There is a newly published patent disclosing the design of three new Tamron FE primes:

25mm f/2.0
40mm f/2.0
85mm f/2.0

I guess those are  just small variations from their newly announced f/2.8 prime lens line. Don’t think it makes sense to release those slightly faster lenses now. Would prefer to get f/1.8 or f/1.4 primes instead.

via Hi LowsNote

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Links to all Tamron FE lenses:
Tamron 17-28mm f/2.8 FE at BHphoto, Amazon, FocusCamera, BuyDig and Adorama. In EU at Amazon DE, Calumet DE, WexUK, Park UK, Amazon IT, Amazon FR, Amazon ES, CameraTools NL.
Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 FE at Amazon, Bhphoto, FocusCamera and Adorama. In Europe at Amazon DE, Amazon UK and Amazon FR.
Tamron 20mm  f/2.8 at Adorama, FocusCamera and BHphoto.
Tamron 24mm  f/2.8 at Adorama, FocusCamera and BHphoto.
Tamron 35mm  f/2.8 at Adorama, FocusCamera and BHphoto.

Today Sony issued the new Q2 financial report. Compared to last years Q2 sales dropped by a small 3,5%. Also the  unit sales dropped but  that has to be expected as the camera as  a whole is focusing on high profit cameras/lenses and moving away from the low margin compact camera business:

The forecast for 2019 remains unchanged with a total of 3 million cameras sold compared to the 3,6 million of 2018.

Press text:

Focus Studio Co., Ltd. will start selling the following conversion mount adapters from SHOTEN on Thursday, October 17th. A mount adapter with an appearance and familiarity with an old lens that excels in functionality and design.

Manufacturer’s suggested price ¥ 4,800 (excluding tax)

[Characteristic]

• High durability and high rigidity realized by all metal material
• The inside of the adapter is matted to greatly reduce internal reflections
• Pyramid surface treatment with anti-slip effect and design on the side

Sony Japan announced that it will add Animal Eye-AF on the Sony RX10 IV via a new firmware update that will be released within 2019.  Translated press text:

Software update contents:
1. Real-time pupil AF support for animals (still images only)
2. Real-time pupil AF operability improvement Support for half-pressing the shutter button
3. Improved operational stability

Scheduled release date for software updates:
Scheduled for 2019

Jerry AmEnde‎
Red Fox and his Vole. Sony A9 / 200-600mm F/6.3
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Peter McKinnon X NOMATIC camera bag is selling incredibly well on Kickstarter (Check out what it can do here). It’s  the third time in a  couple of months I see camera bags raising a ton of money. I am surprised to see that!

I got two Capture One PRO news:

First: Until October 31, you get 10% discount on Capture One Pro 12 by using code “OCT-AF-QUW” at checkout (Click here)
Second: If you buy Capture One from now  on you will get a free upgrade to Capture One 20 which will be released  in November!

Basically you now save 10% on the soon to be announced Capture One 20!!!

Reminder: The  AI powered new Luminar 4 (full details here) will be released in November too.

If you think Capture One is difficult to learn to use watch this: