Ties Blaaus (@bluehill_stories) is one of our Dutch readers. He contacted me and asked me for following help:

anyone knows how to get the spider out of the viewfinder? Tried to open up the front part, but it appears to be connected to the whole body… Probably the spider got there during a lens swap or something? Would be awesome to get some help here because we’re on a thruhike in New Zealand right nowthanks!

That’s the camera affected by the spider: https://amzn.to/3RRvgB8

Trusted sources told me that Godox will launch a PRO version of their popular Godox V1 TTL Li-ion Round Head Camera Flash. No info yet on the specific advanced features…

These are Patrick’s top 3 favorite budget primes:

20mm f/1.8 G
35mm f/1.8
85mm f/1.8

Lensrentals published the data of the most rented gear in 2023. Sony cameras had an increase of 4,81% and E-mount lenses and increase of 9,83%. Unexpected to see the A7sIII being the most rented Sony camera!

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Sony officially announced their press release event on January 8th 5pm Las Vegas time. They will be surely focused on all automotive gear tech and not so much on video-photography related gear. At best we will get the new FX camera that could be a successor of both the FX6/FX9 E-mount cameras. But don’t worry folks, soon I will be able to share some RELIABLE rumors about new upcoming Sony gear…I already got “something” ;)

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