DxO announced the new PureRAW5 software (see all new features here). You can now preorder it here.

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DxO has made some very exciting changes to the best preprocessing and denoising software ion the market. With this version of DxO PureRAW 5 you will get:

DeepPRIME3 now incorporating three processes that improve image quality for discerning photographers. These are:

• Demosaicing
• Denoising and now
• Chomatic Aberration, which fixes residual chromatic shifts at the pixel level, as part of the raw conversion process.

For the first time in PureRaw 5 you get Local Adjustments enabling photographer to target their sharpening and denoising processes this is particularly useful for working with the shadow areas of high ISO images.

Brand New Interface – with a new workflow including new presets to speed up your workflow. The intention with DxO PureRAW is that as it is at the first step of your image workflow it has been designed to be fast.

“PureRaw as it is at the very start of your workflow it should be as fast as possible to bring you immediately to the best starting point” Fabrizio Dei Tos – DxO

Laowa displayed a bunch of new lenses at the Cp+ show

• Ultima 12-120 (Arri PL)
• 35mm f/2.8 Tilt-Shift (E, L, RF, Z, GFX, XCD mount)
• 15mm f/4.5 Wide Angle Macro (E, L, RF, Z mount)
• 8-15mm Fish Eye (E, L, RF, Z, GFX, XCD mount)
• Laowa 10mm f/2.9 ZER-D FF Cine (E, L, RF, Z mount)
• Proteus Zoom (E, L, RF, Z mount)

7Artisans displayed four new lenses that will be available in all different mounts:

• AF 35mm F2.8 Full frame
• AF 25mm F1.8 APS-C
• AF 35mm F1.8 APS-C
• AF 50mm F1.8 APS-C

CP+ opened today and here we have the first “real world” images of the new Viltrox Z-mount lenses (some images show the E-mount version):

This lens should be listed soon on their official Amazon storefront.

Preorders:
Zeiss 50mm f/1.4 at BHphoto. Adorama. FotoErhardt. Fotokoch. Calumet. WexUK.
Zeiss 85mm f/1.4 at BHphoto. Adorama. FotoErhardt. Fotokoch. Calumet. WexUK.

Zeiss officially unveiled the first two new Full Frame OTUS lenses for mirrorless system cameras.

Zeiss says those lenses will have: 

• exceptional optical performance and precision and exception build quality with all-metal construction
• apochromatic design to ensure excellent color fidelity and minimize chromatic aberrations
• T* anti-reflective coating to reduce reflections and flare
• manual focus only (smooth metal focus ring with a precision helicoid drive)
• de-clicked aperture for video
• 14 lens elements into 11 groups
• 0.5m close focus

Zeiss 50mm f/1.4 lens specs:

• 67mm filter size
• 100mm long
• 77mm wide
• 700g
• $2,500
• shipping start in spring

Zeiss 85mm f/1.4 lens specs:

• $2799
• shipping start “later in 2025”
• specs will be unveiled later

Image sample shot with the new 50mm lens:

The teaser you see here above is for the new 25mm f/1.7 “Air” Z-mount APS-C AF lens. But Viltrox will also display a new 50mm f/2.0 “AIR” FF Z-mount AF lens you can see here below in the E-mount version: