
Sony issued a service notice about their new FE 35mm f/1.4 GM SEL35F14GM lens (pre-orders are now open at Adorama and B&H) – apparently, some lenses had issues with the ornament plate (this could explain the recent delay):

Cosina has new patents for 25mm f/2, 75mm f/1.8, 135mm f/2, and 135mm f/1.2 lenses: Cosina’s patent application was published on March 18, 2021. There are some examples such as “APO-LANTHAR 50mm F2”, but some of them are interesting such as “135mm F2” and “135mm F1.2”. Voigtlander recently announced several new APO-LANTHAR lenses for Leica […]

A quick update on my last blog post about the upcoming new Sony G lenses – my expectations of f/2.8 were “almost” accurate. The three new lenses that will be announced next week are (via Nokishita): Sony FE 50mm f/2.5 G Sony FE 40mm f/2.5 G Sony FE 24mm f/2.8 G

The latest Canon rumors: Canon EOS R5c (cinema version of the current EOS R5) confirmed to be announced later this year New Canon Cinema lenses are also coming in 2021, including the first RF mount CINE lenses Firmware updates for the Canon EOS R5, EOS R6 and EOS-1D X Mark III to be released with […]

Starting April 2021, Capture One will support the Lossless Compression format for the new Sony Alpha 1 camera. They also added a unique camera profile tailored to the Sony Alpha 1: the “ProStandard Profile” where “colors and details look more amazing than ever“. All other Capture One ProStandard profiles were updated as well – see the […]

Here are the first leaked pictures of the upcoming Sigma fp L mirrorless camera with L-mount with an interesting external EVF-11 design (the official announcement t is on March 23): Update: the price of the Sigma fp L camera will be $2,499, the fp L EVF kit will be $2,999, and the EVF-11 will be […]

Sony will announce three new compact G lenses according to Nokishita: Sony FE 24mm Sony FE 40mm Sony FE 50mm The apertures of the new lenses were not provided, but since the lenses were labeled as “compact”, I expect them all to be f/2.8.

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