Canon already has a teaser on Chinese social media for an upcoming new product announcement that will take place on November 2nd. Canon is rumored to announce several products:
Additional information on the new products can be found here:
Yongnuo is rumored to announce a new YN 35mm f/2 Z DF DSM mirrorless lens for Nikon Z-mount on October 31. Here is what we know so far:
The HEIPI tripod (the lightest and most compact 3-in-1 travel tripod) raised almost half a million dollars on Kickstarter.
The Maven color-coded magnetic filters raised almost 300k on Kickstarter (campaign ending soon).
→ Olympus CEO Yasuo Takeuchi on why Olympus sold off its decades-old camera and microscope business to focus on medical tech: “We had to move before it became too late” (Fortune magazine).
→ Another quote from a recent interview with OM Digital Solutions management team: “So our middle- and higher-end products, their situation is better than before under Olympus. So that means our business is generally improving, and our current business is going smoothly. I obviously can’t share too many details, but our current business seems to be good, especially thanks to the OM-1.” (Imaging Resource).
In the latest financial reports for the third quarter of 2022, Canon reported strong sales and double-digit growth in unit sales for the Canon EOS R7 and Canon EOS R10 cameras that resulted in a significant increase in overall revenue:
The Fujifilm Summit Tokyo 2022 will take place next week and we can expect the official announcement of the Fujifilm X-T5 camera. The new X-T5 should be very similar to the Fujifilm X-H2 but without the PSAM dial and it might come without some of the video features while adding some photography-centric ones. Here are the rumored specifications:
The previously rumored TTArtisan AF 27mm f/2.8 XF lens (41mm equivalent) for Fuji X-mount is now officially announced and available for pre-order for $149 at:
The new 27mm f/2.8 XF lens is the first TTArtisan autofocus lens for Fuji X-mount. Here are the main features and additional information:
ON1 announced their new 2023 Professional Plugins Bundle (new versions of ON1 Effects, NoNoise AI, Resize AI, Portrait AI, and HDR).
The ON1 Professional Plugins focus on speeding up and enhancing photographer workflows with features and technologies that provide faster and better results than what’s available in existing workflows. ON1’s latest editing technologies (found in ON1 Photo RAW) are also fully integrated into the plugins. Each of the plugins are tightly integrated with the host applications Adobe Lightroom Classic, Adobe Photoshop, Capture One, Affinity Photo, and Apple Photos. This integration allows for batch processing, maintaining a non-destructive workflow, and more from within the plugins.
“The new AI-based technologies we recently introduced in the new ON1 Photo RAW 2023 are also now integrated in each of our 2023 plugins. Features like Super Select AI and Mask AI are now available in ON1 Effects, which is by far the best plugin to use for taking your photo from great to wow! These technologies make it so easy to style your photos and will enhance almost any workflow regardless of the host application a photographer is using,” says Craig Keudell, President and CEO of ON1.
Screenshots:
A few days ago ON1 also released Photo RAW 2023 version 17.0.1.12965:
2023 ON1 professional plugins bundle press release:
