The lens has now been officially listed at Samyang Global (Click here).

The new Samyang 35-150mm f/2.0-2.8 lens preorders are now open at Amazon Germany.

Here a first review from Tom Calton:

The new Samyang 35-150mm f/2.0-2.8 lens preorders are now open at Amazon Germany.

The new Benro Theta has collected nearly 2 million Dollars on Kickstarter (Click here)! 16 days left to grab one if you want it.

Hot Kickstarter projects:

1. If you need a flexible, portable high quality 4k Laser projector to show your images and videos than check out the new JMGO N1 Ultra on Kickstarter (Click here). It’s the first gimbal and easily portable 4K Laser projector.
2. Duovox successfully funded their new Night Vision and Sony Starvis powered Monocular on Kickstarter.
3. The new modular Grip sling has been successfully funded on Kickstarter (Click here to back it).

I hate AI tools because it takes away the joy form authentic photography. But no matter what I think about it, I suspect that in one year from now it will be normal to use AI tools to modify your images. So I tried this morning to do something simple like adding cappuccino on a real photo of an empty cup. Watch the video to see how well this worked (and subscribe my youtube channel if you want to see more of this).

If you are interested in debating and learning how to use AI tools to modify your photos join our new Forum AI-imagelab.com (is now in BETA version).

Viltrox will soon announce two new lenses:

• Viltrox 75mm f/1.2 for APS-C E-mount autofocus lens (already available as X-mount on BHphoto).
• Viltrox 16mm (aperture unknown) Full Frame E-mount lens

Source Weibo

Zhongyi Optics released the 200mm f/4.0 for Sony FF E-mount cameras in China. US&Europe announcements will follow within 2 weeks and the lens will be available through their official Amazon store.

Specs:

• 11 elements in 7 groups of optical structures,
• 9 aperture blades,
• the closest focusing distance is 0.48 meters,
• 67mm filter interface,
• adopts APO and internal focus design,
• and the size of the lens body 75*186mm,
• weighing about 1300g,
• with Canon EF/RF, Nikon F/Z, Sony E, Fuji X/GFX, Hasselblad XCD and L mount,
• only priced at 3980 yuan (close to 600 Dollars)

In future photographers might use some AI to edit their own pictures. Adobe launched Firefly and I joined the Beta to see how it works. Sadly, the three tools that are interesting for us photographers are not activated yet: Inpainting (to remove and replace pieces of a photo), personalized results to create new images form your real photos and extend image (to increase the aspect ratio through AI interpolation).

The only tool I could play with is the text to image generation tool If you want to see how good (or bad) this works check out my video:

I am also Beta testing my new forum named AI-Imagelab (feelf ree to join).