Starting from today Capture One 20 preorders are now finally available! And save money in two ways:

1) If you are an existing C1 owner you get 20% discount. And if you use checkout code “OCT-AF-QUW” you get additional 10% discount!!!
2) Til October 31 you save 10% on Capture One 12 using the checkout code “OCT-AF-QUW“. And the best part is that  you will get the new Capture One Pro 20 as a free update in November!

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

Engadget spotted a splendid news: The Panasonic S1H got approved by Netflix. It means it’s the first mirrorless camera that you can use for Netflix quality production.

Matti Sulanto:

Travel Photography –What’s in my Travel Camera Bag?
In this video I’m going to explain which cameras and lenses I’ll take on my trip to Malaysia and why.

Interview with Daimon Xanthopoulos, Lumix Ambassador, about latest panasonic Lumix Division camera, camera made specially for cinematographers. Panasonic, without question, added all and everything to the camera if you consider codecs and different features. RED patent, of course, prevents to use internal raw recording for now but it can change during the next year. All of the companies will be fighting against RED who is lying on the floor as hurdle towards the progress and just prevents cameras development further. Until this time you need to use Atomos recorders if you’ll want to record raw formats. It’ll be nice to also see dual pixel autto focus and more intellectual modes made for small crews, hope we’ll see some in coming years, may be it will be related with move to Samsung FF sensors and main camera LSIs.

Adam Werton shared this image of the Dulens 85mm f/2.0 lens adapted on the S1. The lens costs $599 and there might be a native L-mount versions some times in the near future…

Sigma announced the new firmware  update for the three L-mount lenses (info here).

Press release:

Firmware update for SIGMA L-Mount lenses

Thank you for purchasing and using our products.
We are pleased to announce that a new firmware update for SIGMA L-Mount lenses are now available.

To update the firmware, please refer to the following link;
https://www.sigma-global.com/en/download/lenses/firmware/

For further information, please contact your nearest authorized SIGMA subsidiary / distributor.
https://www.sigma-global.com/en/about/world-network/

We appreciate your continued support for our company and products.

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Thanks Mistral!

This Week in Photo:

In this episode, Lumix Ambassador Shiv Verma and I discuss the Lumix S1R full-frame mirrorless camera. Amongst the topics of discussion are the features of this new system, the growing lens line-up, and the assertion that Lumix is abandoning the micro four-thirds sensor size format.