Sigma Poland has published a new website called Sigma Foto Revolution (rewolucja.sigma-foto.pl) that has a running countdown and a slogan that translates to "Destroy the system with Sigma, release is coming" or something like "Overthrow the system with Sigma, there is liberation". The use of the word "system" is very interesting. On several occasions in the past, Sigma has officially said that they will not pursue a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera (see this and this posts).
Adobe published on their blog that a new version of Lightroom 5 will be released next week and it will contain fixes for "hot issues" (a list of the top 5 hot issues in LR5 can be found here).
The Korean Radio Research Agency has a new registration for a Fujifilm X-A1 camera. The X-A1 will be the new entry level camera from Fuji (no X-Trans sensor inside) and is expected to be announced at the end of August.
Via Digicame-info
The German magazine fotomagazin.de leaked the first pictures of the upcoming Panasonic GX7 MFT camera. Here are the detailed specifications:
Lomography, in cooperation with Zenit, started a kickstarter project on a Petzval portrait lens for Nikon and Canon DSLR cameras (as many of you guessed correctly in this post). The lens is currently in production, the first prototypes are expected in the next month or two. For more information, visit this page.
Fujifilm issued a statement that the last X-Pro1 firmware update was faulty. It seems that the problem is serious since they ask customers to contact Fuji support if the firmware was already installed:
B&H is currently selling two SanDisk 16GB SDHC Extreme class 10 UHS-I memory card for $47.50. Note that those cards are new versions with improved read/write speed: maximum read speed is 80MB/s and maximum write speed is 60MB/s.
Few other deals:
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