Gray wagtel is an attractive bird usually found with currents and rivers. Its continuous tail waging has inspired similar names in many languages. This week, the Czech Ornithological Society named It Bird of the Year. He indicated bird relations for important natural waterways, many of which have decreased dramatically in size, making it difficult for the environment to maintain water. In just one month, Wagtails must be returning from their winter field. I again put the streams into the cool water and cannot wait to see their interesting life.
Recent announcements
- Nikon Z 28-135 mm F/4 PZ: This is the first Z-mount lens designed specifically for professional videos, featuring power zoom liver, giared focus and zoom rings and optical features, which is aimed at videography. Zooming can be controlled in many ways: through the lever (with 11 selected zoom speed), programmable buttons on the camera body, a traditional zoom ring, or far from Nikon’s mobile and desktop software. To compete with ghosting and flare, Nikon has applied its best anti-reflection coating-Meso unaccounted coat. You can read more Our announcement articleThe lens is available for pre-order $ 2,600,
- Red V-Rapter (X) and Como (X) for Z-Mount: Here is a new fruit of red colored acquisition of Nikon. The cameras are not new, but now they add the option to buy them with Z Mount. V-Rapter (x) More inexpensive and compact Comodo-X ($ 6,995) has a small super -35 (27.03 x 14.26 mm) sensor which also has a global shutter and shoots up to 6K 80p or 4K 120p. In addition to the ability to use red cameras with Nikon lens, Red also announced a new Z to pl adapter ($ 3,500) with an electronic ND filter. When enabled, its density can be set in the range of 2 to 7 stops.
- Tokina 11-18 mm F/2.8 ATX-M: This lens is available for a long time to Sony users (and currently exempted from $ 599 $ 399However, starting in mid -March, Fuji shooter will also be able to buy this lens for this lens. $ 599For them, this lens is particularly interesting because Fujifilm does not offer a native option that incorporates a uniform focal length range (equivalent to the full-frame of 16.5-27 mm) with a continuous f/2.8 aperture with a continuous f/2.8 aperture . Optical construction consists of 13 elements in 11 groups. It has a 67 mm filter thread and weighs 318g.
- Segate Ultra Compact SSD: A drive for the situations where every ounce and every bit saved in your backpack cases (I immediately thought of his trek in Spencer and Chile Andes)! It is highly portable, with dimensions of 70 mm × 20.40 mm × 12.50 mm and just 24g. Nevertheless, 1TB and 2TB capabilities can store a lot of photos or videos. Segate’s 3-meter drop protection and IP54 dust and water resistance suggests that this SSD can bear in difficult conditions. Transfer speed reaches 1,000MB/s via integrated USB-C. Pricing is set $ 100 For 1TB version and $ 180 For 2TB version.
rumor mill
Zes plans to return to photo lens business
Zes has last introduced photo-oriented lenses. Now, two complicated posts have appeared on it Instagram profileBoth have an owl facility. The first shows an adult owl with the text “Landing Soon”, while the second displays two juvenile owls with a date of “02.25.2025”.
Zeiss is the name of its lens lineup after the famous birds, such as birds, like birds Otus (Scops-owls), a genus with more than 50 species. Can it be a teaser for a new OTUS series of lenses? The first teaser image was also taken with an OTUS 85 mm f/1.4. It seems that we will find out soon.
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Lumix S1R II Leica SL3’s budget will not be twin
At least, this is the case according to a source of L-Rumerrs. Till now, it was widely expected that the long-awaited release of Panasonic would have a 60MP sensor similar to Leika’s current SL-series flagship.
Will Panasonic stick to 47.3 MP resolution of S1R instead? Or will it have a 60MP sensor but will the difference between other areas? This can be manifested in the CP+ Trade Show later this month.
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Good deals and new sales
You can save up to $ 300 on some latest MacBook Pro model with M4 chip in B&H photo by February 21, 2025. This deal applies to the following high end laptops:
- Apple 16 ″ MacBook Pro, M4 Max 16-core Chip, 48GB Unified RAM, 1TB SSD $ 4,000 was now $ 3,800
- Apple 16 ″ MacBook Pro, M4 Pro 14-core Chip, 48GB Unified RAM, 1TB SSD $ 3,100 was now $ 2,800
- Apple 14 ″ MacBook Pro, M4 Pro 14-core Chip, 48GB Unified RAM, 1TB SSD $ 2,800 was now $ 2,500
- Apple 14 ″ Macbook Pro, M4 Pro 14-core Chip, 24GB Unified RAM, 1TB SSD $ 2,400 was now $ 2,150
And since we are already on computing wave, my selection of high quality SSD is currently available at good prices. To make comparisons easier, all selected drives have the same capacity of 2TB. There are some differences between speed, durability and other feature sets.
Other pages of interest
Small, distant controlled quadcopters have found many applications in recent years. Let’s separate their use in war and focus on their peaceful uses. Beyond capturing stunning aerial footage, drones can also be used to monitor protection activities such as endangered animal population. In the article Follow that bird! How drone is helping scientists to track wildlifeYou will learn how a drone equipped with an infrared camera and a radio signal receiver followed a radio-tagged gauge.
If you are interested in journalism and documentary photography, you should take a look at the winning photos Czech press photo 2024As expected, several awards were won by the works that were documented current events in Ukraine and Gaza Strip. However, in a stunning turn, Main prize Went to a sports photo from last year’s Olympic Games in Paris. My personal favorite, however, is a black and white portrait series A clown lifeWho won in the picture category.
In the sixth annual gallery Close-up photographer of the year 2024You will find 100 of the best images selected by photographers from 61 countries from more than 11,000 submissions. Hold a magnifying glass – or at least your reading glasses – because you are about to enter the world of some very small creatures. However, you will also find a fairly large nature topic among the winners, such as a bear or a giant Sea. You can also download a 27-page List With detailed information about the winning images. You can combine it with some best insect photos, as chosen by Royal entomological society,
Photo Theme Challenge, Week #89
Last week was the theme winterAnd you can see the result In this threadThank you everyone for your submission! This week is the theme of DismantleAnd you can present your results In this thread Saturday, February 22, till 2024!
Week #88 results
Let us see some shots obtained for the theme “Winter”, which starts with the photo of Knighter:
I did not expect to see a heron in the snow, and it is a very well implicated, almost as the expansion of the tree!
Next, we have a photo of Andreugusive:
Here, winter signs are subtle, but the steam and quality of light removes it!
Finally, we have the submission of Mark Fulton:
I remember this photo was looking at our monthly photo criticism session on the member page! My first idea was how the background to provide some interesting reference to the scene is just in the right amount, without drawing the view of the viewer away from the subject.
Thanks to everyone for submitting your photos in the challenge, and we hope to look more in the next week Dismantle Subject.
