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It seems a long time since the L-Mount Alliance, a development partnership initially between Leica, Panasonic and Sigma, was first announced back at Photokina 2018. In many respects, the world at large – and the imaging industry in particular – is in a different place. At that time, the trio of manufacturers agreed to produce own-brand lenses and camera bodies based around Leica’s L-Mount. Membership of the Alliance has continued to grow – with Leica announcing that Astrodesign Inc and Samyang Optics Co are the latest two companies to sign up. These follow 2021’s two prior joiners in Ernst Leitz Wetzlar and DJI. Leica’s head of product management for professional camera systems, Stephan Schulz, insists the new members bring experience and expertise in both the photo and video markets: “The L-Mount is an up-to-date lens interface that unifies photo and video applications in the best possible way. With Astrodesign, the L-Mount Alliance gains an innovator in advanced pro video. With Samyang, we welcome an agile lens maker that, within a short period of time, has developed an impressive lens portfolio for photography Leica’s L-Mount Alliance adds video & stills expertise
and cinematography.” leica-camera.com
Enhanced video for Panasonic Lumix GH6 The promise of a more flexible workflow is at the heart of version 2.3 for the Panasonic Lumix GH6 hybrid mirrorless. Newly added is support for 4K/120p and 4K/100p HDMI output plus Raw video output to a Blackmagic Design external recorder. The firmware can be downloaded free of charge. panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dsc
Canon skates through history
Canon’s recent PowerShot V10 vlogging camera has been put to good use, alongside its EOS C500 Mark II cinema camera and XF605 video camera, in capturing the temporary transformation of London’s Natural History Museum into a skatepark last month. As part of a team up between Canon and Red Bull, skaters were handed the keys and allowed to skate among the venue’s 80 million artefacts, with their once-in-a- lifetime antics captured on Canon cameras to form a promotional video, which can be viewed here: youtube.com/watch?v=V7ZXKHC13cg One of the set pieces involved rigging up 64 Canon DSLRs to enable a ‘bullet-time’ sequence in which pro athlete Leticia Bufoni kick-flipped over a velociraptor skeleton within the museum. The Canon EOS R5 was also utilised once the sun had gone down, with its low-light capability enabling the team to capture atmospheric shots of the skaters at the museum after hours. canon.co.uk
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM Canon and Red Bull’s overnight skating takeover of the Natural History Museum, London
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