{"id":3828,"date":"2014-09-19T23:28:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottlewisphotography.eu\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2014-09-20T10:34:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T08:34:05","slug":"photokina-2014-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottlewisphotography.eu\/?p=3828","title":{"rendered":"Photokina 2014 …. Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know what you are thinking ahhh not another photokina <\/a>blog ….. Well yeap here is my bias opinion about what I saw, played with and found interesting. I probably don’t look at the same stuff as other people when I go to places like this<\/p>\n

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The things I was interested in looking at were studio accessories, Medium format cameras, Sonys new E-Mount lenses and then just stuff that might catch my eye. This year there seems to be less halls open than 4 years ago that my just be a my imagination but I defiantly think there were several halls more in the past.\u00a0
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First up on my test list was the Sony Zeiss 16-35 f4 and the Sony G 28-135 f4 cinema lens. Unfortunately the 16-35 f4 was a prototype and I wasn’t able to save any images with it. What I can say is the AF seemed quick and responsive and the previews were very sharp but i don’t have and files that I could pixel peep.<\/p>\n

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The Sony G 28-135 f4 cinema lens was a lot lighter than i though it would be, it was very responsive. I’m not a cinematographer so I’m not the target audience for this lens. It looks funky and is packed with features and yes it can be used as a photography lens . It has a very large zoom range\u00a0for a constant aperture lens. An interesting feature is that it has an\u00a0aperture on the lens that can be set in cinema mode for smooth transition between f\/ stops, or be set to click so photographers can feel the change in f\/ stop, or your standard\u00a0aperture control via the camera.<\/p>\n

The focus ring has a clutch that you can use to slip in and out of AF mode.<\/p>\n

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After i spent about 1 and 1\/2 hours at Sony it was time to scour through the “made in Asia” department for toys. Bare bulb flashes for mobile shooting (studio in a bag etc), light modifiers, and studio equipment were my main items of interest. To my disappointment I didn’t find any new light modifiers, but there were a lot of bare bulb flashes from different manufacturers. In fact I even have one to test and blog about latter.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0You buy my flash it a good flash…\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This was actually one of the more interesting flashes I was one of the more interesting bare bulb flashes I was. Made by a company called Dison<\/a>, it is a twin flash head mobile unit. The concept is you have a master flash head and a slave flash head that is connected via as 5m cable. \u00a0Both flashes can be controlled from the master flash head, that also contains a large battery. But the real novelty here is that you can swap you the strobe flash tubes and replace them with high-power LED lights (which are included) for use with video and other constant lighting work. Unfortunately the hard sell was to much and i didn’t get a lot of technical details, a shame as I was genuinely interested until it just got to much.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0The next thing that caught my eye was this unique flash head by Photo Dynamic<\/a>, the mono-block head is on a pivotable head, allowing it to be pointed into some very interesting positions e.g behind a translucent wall or on confined spaces. Here getting info was not so easy as the staff were a lot shyer that other stands, but what i seemed to find out was. They have them in several different WS outputs from 200ws \u00a0up to 1200ws and use a Bowens type bayonet.<\/p>\n

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At the next stand I forgot to take photos of the things that were interesting but there is ca company called Meike<\/a> they seemed to have the standard line up of flashes and stuff but sitting in a small glass display box wew 2 items of interest. A 3rd party battery grip for the Sony A7 and a hot shoe for the NEX cameras.
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\nThis photo is from their website and the version I saw didn’t seem to have a remote control with it. But it should be available for sale in about 2 months and should cost around 80\u20ac. The Second item is a hot shose for the NEX cameras so they can use the old minolta\/sony flashs. It supports TTL\/Manual mode\/ Multi\/Front-curtain sync and is actually designed to be used with a Flash designed by them called a MK300S, Maximum GN. 32 ans id dust and waterproof.<\/p>\n

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These arent my photos either but the photo on the right is the Sony Minolta mount adapter for the NEX cameras. It is listed as supporting a large list of \u00a0Sony Nex cameras NEX-3,NEX-3D,NEX-C3\uff0cNEX-5,NEX-5C,\u00a0NEX-5N,NEX-5R,5RL,5RY,NEX-5T,5TL,5TY. And they also have a version of the Multi-Interface Shoe Adapter. Bothe these adapters should cost about 20\u20ac each<\/p>\n

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And they also have a version of the Multi-Interface Shoe Adapter. Both these adapters should cost about 20\u20ac each and be available in about a month<\/p>\n

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I know what you are thinking ahhh not another photokina <\/a>blog ….. Well yeap here is my bias opinion about what I saw, played with and found interesting. I probably don’t look at the same stuff as other people when I go to places like this<\/p>\n

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