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credits: 7Artisans 7Artisans has officially announced its new MF 50mm f/1.2 APS-C prime for Sony E, Fujifilm X, Nikon Z, and Micro Four Thirds mounts. Designed purely as a mechanical lens, it targets photographers who value fast apertures and hands-on control over autofocus or electronic communication. On APS-C sensors, the 50mm focal length translates to a short-telephoto field of view, while on Micro Four Thirds it behaves more like a classic portrait lens. From an optical

credits: Leica/Capture One Leica Camera AG and Capture One have announced a new partnership, with the aim of improving tethered shooting and editing workflows for Leica photographers. The focus is on tighter integration between Leica cameras and Capture One’s software, with an emphasis on stable connections, faster image transfer, and more dependable Live View performance. According to both companies, the goal is to make tethered shooting smoother and more predictable, whethe

credits: Brightin Star Brightin Star just added a new wide-angle option to its autofocus lineup with the AF 24mm f/1.8, available for Sony E and Nikon Z mounts. It is a full-frame lens meant for everyday shooting, covering a focal length that works well for street photography, travel, environmental portraits, and general wide-angle use. With a minimum focusing distance of about 32 cm, it lets you get fairly close to a subject while still keeping a good amount of context in th

photo by: @laura.gzo Let’s Analyse this Image: Composition & Framing What works well: The natural corridor created by the buildings on each side is pretty great. It funnels your eye straight toward the man and then continues upward to the dome, all of that creates a strong sense of depth and a nice 3D effect. There are leading lines here, but they are subtle, especially the two yellow stripes on the ground. The car headlights behind the man, in a way, also count as leading li

credits:Viltrox Viltrox has announced two new conversion lenses for Fujifilm’s X100-series cameras: the WCL-X100VI wide conversion lens and the TCL-X100VI telephoto conversion lens. Both are designed to mount directly to the fixed 23mm f/2 lens used across the X100 lineup, including the latest X100VI, and are intended to expand the camera’s effective focal length options without changing the core shooting experience of the system. All X100 cameras use the same built-in 23mm f

credits: Rewindpix Rewindpix is a new digital camera project from photographer and designer Xiao Liu, built around the idea that digital shooting has gotten a bit ‘too fast’ and ‘too screen-heavy’. After trying cameras like the Camp Snap and FlashBack One, Liu felt they still didn’t capture the feeling of the compact film cameras many people grew up with. So Rewindpix, with its upcoming camera goes in the opposite direction, a big, bright optical viewfinder, a mechanical wind

credits: Darkroom Darkroom has rolled out version 7, and it is one of the most substantial updates the app has seen in its decade of existence. The company rebuilt the entire rendering engine to better handle today’s big RAW files, high-resolution photos, and increasingly heavy video formats. The app still looks familiar, but navigation is smoother, edits respond faster, and everything just feels more stable. Darkroom also says that the overhaul isn’t just about fixing curren

credits: 7Artisans 7Artisans started teasing its next lens, posting a silhouetted shot of it along with three clues: 1. large aperture for stunning bokeh, 2. portrait focal length for beautiful detail, 3. precision focus for total creative control. Taken together, the hints point toward a classic portrait prime, most likely something in the 85mm range if it is full-frame, paired with an aperture faster than f/1.8. An f/1.4 (or even wider) which would match the kind of shallow

credits: Viltrox Viltrox has had a busy December, and on top of its new X100-series conversion lenses (which we will take a closer look at in this week’s Sunday issue), the company has also rolled out a 2x teleconverter for Sony E-mount. The new converter is already listed at B&H, and Viltrox says it works with the same Sony telephoto lenses supported by Sony’s own 2x converter. That includes the Sony 70–200mm f/2.8 GM and GM II, the 100–400mm, 200–600mm, and 400–800mm zooms,

