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credits: VIltrox Viltrox’s new AF 35mm f/1.8 Evo and AF 55mm f/1.8 Evo lenses are here. Both were announced at NAB Show 2026 and are built around an apochromatic (APO) optical design, which is meant to bring red, green, and blue wavelengths into the same focal plane. In real-world use, that usually means less chromatic aberration and cleaner edges, especially in high-contrast scenes, along with more consistent colour rendering. On the inside, both lenses use fairly complex op

credits: Canon Canon has filed a new set of lens patents in Japan, outlining three very interesting designs, a 130mm f/1.8, a 300mm f/2.8, and a 500mm f/5.6. As always with patents, there is no guarantee any of these will actually become real products, but they do give us a glimpse into what Canon is at least exploring for the RF system. The most unusual of the three is the 130mm f/1.8 (technically closer to 128mm in the patent). On paper, it overlaps quite a bit with Canon’s

credits: Canon Canon’s long-rumoured retro camera might not end up being a standalone model after all. Instead, it now looks like it could show up as the EOS R8 Mark II. For years, people expected something like an “EOS RE-1” to celebrate the AE-1’s 50th anniversary, but it seems Canon is going in a slightly different direction. Rather than creating a completely separate line, the company may be folding that retro idea into an existing series. According to the latest reports,

credits: 7Artisans Last month, 7Artisans started teasing a new lens, and now the company has begun sharing more concrete details about its upcoming AF 135mm f/1.8. The lens will be available for Sony E, Nikon Z, and L-mount, and is positioned as a full-frame telephoto prime in a familiar portrait and short telephoto range, paired with a fast f/1.8 aperture. The company still has not revealed everything, but there is enough information now to get a clearer picture of what it i

credits: Panasonic Panasonic has announced the Lumix S 40mm f/2, a compact full-frame prime that looks like it is designed to sit somewhere between a standard and a wide-angle lens. At 40mm, it offers a slightly wider field of view than a typical 50mm, which tends to give a more natural perspective without feeling too tight. The lens is also pretty small, coming in at 144 grams and 40.9mm in length. From a technical standpoint, the lens uses a 7-element, 6-group optical desig

credits: Meike Meike has unveiled/shown two new lenses at NAB 2026, adding both a full-frame portrait option and a fast APS-C prime to its lineup, the AF 85mm f/1.4 II and the AF 58mm f/1.2. Both lenses continue Meike’s recent push into autofocus with faster apertures, while still keeping things relatively compact compared to some of the larger options in this category. From the early looks, both lenses feature a physical aperture ring with marked stops, along with a dedicate

credits: DxO DxO’s new Nik Collection 9 is here. It is the latest version of the company’s long-running suite of photo editing plugins, and this update focuses on AI-assisted masking and more flexible editing controls. The collection still works both as a standalone app and as a plugin for software like Photoshop and Lightroom Classic, but the main thing this time is improving how you handle local adjustments rather than changing the overall workflow. The biggest additions ar

credits: Leica Leica Camera AG and Gpixel, a leading global provider of CMOS image sensors, have announced a new strategic partnership. The two companies are working together to co-develop a new high-performance image sensor for next-generation Leica cameras. That lines up with what Leica chairman Andreas Kaufmann mentioned late last year, when he hinted that the company was getting back into sensor development after relying more on off-the-shelf solutions in recent models. R

credits: Brightin Star Brightin Star has introduced a new AF 12mm f/2.8 ultra-wide-angle lens for full-frame mirrorless cameras, built around a design that tries to balance field of view with more controlled distortion. At 12mm, the lens delivers a 122.5-degree angle of view, which sits in ultra-wide territory, but unlike many lenses at this focal length, it is not designed to produce a fisheye-style photo. Instead, the goal here is to keep straight lines more intact, which i

credits: Viltrox Viltrox has released a new version of its AF 35mm f/1.2 LAB lens, this time without the built-in TFT/LCD screen. Aside from that change, the specs appear to be essentially identical to the original version. It is available for Sony E and Nikon Z mounts, and like before, it is positioned as a high-end, fast full-frame prime. The lens uses a 15-element, 10-group optical design, including 5 ED elements, 3 high-refractive index elements, and 2 aspherical elements

credits: Insta360 Back in January, Insta360’s CEO Jingkang “JK” Liu shared a teaser photo on Weibo that showed two unreleased products, but did not say much about either of them. Now, a new leak is starting to fill in some of the gaps, and it looks like one of those products could be a pretty unusual entry into the Micro Four Thirds space. Leaked photos, which briefly appeared on Bilibili before being taken down, show what looks like a new Insta360 camera built around a 20MP

credits: Thypoch Thypoch looks ready to officially show its new 24–50mm f/2.8 at NAB 2026, and it marks a pretty significant step for the company. This is its first autofocus zoom lens, and notably, one of the first Chinese full-frame constant-aperture f/2.8 zooms with autofocus. The company has been teasing the lens for a few weeks, but is now starting to share more concrete details, giving us a clearer idea of how it fits into the lineup. The lens covers a 24–50mm focal ran