Tony&Chelsea Northrup:

The COVID-19 coronavirus has slammed the stock markets around the world and it could do serious damage to camera manufacturers and the photography community as a whole. In this Picture This podcast episode, Tony & Chelsea Northrup research how the Coronavirus is impacting manufacturing capabilities for Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm and other camera manufacturers. They also discuss the possibility of the Olympics being cancelled and how shutdowns in Japan will impact technology advancement.

The team from BHphoto spotted this real life Canon EOS-R5 prototype camera the the WPPI show. And more images can be seen over at Dpreview too.

Canon registered a new camera model (Source: Nokishita). And they also patented a new 13-21mm f/2.8 RF lens (Source: Hi-Lows-Note).

As you can see Canon (just like Fuji) is working hard on new camera and lens releases. The question now is…where are you Sony?

via CanonWatch

Today Panasonic released the new L-mount lens roadmap. Basically they added a few more info on some lenses present on the previous roadmap:

• 24mm f/1.8
• 50mm f/1.8
• 85mm f/1.8
• new fast wide angle zoom (compatible for astro photography)
• new standard zoom
• telephoto zoom

They removed the 100mm f/2.8 macro from the roadmap and Panasonic said this lens is “under consideration”. Panasonic also says the new f/1.8 primes have very high quality, impressive bokeh and are compact.

Preorder at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.

Full coverage at Fujirumors.

Preorders: Sony 20mm f/1.8 FE G at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama. FocusCamera. Parkcameras UK.

I hear your crying folks! No news about the A7sII successor or at leats the A7IV. I know this is upsetting. Still, once you get over the disappointment you can enjoy the newly announce 20mm f/1.8 FE G lens. This promises to be quite a hotseller. It’s basically an affordable version of the excellent 24mm GM lens. I know, it’s 4mm wider but the 20mm is a lot cheaper.

Check out this Ted Forbes review to realize how good this lens is: