Black Friday deal alert: 85% off Macphun Creative Kit + extras

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For Black Friday Macphun offers 85% off their Creative Kit 2016 – plus some extra bonuses: over $600 worth of software for $89.99. Here is what you will get:

  • Creative Kit 2016 – our latest and greatest bundle of 6 incredible photo apps for Mac photographers, perfect for correcting and enhancing all kinds of images ($384 if purchased separately)
  • “Shoot to Share” – over 3 hours of professional training, including all of the RAW files (value: $100)
  • Aurora HDR Gift Card – worth $10 on the purchase of our new Aurora HDR software, co-developed with Trey Ratcliff (value: $10)
  • ViewBug Premium Membership – the world’s best contest platform to show off your photos and win prizes (value: $84)
  • Watermark Plus – complete all-in-one app for making Watermarks for your photos; includes batch processing (value: $30)
  • Picture Collage Maker – app that helps create eye-catching photo collages (value: $30)
  • VeprIT Resize Sense – batch processing app for resizing, cropping, renaming images and more (value: $20)
  • Presets & Textures Pack – to use with Tonality CK and Intensify CK (value: $30)

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This deal is valid from November 21st till December 1st. Additional information is available here.

More Black Friday deals can be found here.

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What else is new?

Rollei Retro 80s film Rollei Retro 400s film Rollei Superpan 200 film
→ New Rollei film available for sale in Japan: Superpan 200, Retro 80s and Retro 400s.

Macphun Aurora HDR
→ The new Aurora HDR software developed by Macphun and Trey Ratcliff is now available for download.

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Canon commemorates production of 80 millionth EOS-series interchangeable-lens camera.

Metz Mecablitz 44 AF-2 flash
→ New Metz Mecablitz 44 AF-2 flash announced (replacement for the current AF-1 model).

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Canon is suing gray market camera sellers

Canon is suing gray market camera sellers
Ebay sellers like Get It Digital are known to have some of the lowest prices for Nikon and Canon gray market cameras and lenses. It seems that Canon USA is not happy with that and have filed lawsuits against several retailers to stop selling gray market gear in the US. Photographybay has a detailed report on those lawsuits:

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Alien Skin Exposure X: a new nondestructive editing solution

Alien Skin Exposure X nondestructive editing solution
Few weeks ago Alien Skin announced a new non-destructive editing software called Exposure X that will not be using a catalog file. The official announcement will be by the end of the year.

Additional information:

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Some Zeiss Loxia/Batis lens rumors

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Some Zeiss Loxia/Batis lens rumors:

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New Olympus OM-D E-M1 and E-M5 II firmware updates to be released next week

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Next week Olympus will release new firmware updates for the OM-D E-M1 und E-M5 Mark II cameras with the following improvements:

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Another nail in the coffin: Samsung will stop selling cameras in the Netherlands

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After Germany, Samsung will now also stop selling cameras in the Netherlands:

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Sigma announces Black Friday deals

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Black-Friday-photography-deals
Sigma officially announced their 2015 Black Friday deals – up to $300 off selected lenses starting today, November 20 through Cyber Monday, November 30:

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Leica to announce new waterproof and shockproof camera (Leica X-U Typ 113)

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This is the first picture of the upcoming Leica X-U Typ 113 waterproof and shockproof camera. Here are the detailed specifications:

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New Sony a7 II and a7S II firmware updates released

Two new firmware updates from Sony:

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→ Sony released firmware update for the a7S II camera to fix the sunspots issue (video examples of the issue can be seen here and here).

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→ Sony released uncompressed 14-bit RAW firmware update 2.0 for the a7 II camera (see full press release).

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