Crowdfunding is a common way for many small companies to get their start, and is especially common in the light electric vehicle industry for e-bike and e-scooter companies. But let’s face it, crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo are still erroneously synonymous with scams in the minds of many.
Believe it or not, many of the biggest names in electric bicycle companies these days…
Volkswagen has released the starting price of the VW ID.Buzz electric minibus in Europe, and it is much more expensive than originally expected. It starts at £57,115 in the UK, equivalent to $72,000 USD.
After years of anticipation, VW finally unveiled the production…
An early Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup did a real-world towing test with a 23-foot Airstream trailer. It showed a loss of about half the vehicle’s range.
Last week, Ford officially started customer deliveries of the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck. Some…
Fujifilm has announced the company’s new flagship X Series mirrorless camera, the X-H2S which features a new 26.16-megapixel APS-C stacked, backside illuminated sensor, a greatly improved autofocus system, and up to 6.2K video recording in 10-bit 4:2:2.
A Brand New Sensor
The company says that the X-H2S is the first of its kind digital camera to feature Fujifilm’s 26.16-megapixel…
Fujifilm has announced a pair of new zoom lenses, the XF 18-120mm f/4 LM PZ WR, the first X-Series broadcast/video/photo lens, and the XF 150-600mm f/5.6-8 R LM OIS WR, a lightweight telephoto zoom.
XF 18-120mm f/4 LM PZ WR
The Fujifilm 18-120mm f/4 LM PZ WR is…
Fujifilm has updated its lens roadmap to include three new lenses — a large-diameter mid-telephoto prime lens, a standard macro lens, and an ultra-wide-angle prime lens — bringing brings the company’s total count of produced and planned optics to 42.
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Panasonic and Leica have announced a new agreement for a comprehensive business alliance and work even more closely together to develop new technologies under the name L2 Technology (L squared Technology).
The L2 stands for the L of Leica and Lumix and symbolizes the joint business and marketing activities going forward. The two companies say that L2 will unify the strengths of the two brands…
The CEO of Sony’s Semiconductor division claims that smartphone cameras will exceed the quality of single-lens reflex cameras within the next few years, specifically by 2024.
As reported by Nikkei, Sony recently held a business briefing session for its Imaging…
Venus Optics has unveiled a new unique macro lens: the Laowa 24mm T14 2x PeriProbe. It has many of the same features as the previous Laowa probe lens but with a twist — a 90-degree rotating periscope tip at the end.
The new PeriProbe is designed to not only fit into tight…
Film company ORWO has announced a brand new film called WOLFEN NC500 which it says is the first new color film it has created in decades.
ORWO is a German company and it only recently announced the Wolfen NP100, a brand new ISO 100 black-and-white 35mm film, which was its first new such film launched in 50 years.
The WOLFEN NC500 is a limited edition 500 ASA, 36 exposure, color…
