a small Stock of lenses left in-house is Digitalrev (Click here). Don’t know if the first production run has been sold out or if there is some issue on the production line. One of the dealers I am in contact with asked Zeiss many times about when they wills end them a Stock. And Zeiss answered that they still cannot say when. Strange!


In the meantime check out the Loxia 50mm lens review at Varietyoflight:



The image quality is very good. This lens indeed eliminates some of the typical flaws of older M-mount lenses adopted on E-mount (full-frame) and as a result sharpness wide open can not only be seen in the very center of the image but also to the sides. Overall it seems that a very balanced image quality has been achieved where none of the artifacts like CA or vignetting sticks out. The only artifact which appears a little bit more prominent is distortion which might be rather annoying when shooting architecture/geometry but which can be easily corrected in post production.



And Mirrorlessons posted a set of Sony A7s & Zeiss Loxia gallery pictures.


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2014年12月02日のつぶやきまとめを更新しました!

2014年12月2日火曜日

2014年12月01日のつぶやきまとめを更新しました!

Great Cyber Monday deal: Up to $110 off on Sony SD cards. Up to $10 off on any Amazon book!

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There is a great new Flash sales of Sony SD cards at SonyStore US (Click here). For example you get $110 off(!) on the 64GB UHS-1 SD card. And there are not only deals on cameras but also on camera books on Amazon US (Click here). Just enter the “HOLIDAY30” code at checkout to get the up to $10 off! Find your book in that photography category section. There is also a Gold Box deal on PNY and Transcend SD cards at Amazon (Click here). Scroll the horizontal bar to find them all. UPDATE: There is als an ulterior $100 off on the Double E-mount Zeiss Touit offer at BHphoto (Click here).


All Cyber Monday deals can be found here at Amazon (Click here) and Amazon photo (Click here), SonyStore general (Click here) and SonyStore photo (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BestBuy (Click here), eBay (Click here).


Other new Cyber Monday deals:

$520 off on Zeiss Touit 32mm and 50mm lenses at BHphoto (Click here).

$100 off on the Sony HDR-AS100V POV Action Cam at BHphoto (Click here).

$67 off on the 256GB(!) PNY card at Amazon (Click here).

$17 off on the PNY High Performance 32GB High Speed SDHC Class 10 at Amazon (Click here).

Over 25% Off Select Samsung EVO Flash Memory Cards at Amazon (Click here).

$9 off on the SanDisk 32GB Extreme UHS-I Speed Class 3 SDHC Memory Card at BHphoto (Click here).


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2014年12月1日月曜日

Sony Tidbits…

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Eagle flies over Paris with Sony Action Cam Mini


QX1 test at Dime, DC.watch and Nikkei.

Zeiss 16-35mm test at PChome.

Expensive vs Cheap Camera – What is the difference in real life situations? (Youtube).

Nebula 4000 Lite with Sony A7s test (Youtube).

Year of the Alpha – 52 Weeks of Sony Alpha Photography’

Best lenses for the Sony A6000: Primes and Zooms (DxOmark)

E 50mm F1.8 OSS and 60mm F2.8 tested on the A6000 (DC.watch).

Tutorial I wrote about levitation photography (ilovehatephoto).

Voigtlander Nokton 35mm lens review on the A7R (Martinirwinphotography).

Chinese companies copying the QX idea (c.dx.com)

HVL-F32 is shipping (Imageshack).

A5100 test at Optyczne.pl.

Just How Good Is The Sony FE 16-35mm F/4 ZA OSS Vario-Tessar T* Lens? (Soundimagesplus).


Patrick:these are my A6000 CF settings for shooting sports action after 4 months of testing: http://ift.tt/12cc9HS


Ralf:here is a link of my photo series Why I Love Tattoos on a nice blog. All images are taken with the A900 and A99 and a CZ 85 / 1.4 lens. Feel free to share the link:

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Sokira:I would like to share my images from the new Zhongyi/Mitakon 24mm f/1.7 mouonted on my Sony NEX-7. So people who are interested in this lense can see what is like. You can find my album on flickr via: http://ift.tt/1vG4qf0


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