Sigma Japan has officially confirmed that they will be launching new products at the CP+ show. They have released the list of their events and it includes the following:

• February 27th 14:00-14:45 … “Behind the Scenes of SIGMA Product Development” SIGMA Development Staff #Product Development
• February 28th 12:00-12:45 … “A little bit from Ozone” Yasuhiro Ozone (SIGMA employee) #Product development
• March 1st 12:00-12:45 … “Content TBD” Kazuto Yamaki (SIGMA Representative)
• March 1st 16:10-16:50 … “About SIGMA’s new products” U-Tobi #NewProducts

Two products are “rumored” for now:

• Full release of the previously teased Sigma 28-45mm T2 Cine E mount lens (listed here at BH).
• New Sigma 800mm f/6.3 E and L-mount lens

But maybe something completely different is coming? Sigma CEO Yamaki has promised that this year they will be launching a telephoto lens that nobody has dared to try before!

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Sony released the full Q3 financial report. The company as a whole is doing well, but for the first time in a long time Sony reported a slight decline in sales of photo and video cameras. Sony writes that there has been a ‘deterioration in the product mix of digital cameras’. Nevertheless, the forecast remains unchanged, and in Q1 and A2 Sony had already reported higher sales than in the previous year.

Mapcamera reports that the Ricoh GR IIIx was the best-selling camera of January. A gentle reminder for Sony that photo orientated fixed lens compact cameras are selling well at the moment. And we need Sony to give us new RX toys :)

January Ranking of New Digital Cameras

1. Ricoh GR IIIx
2. Sony α7C II
3. Nikon Z50II
4. Fujifilm X-T50
5. Fujifilm X-T5
6. Fujifilm X100VI
7. Ricoh GR III
8. Canon EOS R5 Mark II
9. Fujifilm X-M5
10. Nikon Z f

Used Digital Camera January Ranking

1. Nikon Z50
2. Sony α7III
3. Nikon Z fc
4. Canon EOS R5
5. Nikon Z f
6. Sony α7IV
7. Ricoh GR III
8. Nikon Z6II
9. Nikon Z5
10. Sony α6400

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

Why the Sony A7CII is my Favorite Camera…

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KORIN launched a new AntiTheft But resistant camera bag on Kickstarter (Click here). They have launched successful campaigns in the past, and I’m sure this one will sell well too. If you want the ultimate peace of mind, watch this video to see how it works: