The chinese brand Meike announced their first autofocus lens. What’s a bit weird is that this is a Full Frame lens in Canon/Nikon mount version. But Meike says the E-mount version will be APS-C. I hope they only made a mess in their translation. Would be nice to get a cheap 85mm FF E-mount lens!
There is no info about pricing and availability yet. But you should be able to buy the lens on Amazon soon. All their current manual focusing E-mount lenses are listed Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon DE.
In buzkashi, Afghanistan’s violent and ancient national pastime, riders battle for control of an animal corpse that they carry toward a goal. Sixteen years after the U.S.-led invasion that ousted the Taliban, the sport is dominated by rival warlords who will do anything to maintain power in a turbulent country that once again is up for grabs. @Balazs Gardi
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Overall winners revealed for 2018 Sony World Photography Awards
●British artist Alys Tomlinson named Photographer of the Year
●10 Professional category winners and finalists revealed
●Overall Open, Youth and Student winners announced
●Images available at www.worldphoto.org/press
The World Photography Organisation today names the overall winners of the prestigious 2018 Sony World Photography Awards at a London ceremony.
The coveted Photographer of the Year title was presented to British artist Alys Tomlinson for her series Ex-Voto, winning the photographer $25,000 (USD). The work was praised by the jury for its beautiful production, technical excellence and sensitive illustration of pilgrimage as a journey of discovery and sacrifice to a greater power.
Tomlinson was selected from the 10 category winners of the Professional competition who were announced today alongside those in 2nd and 3rd place in each Professional category. The overall winners of the Awards’ Open (best single image), Youth and Student Focus competitions were also revealed.
All winners were flown to the London awards ceremony and received Sony digital imaging equipment, publication in the winners’ book and their work will be shown as part of the 2018 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition at Somerset House, London.
Outstanding Contribution to Photography recipient Candida Höfer was also at the ceremony to collect her prize.
Produced by the World Photography Organisation, the Sony World Photography Awards is the world’s most diverse photography competition. The 11th edition saw a record breaking 320,000 submissions by photographers from more than 200 countries and territories, presenting some of the world’s finest contemporary photography captured over the past year. The Awards’ annual London exhibition brings together the best established and emerging talent from around the world, providing winning and shortlisted photographers the opportunity to showcase their work on an international stage.
Photographer of the Year – Alys Tomlinson, British
Ex-Voto is a personal project by London-based photographer Tomlinson (age 43). The winning work encompasses formal portraiture, large format landscape and small, detailed still-life images of the ‘ex-votos’ (offerings of religious devotion) found at pilgrimage sites of Lourdes (France), Ballyvourney (Ireland) and Grabarka (Poland).
The photographer mainly explores themes of environment, belonging and identity. She recently completed an MA (Distinction) in Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage and has been recognised by a number of photography prizes.
Open Photographer of the Year – Veselin Atanasov, Bulgarian
Selected from 10 category winners as the best single image in the world, Atanasov is recognised for his work Early Autumn and receives a $5,000 (USD) prize. An IT specialist, Atanasov is a self-taught photographer who began shooting in 2014. The winning photograph captures autumn in the Central Balkan National Park.
Professional category winners and finalists
From insightful documentation of worldwide cultural and political events to showcasing the natural world, the photographers below were selected by judges as the best series of photographs in the world.
