Never heard of this company before: Chinese company CAYE announced a 200mm f/3.5 MFT compatible lens for $21

Caye Technology announced a new 200mm F3.5 lens. Key specs:

  • Full Frame
  • fixed F3.5 large aperture
  • manual focus
  • uses a set of two optical structures
  • minimum focusing distance of 1.8 meters
  • The lens body is about 32cm long
  • 14cm in diameter
  • weighs about 550g
  • Sony E, Canon RF, Canon EF, Canon EF-M, Nikon Z, Nikon F, Fuji X and M43 mounts

And now comes the bummer: It costs 159 Yuan which is $21 only! Of course I expect extraordinary image quality from this :)

Source: Weibo

USA Black Friday deals started: Massive deals on storage and OM Digital gear (OM-1 for $1,099)

You can find all Black Friday deals on those pages at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama. In Europe at Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES, Amazon NL. And also live is Amazon Australia.

The hottest deals you cannot miss (with lowest price ever!):

  • OM-1 body for $1,099 only at OM Digital store.
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SD and CFexpress cards:

Storage deals:

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Scanning Film with the Panasonic G1

Kyle McDougall writes:

After doing a budget film scanning build last year, I was curious to see if I could do it for even less by purchasing the cheapest digital mirrorless camera I could find. I wanted to know if you could still get good results even with very old and affordable tech. The results surprised me!

He bought the Panasonic Lumix G1 for $29 only. Cool that you an still use it for something useful like this!

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