^{If you don’t see your favorite brand, there may be no news or updates. So stay tuned. The following is from last Saturday December 14th to yesterday, Friday December 20th.}

Camera systems:

Sony

• Sony A1II finally shipping in the USA

Canon

• Firmware updates for Canon RF Mount lenses:

  • Sigma 10-18mm F2.8 DC DN | Contemporary (ver 1.0.1)

  • Sigma 18-50mm F2.8 DC DN | Contemporary (ver 1.0.1)

• Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L II USM - discontinued but still available online

• Canon EF 70mm f/2.8 DG MACRO - discontinued but still available online

Nikon

• Firmware update for Nikon Z9 (ver 5.10)

• Firmware update for Nikon D5600 (ver 1.20)

• Firmware update for Nikon D500 (ver 1.40)

• Nikon NX MobileAir app now supports Adobe Frame.io camera to cloud

• Adobe released Nikon Z50II support

Panasonic

• Released Panasonic Lumix G97

• Announced Lumix ZS99/TZ99 compact point-and-shoot for 2025

  

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Fujifilm

• Firmware updates:

  • Fujifilm X-T5 (ver 4.10)

  • Fujifilm X-T50 (ver 1.10)

  • Fujifilm X-S20 (ver 3.10)

  • Fujifilm X-100VI (ver 1.20)

  • Fujifilm X-GFX100SII (ver 1.10)

  • Pixel Shift Combiner Software (ver 1.6.0) (Win/Mac)

  • X RAW STUDIO software (ver 1.25.1) (Mac)

  • TETHER APP software (ver 1.31.1) (Mac)

Leica

• Voigtlander announced APO-Ultron 90mm f/2 VM for 2025 designed exclusively for Leica M-mount

  

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• Firmware updates for L-mount lenses:

  • Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG DN | Art (ver 1.2)

  • Sigma 45mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary (ver 1.5)

  • Sigma 50mm F1.2 DG DN | Art (ver 1.1)

  • Sigma 65mm F2 DG DN | Contemporary (ver 1.3)

  • Sigma 85mm F1.4 DG DN | Art (ver 1.2)

  • Sigma 90mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary (ver 1.1)

  • Sigma 105mm F2.8 DG DN | Art (ver 1.3)

  • Sigma 500mm F5.6 DG DN OS | Sports (ver 1.1)

• Light Lens Lab 50mm f/2 “Rigid” lens announced for M-mount

Lenses:

Sigma

• Recall on some serial numbers of the Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 DG DN II Art affected by an autofocus glitch

• Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art EF - discontinued but still available online

TTArtisan

• Announced the TTArtisan AF 27mm f/2.8 Polar White Limited Edition

  

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Laowa

• Launched new Nanomorph LF cine series

  • Nanomorph 32mm T2.9 1.5X LF Anamorphic

  • Nanomorph 42mm T2.9 1.5X LF Anamorphic

  • Nanomorph 55mm T2.9 1.5X LF Anamorphic

  • Nanomorph 85mm T2.9 1.5X LF Anamorphic

• Announced Laowa 55mm f/2.8 Tilt-Shift 1X Macro lens

• Announced Laowa 100mm f/2.8 Tilt-Shift 1X Macro lens

7Artisans

• Dec 9th announced 7Artisans 18mm F5.6 FE manual focus pancake lens

Viltrox

• Announced Viltrox 35mm f/1.7 APS-C AF lens

Tamron

• Firmware update for the 150-200mm f/5-6.7 Di III VC VXD for Z-mount

Misc:

• CYME launched Peakto 2.2 media asset manager update

• Godox introduced the V100 TTL Li-ion Round Head Camera Flash