First leaked images of the new Sigma 15mm and 500mm lenses!

Here you have the first leaked images of the two upcoming Sigma lenses that will be announced on Feb 21 at 2am Berlim time (Feb 20 at 8pm New York time).

Sigma 500mm f/5.6 specs:

  • Lightweight lens…less than 1,5kg and so the lightest telephoto prime lens you can buy.
  • Very fast AF on Sony A1 (lens has linear motor)
  • Sadly frame rate is still limited to 15fps (that’s Sony’s
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Confirmed: Sony “WOW” product announcement coming soon after the CP+ show

The Cp+ show is kicking off on Feb 22 and these are the new product we will get:

  • Sigma 500mm f/5.6 (Feb 20 at 8pm New York time)
  • Sigma 15mm f/1.4 diagonal fisheye lens (Feb 20 at 8pm New York time)
  • Sony 24-50mm f/2.8 G (Feb 21 at around 10am New York time)

Some additional tidbits:

  • Laowa 10mm f

Additional Sigma lens info…

I got few additional tidbits about the two Sigma lenses coming on February 21 at 2am Berlin time (That’s February 20 at 8pm New York time)

Sigma 500mm f/5.6

  • Sources confirmed it has very fast autofocus
  • Sadly frame rate is still limited to 15fps (that’s Sony’s fault and I hope Sony will change this policy)
  • Doesn’t take telconverters

Sigma 15mm f/1.4 diagonal fisheye lens

  • The lens looks nearly exactly

New image of the upcoming Viltrox 135mm f/1.8 FE lens

This is a new image of the near production ready Viltrox 135mm f/1.8 FE lens. This will be Viltrox first “LAB” series lens. This series aims to achieve the highest Image Quality possible.

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Reminder: Sony launched new deals in Europe!

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New Godox V1 Pro now in Stock and shipping

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Sony A9III review at Engadget: “Far better than I expected”


On Kickstarter: New Radiant Mega Sling

You can now preorder the new Radiant Mega Sling on Kickstarter (Click here) .

Reminder: Asuizo launched their new Card reader case on Kickstarter (Click here) . It stores 4x SD cards, 12x Micro SD cards, 4x Nano SIM cards. It protects your data against dust and moisture and fall. This is how it works:

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CIPA data for the whole year 2023: Mirrorless makes +10,9%

Finally we got the detailed CIPA camera and lens shipment data for the whole year 2023. It contains a lot of interesting data:

  • Shipment of cameras (fixed and interchangeable) did drop by 3,6% in terms of numbers and increased by 4.9% in terms of value.
  • Shipment of mirrorless cameras increased by 18,6% in terms of numbers and increased by 10,9% in terms of value.
  • Shipment of DSLR cameras did drop by 36% in terms of

This is stunning and worrying: AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever!

This week OpenAi released a demo of Sora (Click here) . It’s their text to video generation tool and the samples are impressive! If you are a photographer and/or filmmaker you have to take into account the devastating influence those tools will have on the industry. We have to learn from these tools how they work so that we can adapt are business. Don’t worry, AI is not going to replace the entirety of photography and film making. But if your business is doing stock photography/