In images, one thing that not often will get sufficient consideration is the significance of group. There are a number of layers to it: organizing your digital camera tools, organizing the photographs in your laptop, even organizing your priorities and mindset. And in all these instances, having a messy system will result in missed alternatives as a photographer.
This subject is on my thoughts in the present day greater than ordinary. That’s as a result of all week, I’ve been reorganizing the file construction on my laptop and the backup system for my photographs and movies. Every part is much more streamlined now, and what a distinction it makes! I even discovered some previous photographs that I missed the primary time, just like the picture under. Now I simply must do the identical for my studio…
Anyway, whereas I’m packing cabinets and backing up photographs, now’s a very good time to make amends for the images information that you will have missed final week!
Latest Bulletins
- M4 MacBook Professionals: Apple introduced a number of new computer systems this week, however the brand new M4 MacBook Professionals is perhaps probably the most fascinating for photographers. Already we’re seeing benchmarks that put the M4 chip as one of many quickest in the marketplace. The brand new matte glass choice (Apple calls it “nano texture”) on the MacBook Professionals is one thing I’d welcome for picture enhancing. Additionally introduced are new 24″ iMacs and a brand new Mac mini, each with the M4 chip.
- Nikon Arcrest II Filters: A brand new line of clear protecting filters from 46mm to 95mm. Nikon’s anti-static coatings on the entrance make it simpler to wash mud, oil, and water from the filter. Multicoating helps reduce any extra flare. I’m not a lot of a protecting filter man myself, but when I had been, it’s onerous to beat Nikon-approved glass and coatings.
- Sennheiser Profile 2-Individual Mic: A brand new package from one of many high microphone firms in the present day. This two-mic system is wi-fi and features a pair of clip-on microphones, a receiver, and a charging bar. The mics have transmitters inbuilt, so that you’ve acquired just about the whole lot needed for a two-person mic setup. The value of $299 could be very affordable, particularly for Sennheiser (and is available in at $50 lower than the comparable DJI Mic 2 system).
- Viltrox 135mm f/1.8… or not: This lens was formally introduced on October thirtieth, going up on the market on each B&H and Viltrox’s web site. And now, it’s nowhere to be discovered! All point out of the lens has been scrubbed from Viltrox’s website. Possibly the reason being associated to this early assessment on PCMag, the place they discovered that the lens malfunctioned and changed into a brick when trying to replace the firmware. File this one beneath “bizarre.”
The Rumor Mill
Sony a1 II and 28-70mm f/2 rumors are lighting up
We is perhaps on the verge of seeing some new high-end Sony digital camera gear! Some convincing rumors recommend that the Sony a1 II and a brand new Sony 28-70mm f/2 will likely be introduced collectively on November nineteenth (together with a doable picture of the brand new digital camera and lens). The a1 II is claimed to have the identical decision as its predecessor, 50 megapixels – however sooner autofocus, a better body price, sooner CFExpress A requirements, and C2PA content material authentication assist. In the meantime, rumors say the lens will likely be a lot lighter than the Canon RF 28-70mm f/2 (about 900 grams in comparison with 1430).
Through Sony Alpha Rumors
A brand new Nikon digital camera registered in Asia
This week, a brand new Nikon digital camera with WiFi and bluetooth was registered in Asia beneath the short-term title N2326. Nikon Rumors says that it’s possible a part of the Z system and speculates a couple of Z50 substitute. This follows our replace for you final week that Nikon UK’s web site briefly had a placeholder for a brand new digital camera. Hold your eyes peeled in case we’re getting near an announcement!
Through Nikon Rumors
An up to date Voigtlander 50mm f/2 in two weeks?
This one appears fairly possible: we will count on a brand new Voigtlander APO-LANTHAR 50mm f/2 Aspherical II to be introduced later this month, most probably November 14! The present Voigtlander APO lenses have one thing of a cult following amongst Nikon and Sony photographers, although they’re guide focus solely. I’m already planning so as to add these lenses to our critiques subsequent yr (I simply must wrap up the few remaining Nikon Z lens critiques first).
