There is a new Pinhole lens you can buy through Kickstarter. The lens is nice and cute but I am still baffled by the fact that the makers raised 8 times the requested target of 20.000 Canadian Dollars.
Can you really get rich by making Pinhole lenses? :)
CIPA released the April data and the trend is confirmed: The camera market is doing better than the previous year. While the compact camera market is on par with the previous year the system camera market is doing much better than 2016.
And if you look into the details of the data you can spot how the mirrorless market seems to be the real reason for the growth! DSLR shipment went down 10% while mirrorless shipments were nearly twice as much compared to April 2016!!!
Five new products got announced today:
Nikon announced the Coolpix W300 (info at Dpreview).
Nikon announced the 28mm f/1.4 lens (specs at Amazon)
Nikon announced the 8-15mm lens (specs at Amazon)
Nikon announced the 10-20mm lens (specs at Amazon)
Canon announced the new C200 EF mount camcorder (info at Cinema5D).
There is still one more Sony announcement coming this week!
Kevin Raber interviewed Michael Hejtmanek from Hasselblad. Some of the discussed insights:
Doesn’t sound like the DJI acquisition will change a lot in the companies structure and philosophy.
The Japanese news site Sankeibiz.jp reports that Nikon could risk a sales ban of their cameras on the USA if the patent infringement gets certified by the US authority. As you know there is an ongoing “patent war” between Nikon and Zeiss (Source: Dpreview).
If the ban is really going to happen it will be a devastating news for Nikon finance…which is already suffering because of the declining camera market.
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via Digicameinfo
