Time to catch you up on a few things that happened while I was offline.
- 7Artisans announced the II versions of the 10mm f/2.8 fisheye, 55mm f/1.4, and 60mm f/2.8 macro lenses, including now bringing them to the Nikon Z mount.
- Strangely, the Pentax 560mm f/5.6 lens has been discontinued. This is unexpected, as this lens provided a nice 800mm equivalent for that APS-C body that Pentax just iterated. True, it was not a stabilized optic and had an optical design more like a refractive telescope, but still, this leaves the 150-450mm f/4.5-5.6 as the "long lens" in Pentax's lineup.
- Sirui introduced a 75mm f/1.8 1.33x anamorphic lens. (Also added 24mm and 75mm anamorphic to zsystemuser).
- Apple added support for uncompressed raw (XT-4 and X-S10). Now trickling down to macOS applications.
- CaptureOne was updated to support Apple M1 processors.
- Luminar AI 3 was updated to support Apple M1 processors.
- Topaz updated Sharpen AI to version 3.1, deNoise AI to version 3.1.
- TTArtisans introduced a 17mm f/1.4 lens (for E, M, XF, and m4/3 mounts).
- Laowa introduced the 4mm f/2.8 fisheye for the L-mount.
- Nikon introduced two macro lenses and a development announcement for two new compact lenses.
- Panasonic added a 50mm f/1.8 to the L-mount lineup.
- Canon leaked more details on the R3.
Plus we had a number of firmware updates (databases on sansmirror.com, dslrbodies.com, and zsystemuser.com updated):
- Cameras: Canon 1D Mark II, Canon 5D Mark IV, Panasonic GH5S, Panasonic G9, Panasonic G100, Sigma fp
- Lenses: Nikkor 16-50mm lens