L-Rumors

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L-RumorsRumoursTilt-shift goes brighter: Laowa unveils its new $1,249 24mm f/2 L-mount lens Laowa announced the new 24mm f/2 Zero-D Tilt-Shift you can preorder at BHphoto , VenusStore , Amazon , Adorama , Fotokoch , FotoErhardt , Calumet , Clifton , WexUK .

11.06

L-RumorsRumoursLet’s hope these two Lumix lenses will be announced in November As you know many Lumix influencers are in Osaka right now for a major Panasonic event. Hopefully also the two teased lenses that are on Lumix’s roadmap will be announced.

11.05

L-RumorsRumoursWeird image of a miniature Lumix S9 with MFT sensor? A well known store shortly posted this image of what looks like a Lumix S9 body with Micro Four Thirds sensor inside.

11.04

L-RumorsRumoursNew SIRUI Aurora 15mm f/1.6 and 24mm f/1.4 Full-Frame Autofocus Lenses are coming on November 9 On November 9 Sirui will launch the two new 15mm f/1.6 and 24mm f/1.4 L-mount lenses. We already had the pleasure to see those new lenses at the IBC show:

11.04

L-RumorsRumoursNew Viltrox L-mount lens reviews roundup Viltrox L-mount lenses at BHphoto , Amazon , Viltrox . Here are the more reviews:

11.04

L-RumorsRumoursTwo new Lumix cameras coming in the next months? One Cine model with new sensor and the S9II with EVF? I am finally making slow progress on the next Lumix camera rumors: Lumix S9II : I am now 90% confident a new Lumix S9II is coming this spring.

11.03

L-RumorsRumoursNew Meike 50mm f/1.4 L lens is coming soon The lens is slated for an official release within 2026 and will be available for various mounts, including Sony E, Nikon Z, and Panasonic L. It is expected to weigh approximately 600 grams.

11.03

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo