Fuji present: New X-E2 firmware upgrades your EVF to the X-T1 level!

Now listen to us companies. If you want to create a true fellowship around your system just learn from Fuji. Today they announced the new X-E2 firmware (download here). In one strike this is what has been improved:

– Enhanced EVF including the world’s fastest* display lag-time of 0.005 seconds
– Selectable colors for outlines for Focus Peak Highlight
– Added functions that can be assigned to the Fn (Function) button
– Added “Suppressed Flash” option when selecting flash mode
– The phenomenon is fixed that in FILM SIMULATION Bracketing, third picture is recorded as “ASTIA” although the third picture is set as “PRO Neg. Hi”.

Basically X-E2 owners will now have an EVF which matches the X-T1 EVF performance.

And if you wnat the X-E2 well there is a up to $100 off at Amazon US (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here). What else do you need to buy one?

Samyang announces three new Cine Lenses for Mirrorless system cameras!

Samyang announced three new Cine lenses for mirrorless system cameras: The 7,5mm T/3.8 fisheye Cine lens which comes for Micro Four Thirds mount only. The other two, the 10mm and 12mm T/2.2 Cine lenses will be available for all mirrorless systems.

PRESS RELEASE:

Nearly a month after their market release, Samyang 10mm f/2.8 ED AS NCS CS and Samyang 12 mm f/2.0 NCS CS lenses are now available in their equivalent cine versions: Samyang 10mm T3.1 Cine and 12mm T2.2 Cine. Samyang VDSLR cine lenses feature aperture and focus rings with sprocket wheels controlling their work through Follow Focus systems. This allows for noiseless and smooth adjustment of the above parameters during filming.

Samyang 10mm T3.1 Cine and 12mm T2.2 Cine have nanocrystal anti-reflective layer (NCS) that ensures better light transmission, increased resistance to light reflections and higher contrast, which improves optical resolution of the lenses.

Samyang 12 mm in photo and cine versions fills the gap among lenses dedicated for mirrorless cameras with APS-C sensor, large angle of view and high brightness. The lens has been designed for cameras fitted with a high resolution sensor (above 24 mln pixels). Samyang Optics company is renowned among clients for great quality optics offered at affordable prices. And this is also the case with 10mm and 12 lenses which provide technical parameters and optical potential that can easily compete with the best wide-angle prime and zoom lenses available on the market.

And last, but not least, the offer also includes Samyang 7.5mm T3.8 Fish-eye Cine. This is a cine version of a meticulously designed manual fish-eye lens which provides diagonal field of vision equal to 180 degrees. Despite its small size, Samyang 7.5mm T3.8 Cine produces images with splendid parameters and exceptional vividness, and the minimal focusing distance amounts to only 0.09 meters.

Leica T officially announced! Reviews and news roundup post.

Price and preorders: Silver Leica T at Bhphoto or Adorama. Black Leica T at Bhphoto or Adorama.

Hands-on: First Hands-on at Leica Camera Forum (with image samples). Solid metal: Creating the Leica T at Dpreview, Testing Taifun by Slack, Leica T test at Cameras.Reviewed, Test by Ming Thein,

Videos: The Leica T: an Introduction, Dr. Andreas Kaufmann: About the Essence, The new Leica T-System, The Most Boring Ad Ever Made?, Dr. Kaufmann: Precision and Beauty,

Lytro announces the astonishing Illum camera with 30-250mm constant f/2.0 lens!

Well, this is a small revolution for digital photography! Finally Lytro released a real useful Light Fiel camera, the new Illum! It has a much larger 1 inch sensor (the predecessor had a 1/3 inch sensor) and an astonishing 30-250mm f/2.0 constant aperture lens!

You can get all the info and see image samples at https://www.lytro.com/

This might well become the future of photography don’t you think?