Photography copyright cases, what do you think?

Three decision handed down by judges lately have impacted freelance photographers. Two that are pro photographers and one that is against. This video below discusses my thoughts on each of these decisions and the damages awarded.

Tamron to release 17-35mm, $600 Wide-angel Lens for Canon and Nikon

Tamron announced it was making a 17-35mm lens for Canon and Nikon with the sticker price of $600. The Nikon version will be released in September while the Canon version will follow later. There are no known plans yet for a Sony version. While Tamron offer excellent quality with a much lower sticker price than Nikon or Canon lenses, there is the worry of how it will work with the new adapters to the mirrorless mounts that Canon and Nikon are soon coming out with.

Nikon New Mount Sneak Peak Video and Discussion

Nikon released another teaser video based on its new mount. For the first half it shows Nikon's innovations starting with their first DSLR camera and flows through the generations of Cameras. The last half of the video shows their mirrorless camera's front side and the new mount. It looks like the Camera resembles a Fuji rather than a Sony and the mount is a big one.

Canon is #1 in Mirrorless Sales and Japan, what Sony and Nikon need to do

Canon's M50 has made Canon the leading mirrorless camera in Japan with Canon even having a full-frame lineup of mirrorless cameras. There are two features that Canon has that many of its competitors don't. A flippy screen and a good touchscreen interface. Sony and Nikon can take some lessons.

Canon Announces Powershot SX740

Canon has just announced the Sx740 powershot Camera. An ultracompact, ultrazoom camera with 40x optical zoom for $400. It is built on a 1/2.3 inch sensor and has 7.4fps continuous shooting with WI-FI, NFC, and Bluetooth for $399. It cannot shoot in RAW but can do jpeg in superfine and fine formats. It has a max shutter speed of 1/3200 and a 922,000 dot tilting LCD screen. It also has 4k video and time lapse.

Nikon Confirms Mirrorless Camera

Nikon has officially confirmed it is working on a mirrorless camera, something that we've all known for months and months. It has an announcement date of Aug 23rd. Outside of this confirmation, Nikon has also said it will continue to develop both the DSLR lines and its new mirror-less line.

Nikon Mirrorless Camera Teaser Video

Nikon recently released a teaser video about the new upcoming mirrorless camera Here. it doesn't really show much, but at the end, you do get to see that the Camera mount is big(meaning its going to use an adapter for current F-mount lenses), the ergonomics look good with a substantial grip and the LCD and EVF are big. All good things, but we cannot be that sure because it doesn't show us much else. What can you gleam from the video?

Sony unveils new 48Mp smartphone Camera sensor

Sony has announced that they are making a 48mp smartphone camera. This makes each pixel about half the length and height of a regular 12MP smartphone Camera, indicating that it is not very good in low light. However, Sony is building this Camera is the Quad Bayer design so each group of four pixels is stacked together which Sony Claims will give low light performance that is comparable to top of the line 12MP cameras. I'm not sure if it will work that well but if it does, this technology could be a breakthrough and spill over into the professional camera market.

Fuji Unveils 18-16mm f/2.8 and 200mm f/2 lens

Fuji was unveiled two new lenses, the F/2.8 8-16mm, which is great for landscape and astrophotography and the F/2 200mm(305 full frame equivalent), great for wildlife and sports. The 8-16mm sells for $2000 while the 200mm comes with a 1.4x teleconverter(making it a 427mm f/2.8 equivalent) at $6000. Exciting times for Fuji photographers!

Fuji Unveils XF-10 APS-C point and shoot

Fuji has just announced its XF-10 point and shoot camera with an APS-C sensor with these specs.

24 MP APS-C sensor
28mm f/2.8 lens
3.0in LCD Touchscreen
Tilting Screen
ISO 200-12800
Square mode 1:1 format
4k@15fps
High speed movie at 1280x720 -- 4x
280g/9.8oz weight
$500
What do you think?