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New accessories Tilta Khronos for iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max, originally unveiled at NAB (where it won the NAB 2024 Product of the Year award), is finally hitting the market! The base of the kit is a classic camera cage-style frame to which additional accessories can be attached including a cooling module, filters, focus/zoom control handle, NATO bar, LED light and quick release adapters. If you don't want to assemble the iPhone rig yourself, you can reach for one of the Lightweight, Basic, Advanced and Ultimate kits.

Panasonic resurrects compact travel superzoom LUMIX FZ80/FZ82. The new version is called "D" and offers an improved viewfinder (now OLED with a larger area and resolution) and LCD display; it also integrates Wi-Fi, the now mandated USB-C port and improved software features (e.g. Zoom Compose Assist). It retains the powerful integrated 20-1200mm f/2.8-5.9 (35mm eq.) zoom, 18.1MP 1/2.3" sensor, Power O.I.S. stabilization, UHD video up to 30p/25p to MP4 (max. 15 min.) or FHD up to 60p/50p to MP4/AVCHD respectively up to 1280x720 120/100 fps and 640x480 240/200 fps, 4K Photo, Post Focus and Focus Stacking ad. The wide-angle 60x zoom is ideal for travel, sports and nature photography (incl. macro) and thanks to its compact body dimensions (130.2x94.3x125.2 mm, 640 g incl. battery), it's just begging to be packed in your backpack on summer holidays! On sale from July/August.

Roland has introduced a powerful eight-channel compact overhead with live streaming, V-80HD! The new HD overhead will go on sale in September and will offer everything needed for cultural and sporting events, streaming and studio production, including an integrated console, 3G-SDI and HDMI inputs, USB 3.0 and LAN (RTMP/SRT) interfaces, PTZ camera control and remote control and remote preview via iPad app or macOS or Windows computers. In addition to SRT support, the Graphics Presenter software for captioning and animation is also a major new feature , and will be compatible with the current V-8HD, V-160HD, VR-6HD and VR-120HD models later this year; SRT support is also planned for the SR-20HD, VR-6HD and VR-120HD overheads.

Several in stock soon new Viltrox products on the lens front: the Viltrox AF 16 mm f/1.8 Z wide-angle FF specialist for Z-Mount and two additions to the Viltrox Air line of lightweight APS-C lenses, the Viltrox AF 56 mm f/1.7 (for X- and Z-Mount) and the Viltrox AF 40 mm f/2.5 Z (Z-Mount). While the former will particularly appeal to landscapers and night sky enthusiasts, the two new additions to the Viltrox Air series attract with their versatility thanks to their very lightweight construction, versatile focal lengths and optimizations for video shooting. All of them are united by AF support thanks to the very fast and silent STM motor of the focusing system...

Sony launch new FW for fX6 modelwhich replaces FW 5.0 downloaded shortly after its launch. Version 5.00/5.01 introduces a number of new features including 1.5x image stretching in the viewfinder and HDMI output, a new 709tone Base Look preset, support for Monitor & Control 2.0 (histogram display, false color, 1024x576 preview and more), higher image quality for 3D LUT corrections, breathing compensation support for SEL100400GM and SEL200600G lenses, and a range of other enhancements.