Photo by: @petewan ds Let’s Analyse this Image: Composition & Framing What works well: The S-shaped leading line is, in my opinion, the star of the composition. It is one of those rare cases where the environment naturally carves out a perfect visual path for us photographers to use. There are actually two main leading lines, the row of concrete bollards and the faint reflective lines in the ground beside them (the fact that it rained before really plays into the cards of the

credits: Leica At the moment, two big rumours are swirling around the photography world, one from Leica and one from Pentax. On the Leica side, the talk centers on a new SL-series body said to sit between the 60MP SL3 and the 24MP SL2-S, giving Leica a middle-resolution option that the lineup currently lacks. The camera will reportedly use a 44.3MP sensor, allegedly related to the one in the Panasonic S1R II, which would make sense given prior sensor-sharing across the L-moun

credits: Godox Godox has unveiled the AD300Pro II, a refreshed version of its popular 300Ws outdoor flash arriving about five years after the original. On paper, the core specs haven’t changed much, it still outputs 300Ws, delivers around 350 flashes per charge, and recycles anywhere between 0.01 and 1.5 seconds depending on power level. Physically, the unit remains relatively compact at about 18.7 × 10 × 9 cm and weighs roughly 1.2 kg with the battery installed. One big new

What Is Zoom Blur Photography? Zoom blur is another very interesting technique that shares some similarities to panning photography (which we looked at last week). Zoom blur, lets you take a still scene and inject movement into it. However, instead of moving the camera through space (as you do in panning), you are changing your focal length while the shutter is open. The result is a stretched, tunnel-like effect that pulls everything toward (or away from) the centre of the fr

credits: Ethan Hoover The Canon AE-1 turns 50 in April 2026, and for a while now people have been expecting Canon to celebrate with a digital reboot inspired by the original film camera. The rumoured successor, the Canon EOS RE-1, pops up every few months, usually with nothing new, but this time there is finally something fresh, according to Canonrumors, multiple sources claim the RE-1 will use the 32.5-megapixel sensor from the EOS R6 Mark III. Earlier talk pointed to a 24-m

credits: Viltrox Viltrox is preparing to release two new conversion lenses designed for Fujifilm’s popular X100-series cameras. The company has started teasing them on its official Weibo page, and even though details are still thin, the images make it pretty clear what they are going for. These converters appear to mirror Fujifilm’s own TCL-X100 II telephoto attachment and WCL-X100 II wide converter, which are the standard options X100 shooters turn to when they want somethin

credits: Tamron Tamron’s 150–500mm f/5–6.7 Di III VC VXD lens just got a new firmware update and it brings several meaningful technical improvements, especially for Sony shooters. One of the biggest additions is improved autofocus behaviour while zooming, something long telephoto zooms often struggle with due to shifting optical groups. Tamron says the lens now maintains focus more consistently during focal-length changes, which should help in AF-C when subjects move unpredic

credits: PolarPro PolarPro has introduced a new three-piece diopter system called Shift. It is designed to give photographers and filmmakers quick access to closer focusing distances without having to swap lenses. The set includes +2, +4, and +8 strengths, each reducing a lens’s minimum focusing distance to 50 cm, 25 cm, and 12.5 cm (19.7, 9.8, and 4.9 inches). The diopters don’t change focal length, they simply bring the focal plane forward so lenses can focus on subjects th

credits: Leica Leica is rolling out new finishes for four of its well-known M lenses. Three of them, the Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 ASPH., Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 ASPH., and Summicron-M 28mm f/2 ASPH., now come in the company’s familiar olive-green “Safari” finish. Leica has used this colourway on and off for decades, and it has become a fan favorite, especially among people who pair these lenses with Safari-edition rangefinder bodies. The fourth lens in this mini-release, the Summi

credits: Canon Canon appears to have a new camera in the pipeline, at least if recent wireless registration filings are anything to go by. Since every upcoming camera with Wi-Fi must pass through regulatory databases before release, these listings have become an unofficial early warning system for new gear. They don’t always lead anywhere (companies sometimes register products that never ship) but they often give a decent hint about what is coming next. In this case, Canonrum

credits: Pixii Pixii is putting the brakes on its yearly release cycle and won’t launch a new camera in 2025, a first since the company began its annual update rhythm back in 2020. In a newsletter to users, founder David Barth joked about whether Pixii had accidentally turned itself into “the Apple of photography” with its consistent timing, before explaining why 2025 will be a gap year. The team is deep into developing what he calls a genuinely new successor, one that appare

Photo by: @qs.street Let’s Analyse this Image: Composition & Framing What works well: Composition is pretty strong, the alley naturally forms a long tunnel, and that tunnel effect adds a ton of depth and the 3D effect. The leading lines aren’t just the walls, the cobblestones. the shadow/light, but especially the polls on the right guide your eye toward the centre, which is a nice touch. The layers nice as well, we have the textured ground, polls scooters and balconies, the p