The brand new Sony A7s can now be preorders in Australia for 3499 AUSD (via DL). With current conversion this is around $3200 US dollars or 2350 Euro. A  competitive price (if correct).

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?

Double firmware release today:

Fuji released the X100S firmware 1.20 / X100 firmware 2.10 to add support the new TCL-X100 converter.

Panasonic improved the movie quality performance of the Nocticron lens (firmware here).

Well, the most popular mirrorless camera isn’t an OMD, a Fuji or Sony A7r. It’s the GoPro that is ALWAYS on top of the Amazon Ranking (Click here to see the list). And as you probably have heard a new 4K GoPRO is coming soon. But I guess most of us “normal” will not care as long as you can do such creative GoPRo videos like the one you see on top.

Hilarious!

This is a new lens patent describing a new EOS-M 22-46mm f/3.5-5.6 lens.

• Patent Publication No. 2014-63025
  • Publication date 2014.4.10
  • Filing date 2012.9.21
• Example 7
  • Zoom ratio 2.09
  • Focal length f = 22.10-34.22-45.19mm
  • Fno. 3.60-4.59-5.60
  • Half angle ? = 31.72-21.76-16.48 °
  • Image height 13.66mm
  • 65.76-62.07-64.72mm lens length
  • BF 28.16-36.88-45.09mm

Found via CanonWatch.