After Yongnuo updated their YN 50mm f/1.8 II lens, they now also have a new version of their YN 50mm f/1.4 lens. The available mounts are not yet announced, but Yongnuo usually releases a Canon version followed by the Nikon version a few months later.
Yongnuo products are sold at B&H and Amazon. The Yongnuo YN 50mm f/1.4 II lens is currently listed at Amazon for $199:
Canon Japan officially announced that the Canon EOS-1v is now discontinued. This was Canon’s last film camera. The EOS-1v will be available for sale at retailers until their inventory is gone.
Nikon still lists their F6 film camera on their website but all three major US stores (B&H, Adorama, Amazon) are currently out of stock. I will not be surprised if the F6 will also be discontinued soon.
Hasselblad has a new H6D-400C MS medium format camera (MS stands for Multi-Shot) and today they released a few 400MP sample photos:
The RAW file is 755MB while the JPG pictures are sized around 150-200MB (23200 × 17400):
Multi-Shot explanation (based on a 100MP sensor):
“Multi-Shot technology involves moving the sensor very accurately by 1 or 1⁄2 a pixel at a time with a precision piezo actuator, enabling the camera to capture more colour information and data than in a single-shot capture. The captured images are then merged in Phocus, Hasselblad’s dedicated desktop software solution, to produce a single finished file with staggering amounts of detail and colour information. In traditional single-shot imaging, each pixel receives one level of colour information (Red, Green, or Blue) based on the Bayer Pattern Filter. While this can produce high quality results, Multi-Shot capture adds a new dimension of image detail and colour possibilities.”
The Hasselblad H6D-400C MS camera is priced at $47,995.
Press release:
After the initial delay, there are some new updates on the Yashica digiFilm camera project (see on Kickstarter) – new drawings were published online with the finalized designed of the Yashica digiFilm camera Y35:
Meyer Optik has a new Nocturnus 50mm f/0.95 lens for DSLR cameras. The lens will be available for Canon, Nikon, M42 and Pentax-K mounts and will come in a matte black or silver finish. Here are the technical specifications:
Leica SL full frame mirrorless mount
Next month (June) Leica Camera is rumored to announce a new Leica C-M mirrorless full frame camera. Here are the details from LeicaRumors:
A quick update to my earlier post: the new Fujifilm X100F brown camera has already been officially announced in South Korea:
Update – here is the first unboxing video:
Today Sony announced a new ECX339A OLED microdisplay featuring UXGA (1600 x 1200 resolution) – the highest in its class for a 0.5″ EVF. This EVF also achieves the world’s smallest pixel pitch of 6.3μm (resolution 1.6x higher than the previous model). When paired with Sony’s original driving system, a frame rate up to 240 fps is supported (double that of the previous model).
This is a good news since EVF has been one of the week aspects of mirrorless cameras (at least for me). The new EVF promises to be even better than the one in the $6k Leica SL (4.4 million dots and 1,470,000 pixels) which is the best EVF I have ever seen in a mirrorless camera.
Here are the technical specifcations:
Fujifilm Philippines confirmed the previously rumored Fujifilm X100F Brown camera in a Facebook post (price: ₱ 72,990.00 or around $1,388, the regular X100F is currently priced at $1,199 in the US):
