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Tamron has just released the TAMRON 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD lens with CANON RF and NIKON Z mount for APS-C mirrorless cameras. This lens is on the market from autumn 2022 with Sony E and Fujifilm X bayonets. It also won the EISA 2022-2023 - BEST PRODUCT award in the TRAVEL ZOOM LENS category . Availability is expected in late August for the Z mount and late September for the RF mount.

Blackmagic Design has just released several updates

DaVinci Resolve 20.1

This major update brings support for Apple Immersive workflows, including Apple Spatial Audio support, to DaVinci Resolve Studio for macOS. With this update, you can easily edit, color grade, add visual effects, mix surround sound, and export Apple Immersive Video captured with the new Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive camera. The new immersive video viewer allows customers to rotate, tilt, and pan clips when viewed on 2D monitors, or stream them directly to Apple Vision Pro.

On the edit page, you can work with files from the URSA Cine Immersive camera just like regular 2D media using the familiar drag-and-drop interface. You can even add a 360° background that appears outside the projected image. New tools in the 3D palette, such as Edge Mask, allow you to adjust the field of view captured by the URSA Cine Immersive camera to exclude microphones or other objects that are at the edge of the shot.

In Fusion, you can create 3D titles and graphics for broadcast that move within the field of view, or work with USD files for spatial video effects. Familiar tools such as patcher and distort have been updated to work seamlessly with spatial video. DaVinci Resolve is the first editing software in the world that can mix and master spatial audio in Apple Spatial Audio Format (ASAF). This update also adds support for AI Magic Mask 2 in Fusion, which allows you to select and track people, objects, and their features with much greater accuracy with a single click.

The update also brings improvements to the keyframe panel, making animation faster and more intuitive. Easing behavior has been adjusted across multiple keyframes, ensuring smoother transitions and more consistent results in both the timeline and inspector. Curve visibility has been improved so you can edit them directly from the keyframes or curves panel without having to switch views.

MultiText has also been improved—you can now style individual letters or words with different fonts or colors. In addition, paragraph-level formatting can be applied, such as left, center, or right alignment and indentation. CSV files can be imported directly and will be automatically organized into MultiText text fields aligned in columns for easy formatting and layout.

👉 The DaVinci Resolve 20.1 update is now available for free download here.

Fusion Studio 20.1

This update improves immersive video workflows with a new menu for 360º views and new immersive patcher and immersive distort tools. These tools let you edit the shape and appearance of spatial shots as easily as regular video, making it much easier to create content for formats such as Apple Vision Pro. The result is a faster and more intuitive workflow for spatial and immersive video in Fusion. This Fusion update includes the same MultiText and AI Magic Mask 2 feature enhancements as DaVinci Resolve 20.1 mentioned above ⬆️

👉 Fusion Studio 20.1 is now available as a free download here.

Blackmagic Camera 9.7 Public Beta

This update adds support for the new Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive camera—the world's first film camera designed specifically for Apple Vision Pro.

👉 Blackmagic Camera 9.7 Public Beta is now available for free download here.

RGBlink has unveiled a new generation of its 4K PTZ cameras!

The vue 4K PTZ model offers improved HDMI/RTSP output resolution up to 4K 30Hz, while the vue UHD PTZ version increases HDMI/RTSP output resolution to 4K 60Hz. Both versions support real-time AI tracking —detecting faces, figures, and zones—and are equipped with a new USB 3.0 output port. They also feature a unique 360° visible TALLY indicator and identification panel (resistant to interference when switching devices). The front panel of the camera includes an OLED display showing the current resolution and IP address, which facilitates camera management.

A significant improvement in the NDI version is the transition from NDI|HX to NDI|HX2, which delivers higher video quality and lower latency when streaming over a network. You can choose from cameras with 12x, 20x or 30x optical zoom.

Another new feature is the Touch Conference Keyboard - , a newly designed network touch keyboard with Android. It offers a 7-inch capacitive touch screen with a simple and user-friendly interface. It supports H.265/H.264 decoding at 4K@60fps for a single channel, and its four-way control joystick makes it easy to control PTZ cameras for quick targeting of the desired object.

📦 New flashes for Nikon and Canon DSLR cameras have arrived in our warehouse! ⚡

The K&F KF150 TTL Marco Ring Flash is a professional flash ring especially suitable for macro photography. The flash features the E-TTL automatic exposure control system, 4 adjustable shooting modes and 8 brightness levels.

The flash light comes with 6 pieces of adapter rings with sizes 52, 55, 58, 62, 67 and 77 mm which are compatible with most common lens sizes.

MagicSoft has released new versions of their CG and Playout!

MagicSoft CG version 10.1.0 and MagicSoft Playout version 9.6.7

• For both applications, significantly shorter startup times were achieved under the following conditions:

  • running on Windows 11

  • using Intel platforms with DDR5 memory

A freetrial version is available for download here. It contains all the functionality of the full version, the only limitation is the watermark overlaid on the video.