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credits: Canon The Canon EOS R7 Mark II is shaping up to be one of Canon’s more interesting upcoming releases, and fresh rumours suggest it may end up being a fairly serious APS-C camera. After missing what many expected to be a late-2025 announcement, new reports now point to a launch in the first half of 2026, possibly even ahead of CP+ in Japan at the end of February. That would put it back on the near-term roadmap rather than something further out. The biggest talking poi

credits: SmallRig SmallRig has rolled out a set of accessories designed specifically for the Ricoh GR IV. The lineup includes a leather half case, multiple strap options, a thumb grip, a compact lens hood with an integrated UV filter, and a slim crossbody-style bag. The leather half case improves grip while keeping all buttons, doors, and dials accessible, and it includes a built-in tripod socket so it doesn’t have to come off when mounting the camera. The thumb grip slides i

credits: Meike Meike’s new 23mm f/1.4 autofocus prime for APS-C mirrorless cameras is here, launching for Sony E, Fujifilm X, and Nikon Z mounts. On APS-C bodies, the 23mm focal length translates to a roughly 35mm full-frame equivalent, making it a pretty versatile option for everyday shooting including street and travel photography. From a technical standpoint, the lens uses an optical design of 13 elements in 11 groups and features a nine-blade aperture. Meike lists a minim

credits: 7Artisans 7Artisans has announced a new manual-focus fisheye lens, the MF 6mm f/2. Available for Sony E, Fujifilm X, Canon RF, Nikon Z, and Micro Four Thirds mounts, the lens delivers an 220-degree diagonal field of view. That puts it well beyond the coverage of most fisheye lenses in this class, which usually top out around 180 degrees. From a technical standpoint, the MF 6mm f/2 uses an optical design of 10 elements in 8 groups and features a nine-blade aperture wi

credits: Leica Leica rolled out firmware version 4.0.0 for the SL3 and SL3-S, alongside a parallel update for the entire Q3 lineup, and it is one of the more meaningful software updates the company has released in a while. Autofocus gets most of the attention. On the SL3 series, tracking has been refined so the focus area can now dynamically change size and shape while following a subject. Face and eye detection for humans has also been reworked using updated AI models, and s

credits: Viltrox Viltrox’s 35mm f/1.2 LAB lens is now available for Nikon Z-mount cameras. It mirrors the earlier Sony E-mount version in both design and specifications, aiming to offer the same level of performance. The optical formula consists of 15 elements in 10 groups, including five ED elements, three high-refractive elements, and two ultra-aspherical elements. Viltrox says the goal here is consistent sharpness across the frame, even when shooting wide open at f/1.2, wh

credits: Ricoh Ricoh has officially added another variant to its GR lineup with the launch of the GR IV HDF. At its core, it is the same GR IV that was announced earlier, built around a new 25.7-megapixel APS-C sensor and an updated 28mm-equivalent f/2.8 lens, along with the familiar GR handling and interface. What makes the HDF version different is the inclusion of Ricoh’s Highlight Diffusion Filter, which can be switched on or off using a dedicated button on the back of the

Photo by: @susonsjack Let’s Analyse this Image: Composition & Framing What works well: The layering is pretty strong. You have the modern James-Simon-Galerie in the foreground (along with the stairs and the man on the bottom right), the classical building behind it, and then the TV tower peeking through in the background, that creates a really nice sense of depth. The clean, minimalist geometry of the foreground gallery building contrasts nicely with the more detailed histori

credits: Nikon Nikon has rolled out firmware version 5.30 for the Z9, continuing what has been a pretty remarkable run of post-launch support for its flagship mirrorless camera. Even though the Z9 has been around since late 2021, Nikon is still pushing meaningful updates rather than just maintenance fixes. This release lands more than a year after the major 5.00 update and builds on the smaller 5.20 update from earlier this year. The headline of the update is autofocus. Nikon

credits: VILTROX Rumours are starting to swirl that Viltrox could soon enter Canon’s APS-C mirrorless ecosystem, something that would be a pretty big deal for RF-S users. According to multiple reports from sites like Canonrumors and Canonbuzz, Canon may be preparing to allow Viltrox to release its own APS-C prime lenses for RF-mount cameras. Nothing is confirmed yet, but if it happens, it would mark the first time Viltrox brings its modern APS-C lineup to Canon’s current mirr

credits: Adobe/Open AI Adobe teamed up with Open AI to integrate Photoshop, Adobe Express, and Acrobat directly into ChatGPT, allowing users to handle a range of creative and document-related tasks without leaving the chat interface. The idea, according to Adobe, is to let people move quicker on everyday work by using text commands instead of jumping between apps. Users can now ask ChatGPT to perform actions like editing images, creating simple designs, or working with PDFs,

What is the Black Card Photography Technique? Black card photography is a technique that feels almost too simple once you understand it. The idea behind it is straightforward, instead of using an expensive graduated ND filter to balance the exposure between sky and foreground, you use a matte black card to manually control how much light hits different parts of the frame during the exposure. If you think about it, it is basically dodging and burning, but done in-camera while

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,