Sony just breathed new life into older A-mount lenses thanks to its LA-EA5 adapter for E-mount. Watch our review to find out why it could be a great option for those who still own A-mount glass.
Hi, I am looking for some assistance in planning an upgrade to my camera.
I have an A-mount SAL70200G lens that I have been using on my α700 for a number of years. I am thinking about upgrading to a full frame, mirrorless camera body. If I understand correctly, the SAL70200G is an SSM & Full Frame lens and will work with both the α7R-III and the α7R-IV provided I buy the correct A-mount to E-mount adapter.
If it helps in the context of the questions: • I am not a professional photographer, but it has been a big hobby of mine for a lot of years. • I use a Vertical Grip on my APS-C α700 (and was planning on getting one for the new camera body) • I will sometimes use a monopod with my SAL70200G because it is a heavy lens
My questions are:
1. Is the LA-EA5 the right adapter for both cameras (if not, which adapter should I use)? 2. What are the Pros & Cons of using the adapter with this lens? 3. Has anyone here done this and what was your experience?
Mine arrived yesterday, Monday the 24th. I tried it out on my model “Wanda” using the a7r IV and Sony 135mm f1.8. Apparently I can’t upload the pic here, but my results were very good. It’s a headshot and being that close at 1.8 her iris is amazing sharp but her lashes are not because of the DOF. This is a good combo for portraiture. It saved me a ton of money over buying the Sony native 135mm.
DPR TV being thick (or just thick-skinned) ... for a week now ignoring - the major flaw in this review which is easily found by simply clicking on "Most popular" comments and checking what these comments are about (hint: Screw drive AF lenses with built-in AF motors....). - the feedback they received in fora as well - zero "Editor's pick" comment - the single "DPR staff" reply totally unrelated to all above. @ Chris Niccolls: You scored an "F". Redo your review
For the next version they should add drop in filters like Canon does. This makes using and changing filters easier and they usually cost less too. Also add video support. No AF during video seems like a deliberate use of the cripple hammer. One more thing they could do is make is so most A mount lenses work with more than a few cameras including Sony's latest models (A9ii, A7Siii A7c,, etc)
Good to see they still pay attention to their old lenses. Now if they would just make an adapter that would use the even older Minolta manual focus lenses an allow quick, easy wide open viewing and focus they would have something nobody else offers. I would buy one even though I would have to buy old Minolta lenses. (my old lenses are Nikon AIS and Leica M)
Minolta 80-200 f2.8 HS, Minolta 200 f2.8 HS, Minolta 300 f2.8, Minolta 70-200 f2.8 SSM, Minolta 35 f1.4 G, Minolta 85 f1.4 G, Minolta 17-35 f3.5 G and the list can go and go.
You could find some really good cheap A-mount lenses.
I understand that while allowing AF-C for video could technically be possible, it would represent a lot of engineering time, and the results would most likely be disappointing. What they could offer is AF-S. It would be very useful to be able to AF -- slow as it may be, --for locked down shots using the phone app before recording.
What I am most interested in, perhaps I am in the minority here, is if the A7SIII will be added to the list of compatible cameras for screw drive. I am a A99ii Shooter for stills, and a Lumix GH3/GX8/G9 shooter for video and my personal travel kit.
I think the A7SIII would be a good substitute for the travel cam, and an excellent video cam of course. LA-EA5 compatibility with screw drive, and some simple AF-S ability in video mode, would make the choice easy for me and I could finally work within one ecosystem.
Sony is well known to not update firmware. And even release a new camera instead.
Look at Fuji and Olympus : they regularly update their fw giving you almost a new camera for free.
So IF camera need to be updated to use this adapter, you will NEVER see it supported on older cameras.
That’s why there is a plethora of Sony second hand cameras selling for peanuts some years after their release. They are thrash able cams. I know it : that’s how I bought NEX 6 and A7 for peanuts, to adapt legacy lenses.
