Today, Profoto announced the release of their all-new D2 Monolight. With the ability to freeze action at up to 1/63,000 of a second, shoot bursts of 20 images per second and sync with camera shutter speeds as fast as 1/8,000 of a second the D2 is the world’s fastest monolight with TTL.
Today at Photokina 2016, a lens that hasn’t been kept such a great secret is finally out of the bag: the Zeiss Loxia 85mm f2.4 for Sony E mount cameras. Like all other Loxia lenses, it is weather sealed and manual focus while retaining an incredibly compact size. There are seven lens elements in their own groups and the close focusing distance is around a little under 27 inches. Weighing 595 grams, it’s also going to be accordingly lightweight considering that it’s designed to work with a mirrorless camera.
Along with recent announcement of the 135mm f2 and 15mm f2.8 Milvus lenses, we were also treated to the Zeiss 18mm f2.8 Milvus lens. This lens is the company’s offering in-between their 15mm and 21mm focal lengths that are supposed to deliver architecture, Real Estate, Cityscape and landscape photographers a different experience. Like the others out there, this lens is weather sealed and characterized with the blue ring towards the back of the lens–which aids in weather sealing overall. Additionally, it boasts manual focusing, a rubber focusing ring and an all metal body.
At the same time that many photographers are pushing more and more clients to actually print their photos in this digital age, clients are more and more interested in getting older photo prints onto a computer and online. Today Epson unveiled the FastFoto FF-640, which they claim to be the world’s fastest photo scanner, capable of digitizing your prints in as little as 1 second each.
Canon has announced an update to their 70-300mm F/4.5-5.6 with a version II with their latest nano USM technology and 4 stops of image stabilization. The lens is a popular choice for full frame shooters looking for an affordable daytime lens with some good zoom capability for sports and wildlife.
It seems like all we have seen from Canon in regards to their native EF-M mount lenses has been varying levels of consumer grade variable aperture zoom lenses, with a few notable exceptions, and today’s announcement is no different. The company announcing a new 18-150mm F/3.5-6.3 today along with their new top-end EOS M5 camera.
The entire industry has been waiting for the day that Canon (and/or Nikon) would change their mirrorless strategy to fit the market and the wants/needs of photographers. Well, we have the first signs of that happening today with the official announcement of Canon’s EOS M5, their first ‘up market’ mirrorless and in many ways the mirrorless offering we needed from them 2-3 years ago.
Netherlands based photographer, Jurian Kriebel, has created a beautiful and compelling portrait series with goats as his subject. Photographed in a studio, the goats’ white fur contrasts boldly with the dark black background as they preen and express themselves reminiscent of humans. Kriebel uses a variety of angles to capture each animal, showcasing them in an often heroic and engaging manner. Kriebel’s camera of choice for the series was a Canon 6D with 28-135mm lens. For lighting he used a Yongnuo YN-560 flash off-camera through a softbox. The resulting images provide a dramatic, thought-provoking, and sometime comical look at goats like we’ve never seen them before.
Leica has put out Titanium edition cameras before, and the latest set will include the Leica M-P (Typ 240) digital camera, Leica Summicron-M 28 mm f/2 ASPH. Lens and the Leica APO-Summicron-M 50 mm f/2 ASPH. Lens. Only 333 of the sets will be sold worldwide; and so you’re probably not going to be able to afford one.
Color matching and calibration is a tedious and time consuming process for photographers from monitor adjustment to determining the best retouching software and printer settings to achieve an accurate print. EIZO has just launched Quick Color Match, a new software solution that greatly simplifies color management system settings.