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Grab a free filter ring when buying a Lee 100 Holder

Lee Filters, the manufacturer of the popular Lee 100 filter system is offering a free filter ring when buying a Lee 100 Holder [direct link]. You can choose either a…

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Fully-featured Photoshop to come to the iPad

Adobe have today announced that a fully featured Photoshop CC is coming to the iPad.  

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Fujifilm, News

Fujifilm GFX 100 medium format camera with IBIS announced

In addition to announcing the new rangefinder-style Fujifilm GFX 50R and three new lenses, see here for more details, Fuji took the opportunity to make a development announcement. The 102MP…

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  • This is a new CFexpress card with a ProGrade sticker on the front. This card, featuring the last type 4.0 spec, has a sustained 2800MB/s write speed.
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    Fujifilm details support for CFexpress, SD and SSD media with GFX100 II

    September 28, 2023 /

    Fujifilm has published a list of recording media which is compatible with the new GFX100 II (and X-H2) and it’s an extensive resource. It can be found on their website. Unsurprisingly, it correlates with other camera marques’ recommendations for CFexpress cards and SDXC cards with a high minimum sustained write speed, for cameras like the Nikon Z8/9 and Canon EOS R5. You can read more about my thoughts on the matter, here.

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    Nikon Nikkor Z 135mm F1.8 S Plena lens announced

    September 27, 2023 /

    Nikon has announced the Nikkor Z 135mm F1.8 S Plena lens, which is said to be optimised for out-of-focus highlights, after teasing the new model on YouTube. The Plena lens adopts 16 elements in 14 groups and includes one element using a new type of glass from Nikon called SR (Short-wavelength Refractive): “Nikon’s original SR (Short-wavelength Refractive) lens is a high- and specialized-dispersion glass lens featuring characteristics to greatly refract light with wavelengths shorter than that of blue. By controlling short-wavelength light that is difficult to compensate, light of various specific wavelengths can be more effectively collected achieving highly precise chromatic aberration compensation. Because this lens can be used in…

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    Nikon Plena lens to appeal to cinematographers

    September 26, 2023 /

    Some features are leaking on the internet about the previously mentioned Nikon Plena and the lens apparently is now said not to include Nikon’s defocus image control. Even if the lens doesn’t feature ‘DC’, the Plena’s optical design mitigates polishing rings (aka ‘onion rings’). There’s also a lack of vignetting that typically results in truncated blur disks or “cat’s eyes.” Some effort has also gone into mitigating slight overcorrection of SA usually seen as bright rings at the edges of the blur disks, which is usually achieved via an apodization element, however, the bright rings remain in some of the darker disks. All of the above indicates to me that…

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    Nikon Plena lens teaser debuts on YouTube

    September 24, 2023 /

    UPDATE: Some features are leaking via the rumour sites (most likely from retailers) and the lens apparently is now said not to include Nikon’s defocus image control. Nikon has published a video teaser for a new lens called Plena, which is due to be announced on Wednesday, 27th September. While not much is known about it at this time, the yellow-coloured font is similar to that used by Nikon with the Nikkor Z 58mm F0.95 S Noct and a nod to the Zeiss cine primes. The new Plena lens therefore is almost certainly aimed at the cinematography/filmmaking crowd and targeting the rental houses. While it could feature AF, if it…

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    Sony Alpha 7R IV

    Sony Introduce High-Resolution Alpha 7R IV Camera with World’s First 61.0 MP Back-illuminated Full-frame Image Sensor

    July 16, 2019
    Canon EOS R5 no lens and shutter open revealing the 45 MP CMOS

    Canon EOS R5 and six further lenses to be announced soon

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    Nikon Z8 and Z9 firmware out of sync

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    CFexpress Type B cards: Which to choose for the Canon EOS R5 and Nikon Z8?

