You have four days to save up to 83% on Luminar NEO (Click here). And they also launched the new 1.8 update with the following new features:

Preorders:
USA at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama.
EU at FotoErhardt, FotoKoch, Calumet, WexUK.

Viltrox officially teased the launch of four new lenses. Three of them for E-mount

• 16mm f/1.8 FE
• 28mm f/1.8 FE
• 75mm f/1.2 E (a copy of the current X-mount version).

There is yet no detailed info about the release date and pricing (except for the 75mm lens which will have same pricing and specs of the X-mount version).

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).