You can now reorder the new Sony Transmitter on BHphoto (Click here) .

Press text:

SAN DIEGO – July 1, 2024 – Sony Electronics is furthering its commitment to live content creators with today’s launch of the PDT-FP1 portable data transmitter . The previously announced device , which enables high-speed, stable still image and video transport over 5G networks, provides efficiencies for news agencies, photojournalists, corporate and event photographers, and broadcast professionals, among others. It is now available

Version 4.8.0  of the Open Source Darktable has been released ( here are the release notes ). Those are the BIG updates:

• Introduced the color equalizer module to control
  hue/lightness/saturation based on colors. This is a (partial)
  scene-referred replacement for the legacy color zones module.
• Two new modules have been introduced to support image composition.
  • Enlarge Canvas: As the name implies, this module can be used to add
    areas on the left, right, top or bottom of the image

The new 4th of July deals are now up and running at BHphoto (Click here to see them all) .

On July 10 Sony will announce the new ZV-E10II and the new 16-50mm II lens. Two specs that I am 100% sure about are the following:

• Same 26Mp sensor of the A6700
• larger grip to accommodate the NFZ100 battery

The larger grip will make the camera bigger but also more comfortable to use. The current ZV-E10 uses the smaller FW50 battery that limits the autonomy to 44

Chinese manufacturers are extremely busy launching one autofocus E-mount lens after another! On July 5 7Artisans will launch their third autofocus E-mount lens: The 85mm F/1.8 FE.

• Announcement: July 5th 18:30 (Peking time)
• 7Artisans AF 85mm F1.8
• Fullsize
• Sony E-mount
• AF
• Aperture ring F1.8-F6
• AF/MF switch
• AFL button

Here are the links to their other two existing autofocus E-mount lenses

Blackmagic updated their Cloud Login page with this note about “No AI training”:

We acknowledge that you own your uploaded media. Blackmagic Cloud is not a trick to access your media for AI training. Your media is private and won’t be used to train AI. So you can work with security, knowing your ideas won’t leak publicly via AI.

Game Set Match for Blackmagic against Adobe!

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via Diyphotography Tip by Hugh Brownstone Thanks!

Emin Kuliyev is selling his Astro Kino Color IV 85mm f1.6 lens on eBay (Click here) and shared some images he shot on the Sony A1 :

DxO is turning 20 years old and you still have a few days left to save 20% on all DxO software (Click here) !

More software deals:

• Two months ago Topaz released the brand new Photo Ai 3.0 (Click here) . It now got the very first $20 discount that will end o July 2.
• ON1 just released the new 2024.5 update and a major summer bundle rebate action (Click here) .

Yesterday I told you that on July 10 Sony will announce the new ZV-E10II and a redesigned 16-50mm lens. So it makes sense to read that in Japan the current 16-50mm lens has been marked as discontinued (Source: Asobinet ).