Cine Guys should take out their credit card to be ready to spend a LOT of money on these new Leica Cine lenses. They are designed to cover large image circle that covers sensors up to the ARRI ALEXA 65, but can be used to create equally stunning images on VistaVision and Super 35 sensors and film stocks as well.

Those are PL mount lenses and price and shipment date has yet to be unveiled. You can download the brochures here:

• English Brochure Download

• Chinese Brochure Download

• French Brochure Download

• Japanese Brochure Download

via cw-sonderoptic.com/leica-thalia/

On His Blog Ming Thein just wrote that “I’ve been appointed the new Chief of Strategy for Hasselblad“. So a real photographer and well-known blogger is now going to decide the company strategy. This will be interesting! Ming writes:

My role is a very broad-based one: ostensibly, it’s about ensuring the correct customer experience that’s in line with the brand and the kind of expectations one has when spending several orders of magnitude on anything past ‘sufficient’. Where can we innovate with product offerings, and how do we create emotional design that’s both functional and just downright beautiful? Yes: this means I will in my new role have some influence over the product roadmap, and no, I obviously can’t say what’s coming up or comment on rumors. But sufficient to say that we will have something very, very interesting coming later this year.

I wish Ming Thein and Hasselblad Good Luck!

Last week Sony interview at Imaging Resources lead to think that Sony would not sell their best sensors to Nikon, Fuji, Olympus, Panasonic and other companies. In an updated statement the editor from Imaging Resource stressed to say that this is a misinterpretation and that:

If Sony were to somehow dial back specs in the sensors they offer competing camera manufacturers, other sensor makers would rapidly step in to fill that gap.

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On Github you can find a free open source plugin for Lightroom (on Mac) that shows which focus point was active when the picture was taken. It currently works on MAC only and supports those cameras:

• Fuji cameras
  • all recent X bodies (X-T2, X-T1, X-T10, X-Pro2, X-Pro1, X-A3, X-A2, X-A1, X-A10, X-E2S, X-E2, X-E1, X100T, X30, X70, etc)
• Olympus cameras
  • (Should work on recent E-* bodies)
• Panasonic cameras

Currently, 5 types of AF-points will be displayed :

• The AF-Point is selected and in focus
• The AF-Point is selected
• The AF-Point is in focus
• The AF-Point is inactive
• A face was detected by the camera at this position