Want new supported features and accessories ? Buy a new camera. SONY !!! Angry Photographer ;)
Off-topic (but 100% related to the article): Using children (assume that is Your kid) in a commercial video always makes me concerned. What if the child when growing up dislikes the worldwide spread of his/her face by the family in a commercial work. Does she in this case get paid by DPR/Amazon? I would be killed by my daughters even if I would post old pictures of them. For the children's sake stop using them on the internet. Let them decide bu themselves when they are grown up.
I am currently using the Sony A7R4 camera with Firmware version 1.20) with the Sony 70-400 mm G SSM II A mount lens plus the LA-EA3 adapter. This combo is giving me modicum results. Since this lens has the built in motor I do not need the LA-EA5 adapter for that. I was wondering if the LA-EA5 adapter would provide better phase detect AF performance than the LA-EA3 adapter.
@Chris you were wrong about both lenses you tested, they are screw driven lenses without AF motor. I have both lenses and love them all. Too bad you could not correct the video comment but please add captions/text otherwise many folks will be confused ... see all the comment before. You could have just looked at the lens before putting it on the body, there is a shining "pin" with a screw head ( slot in the center).
You could also test the 50F1.4 which is SSM - SAL50F14Z, then it makes a better review/test to cover both kind of ZA lenses.
@2001 - Despite the steady rise in literacy rates over the past 50 years, there are still around 775 million illiterate adults around the world, so video is relevant.
Yepp, watched the video, the ZA 85mm is actually one of the slowest screw drive lenses as it moves the entire lens backwards and forwards, the 135mm is much faster, but still no built in motor, screw driven. The ZA 24mm and 50mm are newer and have built in motors.
I still have my Zeiss 135mm F1.8 for A-mount (and a less stellar 35mm F1.4 G), but it's a bummer the adapter only offers AF for screw driven lenses only with the A7RM4 and A6600...
Guess I'm gonna have to buy the Monster Adapter LA-EA4R mod kit.
edit: Still waiting for a good reviewer to test Minolta AF lenses on the LA-EA5... that's where the real appeal of the LA-EA5 will be... otherwise, seems like the a99II will be the eternal solution for using old Minolta/Sony A-mount lenses...
Oh God, i like it so much ZA 135 1.8. I had Canon 135 2, but despite the fact that it is older, it has a more modern out-of-focus nature. ZA has a more classic character to my view. I once had a chance to play with this lens and almost switched to Sony after that. But at that time, their DSLRs were very unreliable - autofocus lived its own life, and the sensor collected dust with crazy speed. It's sad that the screwdriver in this adapter doesn't run Af for video.
Best answer right now, with almost all Sony E mount cameras it doesn’t work with screw drive lenses. Maybe 2 or 3 at most. So it’s safe to say 3rd party lenses won’t work on almost all bodies either. For video it may never AF with any camera.
The video shows #1 - screw drive performance. The 135/1.8ZA and 85/1.4ZA are both screw driven lenses. Chris states they have motors, but they don't, it's an error on his part.
Screw drive autofocus compatibility with the LA-EA5 only works on 2 models: a6600 and a7rIV. You wont get screw drive lens AF on any other Sony body, not even the recently released a7sIII and a7C.
I emailed Sony and they said screw driven lenses will work on the a7c. Might be just a matter of firmware updates for other bodies as the processor on the a7c is the same as pretty much everything else non-a9x.
I see 4 uses for this: 1) AF during video with lenses containing a motor 2) AF during video with lenses containing no motor 3) AF for stills with lenses that have motors (SSM, SAM) 4) AF for stills with lenses containing no motors (most A mount lenses from Sony and Minolta)
Does this adapter do any of those 4 with an A6500 or A7RII?
How many cameras and this adapter support 2 of the above? 10? 5? 2?
There is NO AF in video with lenses containing a motor with this adapter.
2) AF during video with lenses containing no motor
There is NO AF in video with lenses with no motors with this adapter.
3) AF for stills with lenses that have motors (SSM, SAM)
AF is availble in stills with lenses that have motors.
4) AF for stills with lenses containing no motors (most A mount lenses from Sony and Minolta)
AF is NOT available in stills with lenses that have no motor unless it is being used with an a6600 or a7rIV body. This is the major feature of this adapter and not having it fully work with the majority of their own bodies is confusing to say the least. Even the new a7sIII and a7C will not work. Who knows what Sonys strategy is here.
Because of this adapter announcement, I'm upgrading from A99 to A7R4. My journey from Minolta film days continues. I can't remember now how many times A mount was pronounced dead in past 20 years.
And beyond all the criticism on the "built-in AF motor": Great portraits of the little lady showing that theses lenses having a home in a system considered "dead" by many have an awesome lot of photographic life in them, even on a demanding 61.2MP BSI-CMOS sensor.
Even if they didn't get the full resolution of the 61.2MP BSI-CMOS sensor (some do and some don't), I don't need 61.2MP photos. If the overall image looks great, I'm happy.
With many older lenses, the overall image looks great.
+1, I agree. Although I have sold a number of A-mount lenses in recent years (now I regret that somewhat ...), I still have half a dozen left, which I still use regularly with FF Sony mirrorless... And I really enjoy using them - love "minolta colors " ;-) It’s not always the most important thing to have the best AF speed of its time, etc.
Major review video flaw which has been pointed at already: Two screw-drive-AF A Mount lenses critizised for the AF performance of their built in motors. Indeed, the lenses have to fail because .... there is no built-in motor. I own the Minolta 85/1.4 and the CZ 135/1.8, and the CZ is okay in AF speed while the Minolta is a snail. The CZ 85/1.4 is no different in AF speed to its predecessor. But: From 05:00 runtime on Chris gets the message across: With the caveat that currently full OSPDAF performance with the LA-EA5 is limited to the A7RIV and a6600, what Sony has done here addresses the owners of the over 16 million A Mount lenses sold over the A Mount lens life span. Not all will (have to) migrate as their A Mount bodies may still work for quite a while. But it is a path now available that wasn't available with this AF quality before: The previous LA-EA1/3 and LA-EA 2/4 have their shortcomings compared to the LA-EA5 when used on the two bodies which support full OSPDAF so far.
@Ralf B Do you have a source for the 16 million A-mount lens sales number? The manual focus SR-mount lenses are said to have sold in 16 million copies. Mixup or coincidence that they have the same sales numbers?
So why doesn’t the LAEA3 support faster than 2.5 FPS with SSM lenses on A7 bodies?? Why is video AF crippled with this adapter and SSM lenses?
Why doesn’t Sony just make an adapter that makes A mount SSM lenses work virtually natively on all E mount cameras??
Both Canon and Nikon make it look easy. Many of their newer DSLR lenses are said to AF better on their new mirrorless cameras.
Heck even Sigma’s and Metabones make EF adapters that have more functionality than this new Sony adapter. Including AF during video. Why do Canon lenses work better than Sony SSM lenses?
I think the majority is that they want to sell E-mount lenses. Full-featured A-mount lenses wouldn't give as much incentive to upgrade.
Sony does this all the time. Remember Sony Memory stick? Betamax? MiniDisc? "MD Data" discs? All the PlayMemories lock-in stuff?
I think a secondary reason is some of the screw drive lenses make elephant sounds, which might not be ideal for video if you're using an on-camera mike.
(I don't use on camera microphones)
Sony should fix this in a firmware upgrade. I think the major advantage Sony's competitor's have over Sony is that they do (slightly) less crap like this..
Kudos to Sony for yet another valuable photographic innovation. Beyond being a nice gesture to their A-Mount users, the LA-EA5 will help Sony drive the rest of their DSLR and mirrorless user base towards upgrading to one of Sony’s newer bodies.
Meanwhile, shame on Nikon for not offering a screwdriver capable adapter for their Z mirrorless system. The number of F-Mount users with AF and AF-D lenses in hand vastly eclipses Sony’s A-Mount user base, yet Nikon is too lazy to take advantage of this sort of adapter to incentivize DSLR users to move over to Z.
Then Nikon corporate wonders why adoption of Z is not meeting expectations and lags far behind Sony, Canon, and Fuji. The answer is simple. You are not building products that for the benefit if your customers. It seems Nikon these days can only copy and iterate product. They have totally lost the ability to innovate.
