a bit of everything…
Q&A Live & Community Post on the E-M5 Mark II
Ted Forbes: DSLR is DEAD? (Mirrorlessrumors).
Photo Tips and Favorite Gear for Successful Fall Foliage Pictures (Explora).
BMPCC 4K vs Panasonic S1 vs Sony a7 III vs Nikon Z6 vs Sony a7S II vs Panasonic GH5 | Epic Shootout (L-rumors).
Vintage location shoot at Carters steam fair (Olympus Imagesapce).
Plenty of news on the facebook E-M1II group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.
New Topaz Mask AI released
Everything goes “AI branded” nowadays: Topaz announced the new Mask AI plugin which you can get with a $30 discount here. Topaz writes:
Compared to Photoshop, Mask AI doesn’t need tedious brushwork to get a high-quality mask. And there’s no need to learn complicated icons and tools. With Mask AI you only need to roughly outline your subject in blue, one click fills what you want to cut, one click fills what you want to keep, and press “Compute Mask”. It’s really that simple. Our neural network has been trained to distinguish tough edges, so you can get a great mask on the first attempt.
The $30 discount will expire on November 8!
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Reminder: The AI powered new Luminar 4 (full details here) will be released on November 18. Here is an example video shwing you how to create fake Sunrays :)
New Olympus patent disclose the design for the 70-250mm f/3.5 and 100-400 f/4.5 MFT lenses

In 2020 we will get this nice 150-400mm MFT lens. And recently the patent for this lens has been published on J-platpat.inpit.go.jp. The patent also describes the design of two more lenses:
70-250mm f/3.5
100-400 f/4.5 MFT lenses
The 100-400mm lens might not be released while there is a bit more chance to get this 70-250mm MFT zoom…
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Adobe new Sensei Object Selection Tool
Adobe shared this sneak peak on the new Sensei Object Selection Tool:
It all goes into the same direction like the new AI powered new Luminar 4 (full details here) which will ship out soon. Here is a new demo video from Dustin Abbott:
Nice pictures of the new Olympus E-PL10

Fengniao shared a bunch of pictures of the three color version E-PL10. As you know you can’t buy this camera outside of Japan and China.


New Silver 7Artisans 55mm f/1.4 MFT lens released
7Artisans announced the new SILVER edition of their 55mm f/1.4 MFT lens. You can buy it on Amazon US, Amazon DE.
There is a new rugged Powerbank on Kickstarter (Click here). It comes with lifetime warranty.
One more new Kickstarter project: PGYTECH OneMo Backpack: the camera bag reimagined.









