SanDisk Announces Creator Series Storage Devices
Sandisk launched a new Creator storage series you can see and preorder at BHphoto. An article about those products can be read on Explora.
Nikon patented the design of a unique 85-135mm f/1.8-2.8 Full Frame lens
Nikon patented the design of a never seen before 85-135mm f/1.8-2.8 Full Frame lens. Nikon Japan writes:
Conventionally, variable magnification optical systems suitable for photo cameras, electronic still cameras, video cameras, etc. have been proposed (see, for example, Patent Document 1). In such variable magnification optical systems, it is difficult to obtain bright and good optical performance while making them compact.
So basically Nikon’s goal here is to offer an ultimate portrait zoom lens that still has reasonable size. In this design the lens of the length is 119.454mm up to 149.236mm when fully extended. That’s truly compact if you consider the 135mm f/1.8 S Plena Lens is 139.5mm long!
Of course, this is a patent and there is no guarantee that they will ever make this lens. But damn… I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this beast will be made!
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via Asobinet
Lexar presents ARMOR GOLD SD Card with a stainless-steel construction that is 37x stronger than typical SD cards
Lexar announced the launch of an ‘indestructible’ SD card made entirely of stainless steel. Something like the Cybertruck of SD cards 🙂
The ARMOR GOLD SD Card with a stainless-steel construction that is 37x stronger than typical SD cards, it is designed to withstand grueling usage out in the wild while offering up to 210MB/s[1] write speed and Video Speed Class 60 (V60) to seamlessly capture 6K footage.
There is yet no info about when those cards will be available to market.
Additional note: Lots of Lexar gear has big discounts on their Amazon page (Click here) and at BHphoto.
Camera Predictions 2025 – BMD, Canon, DJI, FUJIFILM, Nikon, Panasonic & Sony? CineD
This week, Johnnie and Nino dare a long, hard look into the crystal ball to speculate and ponder about the cameras and lenses that they expect to be released in 2025. What are the big news we expect from Blackmagic Design, Canon, DJI, FUJIFILM, Nikon/RED, Panasonic, Sigma, and Sony?
These were the ten best-selling cameras in Japan in 2024
2024 is over and BCN finally shared the accurate data showing the top 10 best selling cameras of this year:
- Sony VLOGCAM ZV-E10 – 16.0% market share
- Canon EOS R50 – 11.6% market share
- Canon EOS R10 – 6.7% market share
- Sony α6400 – 5.8% market share
- Sony α7C II – 4.9% market share
- Nikon Z50 – 4.3% market share
- OM Digital Solutions OLYMPUS PEN E-P7 – 3.9% market share
- Nikon Zf 40mm f/2 (SE) Lens Kit – 3.4% market share
- Sony VLOGCAM ZV-E10 II – 3.2% market share
- Panasonic LUMIX G1000 – 3.1% market share
Reminder: BCN collected the real sale data of nearly half the Japanese Store.
First image of the new SG 24mm f/6.3 full-frame pancake lens
SG will soon be launching a new 24mm f/6.3 full frame pancake lens. The image above shows the edition number ‘00001’ and is the L-mount version. But Z-mount will be available too for a price of 299 Yuan (about $65).. It’s obviously a manual focus lens and I’m not expecting outstanding optical performance.
via Weibo