Through Nikon Rumors
Good Offers and New Gross sales
Nikon is again with a number of digital camera and lens reductions! Even the Nikon Z6 III is on sale. You possibly can see the complete record of offers right here at B&H. A number of the standouts are under:
Mirrorless
- Nikon Z6 III was $2500, now $2300
- Nikon Z7 II was $3000, now $2000
- Nikon Z8 was $4000, now $3500
- Nikon Z 14-24mm f/2.8 S was $2500, now $2100
- Nikon Z 14-30mm f/4 S was $1350, now $1150
- Nikon Z 28mm f/2.8 was $300, now $230
- Nikon Z 40mm f/2 was $300, now $230
- Nikon Z 50mm f/1.8 S was $630, now $530
- Nikon Z 70-180mm f/2.8 was $1250, now $1050
- Nikon Z 70-200mm f/2.8 S was $2700, now $2300
- Nikon Z MC 105mm f/2.8 Macro S was $1050, now $850
- Nikon Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena was $2500, now $2300
- Nikon Z 400mm f/2.8 TC VR S was $14,000, now $13,000
- Nikon Z 400mm f/4.5 S was $3250, now $3000
- Nikon Z 600mm f/4 TC VR S was $15,500, now $14,500
- Nikon Z 600mm f/6.3 S was $4800, now $4300
- Nikon Z 800mm f/6.3 S was $6500, now $5700
DSLR
- Nikon D780 was $2300, now $1600
- Nikon D850 was $3000, now $2200
- Nikon AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8E VR was $2100, now $1600
- Nikon AF-S 28mm f/1.4E was $2000, now $1400
- Nikon AF-S 58mm f/1.4G was $1600, now $1160
- Nikon AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8E FL was $2350, now $1900
- Nikon AF-S 85mm f/1.4G was $1600, now $1160
- Nikon AF-S 105mm f/1.4E was $2100, now $1900
- Nikon AF-S 200-500mm f/5.6E was $1400, now $1060
- Nikon AF-S 400mm f/2.8E FL was $11,200, now $7900
- Nikon AF-S 500mm f/5.6E PF was $3600, now $3300
- Nikon AF-S 600mm f/4E FL was $12,300, now $8700
Additionally, not technically a sale, however Apple has modified their least expensive MacBook Air to incorporate 16 GB RAM by default reasonably than 8 GB, with out elevating the worth. Personally, I might nonetheless think about ready till the M4 MacBook Air is introduced subsequent yr. However if you happen to’re searching for an ultralight laptop computer proper now, you will get the baseline M3 MacBook Air with 16 GB RAM for $1100 (13 inch) or $1300 (15 inch).
Different Pages of Curiosity
The European Wildlife Photographer of the 12 months awards simply printed their winners, and as ordinary, the highest photos are unimaginable. The profitable {photograph}, Within the Forest of the Monarchs by Jamie Rojo, is a surprising landscape-style picture (or ought to I say Animalscape) of a forest in daylight – besides the “leaves” of the bushes are actually monarch butterflies. The competitors is stuffed with lovely work and nice inspiration, so test it out!
It’s not simply us Earthlings who get to see photo voltaic eclipses. The Mars rover Perseverance caught an eclipse on the finish of September when Mars’s moon Phobos handed in entrance of the solar. Truly, the phrase “transit” might be extra acceptable than “eclipse,” as a result of Mars’s moons are too small to completely cowl the solar. But it surely makes for an unimaginable sight nonetheless. Final week, NASA posted a video of the transit on their YouTube web page that’s properly value watching if you happen to’re an astrophotography fanatic.
On Friday, the images software program firm Pixelmator introduced that they’re being bought by Apple, pending regulatory approval. It’s noteworthy that Apple remains to be apparently contemplating a task within the picture enhancing enterprise – possibly this may give some extra competitors to Adobe! (Apple’s Remaining Minimize Professional X already competes with Adobe Premiere Professional for videographers, however there isn’t actually a Lightroom or Photoshop competitor in Apple’s ecosystem.) This writeup on Petapixel provides a very good rationalization of why this might develop into a giant deal.
Photograph Theme Problem, Week #74
Final week’s theme was sudden, and you’ll see the outcomes on this thread. Thanks to everybody in your submissions! This week’s theme is cyberpunk, and you’ll submit your outcomes right here by Saturday, November 2, 2024!
Week #73 Outcomes
First, we’ve an sudden encounter with an ermine from our reader @rjbphoto:
An excellent instance of why you need to at all times carry a digital camera together with you!
Subsequent up is a few sudden timing from @vidmarko – one of many photographers within the crowd should have taken a photograph at precisely the identical second, as a result of their flash is lighting up the scene completely:
That’s the kind of factor you may’t plan, however can at all times admire when it occurs!
Lastly, we’ve a stunning rainbow positioned over Navy Pier by @tom-pazol. As somebody who used to stay close to Chicago, I can let you know that it is a actually sudden sight given the everyday Chicago climate:
I’m feeling a way of Galen Rowell’s “Rainbow Over the Potala Palace” with that one. Good work Tom, and everybody else who despatched of their photographs this week! I hope to see extra subsequent week within the cyberpunk theme.