Impressive: This Smart Electric Tripod Head raised nearly TWO million dollars(!!!) on Kickstarter (Click here to read what this is all about). The maker is the very serious company BENRO which means there should be really veeeery low risk of scam. Here is how it works:

Olympus published their new financial report. This is also their last ever report including the data of their now sold imaging business. They had a transfer-related costs of 44.7 billion yen. From now on we have to see if JIP will share data about their imaging business…

Robin Wong writes:

Micro Four Thirds was the best selling system format in Japan for 2020, yet some “photography YouTubers” claimed doom and gloom, saying Micro Four Thirds is dead, and full frame will be taking over. I disagree. I think Micro Four Thirds is the best balanced system format moving forward, being truly small and compact in size and delivering high quality images. Also, camera sales (regardless of brands and formats) have been drastically declining over the years. It is not difficult to predict that the camera making business will not be sustainable, and the only way to move forward and survive this, is for the camera manufacturers to co-exist with smartphones to continue to drive sales to the industry. In order to evolve to work alongside smartphones, Micro Four Thirds makes more sense and I believe this is the future of photography, not full frame format.

Europeans now save 20% on all the Creative Cloud apps sold by Adobe Germany, Adobe UK, Adobe France, Adobe Italy, Adobe Spain, Adobe Netherland, Adobe Belgium.

Camnostic spotted a new Olympus camera registration in Russia. It uses the code “IM024” and we don’t know yet what camera this might be…