I checked the Eye-AF at 100% for this gallery and found one that was out by a hair. The rest were tack sharp. And noise? Well, we are talking the 60MP A7RIV here. It's a noisy sensor because the pixel pitch is too small. IMHO full frame sensors shouldn't exceed 20MP. Canon's hit the sweet spot with the R6 from my perspective.
If you want to see truly soft photos where Eye-AF is clearly off in many images just review the Nikon Z5 gallery published this week:
I had a look at some of them. They look exceptionally clean and sharp, at least the ones I saw. I do agree though that 20mp is a good compromise for most needs. However sometimes more is required. The latest selection of product (Nikon, Panasonic, Leica etc.) using the Canon 45mp and Sony 46mp sensors do seem to manage better pixel level noise suppression than this 61MP sensor though. So too does the GX100 using a Sony sensor of the same pixel pitch as a 61MP FF. I am not sure what conclusion that leads to TBH.
I don't understand why eye detect AF wouldn't work on the LAEA3 if the alpha lens has a modern motor. Is that true?
The LAEA5, unless I'm missing something, is not using it's motor on the two lenses you tested it with. It's basically functioning as an LAEA3. Why would the AF modes be different?
I understand older A-mount AF lenses didn't have an AF motor in the lens, they used the AF motor in the body, and the LAEA5 provides that motor connection but even motorized A-mount glass can barely keep up so why bother with this? Even puling from A-mount wouldn't you pick the more modern AF lenses and if they have motors, why do you need an LAEA5?
Those lenses from 2006 do not have a motor in the lens. Expensive Sony SSM (in-lens motor) was available from 2008. So now you know why E-mount (2010) was important for Sony users. Not just lens-based motors but also lens-based IS, cheap, fast and silent AF. Electronic aperture, small lenses, and they looked good.
so for an SAM or SSM A-mount lens, there's no point in the LAEA5 over the LAEA3 then, correct? It's for older A-mount lenses that support AF but don't have AF motors only? I mean obviously it works on the newer lenses too but does the same thing as the cheaper LAEA3 in that context.
The older LA-EA adapters' AF-C during bursts is limited to the LO frame rate except the LA-EA3 on the A9. The LA-EA5 supports 10 FPS on the 7R4 and 11 FPS on the A6600.
I see the Sony guys are attacking DPR and spreading misinformation again. Nothing new.
The LAEA3 already worked with SAM and SSM lenses since they do not need a motor in the adapter. The LAEA4 and LAEA5 are more for the screw drive lenses without motors.
A mount lenses with motors still are crippled on A7 series cameras. Either they can’t shoot faster than 2.5 FPS with the LAEA4 or video AF is crippled with the LAEA5. And the LAEA5 is only currently works fully on a few bodies.
DPRTV did a good job. I think the Sony fans are still upset newer F mount and EF mount lenses work better and are not crippled by Nikon and Canon. For example about 60 Nikon F lenses work virtually natively and some say even better on Z mount.
And there go the Sony trolls. More lying and misinformation.
There is no reason why the LAEA3 could not support the latest AF with SSM lenses. And there is no reason why Sony would cripple video AF with SSM lenses except to protect other products.
And do you see how the dishonest trolls tried to lie and say I mentioned Nikon screw drive lenses? I never did.
It is a fact Sony A7 bodies are crippled to only 2.5 FPS with the LAEA3 and LAE4 with SSM lenses that work at 12 FPS on A mount bodies. Just another fact the trolls are furious about people mentioning.
//I see the Sony guys are attacking DPR and spreading misinformation again.//
Still waiting for you to quote exactly where DPR was attacked
//There is no reason why the LAEA3 could not support the latest AF with SSM lenses. And there is no reason why Sony would cripple video AF with SSM lenses except to protect other products.
It is a fact Sony A7 bodies are crippled to only 2.5 FPS with the LAEA3 and LAE4 with SSM lenses that work at 12 FPS on A mount bodies.//
If it’s true you may have a point but calling people trolls doesn’t help your cause.
We already saw Handsome90 and RubberDials are the same person. It is like MikeRan is too.
They show up and answer each other’s posts and make the same fake points. They all 3 attack users without commenting on the actual discussion or the concrete facts.
//They all 3 attack users without commenting on the actual discussion or the concrete facts.//
Where did I attack you? Also you still haven’t provided proof where DPR was attacked.
Also I commented on your actual discussion. This is what I wrote
“//There is no reason why the LAEA3 could not support the latest AF with SSM lenses. And there is no reason why Sony would cripple video AF with SSM lenses except to protect other products.
It is a fact Sony A7 bodies are crippled to only 2.5 FPS with the LAEA3 and LAE4 with SSM lenses that work at 12 FPS on A mount bodies.//
If it’s true you may have a point but calling people trolls doesn’t help your cause.”
I just love that. I mean that's insane but that's also logic that it has to work.
A-mount AF system is up to the task until F8, but e-mount can cope with AF up to F11. So throwig the 500 F8 reflex on a new e-mount body should give the opportunity to have more than the central AF spot.
According to the videos I have seen so far of 500 F8 Reflex with LAEA5, I suspect that Sony has locked the behaviour to the central spot. And we know thanks to those geeks in China that it's not an existing limitation.
Those are stunning back lit photographs of the little lady. Could the photographer please tell me how he got the exposure right and / or how he achieved the result.
Thanks Richard! The modern sensors like you'd find in the A7R4 have excellent dynamic range. Normally in the past o would have used fill flash or overexposed the background and just let the hair blow out. On newer cameras I expose normally at a lower ISO and then boost up shadows on her face and bring down some of the hair highlights at the same time.
Just want to complement you on how effective your videos are. I have never owned any photography equipment made by Sony, nor do I have any plans to own any, but still I’m watching this video. I always learn something about my own camera gear in the process.
Your channel is a welcome contrast to so many other photography channels where the presenters try way too hard to be funny, almost always without success, and it keeps them from getting to the point before I get exasperated with their antics. You guys stay on point, and that is great.
Also, the quality of your photos in your sample galleries - from a composition standpoint - are consistently better than your written-word colleagues’. I don’t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing yet, but I’d rather look at good-looking shots when evaluating gear, than otherwise.
I have zero A-mount lenses, but I have brilliant Nikon AF-D lenses for screw drive motors. It would be great, if an adapter manufacturer (Metabones, Fotodiox, Kipon, Viltrox) would make an AF-D adapter for Sony cameras, as a matter of fact for Nikon Z cameras, too. Hundreds of thousands of excellent(-ly small) affordable AFD lenses are out there that are waiting for their reborn on in-body-image-stabilize full-frame mirrorless camera world with AF. Minolta shooters are lucky since Sony made not less than 5 adapters, two of them having screw drive motors. Nikon simply ignores its own AFD community.
Small correction 3 of the 5 adapters have screw drives
And technically for E-Mount there is the Techart Pro. With that adapter you can make any lens AF, even manual ones. And since it is M-mount you can adapt basically all DSLR lenses to it
Nikon doesn't ignore the AFD community, of which I am a member. They still develop and sell some of the best DSLR cameras that money can buy, the perfect tools for ancient AF screwdrive lenses. Sony on the other hand seems to have stopped developing new DSLR cameras. Last model was the 4 year old A99 II, and it doesn't even have an optical viewfinder. That took them exactly 10 years after they launched their first, the A100. Nikon has made SLR cameras, all with the same lens mount, for more than 60 years with no end in sight.
And just for the record: Nikon launched the first AF-S lens in 1998, 8 years before Sony even entered the DSLR business... with screw drive lenses.
Yes, the mount is 35 years old, but it took Sony only 10 years to kill it.
"With no end in sight" is what the current situation is. Nikon manufactures a complete range of DSLR cameras, and their two top models, the D6 and the D850 are DSLR cameras. They do that because there are many photographers who prefer that type of camera. They launched one each of DSLR and mirrorless cameras this year and the same last year. They are aparently still developing new SLR lenses.
"And just for the record: Nikon launched the first AF-S lens in 1998, 8 years before Sony even entered the DSLR business... with screw drive lenses."
As we say in Sweden: Nja.
Sony bought the whole camera division from the then named mother company Konica-Minolta with personnel and all in 2006. And in that deal they got the A-mount system. Originally A-mount was a screw drive driven autofocus system that Minolta made. Later during the Minolta years already also some lenses with internal motors arrived. A-mount was the worlds first system camera autofocus system and it came in 1985.
The A-mount DSLR line was killed off because the mirrorless line is much, much more successful. Shouldn't take a genius to see that. Also, eight years? Counting must be difficult.
This is the point: the future of camara bodies is mirrorless with builtin stabilization, 9M non blocking viewfinders with total silent shutter. Id love to use cameras like these, Nikon or Sony, I dont care with my AFD lenses. I dont want DSLRs any more. But I love my tiny AFDs.
"Yes, the mount is 35 years old, but it took Sony only 10 years to kill it."
Here in Sweden there are two APS-C A-mount bodys for sale and one FF. All are fairly modern. There is also a full A-mount lens catalogue on sale. And adapters over to E-mount. So saying that Sony has killed A-mount is maybe a bit like the old quote: "the rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated".
In 2019 Sony sold in total 10 000 A-mount bodys (vs 1 650 000 E-mount) so the market is fairly small and one can guess that there won't be any new bodys or lenses developed and that they at some point in the future will stop selling A-mount and just keep supporting old customers plus have the adapters on sale.
Sony was six years ahead of Canon and Nikon into mirrorless FF so it is not surprising that they also will be first to close their legacy system.
Neither will it be surprising that such a day will also come for Canon and Nikon further down the road once their DSLR numbers go down.
@lattesweden Sony stopped developing DSLR cameras because they couldn't compete, and never reached market shares much over 10%, in stark contrast to their target of reaching Canikon levels. In 2019, 4,417,993 DSLR bodies were manufactured. If Sony made 10,000, 4,407,993 of those cameras were other brands, mainly Canon and Nikon.
January to August 2020, 1,279,453 DSLR bodies were manufactured against 1,468,156 mirrorless bodies. This will probably be the first year with higher mirrorless than DSLR sales. Still, DSLR sales are high enough to be profitable, and will probably be for many years to come. If DSLR cameras disappear anytime soon, it will be a policy and marketing decission, not because there aren't enough customers.
@zakk9 Not sure how you mean with the word compete. If we talk at a tech level then the A99mkI that came before Sony went into FF E-mount was very well received. If you by compete mean market shares, then they were clearly smaller than CaNikon.
It often takes an external world changing event or a technology shift to move around who is largest in the conservative photo world.
Nikon got the leader shirt in the 60s/70s shift due to the Vietnam war were press photographers at vacation in Hong Kong/Singapore discovered the gear and brought to the war were it performed better than the Leica cameras.
Canon took their first place in the autofocus changeover in the 80s/90s shift.
Now we again have a technology shift. It has been going on since 2008 when Panasonic came out with the G1 but this world is conservative and slow.
Here 2019 sales numbers: Brand Tot Mirrorless DSLR Canon 4160000 940000 3220000 Nikon 1730000 280000 1450000 Sony 1660000 1650000 10000
As can be seen, if Nikon continues with the low mirrorless sales and the DSLR sales continues down the coming years. Then it won't look good. Sad. I used Nikon 1982-2004 so I like the brand.
Here's a link to confirmation from a Sony web page that the A7C/LA-EA5 combination only auto focuses with SSM/SAM (and by implication NOT screw-drive) lenses:
@panther fan: How so? My impression was and is that Sony pushed the adapter to the market before it was fully supported by a reasonably wide selection of E mount bodies and they told their engineers to make it work with just one APS-c and just one FF camera, forget about the rest for the time being. While A7Riv is a mostly unique camera and features critical to autofocus are not replicated in other cameras, the A6600 and A6400 share the same autofocus-related underpinnings and both should work the same with this adapter.
As a couple of others have said neither the 135/1.8 or the 85/1.4 have internal motors as Chris claims, so what is being tested here is the efficacy of the screw drive motor in the adaptor.
That's all well and good but it would be nice to have seen the performance with a motorised Sam or SSM lens, which do allow AF and tracking in video, unlike the screw drive lenses.
Sony seems to be changing their color science with each new model. I wish they would update their olders models with the new improved color science profiles.
You should check out the Potato Jet video comparing it to the FX9, it's got 99% the same colors for a fraction of the price. And that's just one of the many, many ways it's head and shoulders above the other a7/9 cameras for video. I just hope most of it makes it into a more mainstream model. And I hope the rumors of a 50MP camera doing 2:1 downsampling for 4K is true too, but honestly I think that's just Canon being trolled.
Unfortunately it doesn't make AF usable for things that move. If you are going to shoot stationary subjects, it will work, but so does manual focusing. :( I was hoping an adapter would allow focusing at speeds close to native mounts, so it's usable for action photography.
Zeiss 85/1.4 and 135/1.8 are both very slow lenses(I owned 85 and still have 135, which is my favorite lens of all time). It would be interesting to see what 70-200 or 70-400 A-mount lenses are capable of...
Yes clearly this topic will be interesting with telephoto up to the 12fps on A-mount bodies. As Hippo84 said 70-200, 70-300 and 70-400
It will also but interesting to see how 3rd party lenses like tamron 150-600 G2, 70-300 would behave too. Taking into account that they already work well with LAEA3, there shouldn't be any bad surprise, but who knows.
Kudos to Sony for releasing this and more so if they can update the firmware to allow it to screw-drive on more bodies. It's a bit late in coming for me though. Buying this would just delay the purchase of a EF 100-400mm lens. That one lens would meet most of my sports needs and relegate my Minolta glass to more sedentary use.
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Is the SD card slot coming back to the MacBook Pro? Is the polarizing Touch Bar finally getting kicked to the curb? Bloomberg is reporting that there are many changes coming next-gen Mac computers and the changes all sound promising.
Today, B&W film photography remains popular both for its aesthetic appeal and its ease-of-use, whether you're a beginner, taking an intro to darkroom photography class or a seasoned pro. Here's everything you need to know about the medium.
The new limited edition Reporter version of the M10-P comes with a Kevlar jacket and a deep green paint — though you (probably) won't be taking it to war
Last year we covered PhotoStatistica, a macOS app that visualizes the EXIF data of your images and shows you the ways in which you capture photos. A new version was just released, introducing many improvements, including a new UI and new filtering tools.
Fujifilm's 30mm F3.5 R WR is a super sharp 24mm-equivalent lens for the company's GFX lineup of digital medium-format cameras. Is it good enough to warrant a place in your camera bag? Find out in our field review.
The next-generation AAT system can identify more objects in photos, perceive where each object is located relative to each other and provide more detailed descriptions.
US face recognition developer has been found to have used pictures from the Ever storage app without permission, and now has to delete all its algorithms.
Irix's new 45mm F1.4 Dragonfly lens is fully-manual and ready to be used with Fujifilm's GFX 50 and 100 camera systems. It's currently available to pre-order for $795.
The Tamron 17-70mm F2.8 is a fast, large aperture zoom for Sony E-mount APS-C cameras. Does it hit the sweet spot between price and performance for an everyday zoom lens? We tested it to find out.
If you're a Sony APS-C shooter in search of a versatile, walk-around zoom lens, the Tamron 17-70mm F2.8 should probably be on your short list. Check out our sample gallery and judge image quality for yourself.
Exploredinary has published a video tour of the Ilford photographic film and paper factory in Mobberley, England. The factory, operated by Harman Technology, which trades as Ilford Photo, has been operating on the same site since 1928. Ilford Photo traces its roots back to 1879.
Qualcomm has introduced its new Snapdragon 870 5G, a faster version of the aging 865 mobile platform that brings support for 200MP single cameras and 720p slow-motion recording at 960fps.
Is it really necessary to pay for photo editing software when it already comes included with your camera purchase? We test Nikon's own editing apps against the industry go-to.
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