The new Z9 is finally available for preorder at BHphoto and Adorama.

Yesterdays double Panasonic and OM Digital announcement was quite a let down. Panasonic only launched a special 20th anniversary Lumix page and repeated that the “GH6 is in development”. And OM Digital announced it would no more use the “Olympus” brand name.

The only small exciting news is that OM Digital posted some teaser images of their new OM flagship camera that they said will have new computational power:

Both, this new OM camera and the GH6 will arrive in early 2022 only.

If this ever will become a real product I swear I will run naked on the street :)

Nikon patented a 35-50mm f/1.2 and 50-70mm f/1.2 lens! I guess they are only doing this for fun, just to show off what could be technically possible but still financially crazy. Below you can find the schematics and exact specs mentioned by the Japanese patent:

Focal length: 35.00-51.60
F value: 1.23
Angle of view: 72.14-46.70
Image height: 21.70
Overall length: 210.04-168.19
Back focus: 17.77-25.82

Focal length: 51.60-70.00
F value: 1.23
Angle of view: 48.78-34.53
Image height: 21.70
Overall length: 210.03-169.53
Back focus: 18.93-26.72

via Asobinet

Starting from today you can preorder the new 60mm T2.9 1.33X Anamorphic lens with 1.35X Anamorphic Adapter on Kickstarter (Click here). Here is the review from Matti Sulanto: