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Amazon’s Best Sellers page for Mirrorless Cameras shows Canon occupying the top four positions, with the Canon EOS R50 Mirrorless Camera Kit taking both the #1 and #2 spots in different kit configurations. The Canon EOS R6 Mark II sits at #3, while the entry-level Canon EOS R100 appears at #4. Sony enters the list only at #5 with the Son...

Sony has added a new sensor flyer that deserves attention far beyond the machine vision world. The IMX949-AQB is a Type 1.8 CMOS image sensor with a 28.1 mm diagonal, approximately 12.69 effective megapixels, Pregius S global shutter technology, and an all-pixel readout speed of up to 502.3 frames per second in 12-bit. In plain English, Sony is showing a 4K class glob...

Netflix has published its official Camera Production Guide for the ARRI ALEXA 35 Xtreme, confirming the camera’s place in the Netflix 4K Originals ecosystem. That part is not exactly shocking. The ALEXA 35 Xtreme is ARRI’s new high-end Super 35 flagship, designed for pr...

Sony not only showed the RIALTO 65 sensor block at Cine Gear, but also showed something more interesting: the wafer behind its new 65mm cinema sensor. That makes the RIALTO 65 a solid Sony Semiconductor achievement. The RIALTO 65 was announced as a n...

A new homemade Ultra 16mm film camera project is gaining attention on Instagram. Called the UK4 Ultra 16mm camera, the project appears to be an independent attempt to build a modern, compact, and usable 16mm film camera for contemporary productions. It is not a commercial product yet, and the camera is still in an early prototype phase, but the concept is already attr...