Nitecore is a Chinese company producing rechargeable flashlights and third-party batteries (including smart batteries no one asked for). But now it’s about to make camera lenses as well. The company has just announced five full-frame cinema primes ranging from 25mm to 100mm. They will be compatible with a range of mounts, and the company promises “optimum optical quality.” Nitecore’s line of lenses is called Superior Prime, and these are the expected models:...

OM Digital Solutions has announced the new Olympus PEN E-P7 Micro Four Thirds mirrorless camera. The E-P7 is OM Digital’s first camera release since the acquisition of Olympus by JIP was completed in January. It will be available in Japan and Europe, although it’s apparently not coming to the USA. At least, not yet. The official announcement confirms that OM Digital will be keeping the Olympus branding for at least the foreseeable future....

Advertisements Uygar Önder Şimşek says he entered the competition in 2018 under a pseudonym (which he prefers not to disclose) in order to protect his identity. After being notified that he was shortlisted, he emailed the organizers to double-check that his identity would remain secret and that the images would be published under his assumed name. However, all did not go to plan, and although the accounts differ, unfortunately, the outcome was the same and the images were published under Şimşek’s real name, causing him to flee to Germany in fear of his life....

Can you imagine embezzling over $400,000 of state money to buy camera gear so you can take photos for Instagram? As crazy as it sounds, this actually happened. A University of California professor reportedly spent $404,000 of state funds to buy himself cameras and lenses. No, he didn’t need them for science or teaching – he reportedly bought them to shoot photos for his Instagram and to sell prints on his website....

ProGrade Digital has officially announced the launch of their new CFexpress cards. But the range has expanded since they teased us with the 1TB CFexpress card last year at NAB. It’s also gotten a bit of a speed boost, too! Along with a new CFexpress card reader, two lines of CFexpress cards are coming in Gold and Cobalt flavours offering read speeds of up to 1.6GB/sec and write speeds up to 1....