    September 23, 2023 /

    CFexpress (Type B) cards are expensive, so choosing the right type is an important decision. As both the Canon EOS R5 and Nikon Z8 have a second SDXC UHS-I/II compatible card slot I suspect many users have simply opted for to use their existing cards. For stills, it’s not too difficult a decision and the faster UHS-II cards (V60 and V90) can also handle the bandwidth required for some of the lower-end video options with the V90-rated cards being the most capable. However, to access the high bit-rate options, including 8K and high-frame video, CFexpress is required. Prices of CFexpress have tumbled in recent months and even the most affordable…

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    Fujifilm announces two Tilt / Shift lenses: Fujinon GF30mm F5.6 T/S and GF110mm F5.6 T/S Macro

    September 14, 2023 /

    This week Fujifilm, became the latest manufacturer to add Tilt/Shift lenses to their medium format system. The introduction of the G30mm F5.6 T/S is good news for architectural photographers and landscape photographers in general. The GF110mm F5.6 T/S Macro is, of course, aimed at studio/tabletop photographers. As for the wider market, I can’t understand why Sigma hasn’t introduced any, or Sony for that matter, although in a discussion with a senior Sony executive some ten years ago now, I was told that “they [Japan] aren’t interested commercially… “. At the time I thought that was shortsighted but let’s hope that position changes. Nevertheless, I applaud Fujifilm for pushing ahead with…

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    Leica M11 Monochrom Review

    September 13, 2023 /

    Why Black & White? Photographing in Black & White or mono or greyscale or whatever you want to call it requires you to think differently than when photographing in colour. With a film camera, you can switch to B&W from colour and vice versa ad infinitum: the operation remains unchanged allowing you to become accustomed to the camera and ‘see’ either in light and shadows or in colour. In that respect, a modern digital colour camera echoes its predecessor, allowing you to choose between B&W and colour at will. However, a dedicated B&W camera like the Leica M11 Monochrom doesn’t; you’re forced to think in terms of light and shadows…

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  • This is a new CFexpress card with a ProGrade sticker on the front. This card, featuring the last type 4.0 spec, has a sustained 2800MB/s write speed.
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    ProGrade Digital announce new CFexpress 4.0 card with 2,800MB/s sustained write speed

    September 5, 2023 /

    Started by former SanDisk and Lexar executives ProGrade Digital is relatively a new and promising company so halo products like this are interesting on several levels (and not just from a marketing perspective). The key takeaway here is the extremely high sustained write speed of 2,800MB/s, which is crucial to know when looking to buy for 8/4K and high-frame-rate (slow-mo) video. However, that all-important key message has been fudged by saying “up to 2800MB/s.” Surely a sustained write speed is a minimum, not a maximum implied by the “up to.” Makes no sense from a marketing perspective. A high sustained write speed is not really important for stills photography, even…

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  • Zeiss 1,5/35 Distagon
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    Zeiss 35mm F1.4 ZM Distagon Lens Review

    August 4, 2023 /

    Intro Although marketed for the maker’s M-mount Zeiss Ikon rangefinder, the range of ZM lenses is rightly popular with Leica M users. All are accessibly priced compared with their Leica equivalents and optical performance is often on a par, if not sometimes regarded as being technically superior. With the Zeiss Ikon camera now retired, this new high-speed 35mm model is aimed squarely at Leica’s core users.  Compared to the latest iteration from Wetzlar, the Zeiss is priced somewhat modestly at around £1680 inc VAT. It’s supplied without a case or hood, but there’s no mistaking the quality. Build Externally the design is reminiscent of previous models complete with click stopped…

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    Leica Summilux-M 50mm F1.4 ASPH Close Focus 2023 model: First impressions

    July 25, 2023 /

    The new Leica Summilux-M 50mm F1.4 ASPH Close Focus 2023 model follows the recent update to the Summilux-M 35mm F1.4 ASPH CF last year and adopts the built-in rangefinder decoupling or “double-cam” feature of the focus ring. The feature enables focusing down to 0.45m from the usual 0.7m – the former is the typical minimum focus of DSLR/mirrorless lenses of this focal length (50mm). The double-cam feature was first introduced on the Leica Summilux 35mm F2.0 APO and was quite stiff on the model I tried. To disengage rangefinder focusing, you push the focus ring through some slight resistance at the minimum focus distance marked at 0.7m in orange-coloured paint…

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