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Irix expands its Cine lens lineup with the new Irix Cine 15mm T2.6

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Irix has today announced the addition of the new Irix Cine 15mm T2.6 to their cinema lens lineup. Teased a few days ago, it joins the 11mm T4.3, 45mm T1.5 and 150mm T3.0 Macro lenses in the Irix range of cinema lenses. Irix says that it’s designed for super-high-resolution 8K video, with minimal distortion, and compact and lightweight construction.

Like most cinema lenses, it features built-in toothed gears on the focus and aperture rings for use with follow focus systems and is weather sealed to stand up to a wide range of shooting environments. It’s available in several popular mounts, including Canon EF, Sony E, Micro Four Thirds and PL.

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Z Cam’s new E2-M4 cinema camera shoots 4K 10-Bit ProRes at up to 120fps for $1,500

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Z Cam has announced the new E2-M4 cinema camera. It’s a Micro Four Thirds unit with 13 stops of dynamic range (16 with WDR enabled) that shoots 10-Bit 4K DCI at up to 120 frames per second in ProRes 422 and 1080p at up to 240 frames per second.

Like Z Cam’s other cinema cameras, it’s essentially an aluminium alloy cube with a hole in the front for your lens, a handful of buttons, and connection points spread all around.  It features an OLED display on top and has gigabit ethernet and wifi for streaming, remote control and preview.

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Godox’s new SL150/SL200 Mark II LED lights offer fanless “silent mode” operation

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The Godox SL series LED lights have proven to be extremely popular due to their low cost. Two of the models in that range, the SL150 and SL200 have seen a Mark II update today, according to an email that Godox has been sending out today.

One of the features of the new SL150II and SL200II offers up a solution to the biggest complaint about LED lights of this form factor – fan noise! The new lights include a fanless silent mode operation. It’s unclear from the email if there’s simply no fan in the unit at all, or if it’s a mode you can set when you need to minimise noise, but either way, it’s going to be a very welcome feature for many.

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Aputure announces new LS-60D daylight and LX-60X bicolour LED lights

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Aputure’s been coming pretty thick and fast on the announcements lately, and now they’ve announced their new Light Storm 60D daylight and 60X bi-colour adjustable focusing LED lights. As the name suggests, these are 60 Watt LEDs, and everything is built inside the head, meaning there’s no external control unit to have to deal with.

So far, they’ve only been announced, not released, and both lights may be subject to some changes before the final products are released. The price of the new units is also not set yet. A release is expected at some point in Q3, although presumably, we’ll find out a final price before then.

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Raspberry Pi has announced a new “High Quality” 12.3-megapixel camera with interchangeable lenses

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The Raspberry Pi is a wonderful little device. It’s a single-board computer capable of running Linux with more speed than most desktops had a couple of decades ago. One of the great features about the Raspberry Pi is that it features a dedicated socket for connecting a camera module. And that ability has popped up a lot here on DIYP.

Until now, the camera modules available for the Pi have been fairly basic and not really that great quality. Now, though, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a new 12.3-megapixel camera module, based around a Sony IMX477 sensor that accepts CS  & C mount lenses. Which means that it can take just about everything else, through the use of lens adapters.

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Kinefinity’s MAVO Edge shoots 8K video at up to 75fps with internal ProRes RAW recording

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Kinefinity’s a relative unknown in a world with big names such as RED and Arri. They’ve not been around for long (only 8 years), but they sure are good at making big splashes, and this one’s a bit of a doozy. They’ve just announced the Kinefinity MAVO Edge camera which shoots 8K video on a full-frame sensor at up to 75 frames per second with internal ProRes recording.

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DJI’s new Mavic Air 2 has 34 minutes of flight time and shoots 8K timelapse

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After a few months of rumours, leaks and speculation, DJI has now officially announced the DJI Mavic Air 2, and it has a few pretty significant upgrades over its predecessor. It boasts a 48-megapixel camera capable of shooting 8K timelapse, 4K video at up to 60 frames per second, HDR video, and a very impressive 34-minute flight time.

The Mavic Air 2 seems to have all grown up in its latest iteration, seeing a Mavic 2-inspired design, looking a lot less like a toy than the original. Along with the new design is a standard grey colour scheme, rather than the array of bright colours available on the original.

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Aputure’s flagship line finally goes bicolour with the new Light Storm LS 300X

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It’s felt like a long wait since it was first shown off at IBC last year, but now it’s finally here. Aputure has now taken its flagship Light Storm 300 series COB LED lights bicolour, with the new Light Storm LS 300X. Aputure says it that it goes beyond the standard bicolour systems, though, which utilise multiple side-by-side LEDs of different Kelvin values, by incorporating a custom colour-blending element in front of the LED to turn it into a single colour-changing light source.

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Lensbaby has launched the new Velvet 28 lens for DSLRs and mirrorless cameras

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Lensbaby has today announced their new Velvet 28 lens for both DSLRs and mirrorless cameras. It’s designed primarily for landscape, adventure, travel and street photography and while there may not be a lot of that going on right now, it’s also aimed at videographers.

As with Lensbaby’s other lenses in the Velvet range, the Velvet 85 and the Velvet 56, the Velvet 28 adds what Lensbaby describes as an “ethereal mood” to your shots with a sort of soft glow effect designed to help tackle issues with both flat and harsh lighting scenarios.
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