The Japanese retailer Mapcamera shared the sales ranking for February:

1st place: Nikon D850
2nd: Nikon D7500
3rd: Sony α7R III
4th: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
5th: Panasonic LUMIX G9 PRO
6th: Olympus Tough TG-5
7th: Panasonic LUMIX GX8
8th: Nikon COOLPIX P900
9th: Canon EOS 6D Mark II
9th: Nikon D500

Panasonic VXF1 / WXF1M / VX1 Camcorder VS Lumix G85 for vlogging

Lumix Diaries Goes to Cuba With A Photo Lesson A Day (Daniel J. Cox).
Panasonic Lumix TZ200 Review at Photographyblog.
WPPI 2018: Steadicam Makes the Monopod Awesome with the AIR (Explora).
Why olympus pro capture mode could save the day at your next wedding (Olympus-imagespace)

Plenty of news on the facebook E-M1II group and the GH5 group.

Maks: “My name is Maks Histibe, and I’m Vimeo Award-winning visual artist and video director from Mask Movement who are primarily focusing on modern creative videos and music. I’m contacting you to show my short documentary + creative review about GH5S. The main factors are quality, artistic look and tests made here in Ukraine.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_iULv5exOQ”

Tom: “direct comparison oly 25 1.2 with outs 55 and Sigma art 50..where the only is 1.2!
https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2018/01/finally-some-m43-mtf-testing-25mm-prime-lens-comparison/
and (scroll a bit)
https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2014/06/comparing-rangefinder-and-slr-50mm-lenses-version-0-7/
the first time ever there is a direct comparison  of the 40/lp mm ..
and if you look: it even beats the summilux asph , also 1.2 vs 1.4…”

Preorders: GX9 at BHphoto. Adorama. Amazon. FocusCamera. ZS200 at BHphoto. Adorama. Amazon. FocusCamera.

You can download the new GX9 manual here: av.jpn.support.panasonic.com

The new Olympus E-PL9 is now shipping in Europe through many stores like Amazon DE and Amazon UK. Still uncertain when this camera will be announced in the USA. Strange strategy this from Olympus to not announce their new camera in one of the biggest markets.

Iridient Developer 3.2.2 now supports those new Panasonic and Olympus cameras:

• New Features:
  • Support added for RAW images from the Panasonic DC-GX9, DC-ZS200 (DC-TZ200) and DC-GF10 (DC-GF90).
• Improvements:
  • JPEG export libraries updated to new version (libjpeg-turbo 1.5.3).

Adobe is crashing it and reported a record revenue:

• Adobe achieved record quarterly revenue of $2.08 billion in its first quarter of fiscal year 2018, which represents 24 percent year-over-year revenue growth.
• Diluted earnings per share was $1.17 on a GAAP-basis, and $1.55 on a non-GAAP basis.
• Digital Media segment revenue was $1.46 billion, with Creative revenue growing to $1.23 billion and Document Cloud achieving revenue of $231 million.
• Digital Media Annualized Recurring Revenue (“ARR”) grew to $5.72 billion exiting the quarter, a quarter-over-quarter increase of $336 million. Creative ARR grew to $5.07 billion, and Document Cloud ARR grew to $647 million.
• Digital Experience segment revenue was $554 million, which represents 16 percent year-over-year growth.
• Operating income grew 50 percent and net income grew 46 percent year-over-year on a GAAP-basis; operating income grew 43 percent and net income grew 64 percent year-over-year on a non-GAAP basis.
• Cash flow from operations was $990 million, and deferred revenue grew 25 percent year-over-year to approximately $2.57 billion.
• Adobe repurchased approximately 1.6 million shares during the quarter, returning $301 million of cash to stockholders.

I am no more using Adobe products because of the subscription model. There are many alternatives out there. Some good and some not so good. I give you possible options where you can get a discount:

1) 10% discount on Capture One 11 (Click here) with the coupon code “AMB43R“.
Capture One is a damn serious alternative to Adobe. Probably the only one that top professionals should consider to buy.

2) Luminar 2018 (Click here) and Aurora HDR (Click here).  On both you save additional $10 on checkout using the code “43RUM“.
This software is way cheaper than Capture One and also offers less professional tools. But it’s good enough for most of the photographers out there and it will have some major update soon with a new DAM module coming soon.