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New Products to Utilize Professional-Use Drone Airpeak S1 for Industrial Purposes
Accurate flight and high-precision capturing contribute to safe and efficient drone operations

Sony Group Corporation (“Sony”) will release new products that can utilize the professional-use drone Airpeak S1 for industrial purposes. The Airpeak S1 achieves highly agile, dynamic and precise flight through the use of proprietary motors, propellers, control systems and sensing technology, and is equipped with a full-size mirrorless interchangeable lens camera α™ (Alpha™) for high-resolution capturing. New products consist of an RTK (Real Time Kinematic) kit that enables high-precision positioning in degrees of centimeters, a battery pack that supports longer flight time, and the custom lightweight Gimbal PX1 for Airpeak by Gremsy. Using these products with Airpeak S1 will contribute to safe and efficient drone operations in a wide range of industries.

Back at the CP+ show we saw a prototype of this Kamlan 70mm f/1.1 manual focusing APS-C lens for Canon EF-M, Sony E, Nikon Z, and Fujifilm X mounts.
Mobile01 now tested the X-mount eversion of this lens and you can see a ton of image samples on their website.

The Meike 85mm F1.4 full-frame autofocus lens has been revealed at the NAB Show, and will soon be officially launched. The lens features a manual/auto toggle button, as well as a custom button.

Preorders:
USA at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama.
EU at FotoErhardt, FotoKoch, Calumet, WexUK.

We got two new info about the upcoming two Viltrox lenses:

• Viltrox 16mm f/1.8 FE lens coming in May
• Below you can find the first leaked image of the 75mm f/1.2 APS-C E-mount autofocus lens

via Asobinet

You see that image above? I trained ChatGPT to learn my photography style and to translate it into the right prompts and parameters to generate new AI images on Midjourney. I can now generate any landscape image I want with the style I want, even with the camera setup I want, without me even have to think about how to do this.

YES…this is upsetting! YES this is NOT Photography. YES…this has nothing to do with Sony gear, a part of the fact I can use “emulate” Sony camera settings and Sony lens settings.

But hear me out why I think this is crucially important for you as a photographer. Hate this AI technology as much as you want but I am sure of that:

1. AI generated images will become soon indistinguishable from photography. They will have the same quality, they can even be trained with the style you want (Bokeh, colors, sharpness, filters and so forth)
2. AI generated images will replace some parts of photography (like Stock photography).
3. You can in future edit your REAL photos with AI technology, creating some new kind of hybrid images (my video about this here)

So when I post those AI threads my goals is that we all learn how it will influence our business. It will never KILL real photography, but it will certainly influence it. I will soon show you how I train ChatGPT to learn the style from Sony lenses and cameras. In the meantime if you are interested to see how I train ChatGPT for Lanscape “photography emulation” check out this video:

To everyone saying I should not post this stuff on SAR:
You can use your photography skills and “emulate” Sony gear to generate AI images. Moreover your real Photos can be used to train AI and edit your photos. So this WILL sooner or later be part of your workflow. It’s not something I like, but I will try to see how to navigate this revolution in a way that it suits my needs as a photographer.

Tamron patented a bunch of quite extraordinary lenses. Now le them know which one you would seriously consider to buy!

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Below you can find my personal opinion on all of those lenses (note, in video I forgot that the 20-50mm patent was f/2.8 and the f/2.0 patent was for a 25-50mm lens):

SAR note: We got a zillion standard primes…those who will select 50mm f/1.4 will get banned from this website forever!