All five Nikon Z super telephotos, to scale:
120-300mm f/2.8 TC: 2,735g
400mm f/2.8 TC: 2,950g
600mm f/4 TC: 3,260g
600mm f/6.3 PF: 1,390g
800mm f/6.3 PF: 2,385g
#Nikon #NikonZ
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Nikon Z 120-300mm f/2.8 TC VR S is official.
Built-in 1.4x: 168-420mm f/4 at a flick. 2,735g, 128 x 353.5mm.
$13,999.95, mid-November.
Our May estimate from Nikon's teaser image: 128 x 353mm.
#Nikon #NikonZ
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Apple's first touch screen Mac: the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display.
Tandem OLED, P3 + Adobe RGB, 1000 nits sustained. M5 Pro/Max. From $2,899, ships Nov 6.
Same chip, memory and storage with the old mini-LED screen: $2,499.
#Apple #MacBookPro
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OM System OM-5 Mark II firmware 1.1 is out (October 28, 2026).
The full changelog: "Improve stability of some functions."
First update since the June 2025 launch. Free via OM Workspace.
#OMSystem #MicroFourThirds
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Godox iM10: $24.90, 23g, USB-C, about 350 full power flashes.
Lightest flash in our database of 243.
Manual only, four power levels, and the dimmest is 1/8. That floor is the catch for close-up work.
#Godox #CameraGear
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It's official: Sony Japan says the FX5 goes on sale Friday, November 20, 2026.
DVF-EL1 viewfinder, XLR-H2 handle and VMC-BNCU1 cable launch the same day.
13 weeks after the original August 21 date.
#SonyFX5 #CinemaLine
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The Olympus PEN-F is from 2016. In our reader votes it beats the new OM System PEN 77% to 23% and the OM-3 two to one. It loses only to the cheaper E-P7 and Panasonic GX bodies. #Olympus #PENF
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The Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo 2 is official: a 1/2.77-inch sensor (about 3x the area of the old one), face-detection AF, a 4.46-inch touchscreen and a wide-angle mode. $299.95, black only, end of November. #instax #Fujifilm
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New iPad mini, from a photographer's point of view:
8.5-inch OLED, IP67, 10Gb/s USB-C, 255g, from $699.
Great as a camera remote and field editor. But full-screen brightness is only 600 nits.
#iPadmini #photography
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Fujifilm X100VI vs Panasonic S9:
X100VI $1,799, 521g, viewfinder, leaf shutter, ND
S9 $1,497, 486g, full frame, no viewfinder
Best X100-style lens for the S9: Lumix S 40mm f/2, 630g and $1,895 together.
#Fujifilm #Lumix
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CIPA August 2026, vs a year ago:
Units -0.6%, value +9.6%
Compacts +32.9%
Mirrorless -10%
Full frame -18.4%
Europe +31.6%, China -28.7%
#CIPA #cameras
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ZY Optics (Zhongyi) announces its first autofocus lens tomorrow, Oct 25: an AF 35mm f/1.4 for full frame.
Reported price about $450. That would undercut every AF 35mm f/1.4 we list (Sirui $549, Nikon Z $577).
#ZYOptics #NikonZ
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Sony 600mm F6.3 GM vs my 300mm F2.8 GM + 2x on a resolution chart (A7R V RAW). Center: tie at f/6.3, f/8, f/11. Corners: the 600mm wins. And it costs half. #Sony #SonyAlpha
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The Sigma FP2 is official: 24.5MP partially stacked sensor, 20fps, 6K open gate in internal ProRes RAW, 70GB built in. $2,199, ships Nov 11. Still no built-in viewfinder. #Sigma #SigmaFP2
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SmallRig 28mm waist-level optical viewfinder: $58.99, 35mm and 50mm frame lines, 62g.
It lists 31 cameras. Only 4 have no finder and a fixed screen: the Ricoh GR III, GR IV and their HDF versions.
#Ricoh #RicohGR #SmallRig
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The Canon EOS Ra is an EOS R built only for the night sky: about 4x more H-alpha light from nebulae and 30x focus magnification. Launched in 2019 and mostly forgotten. #Canon #astrophotography
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New @insta360 Mic: $249.99 for two mics, $80 less than the Mic Pro.
Keeps the custom E-Ink screen. 32-bit float backup, but only with your own microSD card. 13h per mic, 34h with the case.
#Insta360 #filmmaking
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Cooke's S4 FF/i takes the S4/i look to full frame: six T2.0 primes, 18 to 100mm, 1.45 to 1.8kg each. That's half a Cooke S7/i at the same T-stop. $15,000 per lens. #Cooke #CinemaLens
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What 1:1 macro really means:
At 1:1 a full frame frame is 36mm wide: two dimes.
A typical 50mm at 0.14x: 257mm.
Only 203 of 2,121 lenses reach life size.
At 1:1, f/2.8 acts like f/5.6.
#macro #photography
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The Canon 5D Mark IV still sells new for $1,999. Readers compare it with 1,451 cameras here. It beats the 6D II and 5D III in the vote, then loses to the R6 II, the R8, even the 90D. #Canon #5DMarkIV
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