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UAE could get up to 50 F-35s in $10B sale

October 31, 2020
WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department is backing the sale of as many as 50 F-35 joint strike fighters to the United Arab Emirates in an arms deal worth an estimated $10.4 billion, according to multiple reports. The news came as the Trump administration informally briefed Congress on its plan to sell the advanced F-35 fighter to the United Arab Emirates Thursday. It follows weeks of…
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Amid Emirati F-35 talks, Trump administration still ‘committed’ to congressional arms sale reviews

October 31, 2020
WASHINGTON ― Amid reports the Trump administration is fast-tracking sales of the high-tech F-35 warplane to the United Arab Emirates, the State Department remains committed to consulting Congress on arms sales to foreign governments, a senior administration official said Wednesday. The comments from Assistant Secretary Bureau of Political-Military Affairs R. Clarke Cooper seemed to signal the…
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Olympus M.Zuiko 12-100mm F4 Pro sample gallery updated

October 31, 2020
After perusing some vacation photos and weeping ever so gently for a lost world in which international travel was feasible, I pulled myself together and made some selects to add to our Olympus M.Zuiko 12-100mm F4 Pro sample gallery. From lizards to crocs and jungles to…
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Zeiss' 37MP Lightroom-capable, full-frame ZX1 camera is here — and it costs $6K

October 31, 2020
Zeiss has announced the release of its long-awaited ZX1 mirrorless camera in the United States and Germany. First announced back in September 2018, the Zeiss ZX1 full-frame Android-powered camera is designed, in Zeiss’ own words, to help users ‘Shoot. Edit. Share.’ all on one device thanks to the integration of hardware and software. At the core of the ZX1 is a 37.4-megapixel…
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Fujifilm releases major 4.00 firmware update for X-T3, bringing dramatic autofocus improvements

October 31, 2020
As it said it would at the beginning of October, Fujifilm has released a firmware update for its XT3 camera that it claims will dramatically improve autofocus performance. Firmware version 4.00 for the XT-3 claims to triple the autofocus speed from 0.06 seconds down to 0.02 seconds, bringing it in line with the autofocus speed of the newer X-T4. The algorithm that predicts the location of subjects…
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