Justin McClure launched this new Portable Ring Light on Kickstarter .

Zeiss posted a second teaser for an announcement happening on February 25. Like I told you last week I am near certain we are getting a newly designed OTUS series for Full Frame mirrorless system cameras. This will include certainly the E-mount :)

The original OTUS series for DSLR cameras had four lenses:

• 28mm f/1.4 ,
• 55mm f/1.4 ,
• 85mm f/1.4 ,
• 100mm f/1.4

It’s possible

Broncolor has announced the new RFS 3S Transmitter, which can be pre-ordered from BHphoto (click here) .

BCNretail shared the market share details for the month of January. Here is the quick results summary from Digicameinfo :

• In terms of sales volume share by manufacturer in January 2013, Sony topped the list for the third consecutive month with 29.7%. In second place was Canon with a 26.3% share. These two companies account for the majority of the market. In third place was Fujifilm, whose share increased 4.6 points from the previous month to 15.9%

Sony 28-70mm GM + Sony Alpha 7R V Portrait Shoot | Behind the Shot

Today deals at Amazon , BHphoto , Adorama , Amazon DE , Amazon UK , Amazon FR , Amazon IT , FotoErhardt DE , FotoKoch DE .
Authentic Photographs vs AI Generated Images, with Boris Eldagsen & Miles Astray ( Explora ).
The Pros and Cons of Using Color Gels vs RGBW LEDs for Photography ( 42west ).
Yongnuo 23mm f1.4 DA DSM WL review at SonyAlpbaBlog .
Sony A

This is a new info about the Sony 16mm f/1.8

It’s an Amazing lens, impressive image quality for a G lens.
Lighter than the 20mm and 5mm shorter than the 20mm , so it’s really small and light weight.
Coma could have been better and if you a Astro nerd corners could have been a bit better,
but in general it’s super impressive for its size and weight.

This lens is offered at a price of 99

Sigma Japan has officially confirmed that they will be launching new products at the CP+ show. They have released the list of their events and it includes the following:

• February 27th 14:00-14:45 … “Behind the Scenes of SIGMA Product Development” SIGMA Development Staff #Product Development
• February 28th 12:00-12:45 … “A little bit from Ozone” Yasuhiro Ozone (SIGMA employee) #Product development
• March 1st 12

Sony released the full Q3 financial report . The company as a whole is doing well, but for the first time in a long time Sony reported a slight decline in sales of photo and video cameras. Sony writes that there has been a ‘deterioration in the product mix of digital cameras’. Nevertheless, the forecast remains unchanged, and in Q1 and A2 Sony had already reported higher sales than in the previous year.