Leica releases two more SL mirrorless lenses (75 f/2 and 90 f/2), announce a new SL prime (50mm f/2)


Today Leica officially released two more of their SL mirrorless lenses (APO Summicron-SL 75mm f/2 ASPH and APO Summicron-SL 90mm f/2 ASPH) and announced one new SL lens (Leica APO Summicron-SL 50mm f/2).

Here is the full list of Leica SL lenses (5 primes and 3 zooms):

  • Leica Summicron-SL 35mm f/2 ASPH (coming in late 2018)
  • Leica APO-Summicron-SL 50mm f/2 ASPH (coming in late 2018)
  • Leica APO-Summicron-SL 75mm f/2 ASPH (available for pre-order)
  • Leica APO-Summicron-SL 90mm f/2 ASPH (available for pre-order)
  • Leica Summilux-SL 50mm f/1.4 ASPH (in stock now)
  • Leica Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-90mm f/2.8-4 ASPH (in stock now)
  • Leica APO-Vario-Elmarit-SL 90-280mm f/2.8-4 (in stock now)
  • Leica Super-Vario-Elmar-SL 16-35mm f/3.5-4.5 ASPH (coming in April 2018)

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The story behind the new Kodak cryptocurrency is getting weirder by the day – is it a scam?


The recent announcement from Kodak about a new blockchain initiative and cryptocurrency raised many questions and some legit concerns. I am not an expert on cryptocurrency, but you can take a look at some quotes gathered online to see how weird the whole story behind the new Kodak cryptocurrency is:

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Interview with Panasonic on their latest cameras


Here is the recap of a recent Cinema 5D interview with Yosuke Yamane-san from Panasonic:

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What else is new?


This week’s recap from our blogs:

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The 2018 CES is now over

We had only a few photo-gear related announcement at the 2018 CES (Nikon, Panasonic, Sony and Samyang). The show is now officially over - here are a few pictures courtesy of randorn.com:

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Reminder: a new Fujinon XC 15-45mm f/3.5-5.6 lens is coming soon


In case you have missed our posts from over a month ago, Fujifilm will soon introduce a new Fujinon XC 15-45mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. There is a Fuji announcement coming in February before the CP+ show (mid-February most likely) but I am not sure yet if this lens will be one of the products that will be introduced. Stay tuned for updates.

Next is some additional information on what is coming next from Fuji:

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Additional Panasonic GH5s coverage (why IBIS was removed, Sony A7SII high ISO comparison and more)


Since I broke the news about the Panasonic GH5s a few months ago I never realized that all the camera specifications I received from sources did not mention IBIS anywhere. I assumed that this was just given and there was no need to include it. When the GH5s was announced I was surprised to find out that the latest MFT camera doesn’t have IBIS - one of the most marketed feature of mirrorless cameras in the past 10 years. After our initial discussion here on the blog, I did some more Googling and found that IBIS indeed could be a problem for filmmakers (which is what the GH5 is mainly used for) - the sensor can vibrate even with IBIS turned off when the camera is attached to a car or when close to a subwoofer for example. Here is what Dpreview has to say:

The camera's sensor-based stabilization is gone, which may on the surface sound like an odd decision, but makes a lot of sense for pro video shooters who are often working with their own stabilized rigs and gimbals. The floating sensor design used by the GH5's stabilization system can interact with gimbals even when it's turned off, so removing it entirely solves the problem.

We've seen a degree of scepticism about Panasonic's reasoning but, if you assume there's some heat dissipation benefit for bonding the sensor to a solid object and you recognize that the camera is already shooting out to the edges of the Micro Four Thirds image circle, there may be no way of doing what the GH5S does and providing stabilization.

Here is some video footage showing the difference between the GH5 camera with IBIS turned off and the new GH5s:

Imaging Resource did an ISO comparison between the Panasonic GH5s ($2,500) and Sony A7SII ($2,700) cameras:

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What else was announced at 2018 CES?


The 2018 CES has been pretty weak on actual camera and lens announcements - in addition to the new Sony lens and Panasonic GH5s camera, we got one new super tele-photo lens from Nikon and that's about it. Here are some additional interesting photography related products announced at CES this year:

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