New updates released: Adobe Generative AI for Photoshop plus a new version of Excire Foto 2024


Adobe updated Photoshop with the newest generative AI tools:

  • Latest Adobe Firefly Image Model​: The new Adobe Firefly Image Model yields better people generation, photographic quality, colors, and dynamic range. It's also better at understanding and following your prompts and supports negative prompts, so you can bring your vision to life in Photoshop with more control and confidence in the results.​
  • Text to Image (Generate Image in UI)​: Generate entire images or scenes from scratch using text prompts and additional creative controls with the new Text to Image (labeled “Generate Image” in Ps product UI) feature. You can generate complex, custom images and composites without leaving Photoshop, or combine multiple generated images on a canvas to ideate and refine ideas more efficiently​
  • Generate Background​: Generate Background allows you to replace your background with generated content that matches the lighting, shadows, and perspective of the subject in just a few steps. Rather than manually selecting the background and using Generative Fill, with Generate Background, you can simplify workflows and save time with a streamlined experience in the Contextual Task Bar.



New version of Excire Foto 2024 was released and it is now on sale for $149 (instead of $189). Here are some of the updates:

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Canon allows Sigma and Tamron to produce RF mount lenses – here is what to expect




Canon will let Sigma and Tamron produce RF mount lenses. Here is the list of the (long rumored) first lenses that will be released for RF mount:

Sigma

Tamron



Press releases: Sigma | Tamron

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Getting close to the Venus Optics Laowa 15mm f/5 Cookie FF II full frame lens announcement (M/E/R/Z/L)



       
We must be getting close to the official announcement of the previously reported Laowa FFII 15mm f/5 Cookie full-frame lens for M/E/R/Z/L - the lens by Venus Optics is already listed for sale at an Australian retailer:



Additional information:

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Godox announced a new Lux Master Retro Camera Flash (for Fuji, Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Sony cameras)


Godox announced a new Lux Master Retro Camera Flash:



Additional information:

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What else is new?

Upcoming Leica auctions (Wetzlar, OstLicht, Leitz Photographica, Bonhams)

Vi Vante private spring sale: up to 35% off

Now your phone can be a Ninja too: Atomos announces the Ninja phone video co-processor

The new Nikon NIKKOR Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR lens has a shipping date of May 14 – June 3 at Amazon US

Upcoming Nikon Z8/Z9/ZF classes by Steve Simon

Nikon Z8 firmware update version 2.01 released

Sigma 70-200mm F2.8 DG DN OS, 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS, and 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Now Support Sony a9III 120fps

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Ulanzi announced a new TT35 hiking stick tripod kit


Ulanzi announced a new TT35 hiking stick tripod kit:

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First leaked picture of the Fujifilm X-T50 camera

It seems that the first leaked picture of the Fujifilm X-T50 camera already showed up on the Chinese social media Weibo:


This is what Google AI knows about the Fujifilm X-T50 camera:

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Best selling cameras for 2023 at MAP Camera Japan


Here are the best-selling new cameras for 2023 at MAP Camera Japan:

  1. Nikon Z8
  2. Nikon Zf
  3. Sony α7C II
  4. Canon EOS R6 Mark II
  5. Sony α7RV
  6. Sony α7IV
  7. Fujifilm X-T5
  8. Ricoh GR IIIx
  9. Sony α6700
  10. Canon EOS R8
  11. OM System OM-1
  12. Fujifilm X-H2
  13. Fujifilm X-T30 II
  14. Ricoh GR III
  15. Nikon Z fc
  16. Fujifilm X-S10
  17. Sony ZV-E10
  18. Leica Q3
  19. Canon EOS R10
  20. Sony ZV-E1

Via MAP Camera (check out also MAP Camera's eBay account)

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