Photography Information: Two Monochrome Cameras, Canon 100-300mm f/2.8 Rumor

The most important information final week, not less than for us at Photography Life, was the launch of our new discussion board. We’ve been lacking this function for some time, and it took a while to get it up and working. However now it’s lastly on-line and the discussions are in full swing. It additionally lastly opens up the potential for sharing your pictures with us. It’s nice that we are able to enrich one another on this manner. By the way in which, we have now different fascinating issues cooking, so keep tuned for extra information from our staff.

Current Bulletins

• Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome: It incorporates a 26 megapixel APS-C camera sensor with out an antialiasing filter – and with out shade filters! It’s a devoted black-and-white camera with spectacular picture high quality and sensor sensitivity (the bottom ISO is 200). As well as, the outside design displays the camera’s monochrome idea with white backlighting and black-and-white menu screens. Worth $2,200.
• Leica M11 Monochrom: It’s one other black and white camera! This one has a 60 megapixel full-frame BSI CMOS sensor that’s freed from a shade filter array for sharper monochrome photos, and a boosted base ISO of 125. The camera’s inside reminiscence has been elevated from 64GB to 256GB. Accompanying the camera is the refreshed Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 ASPH lens, obtainable in black or silver. Pre-order for $9,195.
• DxO Modules for New Cameras and Lenses: New help for latest cameras and lenses all through the DxO suite. The brand new cameras are the Canon EOS R8 and EOS R50. The brand new lenses are the Nikon Z 26mm f/2.8, Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3, Sony FE 20-70mm f/4 G, Canon RF 24-50mm f/4.5-6.3, and some others. Personally, I’m very to know when DxO will launch the modules for the Nikkor Z 400mm f/4.5. Anybody listening at DxO?
• The DJI Inspire 3: The DJI Encourage 3 is a powerful, feature-packed drone with a full-frame sensor, made for skilled videographers. It delivers video high quality as much as 8K/75p ProRes RAW or 8K/25p CinemaDNG. Batteries present as much as 28 minutes of flight time and a flight velocity of as much as 94 kilometers per hour (58 MPH). As well as, the video transmission vary is a powerful 15 kilometers. Accessible in late June for $16,499.
• Astrhori AH-M1 Light Meter: A helpful machine for movie images. Weighing solely 48g, the Astrhori AH-M1 matches right into a scorching shoe appropriate with most aged cameras. It repeatedly tracks altering gentle ranges in actual time. It has two metering mode and is provided with a 0.66-inch OLED display. The built-in battery with USB-C charging lasts as much as 12 hours. Worth $69.

The Rumor Mill

ON1 Resize AI Model 2023.5 makes your smile clearer

If not in actuality, not less than in a photograph. AI algorithms within the new Face Restoration know-how from ON1 can acknowledge faces in pictures and make blurry faces look clearer. It ought to be notably helpful for enlarging outdated group pictures the place some folks’s faces could have movement blur. The Resize AI program additionally contains NoNoise AI, which removes undesirable noise from the enlarged photograph. Will probably be obtainable for obtain in Might 2023. However you’ll be able to pre-order it now right here for the lowered value of $60 ($40 off the unique value).

The brand new Canon 300mm f/2.8 will really be a zoom lens!

With a focal size of 300mm and a most aperture of f/2.8, many photographers have been ready impatiently for this lens. In response to the knowledge on Canon Rumors, it seems to be like it will likely be coming quickly – and it gained’t simply be a regular 300mm f/2.8. If the rumors are true, it will likely be a 100-300mm f/2.8 zoom! This may make it an exceedingly versatile piece of glass. Apparently Sigma launched an analogous lens virtually 20 years in the past. However optics have come a good distance since then, so I imagine Canon will increase the bar considerably with this new lens.

Fujifilm prepares successor to medium-format GFX50R

Might is the month when many infants are born. So it ought to come as no shock that Fujifilm’s subsequent era is on its manner. Apparently, this new child could possibly be the second era of Fujifilm’s GFX50R medium format camera. This comparatively compact and inexpensive medium-format camera was discontinued a while in the past and actually deserves a successor. In response to a supply at Fuji Addict, this could possibly be as early as Might 24.

Picture Contest Nook

VILTROX Global Photo Contest 2023

• Matter: Any topic, taken with a Viltrox lens.
• Charges: Free
• Prize: The worth of all prizes totals greater than $15,000
• Deadline: June 10

ND Awards 2023

• Matter: Structure, Individuals, Wonderful Artwork, Nature, Particular, Editorial.
• Charges: Skilled – Single picture entry charge: $24 ($19 for non-Skilled). Skilled – Collection entry charge (from 2 to five photos): $29 ($24 non-Skilled).
• Prize: Skilled grand prize is $3,500. Non-professional grand prize winner will obtain $2,400.
• Deadline: April 23

Good Offers and New Gross sales

A small, light-weight and comparatively inexpensive combo for touring – I’m speaking in regards to the Nikon Z6II with the Nikon Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR lens. The physique is presently on sale for $1,697 with a $300 low cost. You’ll save a further $100 on the lens, which is on sale for $797. In complete, it can save you as much as $400 on this package, which is a tempting value. By the way in which, as you might have learn on our new discussion board, this combo is a part of Spencer Cox’s bag.

The 16-inch MacBook Professional is on sale with a sure mixture: the M2 Max processor, 38-core GPU, 64GB of Unified RAM and a 2TB SSD. It’s one of many highest-end laptops you should buy, and at $3999, it’s nonetheless not low-cost – however it’s $300 off the standard value, which is uncommon for an Apple product like this. A number of different variations are additionally on sale, so check it out.

In response to the knowledge I acquired straight from the producer, the Pergear 14mm F2.8 extremely wide-angle lens will quickly be obtainable at Amazon Germany at a value lowered by 35%. Which means in comparison with the common value of €354.87, the lens might be obtainable for €226.85. You possibly can learn what you’ll be able to count on from this lens in Alex Coleman’s latest assessment. The lens is accessible for Z, RF, L and E mounts.

Different Pages of Curiosity

Most of us most likely consider parrots as stunning and colourful creatures. However their intelligence, hand-in-hand with their adaptability, is inflicting issues in some locations the place the birds should not native. Ecologists in New Zealand have needed to take decisive motion in opposition to a number of invasive species of parrot. You possibly can learn extra about this within the article The Big Bird Ban.

The most important reptile I may discover wherever close to me is barely the scale of my arm. A considerably bigger reptile which may be dwelling someplace close to you was not too long ago noticed by photographer Kymberly Strempack Clark. The American Crocodile she photographed within the Florida Everglades – known as Croczilla – is really an enormous, maybe the most important of its form within the wild. See for your self within the pictures and movies on her Instagram.

Remembering Wildlife is about to publish its eighth ebook specializing in a selected species. This time it will likely be the leopard. The group’s purpose is to create essentially the most stunning books on a species ever made, after which to promote these books to boost consciousness of the plight going through that species and funds to guard it. The books are contributed by photographers with very large names, so along with doing deed, shopping for a ebook guarantees to be a very nice learn.