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Cosina has announced the details of its new Voigtländer APO-LANTHAR 50mm F2 Aspherical lens. While its name and basic specifications match that of the Voigtländer APO-LANTHAR 50mm f/2 Aspherical lens for Sony E-mount, Cosina says the Nikon Z-mount version is all new while retaining the same ‘high-performance’ thanks to its apochromat design. The manual lens is constructed of ten elements in…

Space Perspective, which calls itself a luxury spaceflight experience company, plans to send tourists into Earth’s stratosphere by attaching a floating lounge to its giant SpaceBalloon to provide 360-degree views of the edge of space. The company says that with its plan, space travel can be more comfortable than ever before while also being more accessible. Space Perspective is billing…

Nikon seems to have put the bad days of 2020 behind it and is accelerating into a new business positive future in which its Imaging Division plays a significant, but not central, role in its financial stability. Crucially revenue from Imaging is on the up and looks to be returning to near-parity with 2019, along with a subtle shift in Nikon’s underlying core strengths. The question…

The Nikon Z9 is about to get a lot more powerful thanks to a free firmware update that adds in-camera 12-bit RAW video at up to 8K at 60 frames per second, oversampled 4K at 60 frames per second, a pre-release photo capture button, and so much more. The updates to the Z9 are so substantial that it could easily have constituted a Z9 Mark II (just look at the minor differences between the…