→ The Sony Alpha NEX-7 with 18-55mm lens is now $750 off.
→ The Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 lens was originally designed for NASA:
One of the largest aperture lenses in the history of photography: the ZEISS Planar 0.7/50. It was originally designed for NASA. In order to take pictures of the “dark” side of the moon, they needed an extremely light sensitive and fast lens. Back in 1966, we created only ten such lenses, six of which went to NASA, one we kept for ourselves. And the other three, you wonder? Exceptional director Stanley Kubrick used them in the 1970s to shoot the famous scene in Barry Lyndon that was only lit by candlelight.
→ New backpacks from ThinkTankPhoto: Trifecta 10 DSLR and Trifecta 8 Mirrorless.
→ Sony announced new firmware update v2.0 for the a7, a7R, a7S and a6000 cameras and for some reason they keep ignoring the RX1 that basically never got a firmware update since it was announced. The new firmware update delivers 30% increase in start-up speed and enables high bit-rate movie shooting at 50p/25p(PAL mode), 60p/30p/24p(NTSC mode) in XAVC S[i]
→ Olympus also announced firmware updates for the E-M1 and E-M5II cameras with a new underwater picture mode and “Live View Boost 2” function.
→ There is a new TTR-SB Seawolf submarine specially designed for GoPro cameras.
