Monthly Archives: April 2016

Hasselblad to enter prosumer market

Hasselblad already sold out their last Lunar camera (still available in the US) and now “the Swedish medium-format giant still has plans to open up its professional dominated market to a wider audience”. Hasselblad’s CEO also said that the company’s next move will be “from professional to the prosumer. That’s the arena we see as a […]

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Meyer Optik Goerlitz coming up with a new “legend” lens

Some quotes from Meyer-Optik-Goerlitz describing their upcoming lens (see teasers above):

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Two Hasselblad H6D medium format cameras announced (H6D-50c, H6D-100c with 4k video)

The rumored Hasselblad H6D medium format camera I already reported on is now officially announced. Two different models were indeed introduced: Hasselblad H6D-50c 50MP 43.8 x 32.9mm CMOS Sensor 16-Bit Color, 14-Stop Dynamic Range Hasselblad Natural Color Solution Full HD 1080p RAW Video at 30 fps ISO 100-6400, Shooting Up to 2.3 fps Shutter Speeds: […]

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Tamron to introduce two more lenses in 2016

In addition to the 85mm f/1.8 and 90mm f/2.8 (already announced), Tamron is expected to announce two more lenses in 2016: wide angle zoom ultra tele zoom (probably a new xxx-600 lens or something similar with the new SP treatment) My sources confirmed that the  picture of the Tamron SP 135mm f/1.8 VC Di lens I […]

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Samsung NX1 listed as discontinued

Update: the Samsung NX1 is back in stock at B&H. It has been a slow dead: the Samsung NX1 camera is finally listed as discontinued at B&H (both the kit and body only listings). We never saw any significant price drops or discounts on the NX1. Adorama and Amazon still have the NX1 in stock for almost full […]

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The semi-annual Sony Alpha lens sale is now on

The semi-annual Sony Alpha lens sale started today. Here is the list of all discounted lenses:

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New Lomography Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64 Art lens

Lomography has a new Kickstarter project for a Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64 Art lens for Canon EF and Nikon F mounts: Lens technical information:

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Irix 15mm f/2.4 lens EU pricing announced

The EU price of the new Irix 15mm f/2.4 lens is now officially announced: 695 EUR for Irix Blackstone 475 EUR for Irix Firefly The company still doesn’t have US distributors, but expect the US pricing to be similar. Press release:

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