New Luminar Christmas deal (Save up to 63% on bundles)

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Til 23.12 you get Luminar bundles with discounts of up to -63% off.

Luminar Neo offer:
1 seat:
Luminar NEO + 2 Free Packs – 41% discount: 69 $/€
Luminar NEO + Luminar AI + 2 Free Packs – 50% discount : 98 $/€
Luminar NEO + Luminar AI + Aurora HDR + 2 Free Packs – 63% discount: 108 $/€
2 seats:
Luminar NEO + 2 Free Packs – 42% discount: 79 $/€
Luminar NEO + Luminar AI + 2 Free Packs – 50% discount: 118 $/€
Luminar NEO + Luminar AI + Aurora HDR + 2 Free Packs – 62% discount: 128 $/€

Luminar AI offer:
1 seat:
Luminar AI + 2 Free Packs – 60% discount: 47 $/€
Luminar AI + Aurora + 2 Free Packs – 69% discount: 67 $/€
Luminar NEO + Luminar AI + Aurora HDR+ 2 Free Packs – 63% discount: 108 $ / €
2 seats:
Luminar AI + 2 Free Packs – 57% discount: 59 $/€
Luminar AI + Aurora HDR + 2 Free Packs – 67% discount: 79 $/€
Luminar NEO + Luminar AI + Aurora HDR + 2 Free Packs – 62% discount: 128 $/€

 

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Sony Tidbits…

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85mm VS 135mm Which Lens Should YOU Get? | Travel Landscape Portrait Street General

Viltrox AF 24mm 1.8 FE is a great lens for the price (David Oastler).
Macro on a Budget – Macro Couplers (Explora).
How to Create an Effective Photoshop Workflow (42West).
Researchers at Princeton University and the University of Washington have developed an ultracompact camera the size of a coarse grain of salt! (MirrorlessRumors).
CineD’s Best Mirrorless Camera of the Year for Video 2021 (CineD).

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Wild rumors roundup: A7RV, medium format curved sensor camera, FX1

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About those rumors: I have no idea who sent them and 90% of the times they turn out to be wrong. But, it happened in the past that a couple of those were right. So I will post them today, and we all together can eventually keep track of this. If one of the sources turns out to be right than we will know we can trust it a bit more!

Source 1 (SAR note: I think there is 0,001% chance this is true):

Sony A7R V announcement due in June 2022, 102MP.
Adaptive Pixel and Computational Photography Modes.
Simultaneous announcement about curved sensor medium format camera development (2 cameras, 150mp and 200mp, 9-12 prime lenses, very expensive, to follow quickly)

Source 2:

Sony will release an ILME-FX1 full-frame handheld camcorder in 2022. This camcorder is smaller than the ILME-FX3, has no ND filter and IBIS, no grip on the right side, but has a pluggable LCD monitor and is powered by an external V-mount battery or DC power. It looks like a full-featured UMC-S3CA.
Interestingly, this camcorder was introduced in honor of their first 1080i HDV camcorder, the HDV-FX1. So the ILME-FX1 also does not support 4K, it only supports 1080p for TV stations with high speed FOV footage.
It uses the BIONZ XR processor and has many features of the ILME-FX3. The 5-megapixel effective sensor with phase autofocus is only one-fourth the resolution of the PXW-FX9. At 1080p resolution, it can achieve 120fps recording with full frame super sampling, 180fps S&Q recording with super sampling of about 1.3x crop factor, and 240fps S&Q recording in Super 35mm (pixel by pixel, about 1.6x crop factor).
Obviously, it is a specialised camera. It has excellent 1080p quality, balancing speed and image quality. It is likely to be a strong competitor to Canon’s ME20F-SH.

Source 3:

100mm f/1.4 GM in 2022

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World’s first review of the new Samyang 50mm F1.4 AF II reviewed by SonyAlphaBlog: “very good to excellent performance”

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Thew new improved version is now available for preorder at Adorama (Click here).

SonyAlphaBlog tested the brand new Samyang 50mm F1.4 AF II and concluded:

The Samyang 50mm F1.4 AF II is a huge upgrade compared to the Samyang 50 mm F1.4 AF. It offers overall very good to excellent performances at a fraction of the price of Sony Planar T* 50mm F1.4 Zeiss or Sony 50mm F1.2 GM. Its main weaknesses compared to the Sony are : the AF that is a little bit less efficient and the bokeh balls that are not circular when aperture is closed down + a higher level of CA

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