Tripod shooters may like the new Atoll ring on Kickstarter (Click here). Here is a review from Daniel Kordan in Bali:

And this is how it works:

DJI announced two new Gimbals you can preorder now in the USA at BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama.
in EU at Amazon DE, Fotokoch DE, FotoErhardt DE, Calumet DE, Amazon UK, WexUK. Amazon FR, Amazon ES, Amazon IT, Amazon NL.

The full press text is available at Explora.

Today DxO announced the new Nik Collection 5 (click here to read all details). The user interface has been rebuilt from ground up and there are a ton of new features:

Here are some video reviews:

There is a software review at PcMag.

I’m happy to see that DxO continues to develop and improve the Nik Collection. For years, I held onto the free version Google released, stashing the installer on various drives and laptops, lest I ever lost track of it and access to my beloved Silver Efex Pro.
With Collection 5, the welcome interface refresh from last year comes to more apps in the suite. Now, all four creative arms—Analog Efex, Color Efex, Silver Efex, and Viveza—offer a consistent user experience. They also all include the ability to rename U-Points and add them to presets, making up for the somewhat inconsistent experience from Collection 4.
We’re also glad to see some level of nondestructive editing in the suite. It’s not quite as convenient as Raw processing and this feature certainly requires a lot of space on your hard drive, but you may find the option to go back and make edits to an image worthwhile. The addition of batch processing can help speed up certain workflows, too.
The suite continues to be a good pick for photographers who enjoy creative editing, and longtime users should appreciate that updates keep it going on newer systems. We’d love to see the developers pay attention to Apple Silicon for the next update, though I admit there were no hiccups with Rosetta 2 emulation when I tested the software on a Mac Studio. Support for Apple chips obviously doesn’t matter if you prefer working in Windows.
We’re also glad to see some level of nondestructive editing in the suite. It’s not quite as convenient as Raw processing and this feature certainly requires a lot of space on your hard drive, but you may find the option to go back and make edits to an image worthwhile. The addition of batch processing can help speed up certain workflows, too.

You can now buy (or try for free) the new Nik Collection 5.

Zhiyun announced this new gimbal with buit.in mic an light. You can preorder it at BHphoto and read the press release on Explora.

Olympus Japan announced it will increase the price of the OM-1, E-M10IV and lenses on July 1st. While there is yet no info about price increases in other countries I can certainly see this happening in EU and USA too.

This is certainly going to be a tough year for all of us, companies, individuals…blame inflation-shortages-war-lockdowns for all that shit :(

Olympus PEN EP7 Review – My initial thoughts

Today deals at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT.
OM System OM-1 | Neues MFT-Flaggschiff im Test [ValueTech] Olympus 9-18mm test at Asobinet.
Take Control with the New edelkrone Controller v2 (Explora).

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