A Cheap 500mm Lens, Rumored Canon Lenses – digitalcameras.ie

Considered one of our readers impressed me final week not solely along with his nice photographs of fishermen, but in addition with the Sebastião Salgado quote I discovered in his “About me” part. “Actuality is in colour, fact is in black and white.” What extra is there to say? You don’t want a movie digicam round your neck to search out the reality. Typically it’s sufficient to change your telephone to black and white mode, as I did final week. However now to the colourful actuality of what final week introduced within the images world.

Latest Bulletins

• DJI Mini 4 Professional: As a substitute of the tri-directional impediment avoidance of the earlier technology, the DJI Mini 4 Professional has an omni-directional impediment avoidance. The vary has additionally been improved to as much as 12.4 miles in comparison with the 7.5 miles of the Mini 3 Professional. The battery will hold the drone within the air for as much as 45 minutes. The 48MP digicam can seize nonetheless photos in RAW, DNG, or JPG. The video specification is H.264/H.265 4:2:0 8/10-bit. The Fly Extra Combo Plus with RC 2 controller is priced at $1,159.
• TTArtisan 500mm F6.3: If guide focusing is just not a problem for you, this lens is among the least expensive tickets into the supertelephoto world. For $329, you get a comparatively compact, 1600-gram (3.5 lbs) all-metal lens that homes 8 parts in 5 teams. Closest focus distance is 3.3 meters / 10.8 ft. The lens is on the market for Sony E, Canon RF, Nikon Z, and Leica L mounts.
• DxO PhotoLab 7: The seventh model provides colour calibration and help for LUTs (you may select from 17 pre-installed). ColorWheel is now accessible for native modifying (much like Seize One), there’s a brand new tab and superior choices for B&W modifying, and we’ve gotten a number of interface adjustments. There may be additionally help for an extra 1185 digicam and lens mixtures, such because the Nikon AF-S 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR and Z 70-180mm f/2.8, together with teleconverters.
• Excire Foto 2024: A brand new picture group software program which types photos based mostly upon phrase descriptions (topic recognition). For instance, sort in “Grand Canyon sundown” or “particular person by the Eiffel Tower with a yellow umbrella” and this system will discover your picture for you. There are different sorting and tagging options, too.

The Rumor Mill

Remaining lens on Nikon’s roadmap

The newest addition to the Z lens household is the Nikon Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena, which we reported on earlier this week. Now just one yellow dot on the roadmap stays. Personally, I’m trying ahead to the materialization of this dot, because it represents my favourite non-telephoto focal size – 35mm. With an f/1.2 aperture, it is going to be a reportage, documentary and marriage ceremony dream lens. Furthermore, in accordance with Nikon Rumors, it seems like we’d not have to attend too lengthy for it.

Canon 35mm L prime with f/1.2 or f/1.4? Or each?

There have been speculations on Canon Rumors that Canon may announce not one, however two 35mm L lenses quickly – one f/1.2, and one f/1.4. This isn’t a lot of a distinction (solely about 1/2 cease) and appears onerous to justify to me, however who is aware of? May the brighter of the 2 get the defocus smoothing function recognized from the RF 85mm f/1.2? That could be sufficient of a differentiator to justify the existence of each.

What telephoto zooms can we anticipate from Canon?

Canon doesn’t give any clues about future lenses, however you may deduce quite a bit from the patents which were filed. Though it’s a great distance from patent to precise lens, you may a minimum of get an thought of the path of improvement. Lately, Canon has filed a set of three patent purposes with a reasonably spectacular assortment of zoom telephoto lenses. Right here’s a listing of them. By the way in which, which of those lenses could be probably the most tempting for you?

• Canon RF 200-800mm f/5.6-9.0
• Canon RF 200-1000mm f/5.6-11.0
• Canon RF 200-800mm f/5.6-8.0
• Canon RF 150-600mm f/5.0-6.3
• Canon RF 300-1000mm f/6.3-9.0
• Canon RF 300-800mm f/5.6-9.0
• Canon RF 200-500mm f/5.6-6.3
• Canon RF 200-400mm f/4.0
• Canon RF 200-1000mm f/5.6-9.0

Through Canon Rumors

Good Offers and New Gross sales

In my space, the leaves on the timber are starting to show autumn colours. The fading inexperienced chlorophyll briefly offers approach to the purple and yellow pigments of the carotenoid group. Nevertheless, it’s one factor to {photograph} these colours and fairly one other to show them accurately on a monitor. Vast-gamut screens don’t come low cost, however there are some reductions this week from a few completely different corporations:

For journey images, an SSD or two can allow you to again up your photographs on the go. A number of the offers this week are greater than half off the standard costs – as we’ve mentioned earlier than, don’t purchase onerous drives at full worth with how typically they go on sale! The next SSDs are presently at a reduction:

Different Pages of Curiosity

A while in the past, we knowledgeable you in regards to the issues that affected some SSDs from SanDisk. Affected had been the Excessive Transportable, Excessive Professional Transportable and Western Digital My Passport fashions (largely in 4TB capacities). You’ll be able to learn extra particulars on the EaseUS web site, however extra importantly, you may obtain a device to get well information out of your SSD.

Igor Mikula, whom you understand from our interview final 12 months, was awarded within the Digital camera Traps class within the prestigious Nature TTL Photographer of the Yr 2023 competitors. Congratulations, Igor! Right here you may see all of the successful photographs.

Synthetic neural networks are within the information today because of their half in synthetic intelligence. However I feel actual, dwelling neural networks are much more fascinating. Dr. Alexandre Dumoulin of the College of Zurich captured a 48-hour time-lapse of creating neurons connecting reverse aspect of the central nervous system in a chick embryo. This fascinating video received him the highest prize within the 2023 Small World in Movement competitors. Extremely, this course of additionally occurs within the “private pc” inside our cranium.

Profitable a images competitors is all the time a purpose to rejoice. Profitable the Prix Pictet Images and Sustainability Award is much more so. Along with status and recognition, the winner this 12 months, Indian Photographer Gauri Gill, additionally obtained a really good worth of 100,000 Swiss francs (about $109,219). Listed below are the successful photos she took as a part of her Notes from the Desert collection.

Photograph Theme Problem, Week #17

Final week’s theme was low-key, and you’ll see the outcomes on this thread. Thanks to everybody on your submissions! This week’s theme is synthetic gentle, and you’ll submit your outcomes on this thread by October 6!

Week #16 Outcomes

Let’s check out a few the submissions for the low-key theme, beginning with a submission by rjbfoto:

rjbfoto writes, “This shot was taken in Uganda, the place I visited the mountain gorillas within the Bwindi nationwide park. It was an unbelievable second in my life, sitting in inside a household of 20 mountain gorillas just a few meters away from them.” What a tremendous expertise! I’ve had a couple of such experiences with wildlife myself and they’re actually unforgettable.

Robert submitted this panorama:

I really like the darkish and colours. It reveals an understated peace that comes out in low-key landscapes!

Lastly, now we have one from John Graybosch:

The element hidden at midnight offers this panorama an fascinating sense of thriller.

Due to everybody who submitted their photographs! They had been a variety of enjoyable to look via, and we look ahead to seeing your work subsequent week.