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Is Sony planning a 50MP sensor a9 with 8K video to challenge competitors like Canon’s R5? That’s what the rumor mill is reporting after discounting this same whisper earlier this year. These rumors are now being reevaluated after Sony Alpha Rumors says that a reliable source has given some credence to it. The rumor states […]

Fuji announced that it finally completed trials of its potential COVID-19 drug, Avigan, meaning that it could be available in the near future as a treatment. For those of you that have followed this story along with us, you may remember that this was express laned by the former Abe administration who was hoping to […]

The novel coronavirus is still impacting manufacturing for many of the industry’s biggest names with Tamron recently issuing guidance that its current work stoppage will continue into the foreseeable future. In a press release titled, “About [the] extension of [the] partial closure of [the] Aomori factory due to the influence of [the] new coronavirus,” “We […]

It’s probably not surprising that the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t been the best thing for camera sales, among other aspects of the economy. And consumer camera sales were already having a hard time prior to the coronavirus and, now, they’re absolutely hemorrhaging if Sony’s trends are anything to go by for this market. Photo Rumors highlights […]

The popular consensus about the decline of camera sales over the past decade is that the rise of smartphones is largely to blame. But what if it was the intense competition within the camera industry itself that helped accelerate this decline? That’s the thesis behind a recent Nikkei report and it has a lot of […]

The optics industry has not rested on its laurels during the novel coronavirus outbreak, that’s for sure. For one, both Canon and Fuji contributed pretty much from day one with Canon providing a testing kit it developed and Fuji’s drug subsidiary offering up its medicine called Avigan. Also known as Favipiravir, Avigan was prescribed in […]