The new Benro Theta has collected nearly 2 million Dollars on Kickstarter
The new Benro Theta has collected nearly 2 million Dollars on Kickstarter (Click here) ! 16 days left to grab one if you want it.
Hot Kickstarter projects:
- If you need a flexible, portable high quality 4k Laser projector to show your images and videos than check out the new JMGO N1 Ultra on Kickstarter (Click here) . It’s the first gimbal and easily portable 4K Laser projector.
- Duovox successfully funded their new Night Vision and Sony Starvis powered Monocular on Kickstarter .
- The new modular
Curiosity: With my Sony camera I took a photo of an empty cup and filled it with Cappuccino using AI tools
I hate AI tools because it takes away the joy form authentic photography. But no matter what I think about it, I suspect that in one year from now it will be normal to use AI tools to modify your images. So I tried this morning to do something simple like adding cappuccino on a real photo of an empty cup. Watch the video to see how well this worked ( and subscribe my youtube channel if you want to see more of this ).
If you are interested in debating and learning how to
Highly Likely first FAKE A7000 and A6500 specs going wild on the web
Someone is sharing those specs all across the web. usually I wouldn’t post such unverified wild “rumors”. but as others as picking this up I want to make it clear that those are highly unlikely to be correct (see video above where I explain the details about those rumors).
The “source” claims:
ILCE-7000:
26MP
A7 4 body + A7R5 flip screen
Super 35mm 4K/60p (6K oversampling)
Today only at Amazon US: 60% off on the SanDisk 4TB Extreme Portable SSD
Today only you save 60% on the SanDisk 4TB Extreme Portable SSD sold by Amazon US (Click here) . You also save big on Samsung hard drives (Click here) .
There are a ton of storage deals on this special BHphoto page .
To be announced soon: Viltrox 75mm f/1.2 for APS-C E and a new 16mm FE lens
Viltrox will soon announce two new lenses:
- Viltrox 75mm f/1.2 for APS-C E-mount autofocus lens (already available as X-mount on BHphoto ).
- Viltrox 16mm (aperture unknown) Full Frame E-mount lens
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Zhongyi Optics released the 200mm f/4.0 for Sony Full Frame E-mount cameras
Zhongyi Optics released the 200mm f/4.0 for Sony FF E-mount cameras in China. US&Europe announcements will follow within 2 weeks and the lens will be available through their official Amazon store .
Specs:
- 11 elements in 7 groups of optical structures,
- 9 aperture blades,
- the closest focusing distance is 0.48 meters,
- 67mm filter interface,
- adopts APO and internal focus design,
- and the size of the lens body 75*186mm,
- weighing
I tested the new Adobe Firefly AI tool
In future photographers might use some AI to edit their own pictures. Adobe launched Firefly and I joined the Beta to see how it works. Sadly, the three tools that are interesting for us photographers are not activated yet: Inpainting (to remove and replace pieces of a photo), personalized results to create new images form your real photos and extend image (to increase the aspect ratio through AI interpolation).
The only tool I could play with is the text to image generation tool If you want to see how good
BCNreport: In February one third of all sold lenses were E-mount
BCNreport shared the latest Japanese February sales data:
Lens share by mount:
- E-mount 32.6%
- MFT 13.8%
- Canon EF 11.4%
- Nikon F 9.3%
- Fujifilm X 8.8%
- Nikon Z 8.5%
- Canon RF 7.7%
Lens share by manufacturer:
- Canon 17.1%
- Sigma 16.0%
- Tamron 15.1%
- Sony 14.2%
- Nikon 13.8%
- OM Digital Solutions 8.6