Sirui Optical officially announced that the new Nightcrawler 16mm T1.2 and 75mm T1.2 lenses will be released on May 7, with Canon R/Sony E/Fuji X/M43 and L mounts, and are available in black and gun gray colors. , 67mm filter interface, stepless aperture, each weighing about 500g, and has previously launched 24mm/35mm/55mm focal lengths. Sirui Optics may launch 16mm/75mm sniper series autofocus lens versions in the future.

Those deals will end on April 21 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama. Here a selection of the most interesting rebates:

Cameras:

• $200 off on the Lumix S5II sold by Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.
• $200 off on the Lumix S5IIx sold by Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.
• $600 off on the Lumix S5 sold by Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.

Lenses:

• $300 off on the 70-200mm f/2.8 sold by Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.
• $500 off on the 50mm f/1.4 sold by Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.
• $300 off on the 24-70mm f/2.8 sold by Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.
• $300 off on the 70-200mm f/4.0 sold by Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.
• $300 off on the 16-35mm f/4.0 sold by Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.
• $300 off on the 24-105mm f/4.0 sold by Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.
• $100 off on the 18mm f/1.8 sold by Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.
• $250 off on the 70-300mm sold by Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.
• $100 off on the 24mm f/1.8 sold by Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.
• $100 off on the 14-28mm sold by Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.
• $100 off on the 35mm f/1.8 sold by Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.
• $100 off on the 20-60mm sold by Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.
• $100 off on the 85mm f/1.8 sold by Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.
• $300 off on the 50mm f/1.8 sold by Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama.

Full specs and preorder at BHphoto (Click here).

Blackmagic Design PYXIS 6K Full-Frame Camera – First Look by CineD.com.

Dpreview had a chat with Sigma CEO Yamaki. They main topic was the Full Frame Foveons sensor development. Yamaki stated that:

Unfortunately, we have not made any significant progress since last year.

So it will still take a couple of years before (if ever) we will see a real camera using this kind of sensor. For Yamaki the upsides of this sensor (like color accuracy) are worth the effort and struggle to develop this technology.

Sigma launched a new European cashback action you can find on those pages at FotoErhardt, FotoKoch, Amazon EU, Calumet, WexUK.

Panasonic writes:

With the latest firmware update, the S5II/S5IIX cameras are now natively integrated with Frame.io Camera to Cloud, the leading cloud-based collaboration platform that allows users to share and collaborate while editing still images and videos. By connecting the camera to the internet via Wi-Fi or USB tethering, you can automatically upload images (JPEG/RAW) and Proxy videos directly from the camera to the Frame.io platform. Sharing media via the cloud enables seamless real-time feedback remotely. This integration allows editors and collaborators to access footage or images, connecting the production process to post-production enabling a much more efficient content creation process.

Topaz just released the brand new Photo Ai 3.0 (Click here). I use this software a lot and I think it does an impressive job. The updates are really big too!

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Photo AI’s creative potential has been unlocked in this version, allowing the creation of your own workflows for the first time with presets, flexible ordering of enhancements, panel docking & collapsing, enabling RAW color and lighting adjustments, and a standardized Topaz UI across all of our applications.

Presets

Save your commonly used filter combinations into a single stack, including the filter settings and selections. Presets will then appear in the enhancement menu so that you can reuse your favorite settings and selections across any of your photos with a single click. This will speed up the process of editing large batches of hundreds or thousands of photos at a time. You can also delete old presets by hovering over them in the enhancement menu.

Docking & Collapsing

You can now dock the floating control panel on the right side of the viewport for easy access, or undock it and move it to where you need on top of your working preview area.

The right panel is also now collapsible, making more space for viewing your image while editing. For maximum space, try undocking the control panel while in collapsible mode.

Reordering

You can now re-order and combine your enhancements in any order on the right panel, allowing you to more dynamically chain effects together. For example, you can now sharpen the entire image first before denoising the background and then sharpening again with just the subject. Changing the order of the filters will affect the way the output is processed, and this freedom will allow you to achieve results that otherwise were not possible within Photo AI.

RAW Balance Color & Adjust Lighting

On top of RAW Denoise, you are now able to adjust the color balance and lighting for RAW files inside Topaz Photo AI using our AI-based filters. This allows you to get the best quality possible out of your image straight from the camera and inside the application without having to make these adjustments in an external application even for RAW files.

Other Updates

On top of these exciting updates, both Face Recovery and Preserve Text can now be applied to the image multiple times, allowing you to control the strength of the effect on different subjects and areas of the image independently. We have also added other performance improvements and fixes under the hood. Take a look at the full changelog for more.

UI Refresh

Topaz Photo AI has been updated with a standardized Topaz UI framework, with new colors and icons coming to Topaz Labs apps for a unified, streamlined look.

Changelog

• Refreshed user interface with Topaz UI style
• Implemented drag and reorder enhancements
• Implemented basic preset functionality
• Implemented docking and undocking feature
• Enabled Text Recovery to be added multiple times
• Enabled Face Recovery to be added multiple times
• Enabled Adjust lighting for RAW images
• Enabled Balance color for RAW images
• Fixed Adjust lighting crash on M3 with macOS 14.4 and above
• Fixed switching models on Denoise not updating the preview
• Fixed export output suffix not matching enhancements order
• Added preference for RAW Adjust lighting strength
• Added camera profile for Panasonic G9M2
• Added noise profile for Sony ILCE-6700