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This weeks photography gear news, updates, & releases

If you don’t see your favorite brand, there may be no news or updates. So stay tuned. The following is from last Saturday January 20th to today, Saturday January 26th

Camera systems:

Sony

  • Confirmed to be announcing a new FE 85mm f/1.4 GM II in spring

  • Sony a9 III will ship sooner, February 8 instead of February 21

  • Viltrox 27mm f/1.2 Lens(Sony E) - available for reorder

Canon

  • New large format inkjet printers:

    • 60in (imagePROGRAF PRO-6600)

    • 44IN (imagePROGRAF PRO-4600)

    • 24in (imagePROGRAF PRO-2600)

Nikon

  • New 50mm F1.8 Focus lens for Z/E mount - now available for pre-order

Fujifilm

  • New firmware update on XF 16-55mm f/2.8 R LM WR Ver 1.30

  • New firmware on 7 cameras:

    • Fujifilm X-H2S Ver 5.10

    • Fujifilm X-H2 Ver 3.10

    • Fujifilm X-T5 Ver 2.10

    • Fujifilm X-T4 Ver 2.10

    • Fujifilm X-T3 Ver 5.10

    • Fujifilm X-S20 Ver 1.20

    • Fujifilm X-S10 Ver 3.10

  • New firmware update on File transmitter FT-XH Ver 2.10

  • New firmware in February for lens: Fujinon XF f/16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR & XF f/18-200mm f/4 LM PZ WR

Leica

  • Leica Q3 still out of stock

Hasselblad

  • Announced the Hasselblad 907X & CFV 100C

Lenses:

Samyang

  • Lens firmware updates:

    • V-AF 24mm T1.9 FE (ver 4)

    • V-AF 35mm T1.9 FE (ver 4)

    • V-AF 45mm T1.9 FE (ver 2)

    • V-AF 75mm T1.9 FE (ver 5)

Mitakon

  • New Mitakon Speedmaster 20mm f/0.95 APS-C E-mount lens shipping in Japan (still not available elsewhere)

MISC:

  • Excire/PRC team launched Lightroom Classic plugin, Excire Search 2024

  • Moster Adapter released the LA-FE2: new generation Nikon F-mount lens to Sony E-mount

  • Topaz released Gigapixel 7 - image editing

  • Skylum released Luminar version 1.18.0

  • DxO released ViewPoint version 4.13