GoPro joins Micro Four Thirds; Mitakon's $599 GFX 45mm; a $149 Sirui 40mm beats pricier rivals

🔥What's hot

🛠New gear

• Mitakon Zhong Yi Speedmaster 45mm f/1.4 — is a manual-focus fast normal for Fujifilm's GFX medium-format bodies, and it has now gone on sale through Aliexpress after being teased back in May alongside a 30mm f/2.4. Fast glass for 44x33mm sensors is normally eye-watering; this is the cheap route into a shallow-depth normal if you can live without autofocus. It is listed at US$599, and Mitakon's own store currently sells it only in a three-lens bundle at US$1,527.45 against US$1,797 bought separately. Fuji Rumors

• Meike 58mm f/1.2 MIX — is a newly announced APS-C autofocus prime, now open for preorder through Amazon and Meike's own store. An f/1.2 on a crop body gives roughly short-telephoto framing with full-frame-like subject separation for portrait weekends, at the price level third-party makers have been setting. SonyAlphaRumors notes that no review of the lens has surfaced yet, so there is nothing independent on autofocus or corner behaviour to go on. sonyalpharumors

• Mr.Ding Contax G to Canon RF adapter — puts Contax G rangefinder lenses on Canon RF mirrorless bodies, adding a focus coupling blade and focus ring so the lenses can actually be focused by hand, plus a chip that talks to the camera. If you have Zeiss G glass sitting unused, this gets it onto an RF body with the camera's focus indicator and trap focus doing the work rather than peaking alone. It weighs 75g and writes lens model, focal length and maximum aperture into EXIF; above F8, Canon system limits make the exposure inaccurate. Photo Rumors

• Voigtländer Mod Vienna — is a six-model premium binocular range from Cosina, covering 8x and 10x magnification with 25mm, 32mm and 42mm objectives, built around an apochromatic design to hold down chromatic aberration. Same optical house that makes the manual-focus Voigtländer lenses many hobbyists keep on a body, and the spec reads like camera gear: magnesium bodies, nitrogen-filled chambers and IP67 sealing for the same weather you shoot in. Sale in Japan is scheduled for December 2026, with expected prices from ¥99,800 for the 8x25 and 10x25 up to ¥207,800 for the 42mm pair; all models claim 90% light transmission. Digital Camera World

💬What people are saying

• Sirui Swift 40mm f/2.2 — at $149, undercuts the compact 40mm autofocus primes from Sony, Nikon and Viltrox, and reviewer Dustin Abbott, covered by Fstoppers, reckons it borrows each one's best trait: proper external controls and a sealed mount, pleasant drawing, and resolution close to the sharpest of them. This is the obvious first step past a kit zoom for weekend walking, and it exists in Sony E, Nikon Z, L and Fujifilm X, so the mount you own is probably covered. It is the chunkiest of the four at 210g, and Abbott's recurring complaint is axial colour: fringing on hard-contrast edges sitting beyond the focus plane. Fstoppers

• Viltrox AF 35mm f/1.4 Pro — draws well and resolves steadily across the frame from wide open on a 61MP a7R V, according to Dustin Abbott's review as summarised by asobinet, with smooth background rendering from its 11-blade iris — but it is a big lens. The compact 35mm f/1.4 class is where third-party makers are fighting hardest, and size is the deciding factor if the lens lives on your camera all Saturday. It weighs 760g against 524g for Sony's FE 35mm f/1.4 GM and 525g for Sigma's 35mm f/1.4 DG DN II; it went on sale 30 October 2026 at ¥126,240 on Amazon, with no optical stabilisation. asobinet

• NIKKOR Z 28mm f/2.8 — holds up well on a 24-megapixel body but gives ground in the corners, per OpticalLimits' review relayed by asobinet, with a nine-element design in an all-plastic barrel and a screw-in HN-42 hood sold separately. It is the cheapest way into a wide prime on Z mount and a natural pairing for a Zfc or Z50-class body, so knowing where it leans on correction is the whole decision. 155g and 43mm long; raw files show -1.8% barrel distortion and 2.9EV of corner falloff at f/2.8, dropping to 1.39EV by f/5.6. asobinet

• GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS — is described by GoPro's Abraham Kislevitz, in a DPReview interview, as a tiny mountable cinema camera that also takes stills, after a firmware update rewrote the photo side; he names autofocus as its biggest shortcoming. It is the clearest sign of who else is interested in the Micro Four Thirds mount, and worth understanding before the spec confuses you: the sensor is far smaller than Four Thirds, so your MFT lens frames tighter on it. The push for better stills came from inside GoPro rather than from buyers, and vintage-glass shooters have turned out to be an unexpected audience. DPReview

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📰Industry news

• Panasonic P2502A — A camera coded P2502A, without Wi-Fi 6, has been registered in China; the type is unconfirmed, with rumour sites guessing at an S9II, a compact MFT model or a cine body.

• OM System PEN — OM Digital Solutions has set a release date for the PEN and its accessories, and apologised in the same 7 October notice for delayed deliveries.

• BCN October ranking — Across roughly half of Japan's stores, the EOS R10 with RF-S 18-150mm led mirrorless kits and Kodak's PIXPRO C1 in brown led compacts.

• Nikon Image Space — Nikon is closing Image Space, with downloads of stored pictures possible until April 2027; Nikon and RED exhibit at Inter BEE in Japan from 18 to 20 November 2026.

• Sony Savings Sunday — The current list cuts $600 from the a7III, $500 from the a7IV, $200 from the Alpha 1 II and $300 from the FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM.

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