New Topaz Gigapixel 8.2 and Photo AI 3.5 released
Topaz announced the new Photo Ai 3.5 (Click here) and the new Gigapixel 8.2 (Click here) updates.
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We’re excited to announce another major update to Photo AI with a new take on our lighting enhancement, a new way to run Super Focus on any machine, crash recovery, and more!
- We’re announcing a version 2 of Adjust Lighting which is vastly improved to deliver a more natural, vibrant, and reliable results across the board.
- Now anyone can run Super Focus in the cloud at lightning speed on any device, even if you don’t have a good GPU.
- And for those who can, Super Focus now runs 40% faster on Apple devices. This combines with our previous speed boosts – it is now faster than ever.
- If you encounter a crash with Photo AI, your session and work is now saved with crash recovery so you can get back to creating beautiful images.
The Gigapixel v.8.2 update now has batch Cloud Rendering, faster speeds on Mac, improvements to the Redefine model, and more.
- High creativity Redefine Cloud Rendering result improvements
- Batch process multiple images at once with Cloud Rendering
- Redefine is now 2x faster on Mac (latest MacOS 14 or 15 required for use)
- Upscale images based on their longest side
Meike will soon announce a new 35mm f/1.8 Pro Z-mount lens
Meike currently offers two PRO E-mount lenses, the 55mm f/1.8 and 85mm f/1.8 Z-mount. There is now a third lens coming. Meike global confirmed via chat (Source: Reddit) that they will launch the 35mm f/1. 8 Pro Z-mount lens at the Cp+ show:
KORIN launched a new AntiTheft Cut-resistant Travel and Camera bag
KORIN launched a new AntiTheft But resistant camera bag on Kickstarter (Click here). They have launched successful campaigns in the past, and I’m sure this one will sell well too. If you want the ultimate peace of mind, watch this video to see how it works:
New Broncolor RFS 3S Transmitter for Nikon
Broncolor has announced the new RFS 3S Transmitter, which can be pre-ordered from BHphoto (click here).
SanDisk Announces Creator Series Storage Devices
Sandisk launched a new Creator storage series you can see and preorder at BHphoto. An article about those products can be read on Explora.
Nikon patented the design of a unique 85-135mm f/1.8-2.8 Full Frame lens
Nikon patented the design of a never seen before 85-135mm f/1.8-2.8 Full Frame lens. Nikon Japan writes:
Conventionally, variable magnification optical systems suitable for photo cameras, electronic still cameras, video cameras, etc. have been proposed (see, for example, Patent Document 1). In such variable magnification optical systems, it is difficult to obtain bright and good optical performance while making them compact.
So basically Nikon’s goal here is to offer an ultimate portrait zoom lens that still has reasonable size. In this design the lens of the length is 119.454mm up to 149.236mm when fully extended. That’s truly compact if you consider the 135mm f/1.8 S Plena Lens is 139.5mm long!
Of course, this is a patent and there is no guarantee that they will ever make this lens. But damn… I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this beast will be made!
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via Asobinet