BCN data for the full frame mirrorless market in Japan (April 2019) shows how Sony is slowly losing market shares in favour Nikon while Canon remains steady.
The five top ranking cameras are:
Guess Sony will lose even more market shares in the next months. Besides Canon and Nikon’s offerings there is also stiff competition coming from the L-Mount front.
Peak Design release a new, travel oriented tripod which is surprisingly compact.
You can pre-order the Peak Design Travel Tripod at Kickstarter.
Key Design Features
Press release:
San Francisco, CA (May, 2019) – After multiple award-winning bag releases, Peak Design, the worldwide leader in crowdfunding and everyday carry solutions, is proud to disrupt yet another product category—the camera tripod.More than four years in the making, Peak Design’s newest release, Travel Tripod, is a ground-up reexamination ofcamera tripod design to produce the world’s most portable, packable, and easy-to-setup tripod for professionals and first-time tripod owners alike.
Peak Design directly addressed their biggest rub about traditional tripods: spatial inefficiency and unnecessary bulk.Peak Design’s goal was to eliminate the dead space within a tripod, an ever-present inefficiency that often doubles ortriples the effective diameter of a packed tripod. Peak Design engineers reworked Travel Tripod’s legs and centercolumn to nest perfectly together in order to achieve a total packed diameter of just 3.25 inches—roughly the diameter of a water bottle. The result is a tripod that deploys to 58.5 inches tall while taking up less than half the volume of its competitors.
“During my travels in 2008 I began wondering why on Earth my tripod was so big. The thing was full of negativespace and knobs, and I felt like something designed for portability could do much better,” commented Peak Design CEO, Peter Dering. “I quickly realized that anything short of a complete design overhaul would fail to meet my criteriaof the perfect travel tripod. It took years of development but the outcome is a camera tripod that seamlessly integratesinto all aspects of travel and adventure.”
Travel Tripod is among the quickest-to-deploy and most intuitive to use tripods on the market. Peak Design developed a system of non-inverted legs that rapidly deploy along an aligned system of locking cam levers. With three swift hand movements, the legs can be fully extended and ready for action.
Peak Design also optimized the Travel Tripod ball head to operate more fluidly than traditional tripod heads while still prioritizing spatial efficiency. Travel Tripod eliminates bulky and confusing knobs with a single adjustment ring for simple and smooth 360-degree adjustment. Peak Design’s proprietary quick-release plate technology facilitates lightning-fast camera attachment—easily accommodating a full frame DSLR with telephoto lens—and is compatible with Peak Design carrying equipment and with Arca Swiss tripod dimensions. Furthermore, Travel Tripod’s ball head measures just 3.25 inches in diameter, keeping it aligned with the packed profile of the tripod’s legs for exceptionallycompact carry.
In addition to a thorough rethinking of a tripod’s architecture and user interface, carefully considered material choices and construction techniques provide the stability and vibration dampening demanded by avid photographers. A built- in universal phone mount, bubble-level, hook for counterweights, and included soft case round out a packed feature list that fans of Peak Design have come to expect.
Available both in carbon fiber and aluminum legs (MSRP: $599.95 // $349.95) the Travel Tripod will launch on Kickstarter (peakdesign.com/ks) for a pre-sale discount beginning May 21, 2019. The tripod will then be available for purchase online at peakdesign.com and through major retailers in time for the 2019 holiday season.
Specifications of the upcoming Fujifilm GFX 100 leaked at Nokishita. The Fujifilm GFX 100 is expected to be announced on May 23, 2019. You can follow the Fujifilm GFX 100 live blogging at Fuji Rumors.
Russian site Photar.ru interviewed the head of Canon Russia’s department of product and consumer expertise, Artem Lezhnev.
Answering the most common critics (all excerpts are machine translated):
People who criticize Canon are divided into two types. The first does not like the skinton, form factor or some particular points. The second – do not digest the marketing policy of the company. Why, for example, in one of the new Canon cameras – neither in the flagship, nor the middle or entry level, is it not possible to record 4K video without a crop? The company is technologically unable to carry out this task?
– We did not set such a function intentionally. We have a series of Cinema EOS – movie cameras. Canon separates EOS R and Cinema EOS from each other. This series is aimed at shooting professional video. Camera Canon C700 – there certainly is 4K from the whole frame.
We can put 4K from a full frame in the SLR and mirrorless, but we do not want to “cannibalize” our own video segment.
At the end there is some truth in the fact that Canon doesn’t “want to cannibalize” their video segment.
Is there a new Canon camera in the pipeline?
Could it be that the company is already testing a new camera, which will later be announced, for example, before the Olympiad?
“I’m sure Canon is already developing next-generation cameras, because testing usually starts at least a year before the camera enters the market.”
And when does testing end?
– A few months before the camera announcement. We have a very serious program of ambassadors, a very tough selection. Canon has the whole EMEA region – the whole of Europe, the whole of Africa, the Middle East and Russia – only 40 people. These are people with publications, participants of professional exhibitions of various genres, people who have really proved their professionalism, and we are working with them on testing .
What about IBIS (In Body Image Stabilisation)?
– We already have three patents on IBIS – on a mobile matrix and stabilisation, but we continue to work on them.Canon never uses technology that has not yet been tested.It took us so much time, because the technology itself requires a very detailed study, because the moving matrix is good, on the one hand.On the other hand, go to any service and ask how many cameras they have there with broken moving dies.The stabilization system is a very fragile thing.
Interesting. And what about lenses after IBIS?
– It is possible that after [having implemented IBIS in cameras], Canon will begin to produce much cheaper glass.Lens stub is quite expensive.
So, let’s hope IBIS will soon come to Canon DSLRs and MILCs, and happy to hear that excellent Canon optics will be less expensive.
[via Photar.ru]
Canon offers a service to de-click RF mount lenses, i.e. lenses for the Canon EOS R full frame mirrorless system. After modifying the control ring it will be possible to switch between normal functionality and de-clicked.
Canon advisory:
Canon’s control ring’s modification service offers RF lenses and Control Ring Mount Adapter EF-EOS R owners the opportunity to remove/reapply the control ring’s clicking sound.
The click action of the control ring allows the user to have a sense of how much it is being turned. However, if used during video shooting, the sound of the control ring operation may be recorded.
| Model | Price* |
| RF Lenses | $79.99 |
| Control Ring Mount Adapter EF-EOS R | $59.99 |
*Tax and freight fee are NOT included
*All pricing is subject to change
| Thank you, | |
| Customer Support Operations | |
| Canon U.S.A., Inc. | |
| Contact Information for Inquiries | |
| Canon Customer Support Center | |
| Phone: | 1-800-OK-CANON (toll free) 1-800-652-2666 |
| For additional support options: | usa.canon.com/support |
MiNT Camera announced the InstantKon RF70. The InstantKon RF70 is a new rangefinder, full control instant camera, using Fujifilm Instax Wide film
The InstantKon RF70_auto sells at $779, the InstantKon RF70 at $899. Both are available at MiNT.
The Motivation
Full control in an instant camera
Why is full control important?
Control the depth of field
Control the exact amount of light you need
All you need in one foldable body
InstantKon RF70_auto
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