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Last year, Venus Optics launched its first autofocus lens, the Laowa 10mm f/2.8 Zero-D FF ( B&H Photo , Amazon , Adorama ). This lens received excellent reviews and sold better than expected. I’m even more pleased to hear that Venus Optics has officially announced that they will be releasing FOUR more E-mount autofocus lenses this year!
This news was reported by CameraBeta during an official meeting with Vensu Optics. Here is a picture of the booth:
Tamron issued a new firmware udpate for the 50-400mm lens. Those are the improvements:
Back when it was announced 6 months ago the card sold for $530. Now you get it for $339 at BHphoto and Amazon . That’s a near 40% price drop!
I have noticed that almost all CFexpress Type A cards of the 4.0 generation have fallen massively in price in a very short time and are now close to the pricing of much larger Type B cards .
The very large Japanese camera store Yodobashi has listed the 20 best-selling lenses for the whole of 2024:
Nearly two months after the announcement for the very first time the ONE single camera is in Stock at Amazon (Click here) . Hurry up before it’s gone!
The newly developed CMOS sensor with 410 megapixels
And we fools thought the megapixel race was over! Today Canon announced a new 410 megapixel full-frame sensor! But hand on heart, I doubt we’ll see this sensor in any future model in this range . It is more likely that it will be used in industrial applications. And why? Putting 410 tiny megapixels in such a small area creates a lot of artifacts and problems for photographers. For example, mass diffraction at medium aperture
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The new LaCie 4TB Rugged SSD Pro5 Thunderbolt 5 External SSD is available for preorder at BHphoto .
LaCie announced their latest high-speed storage drive with the new Rugged SSD Pro5 ! Featuring blazing-fast ransfer speeds and a unique reinforced form factor, the Rugged SSD Pro5 is a must-have travel accessory for photographers and videographers on the go.
Backed by Thunderbolt 5 technology, the Pro5 gives you ultra-fast read and write speeds up to 6700 and 53
What you see above is the official registration line in Indonesia for a new digital camera from Sony. The camera is manufactured in Thailand and has the code “WW277226”. There are no other details that we can learn from this document. In total, Sony has now registered two new camera codes, one in China and one in Thailand. Let’s take a look at the details:
1) Camera WW773396
On December 4, the Chinese authority officially