Matt Granger: Nikon Z Users BEWARE!

Matt writes:

Yes, like many of you, I have an after market foot installed. But it was the MOUNT of the Foot that ripped off the lens body – so this impacts every 70-200s Z lens user.

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Wildly rumored Nikon Z50II specs

On Weibo you can find those (wildly?) rumored Z50II specs:

  • Equipped with a classic 24-megapixel image sensor
  • Upgraded Expeed 7 processor
  • Can record 4K30P, FHD120P
  • Can record upscaled 4K60P cropped video 1.5x
  • AI Intelligent Focus, Eye and Animal Recognition Detection
  • Body 5-axis stabilisation
  • High-brightness EVF viewfinder
  • 3.2-inch LCD touchscreen
  • Dual SD card slots
  • Expected release in summer 2025

 

New Topaz Gigapixel 8.2 and Photo AI 3.5 released

Topaz announced the new Photo Ai 3.5 (Click here) and the new Gigapixel 8.2 (Click here) updates.

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We’re excited to announce another major update to Photo AI with a new take on our lighting enhancement, a new way to run Super Focus on any machine, crash recovery, and more!

  • We’re announcing a version 2 of Adjust Lighting which is vastly improved to deliver a more natural, vibrant, and reliable results across the board.
  • Now anyone can run Super Focus in the cloud at lightning speed on any device, even if you don’t have a good GPU.
  • And for those who can, Super Focus now runs 40% faster on Apple devices. This combines with our previous speed boosts – it is now faster than ever.
  • If you encounter a crash with Photo AI, your session and work is now saved with crash recovery so you can get back to creating beautiful images.

The Gigapixel v.8.2 update now has batch Cloud Rendering, faster speeds on Mac, improvements to the Redefine model, and more.

  • High creativity Redefine Cloud Rendering result improvements
  • Batch process multiple images at once with Cloud Rendering
  • Redefine is now 2x faster on Mac (latest MacOS 14 or 15 required for use)
  • Upscale images based on their longest side