How I Turned My Photography Side Hustle Into A $134K Business

Today deals at Amazon , BHphoto , Adorama , Amazon DE , Amazon UK , Amazon FR , Amazon IT , FotoErhardt DE , FotoKoch DE .
Sony banks on Chinese smartphone makers to revive image sensor profits ( Nikkei ).
Brightin Star 11mm f/2.8 ‘Fisheye’ lens review ( Christopher Frost ).
The “old” Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG HSM for Sony E/Leica L is discontinued (

The A9III USA shipment start has been anticipated from Feb 21 to Feb 8 at BHphoto . Amazon (date will change soon) . Adorama .

DEALS:

Triple CFexpress Type A card deals:

• 120 discount on the Sony 2TB card sold at Amazon US (Click here) .
• The Lexar 320GB Type A card from Lexar is now 30% off at Amazon (Click here) .
• You save 15% on the fast and most affordable Pergear Type A card sold by Amazon

A year ago Sigma CEO Yamaki said they are now thinking about making “unique” lenses. Well the latest published patents certainly go into this direction! Asobinet just found the patents for those optical designs:

• 28-70mm f/2.0 zoom lens for Full Frame Mirrorless cameras (same specs of the epic Canon 28-70mm f/2.0 RF ).
• 400mm f/2.8 (finally a cheaper alternative of the $12,00

Yodobashi store published the list of the 20 best selling lenses of 2023:

1. Sony FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
2. Sony FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
3. Canon RF100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM
4. Tamron 28-200mm F/ 2.8-5.6 Di III RXD (E mount)
5. Canon RF100-500mm

You can get it now at Amazon Japan but the lens is still not listed on the Zhongyi Amazon US&EU store . Here is a new video of this lens:

Skylum now gives you a free trial access on the new Generative AI tool . If the trial ( click here ) does convince you you can buy Luminar Neo with an instant 30% discount .

You have 70h left to take your chance to grab the new Maven magnetic filters on Kickstarter (Click here) . As you can see they made quite a lot of preorders!

HOT deals:

Triple CFexpress Type A card deals:

• 120 discount on the Sony 2TB card sold at Amazon US (Click here) .
• The Lexar 320GB Type A card from Lexar is now 30% off at Amazon (Click here) .
• You save 15% on the fast and most affordable

Hasseblad just announced a new $8,200 digital back you can preorder it now at BHphoto and Adorama . Full press text at Explora . Full review at ThePhoBlographer .

The camera uses the Sony 100MP medium format sensor. A sensor I would like to be seen used on a future Sony medium format camera too :)

Just to be clear: I still did not get reliable confirmation if Sony will have an announcement today. So please keep expectations low. But something “weird” did happen today:

For a short moment a Youtuber uploaded a video with the title naming these two lenses (see screenshot on top):

• 24-50mm f/2.8 G
• 16-25mm f/2.8 G

I did hide the name of the channel….we don’t want to get him