A couple of years ago there was that big 3D hype. Panasonic even launched a [shoplink 302598 ebay]special 12,5mm lens for Micro Four Thirds system.[/shoplink] But the hype got killed by the fact that the consumer didn’t care about these kind of products.

But now everything is changing! Micronews reports that for the Pokemon GO game “3D cameras would make a better job at catching the small monsters.”. As a consequence “the share of Lenovo did take a good 10% upward due to this rumor. With the recent release of Phab 2 Pro, Lenovo integrated a PMD made 3D camera making it the first Google Tango enabled phablet.”

The day may come soon where camera manufacturers will make a special Pokemon GO camera????

via Image Sensor World.

Samyang announced the new Full Frame 20mm f/1.8 lens. it will be available for all mounts including Sony E, Fuji X, MFT and even for the “dead” Samsung NX system. There is also a Cine version of the lens with t/1.9 aperture. The price of the non Cine lens is 549€ while the Cine versions cost a bit more 599€.

This is the image of the Cine lens version:

Two mirrorless cameras got marked as discontinued by BH: The Fuji X-A2 and the Panasonic GH3. There will be certainly a new GH5 camera (probably some time after Photokina). But it’s unclear if Fuji will still keep the “A” line still alive…