●Architecture: Gianmaria Gava, Italian with Buildings 2nd Edgar Martins, Portuguese / 3rd Corentin Fohlen, French
●Contemporary Issues: Fredrik Lerneryd, Swedish with Slum Ballet 2nd Margaret Mitchell, British / 3rd Alfio Tommasini, Swiss
●Creative: Florian Ruiz, French with The White Contamination 2nd Patricia Kühfuss, German / 3rd Eduardo Castaldo, Italian
●Current Affairs & News: Mohd Samsul Mohd Said, Malaysian with Life Inside the Refugee Camp 2nd Luis Henry Agudelo Cano, Colombian / 3rd Rasmus Flindt Pedersen, Danish
●Discovery: Alys Tomlinson, British with Ex-Voto 2nd Antonio Gibotta, Italian / 3rd Maria Petrenko, Ukrainian
●Landscape: Luca Locatelli, Italian with White Gold 2nd Rohan Reilly, Irish / 3rd Tomasz Padlo, Polish
●Natural World & Wildlife: Roselena Ramistella, Italian with Deep Land 2nd Mitch Dobrowner, American / 3rd Wiebke Haas, German
●Portraiture: Tom Oldham, British with The Last of The Crooners 2nd Anush Babajanyan, Armenian / 3rd Andrew Quilty, Australian
●Sport: Balazs Gardi, Hungarian with Buzkashi 2nd Behnam Sahvi, Iranian/ 3rd Matteo Armellini, Italian
●Still Life: Edgar Martins, Portuguese with Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes 2nd place Tristan Spinski, American / 3rd Werner Anderson, Norwegian
Youth Photographer of the Year – Megan Johnson, American, Age 16
Open to photographers aged 12-19, Johnson was awarded for her image Still.. Shot on the cliffs near her house in Connecticut, the black and white image captures the complex and intricate solitude the photographer faces in everyday life.
Student Photographer of the Year – Samuel Bolduc, Canadian, Age 20
Bolduc was chosen by the judges from students worldwide for his photographic series The Burden. The work beautifully illustrates the physical burden of plastic waste in the environment to highlight the urgent need to halt plastic pollution. Bolduc represented College de Matane, Quebec and has won €30,000 (Euros) worth of Sony photography equipment for the institution.
Outstanding Contribution to Photography – Candida Höfer
As one of the world’s foremost contemporary photographers, German artist Candida Höfer is renowned for her precise methodology and technique. Her powerful portraits of vast, empty interiors are held in collections around the world. The Awards recognise the artist for her contribution to the medium.
The news of the overall winners joins the March announcement of 2018’s 10 Open competition category winners and 63 National Awards winners, to complete the announcements of 2018’s awards. All winning, shortlisted and commended images can be seen at the 2018 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition at Somerset House, London from April 20 – May 6 www.worldphoto.org/2018exhibition.
Sony World Photography Awards
The objective of the Sony World Photography Awards is to establish a platform for the continuous development of photographic culture. The Awards do this by recognizing great advancements in photography through the Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize as well as finding and promoting new talents of the future, whether this be in the Professional, Open, Youth or Student Focus competitions. Sony is committed to supporting global photography. This is demonstrated not only via the Awards, but also by its significant grant program which offers selected winners of the student competition $3,500 (USD) and professional competition $7,000 (USD) to develop personal projects.
The 2019 Sony World Photography Awards opens for entries 1 June, 2018. All entries are free at www.worldphoto.org
Now it’s official! Venus Optics announced two new Sony FE lenses. This is the press text:
Laowa 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 FE Zoom
This lens is currently the widest zoom lens available for Sony full frame E-mount cameras. Designed primarily for travel photography, Venus optics have managed to compress the size to smallest in its class, less than 10 inch (<10cm) and only 1.1 pounds (<500g). The 102° (18mm) to 130° (10mm) angle of view provides flexibility for photographers to compose landscape or architecture photos with ease. The lens houses with 14 elements in 10 groups with 2 aspherical elements & 1 extra-low dispersion element to deliver exceptional performance. It can focus as close as 15cm for some mini-macro shooting. A rear filter slot is included to fit with 37mm filter. Click/clickless aperture can be toggled by the switch on the lens barrel.
Laowa 100mm f/2.8 2X Ultra Macro APO
Followed by the success of the Laowa 60mm f/2.8 2:1 Macro, the 100mm f/2.8 2:1 Macro is the 2nd member of Laowa 2:1 macro line-up. This new 100mm lens can cover full frame sensor size and focus from 2:1 magnification to infinity. The wide magnification range allows macro photographers to capture subject at any sizes. This 100mm portrait lens also features an apochromatic (APO) characteristic that no chromatic aberration can be found. The 12 elements in 10 groups optics design delivers a crystal sharpness image in both macro and tele distances. Canon EF / Nikon AI / Pentax K / Sony FE mounts are available.
All lenses will be available for trial at Venus Optics’ booth (T225) in Beijing P&E Imaging fair during 3rd-6th May 2019. They are expected to be shipped in mid/late 2018. Exact shipping date and pricing are to be confirmed.
Phase One Releases Capture One 11.1 Update Provides New Resource Hub, Expanded Camera Support and Improved Workflow
COPENHAGEN, Apr. 19, 2018 – Phase One, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-end digital camera systems, today released Capture One 11.1, a service release to the industry’s premier RAW conversion and image editing software. The release enhances the Capture One user experience, through a new support platform and functionality updates to ensure a faster, smoother workflow. Improved Styles and presets workflow, support for 11 new cameras, including Sony A7 Mk III and Fuji X-H1 and 10 new lenses, including Tamron lenses for both Nikon and Canon, and an all-new Resource Hub are among the latest updates.
“Capture One remains dedicated to the needs of ambitious photographers. These latest updates introduce an extension to camera and lens support, as well as an all-new Resource Hub. The Resource Hub is an in-app portal that allows users to easily access news, tutorials, updates and much more – all designed to inspire photographers and ensure the best workflow and user experience in Capture One,” said Jan Hyldebrandt-Larsen, VP Software Business at Phase One.
NEW FEATURES AND TOOLS IN CAPTURE ONE 11.1
IMPROVED STYLES AND PRESETS
A new workflow adds a much faster way to apply both Styles and Presets to a Layer on one or multiple images, offering a direct control of opacity, imperative to wedding and portrait photographers.
Furthermore, a new Spring Styles Pack is included, offering bright pastel color grading to images, particularly helpful to wedding, portrait and landscape photography.
RESOURCE HUB
The Resource Hub has been introduced to offer quick access to free learning resources via a dynamic on-screen portal. Tutorials, news, webinars, blog posts and much more are offered in one convenient location to improve the user experience and learning curve with Capture One.
NORMALIZATION TOOL
The normalization tool provides a reference point for exposure and white balance for batch adjustments, now allowing any color to be used when previously the only option was a neutral grey.
NEW CAMERA AND LENS SUPPORT
The Capture One R&D team, alongside our color scientists, analyze hundreds of images from each camera to provide photographers access to the best out of box experience with natural profiles. Below outlines the new camera and lens additions that Capture One 11.1 supports. A full list of supported cameras can be found here: http://www.phaseone.com/supported-cameras
New camera support includes:
Fujifilm X-H1
Leica M262
Leica CL
Leica X-U
Leica V-Lux Typ 114
Leica TL2
Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mk III
Olympus E-PL9
Panasonic G9
Panasonic GH5S
Sony A7 Mk III
New lens support includes:
Canon lens:
o CanonEF24-105mmf/4LISIIUSM
Leica lenses:o Leica Elmarit M 2.8/90
o Leica Summicron M 2/90
Sony lenses:
o Sony E 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS (SEL18135)
o Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS (SEL24105G)
Tamron lenses:o Tamron SP 70-200mm F/2.8 Di VC USD G2 A025
o Tamron SP 35mm F/1.8 Di VC USD F012
o Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010
o Tamron SP 90mm F/2.8 Di MACRO 1:1 VC USD F017
o Tamron 16-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD MACRO B016
CAPTURE PILOT 2.0
Capture Pilot 2.0 adds camera control support for Sony, allowing users to change camera settings of the tethered camera directly from your iOS device.
AVAILABILITY AND PRICING
Capture One 11.1 is available now for the Mac and Windows operating systems online at www.phaseone.com/store and from Phase One authorized partners worldwide www.phaseone.com/partners.
Capture One Pro (click here and use code “AMBSAR” to get a 10% discount):
Owners of Capture One Pro 11 perpetual and subscribers can update for free by downloading. New customers can purchase Capture One Pro 11 for 299 USD or 279 EUR.
Owners of Capture One Pro 9 and 10 can upgrade for 119 USD/EUR
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