Crystallography rocks! #5 Like a colorful coral in the Turkish sea: this is a...

Crystallography rocks! #5



Like a colorful coral in the Turkish sea: this is a fine-grained association of plagioclase and worm-like quartz (“myrmekite”) in an amphibolite-facies metapelite (kinzigite) from the Ivrea Zone (Italy). Quartz forms the worm-like thin parts and, after feldspar, is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth's continental crust.



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(SR5) New Zeiss 16-35mm f/4.0 FE leaked!

This is the first image of the new Zeiss 16-35mm f/4.0 FE OSS lens that will be announced on Monday (16:00 Berlin time). It should cost around 1350 Euro. Sony will likely introduce two more FE lenses although I don’t know if these will be ready for sale this year or more likely be on market in 2015 only (90mm macro and a fast Zeiss prime should come). Stay tuned on SAR!

Follow the Sony announcement live here on SAR on Monday Sept 15 at 16:00 Berlin time. That’s:

7am in San Francisco

10 am in NYC

15:00 in London

3am (03:00) of Tuesday 16 in Tokyo.

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(SR4) 90mm macro G FE almost sure to come. Follow announcement live on Monday on SAR!

On Monday (Sept 15) at 16:00 Berlin time Sony will finally announced the new A and E-mount lenses. Among them we will have the new 16-35mm f/4.0 FE Zeiss, the 90mm G FE macro, and likely an updated 35mm f/1.4 and 70-300mm A-mount lens. As you see on the official roadmap image on top there should be also a fast prime lens from Sony but I am not sure it will be available within 2014. Anyway, this could be the fast 85mm lens. Sony may also shows us an updated FE roadmap with some general info about the lens to come in 2015.

There could be also new accessories and one of them should be the new flash for the A7 camera series. And like I told you before we have no info about any other new camera that could be announced on Monday. But I hope Sony will officially tease us about the next very BIG camera announcement coming in January!

So follow the event live here on SAR on Monday Sept 15 at 16:00 Berlin time. That’s:

7am in San Francisco

10 am in NYC

15:00 in London

3am (03:00) of Tuesday 16 in Tokyo.

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SR2=rumor from unknown sources

SR3=50% chance it is correct

SR4=rumor from known sources

SR5=almost certainly correct!

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Sony announcement at 8am London time! Follow the live-streaming here on SAR!

You can watch the press conference from Sony at the IBC show in Amsterdam live here on SonyAlphaRumors! It starts soon at:

12pm San Francisco time

3am NYC

8:00 London

9:00 Berlin

16:00 Tokyo

Sony will announce the new 4K-E-mount photocamera and hopefully also the new 28-135mm powerzoom and 16-35mm Zeiss FE lenses. There is another Sony announcement scheduled for Monday Sept 15 at 16:00 Berlin time. SO I am not sure if all new A and E-mount lenses will be announced tomorrow…

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2014年09月11日のつぶやきまとめを更新しました！

from レンズ沼探検隊 ペンタックス沼担当のつぶやきまとめ@Seesaaブログ

Sony USA promises a “WOW” in glass! Announcement around 7am London time.

Like I told you before Photokina is definitely a Sony “Lens” announcement place. And Sony US just remarked this once again with a proper teaser posted on their Twitter account. Tomorrow Sony will announce the new E-mount 4K camcorder and the already known 28-135mm f/4.0 powerzoom lens. But they mat announce all other E-mount lenses too: The 16-35mm f/4.0 Zeiss, the 90mm macro and likely show an updated roadmap with 85mm fast prime lens included.

Announcement should be at around 7am London time (Sept). As usual you can follow the event live here on SAR as I will continuously update you with previews, hands-on links and so on!

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Happy 198th Birthday, Carl Zeiss! 198 years ago today, our company’s founding f...

Happy 198th Birthday, Carl Zeiss!



198 years ago today, our company’s founding father Carl Friedrich Zeiss was born. The fifth of 12 children, he grew up in Weimar, Germany, and went on to attend the University of Jena.

As a young student, Carl Zeiss showed a keen interest in technology, and after passing the required exam of the grand ducal office for above ground infrastructure, he was granted a license to manufacture and sell mechanical and optical instruments and to set up a mechanical workshop.



On 17 November 1846, he opened a small workshop in Jena with a fund of 100 Thalers, laying the foundation of our company's great technological history and heritage. #TBT



Picture: Carl Zeiss and the "Stativ I" (Stand I) microscope, built in 1884 based on Ernst Abbe’s discoveries.









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