[UPDATE: Zeiss Touit FAQ] B&H estimates: 55-200 on June 05 – 12mm Touit on June 03 + Touit high-res samples (ephotozine)

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BHphoto expects the 12mm Touit lens for June 03 (click here)

ephotozine posted some high-res samples provided by Zeiss. For the 12mm samples click here, and for the 32mm shots click here. [UPDATE: For the Carl Zeiss Touit FAQ click here.]

Zeiss Touit 32mm pre-order: USA: Adorama / BHphoto / Uniquephoto / Pictureline / Europe: AmazonDE / PCHstore Brussel

Zeiss Touit 12mm pre-order: USA: Adorama / BHphoto / Uniquephoto / Pictureline / Europe: AmazonDE / PCHstore Brussel

XF 55-200 pre-order: USA: BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / DigitalRev / Uniquephoto / Pictureline / Europe: AmazonUK / AmazonDE / PCHstore Brussel

BHphoto expects the 55-200 for June 05 (click here)

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Lens Turbo (focal reducer) to come for Fuji.

We got in contact with the Chinese company that just launched the new “Lens Turbo” adapter which is a focal reducer as the [shoplink 12112 ebay]Speed Booster[/shoplink] adapter but with a different design. They told us that nine new adapters will be launched this year:

PK, AI, EF, FD, MD, C/Y, Leica R, and M42 to Fuji X mount.

The image on top shows you their first adapter made for the NEX system. The company that makes the lens also makes the [shoplink 11236 ebay]Mitakon 35mm 0.95 for X-mount (you can find them here on eBay)[/shoplink].

Bags for your X: Think Tank new mirrorless mover bags

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Think Tank just launched the new mirrorless mover bags.

Check specs& price of the Mirrorless Mover 30iAdorama / BHphoto / Uniquephoto
Check specs& price of the Mirrorless Mover 20: Adorama / BHphoto / Uniquephoto
Check specs& price of the Mirrorless Mover 10: Adorama / BHphoto / Uniquephoto
Check specs& price of the Mirrorless Mover 5: Adorama / BHphoto / Uniquephoto

Thanks for sharing this news with FR, Matt (digitaltrekker)

cheers
Patrick

thedigitaltrekker (What does it look like to vote in Malaysia – [shoplink 11923 ebay]X-PRO1[/shoplink] and the [shoplink 11339]Fujinon 14mm[/shoplink])

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Video: Developing the new Touit lens + preoder at AmazonDE (available June 3) + 55-200 at AmazonUK on June 14

Zeiss posted this video on youtube: “Developing the new Touit lens family”.

Zeiss Touit 32mm pre-order: USA: Adorama / BHphoto / Uniquephoto / Pictureline / Europe: AmazonDE / PCHstore Brussel

Zeiss Touit 12mm pre-order: USA: Adorama / BHphoto / Uniquephoto / Pictureline / Europe: AmazonDE / PCHstore Brussel

XF 55-200 pre-order: USA: BHphoto / Adorama / AmazonUS / DigitalRev / Uniquephoto / Pictureline / Europe: AmazonUK / AmazonDE / PCHstore Brussel

You can use slidoo.com and let you notify when these lenses are available on ebay (set your own price range, location, condition and buying format… and wait for the slidoo-notification once your product is available)

Iridient Developer 2.1 with X-TRANS support (for Mac OS X)

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image courtesy: myself (FacebookTwitter)

Iridient Digital has released Iridient Developer 2.1. diglloyd says “Iridient Developer has some very nice facilities for raw conversion including some specialty black and white conversion modes and deconvolution sharpening. It is a handy tool to have around, even if Lightroom is your mainstay. Recommended. And there is a demo version available. Note the support for the Fuji X-Pro1, X-E1, X100S (XTrans sensor).”

You can download it here (demo version available. Not time limited, but all your exported images will be watermarked.) You can purchase it for $75.

“This release introduces 3 all new noise reduction methods which greatly improve the high ISO noise processing while retaining excellent detail and reducing color smearing along object borders! This release also brings support for using Apple’s RAW processing as an alternate demosaic option and to enable support for some camera models like the Fuji X-trans which may not yet be supported by my own demosaic processing. In addition this release includes an updated ICC color management processing which now offers support for both Apple ColorSync and LittleCMS v2.4 and black point compensation as well. A new “RAW Color Channel Mixer” monochome conversion method (now with 6 in all) provides direct access to the RAW sensor color channels direct from the demosaic stage with no prior color processing. Other bug fixes and improvements as well!” […] Fuji: X-Pro1, X-E1, X20, X100S, F900EXR, HS50EXR, HS35EXR and SL1000. The X-trans based cameras require Apple RAW v4.05 or conversion to DNG Linear format.

best
Patrick

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