Panasonic Japan quietly listed the new DMW-TC20A 2x teleconverter

Main Specifications

• Lens configuration: 8 elements in 5 groups
• Magnification: 2x
• Size: Maximum diameter approx. 58mm, total length approx. 34mm
• Weight: approx. 160g

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The Best MFT Short Tele –Lumix 42.5mm F1.7 Beats The Rest

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Panasonic Patents a Heat Dissipation Mechanism for a Compact Cinema Camera (YMcinema).
Olympus E-M5 Mark II EVF Auto Switch Not Working (Rob Trek).
Exposure Compensation in Photography: What to Know (42West).
What Is Your Favorite Camera Bag? (Explora).

Plenty of news on the facebook OMD group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.

A new release of Topaz Video AI is now available (Click here). Reminder: Topaz Photo AI is $40 off til Saturday.

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We are proud to bring a new Enhancement model into the mix – Nyx – which will focus on denoising for high quality videos. We are also releasing version 2 of Iris, which is a significant upgrade from v1 for most results. Lastly we are adding the capability to correct the rotation of your videos by 90, 180 and 270 degrees. More info about models and frontend change below.

Changelog from 3.4.4:

• Adds “Nyx” Enhancement model.
• Adds Iris v2 model.
• Adds support for rotating videos 90, 180, and 270 degrees.
• Adds crash logs to “logs for support” and changes format to zip file.
• Adds change moving “Enable Previous Model Versions” preference to advanced section of settings.
• Adds change renaming “Second Pass Enhancement” to just “Second Enhancement” to reduce any potential confusion with two-pass encoding.
• Fixes bug causing logs to be inaccessible on Windows.
• Fixes special characters in file path causing export failure when using Export As.
• Fixes crash on app open for some machines.
• Fixes trim accuracy issues for ProRes.
• Fixes bug causing inaccuracy with video duration after resetting trim range.

Nyx:

• A new model for denoising high-quality video.
• The focus of the model is on footage from high-quality cameras captured in less-than-ideal lighting conditions.
• Processes videos at 1x scale to maintain the level of detail in the input video while removing noise.

Iris v2:

• An improved version of Iris v1, offerring more details and sharpness especially to faces.
• It uses TensorRT models for Nvidia GPUs and could result in a 50% speed-up.
• It also reduces the “previous frame’s ghost” artifacts.
• It reduces “marching ant” (diagonal movement of texture) artifacts, especially, for 1x and 2x.

Attention:

The format for support logs is being changed to include license information (auth.tpz). While this file is encrypted and only useful on your machine, please try to avoid posting it or your support logs here by mistake. This would not likely lead to a problem, but better to be safe than sorry. Please submit any logs directly to our support team or devs

Known Issues:

• Intel ARC is currently unsupported.
• If using Frame Interpolation to increase fps over 2x, output may contain duplicate frames.
• For Interlaced and Interlaced-Progressive videos, setting FPS back to Original may cause issues. To get around this, re-import the file. This only happens after manually changing the FPS.
• Videos with mismatched metadata and streams will display incorrect duration
• Frame number preview length may shorten on app restart

Upgrading the Lumix GH5? Should you get the GH6 or S5IIX?

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Guide to Portable Hard Drives for the Travel Photographer (Explora).
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Plenty of news on the facebook OMD group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.

The new Z-cam is available for preorder for $3,999 at BHphoto.

CineD writes: “During IBC 2023, camera and lighting manufacturer Z CAM has just introduced the E2-M5G cinema camera. It features a 5K Micro Four Thirds global shutter CMOS sensor with Dual Gain architecture and Dual Native ISO, can record in 5K60p or 4K96p, plus it has a user-interchangeable MFT lens mount, and a claimed dynamic range of 16 stops.”