Category Archives: Other

If you have tried to contact me in the past few weeks, I may have not received your message

I just realized that since I moved to a new secure (https) server on April 11th, I stopped receiving tips and emails sent from the contact form on the blog. The problem is now resolved, so please re-send your messages if possible. Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience.

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Latest CIPA report: small jump in interchangeable lens camera shipments in April

CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association in Japan) published their April report where we see a jump in the total shipment of interchangeable lens digital cameras compared to last year (orange: 2017, black: 2016, blue: 2015, click for larger view).

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Google abandons the popular Nik Collection

Google updated the Nik Collection website with a message indicating that they will not longer support the popular free photo editing software past Adobe Photoshop CC2015: Update: there is now change.org petition “Save the Nik Collection”.

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From 2018 Photokina will start taking place annually

Starting from 2018, the biggest photography show Photokina will start taking place annually:

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What else is new?

This week’s recap from the rumors and addicts blogs:

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Profoto B1X just announced

Profoto just announced their new B1X off camera flash (additional information is available here). The Profoto B1X is currently in stock (free shipping). Additionally, all B1X orders are automatically entered in a $500 gift card giveaway from Adorama: Profoto B1X 500 AirTTL TO-Go monolight kit: $2095 Profoto B1X 500 AirTTL location kit $4148 Profoto TTL-S Air remote […]

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The latest CIPA report: camera shipments are up this year

CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association in Japan) published their latest report with data from March 2017: in general, the numbers for the first three months of 2017 are better than 2015. For the Interchangeable Lens Digital Still Cameras category, the numbers are even better than 2016 (orange: 2017, black: 2016, blue: 2015 click for larger view):

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The Light L16 camera update (actually 16 cameras in one)

The Light L16 project started back in 2015. The L16 camera consists of 16 multi-aperture computational cameras in one small compact package. The preliminary specifications can be found here. Here is the final design of the camera that is expected to start shipping to existing pre-orders in July (the camera will become available for purchase again in late-2017):

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New server and HTTPS for PhotoRumors

In the past week I have been busy upgrading PhotoRumors to a new server at HostDuplex. The old server could no longer handle the increased traffic. You also probably already noticed that PhotoRumors is now a “secure” website (HTTPS) which is the industry’s standard. A lot of other changes were also introduced on the back end […]

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STC Optics announced the rumored 6-stop ND clip filter

A few days ago I reported that STC Optics will introduce a new in-body ND filter. The STC ND64 IR-Cut clip filter is now officially announced. The price is $80.56, shipping will start in mid-April. Additional information:

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