Deal Alert: Zeiss Apo Sonnar T 135 mm F/2 ZF.2 – $1,680 (store demo unit, compare to $1,967)

  Authorized Zeiss seller Camera Land on eBay (99.8% positive ratings) has the Zeiss Apo Sonnar T 135 mm F/2 ZF.2 lens (Canon mount) . Compare to $1,967 on Amazon. This appears to be an US model with US warranty. The seller says:

As one of the largest Zeiss dealers in the USA we are happy to offer this great lens at a super price. It comes with the USA Warranty. We had an in store demo and these were shown and put back in the box. Because of this we won’t sell them as new never opened

Free shipping in US and limited quantity. More good deals for Canon gear on eBay.

Canon EOS M3 First Look Video at CP+

News Shooter made the video at CP+ in Japan. Digital Life Innovator (translated) posted a rich set of sample pics shot with a pre-production M3.

The EOS M3 will be available in March 2015. The new Canon EOS M3 with EF-M 18-55mm IS STM lens can be pre-ordered in Europe:

The M3 will be available in March 2015. You can also pre-order the M3 at at DigitalRev (ships internationally). DigitalRev’s price at checkout is inclusive of all taxes and customs for customers from Asia and the EU, for customers from the US taxes depend by the state.

Detailed M3 specification can be read here. A round-up of hands-on and previews:

Still Live and now $100 off: Canon EOS 7D Mark II with 18-135mm IS STM – $1,900

  Reputable seller Camera Land on eBay (99.8% positive ratings) has the Canon EOS 7D Mark II with 18-135mm IS STM lens . Compare to $2,149 on Amazon. This appears to be an US model. The seller says:

This camera was shown for the opening of our Camera Store on Long Island, therefore we would never sell it as a NEW Never Opened item. No battery was ever inserted, no actuations.

The kit is now $100 less than yesterday. Free shipping in US and limited quantity. More good deals on Canon gear on eBay.

Adobe Lightroom 6 Leaked Online, Available March

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French site fnac.com leaked the pic and the specs of Adobe Lightroom 6. The site says LR 6 will ship March 6th 9th.

  • Windows Compatibility: Windows 7, 8, 8.1
  • Mac OS Compatibility: Mac OS X v10.8, v10.9 or v10.10
  • Designed for both amateur photographers and professionals
  • Merge to HDR
  • Fusion panoramas
  • Performance gains
  • Facial recognition
  • Sophisticated video slideshows
  • Optimized web galleries
  • Filter brush

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Machine translated description:

Product Overview

Master your digital photography workflow: Ranking, optimization and sharing – Lightroom together in one fast, intuitive application all tools dedicated to digital photography.

Bring out the best of each photo: Test your ideas freely with non-destructive tools – your original pictures remain intact. Lightroom lets you optimize every pixel of your photos, they were taken with a professional digital SLR camera or mobile phone.

Key features of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6

Environment nondestructive: Unleash your creativity in a nondestructive editing environment that allows you to test your ideas freely. The originals remain intact and you can easily cancel your edits or save multiple versions of a cliché.

Advanced conversion feature black and white: Monitor closely the tonal qualities so essential to the black and white photos. Combine precisely the information of eight color layers in the grayscale conversion.

Development predefined settings: Save time by instantly applying the desired effect to your images. Just save develop settings as a preset and apply them to other photos in a click. If Lightroom includes dozens of presets, thousands more are offered by third parties.

Face Recognition: Quickly find pictures of loved ones, even without metadata tags. You select a face on the photo, Lightroom and search the person it belongs to all of your other shots. Sort and group your photos by faces.

Sophisticated Healing Brush: Get best pictures with one touch. Set the brush size and move it according to specific plots. Unwanted items and other imperfections, including irregular shapes son type, magically disappear.

Upright (Vertically): Straighten skewed images with a single click. The Upright tool (Vertically) analyzes the image and detects horizontal or vertical lines inclined. It can even recover images without horizon.

Merge to HDR: Create realistic or surreal images from high-contrast scenes. By merging HDR, you can easily combine photos with different exposures into a single HDR image.

Fusion panoramas: Import and refine your photos in record time. Lightroom leverages compatible graphics process to get you better performance, especially when you edit your images in the Develop module.

Sophisticated video slideshows: Create stunning slideshows combining still images, movies and music, and supplement them with pan and zoom effects, for example.

Optimized web galleries: Present your work in the most elegant web galleries, more attractive and interactive. The new models of HTML5 compatible galleries are supported by many browsers and mobile devices work stations.

Integration of online sharing: Easily publish images on social networks and sites for such as Facebook and Flickr. On some sites, you can even view the online comments on your images directly from Lightroom Library.

Creating photo books: Create beautiful photo books. Lightroom includes a large number of user-friendly catalog templates that you can now customize. Load them then printing a few clicks.