Tamron 20-40mm surprised me.. (vs Sony 20-70mm)

Today deals at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, FotoErhardt DE, FotoKoch DE.
Lensbaby Announces Double Glass II Optic for Composer Pro II (Explora).
Go inside Sigma’s factory to see how lenses are made (Dpreview).
How To Choose A Video Tripod (42West).
A history of the test scene (Dpreview).
Should I Upgrade To Sony A7 IV? My Friends All Said YES (Robin Wong).

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We have our own Facebook camera groups you can join to discuss the upcoming new cameras in detail:
Sony Alpha group.
Sony A1 group.
Sony A9 series group.
Sony A7r series group.
Sony A7s series group.
Sony A7 series group.

At least some good news from Dpreview:

Dear readers,

We’ve received a lot of questions about what’s next for the site. We hear your concerns about losing the content that has been carefully curated over the years, and want to assure you that the content will remain available as an archive.
We’ve also heard that you need more time to access the site, so we’re going to keep publishing some more stories while we work on archiving.

Thank you to this community and the support you’ve shown us over the years.

Scott Everett
General Manager – DPReview.com

My long time friend Andreas Jürgensen is asking the photographers opinion about the AI generated images and AI editing tools for photography. Please consider participating his survey at Surveymonkey (Click here).

Photography has changed a lot in recent years – especially through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Today, AI tools can optimize images, edit them and, since a few months, even create completely new images that look deceptively real.
What do you think of this development? Do you feel fascination for the technical possibilities or do concerns and rejection prevail when you think about AI and photography?
Maybe you are afraid that it will affect the authenticity and creativity in photography. Or maybe you’re curious and open to new tech possibilities and see AI as an opportunity to be more creative.
In this survey, we would like to learn more about what you think about this topic and what questions and suggestions you have.

We are curious about your opinion!
Andreas Jürgensen

P.S.: Join Andreas new AI-Imagelab forum to learn how to use AI to work with your photos.

7Artisans announced a new 15mm f/4.0 manual focusing Full Frame E-mount lens. SonyAlphaBlog posted a full review of this lens:

Til April 21st you save $50 on Topaz Photo Ai (Click here).

Inpainting and Extend Image, are two powerful new ways to edit your photos that will soon be available on Adobe Firefly. I took a couple of photos I shot with Sony A7rV and tried to modify them using Playground Ai which already contains those two features. Check out the video to see how it works!

Photoreview asked their readers to rank the reliability of their products. Sony had a very good result with close to 90% satisfaction. I a surprised to see Canon perform that bad!