Leica S3 medium format camera announced

Leica announced their S3 medium format camera. The Camera will cost just over $20,000 and feature a 64 MP sensor, 3fps burst rate with 4k video capabilities and fast AF. What do you think?

Panasonic to release two full-frame cameras

Panasonic is teaming up with Leica and Sigma to produce two full-frame cameras using the Leica SL mount. It is unclear whether Sigma will make the Cameras or not but they should provide a nice Lens lineup for the camera. One camera will probably be around 24mp MP like the Z6 and the other will be closer in the 40-50mp range like the Z7.

GoPro 7 announced, will it be enough to save the company?

Gopro has announced the Hero 7, an ultra-stabilized version of the GoPro camera. Gopro has had losses 11 or the past 12 quarters, will this camera save the company?

Photographer sues Netflix for Copyright infringement

Sean R. Heavey, the photographer of the photo "Mothership" has sued Netflix for using his photo on materials for their show "stranger things". An attempt at a settlement has failed and now Sean is going through Litigation to stop Netflix from using his work and an unspecified amount of damages. I am totally in favor of the photographer this time as Netflix is a very profitable business that knowingly used a copyrighted work without contacting asking permission or compensating the author.

Nikon Leaves Brazil

Nikon has left Brazil for good. Although Brazil is a big market with over 200 million people, it is just not a good place for foreign consumer electronics companies both because of the regulations and taxes there for such companies and because of the enormous grey market there. For these two reasons, Nikon has found it hard to be profitable there and has decided to leave.

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Fuji to launch GFX 50R -- Cheapest Medium Format Camera Ever!

Fuji is rumored to be launching the GFX 50R, the "cheapest" medium format camera ever. No, this does not mean there is going to be a $500 medium format camera going around. It will most likely be around $3600 without the lens and $4500 with the kit lens. Still in the professional flagship camera price range, but far cheaper than most medium format cameras. For high resolution, image quality enthusiasts, this might present a chance to jump from Full-Frame to Medium format.

Canon EOS R does not have image stabilization. Is this a joke?

Canon's brand shiny new EOS R has no image stabilization while all of its competition has 4-5 stops of image stabilization. Is this a joke? This puts the new Canon mirrorless way behind its Nikon and Sony counterparts. Think about it, you can adapt a non-IS lens to the Sony Camera and it will have 5 stops of stabilization and yet if you attach it to the Canon mirrorless, it will not have stabilization. Some say Canon is doing this to protect its line of expensive lenses with IS because having IS would not be an advantage if IBIS was implemented because then all lenses(including cheap ones) would have IS. This is a flawed strategy and Canon will lose market share because of it.

Fuji announces new XT-3 with 4k@60!

Among all the noise made recently by Canon, Nikon, and Sony, Fuji announced its XT-3 which I think will win some people over because it has a feature that not many other cameras have. It is able to shoot 4k video at 60fps whereas the full-frame mirrorless cameras from Canon, Nikon, and Sony can only do 4k at 30 frames per second. The improvements on Autofocus make it a formidable stills camera as well.

Canon Announces new EOS R Mirrorless Camera

Canon has launched its new EOS R Mirrorless Camera with the following features:
30.4 MP sensor
Fully articulating screen
8fps burst shooting
Over 5,000 AF points with DPAF
4k @ 30
1080 DP @ 60
100-40,000 ISO native
$2299

Seems like it would compete with the Z7 and A7RIII but the price tag puts it more in the Z6/A7III category. Hard to tell. Canon has only launched 1 mirrorless full frame instead of 2 like Nikon and Sony.