Liquid lens might be the future of photography

In the past years I often found patents for liquid lenses for mirrorless cameras. Patented by Sony, Fuji, Nikon and many others. These lenses would be extremely compact and focus would work near instantly. This isn’t a distant dream or something that will never make it int a real product. The image on top shows you the world first liquid mirror that just has been installed in Humilaya. More about that can be read at Universetoday. One day you will see such lenses on your regular mirrorless camera too!

Sony might announce a new ZV APS-C Blogger camera this summer

This summer Sony is going to announce a new Blogger ZV APS-C camera. It won’t be a high end camera, but “only” a perfect affordable youtuber tool that will nicely go along with the newly announced APS-C lenses. Sony still doesn’t believe in making a A7000 high end APS-C model…pity, Fuji just showed you can do this and make money out of it!

OM Digital will announce a new OM-5 this summer

OM Digital will definitely announce the enow OM-5 this summer. But this is all we know so far. The web out there is going wild with crazy specs but I seriously doubt the E-M5 will be revolutionary. I expect a specked down version of the OM-1 with same 20MP sensor.

Tamron might make another “wow” zoom, and these are the rumored specs

We all love that Tamron 35-150mm f/2.0-2.8 FE lens because it offers a unique aperture range for such a zoom. Well Tamron might announce another one soon. CameraBeta reports that those are next four new Tamron FE lenses:

  • Tamron 35mm f/3.5 Di III OSD Pancake
  • Tamron 45mm f/1.4 Di III USD
  • Tamron 90mm f/1.8 Di III USD
  • Tamron 150-400mm f/2.8-5.6 Di III VC VXD

That 150-400mm sound like a killer with the f/2.8 aperture at the wide end!

Yep, someone launched a camera at 1.500 km/h nearly into space !

On Friday, April 22nd, Spinlaunch tested the first optical camera payload in their Suborbital Accelerator. The camera flew at 1.500 km/h speed into suborbital space:

 

Comprised of the key components needed for the Orbital Launch System, the Suborbital Accelerator is a critical steppingstone in SpinLaunch’s path to orbit and providing customers with low-cost, sustainable access to space.