A full video overview of the “boring” NAB show

Yi Halo 360 camera

This year NAB show made the impossible possible. It was even more boring the last years show :)

Anyway, let’s have a look of some minor (and still interesting) stuff:

YI 4K+ 4K 60fps camera (Personal View)
Power Vision Submarine and Egg Drones, NAB 2017 (Personal View).
SLR Magic Anamorphic Lens Rig, NAB 2017 (Personal View).
Lanparte Gimbal for 360 cameras, NAB 2017 (Personal View).
Nick Driftwood’s 12k 360 Rig using 6x Lumix GX80 cameras (Photogearnews)
Lanparte monitor QR and arm Personal View
NAB 2017 Highlights (ALC).

Canon revises their forecast (good and bad news)

Canon revised their forecats and there is good and bad news:

  1. in Q1 profit was higher than expected (270 billion Yen instead of 255 billion Yen)
  2. But the company’s outlook on 2017 camera unit sales are gloomier, with ILC unit sales dropping 7% and compacts down 13%, working out to -9% overall.

About time for Canon to think how cool it would be if they would make a FF mirrorless system camera like the one designed by David Riesenberg? :)

via Dpreview.

Zhongy shows the new Speedmaster 65mm f/1.4 and Speedmaster 85mm f/1.2 For the Fuji GFX G-mount system!

SPEEDMASTER65mmF1.4

What a surprise! The Chinese manufacturer Zhongy (also known as Mitakon) did announce the development of two new G-mount manual focusing lenses:

Speedmaster 65mm F1.4 (GFX equivalent of 50mm f/1.1) with 77mm filter diameter
Speedmaster 85mm F1.2 (GFX equivalent of 67mm f/1.0) with 82mm filter diameter. 1050g weights and 120mm length

Both lenses will ship by end of this year for an undisclosed price. While those are manual focusing lenses only it’s certainly great news to see fast primes coming for the GFX! It has been one of the weak points of the system so far as even the newly announced 110mm f/2.0 only goes down to f/1.6 in FF equivalent terms. But how is the image quality? Well check the images below. Both were exhibited in China’s camera show “2017 CHINA P & E”:

 

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[SPEEDMASTER 85mm F1.2]

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[? ? in SPEEDMASTER 65mm F1.4]

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Images via http://stkb.co.jp/info/?p=5485

Fuji announces the new Instax Square SQ10. And they are going to sell a ton of these!

Fuji announced the new Instax Square which you can preorder at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama. And boys..I am sure they are going to make plenty of $$$ on these!

What’s different compared to other Instax cameras is that it has the classic old Polaroid format. And the picture is captured digitally by a 4MP camera. So you can view and edit the image before you print it. This is how it works: