Karsten Gieselmann‎
Dancing in the street
The “Dancing House” – one of the most “instagrammable” spots in Prague
EM1II, M.Zuiko 7-14/f2.8, 12mm, ƒ/5.6, 1.6s, ISO 200
https://www.flickr.com/photos/karstengieselmann/49653677308/
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ON1 Photo RAW 2020.1 has been released. It’s a free update for current users and if you don’t own it you can buy it with an instant 20% discount.

In this video you cans ee what’s new:

All ongoing software deals:

• LUMINAR: Skylum launched the new free Luminar 4.2 update ($10 discount with our code “43RUM”).
• TOPAZ SHARPEN: 25% off on th new Topaz Sharpen AI software.
• TOPAZ VIDEO: $100 off on the new Topaz Video Enhance AI
• DXO: Til March 31 you save up to 30% on all DxO software (Click here).
• FRANZIS: Save $237 on the entire Franzis software collection

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• Aperture Range: f/25 – f/22
• 67mm Filter Threads
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Olympus Tethered Shooting – Olympus Capture

Today Gold Box deals at Amazon US, BHphoto, eBay, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it, Amazon.es.
How To Freeze Motion When Photographing Moving Subjects (Explora).
We Hope Sigma Is Making More F1.8 Zooms for APS-C and M4/3 (ThePhoBlographer).
Lume Cube 2.0 review at Dpreview.
How to Survive the Coronavirus as a Photographer/Videographer! (TheSLantedLens).

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

It’s now two years that Panasonic expanded their camera business by joining the L-mount alliance. Many questioned if this would be the end of their MFT commitment, or if their L-mount adventure would fail.

And for the first time we got a real answer about the L-mount alliance is working out. The french magazine Phototrend interviewed Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki and he said:

In terms of market share, Sigma is not satisfied by the L-Mount Alliance. But according to Kazuto Yamaki it is still too early to draw conclusions. There needs to be 3 to 4 years after the launch to assess the results L-rumors

I hope he whole L-mount alliance will make some more progress the coming years. If their project fails I am sure this would have severe consequences on Panasonic MFT commitment too.