The Yashica DigiFilm Y35 is now on Indiegogo
This camera collected over one million dollar on Kickstarter. And starting from today you can found it through Indiegogo. What a crazy success story this is!
Mirrorless Photojournalism and Sports with Rob Galbraith
TCSTV posted this video with Rob Galbraith:
With the Sony A9, Panasonic G9 Fuji X-T2, we’re seeing mirrorless camera makers start to target the last DSLR stronghold, sports and photojournalism. This week Rob Galbraith is joining us to discuss how much progress has been made, and what mirrorless cameras still need to tackle to completely dominate the industry.
Leica officially announces the new CL camera and 18mm lens
Leica finally announced the new CL camera and the 18mm pancake lens:
Preorders:
Leica CL at BHphoto.
Leica 18mm lens at BHphoto.
Reviews and hands-on:
Review by Jonathan Slack. CL camera at CameraJabber. ThePhoBlographer. ePhotozine. Leica CL vs TL2 at CameraJabber. Leica CL test in German at L-Camera-Forum.
18mm lens at CameraJabber. ePhotozine.
Discussions:
New Leica CL Facebook group.
Press text:
CL camera at Leica. Dpreview.
18mm lens at Leica.
The next Fuji GFX-100 and Hasselblad X2D will have 100 MP sensor, have 6fps and record 4K video
Sony officially listed the three new medium format sensor specs. These sensors will be available from 2018. It’s certain the future Fuji GFX-100 and the Hasselblad X2D will use the IMx461 100MP sensor. This one can record 4K video at 30fps, take stills at 6fps 14bit and even record 8K at 18fps.
The IMX211 and IMX411 will be used by the future Phase One $50,00 digital backs.
The Mitakon Speedmaster 135mm f/1.4 lens now available in Fuji G and Leica T mount too
Zyoptics officially announced today that their super fast 135mm f/1.4 lens will be available from now on for seven mounts: Canon EF / Nikon F / Pentax K / Sony E / Sony A / Fujifilm G / Leica T.
The Zyoptics lenses are all sold under the brand name Mitakon at Amazon, Amazon DE and Amazon UK.
September CIPA camera shipment report: System camera shipment doing worse than expected
What do you want to read first…the good or bad news? Let’s start with the bad news:
1) If you click on the chart above you will notice that system camera shipments in September were lower compared to last year. Which is quite a bummer if you consider that last year we had the Kumamoto disaster.
2) The good news is that fixed lens camera sales are still strong and makes up for the bad system camera performance. The total camera shipment is therefore still higher than 2016
