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AMD Ryzen 9950X3D and 9900X3D

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We all knew these models were coming so it’s nice to have them finally announced:

Model Cores/Threads Max boost TDP L3 Cache
Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16/32 5.7GHz 170W 144MB
Ryzen 9 9900X3D 12/24 5.5GHz 120W 140MB

 

Price has not yet been announced but they won’t be cheap. The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 4.2 GHz 16-Core AM5 Processor is presently listed at $700 at B&H Photo.  Unfortunately, we’re not expecting these to be that much faster than the 7000 series equivalents.  Perhaps 10% at best.  But we would be happy to be wrong on this front.

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M4 Macbook Air

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We’re getting various reports about an imminent M4 Macbook Air launch.  We’re hearing anything from late January to March.  March seems more plausible as last March was the release of the M3 Macbook Air.

What should you expect to be different in this generation of the Macbook Air? The following is what we have gleaned so far (since the M4 chip is already out in other Apple products):

  • Around a 20%+ performance improvement
  • Better battery life (maybe an extra half-hour compared to the previous Macbook Air)
  • Same starting price
  • Same body

So not an exciting improvement, but for someone trying to decide whether or not they should wait the performance boost is not trivial and is likely worth waiting for if you don’t need a laptop today.

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Nvidia RTX 5000 Series

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The Nvidia RTX 5000 series has been announced.  We are disappointed by the lack of VRAM upgrades in several of the models.  However, we are not surprised as Nvidia has a good hold on the market and can get away with a lot.  We really want to see some more affordable models with 24gb of RAM.  Instead, we get only 16gb of RAM unless you go up to the $1,999 32GB of RAM flagship RTX 5090 video card.

The following table summarizes our current knowledge:

Model Cuda Ram Memory Speed Bus Power
RTX 5090 21,760 32GB 28Gbps 512-bit 600W
RTX 5070 Ti 8,960 16GB 28Gbps 256-bit 285W
RTX 5070 6,400 12GB 28Gbps 192-bit 250W
RTX 5060 Ti TBC 16GB 28Gbps ? 200W
RTX 5060 TBC 8GB 28Gbps ? ?
RTX 5080 10,752 16GB 30Gbps 256-bit 400W

 

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Nvidia Digits $3000 AI Supercomputer

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With VRAM being king in the AI world, people started buying Apple computers as their RAM is integrated and used both by the CPU and GPU.  How else would you get 128gb of RAM so “cheaply” where a good portion of that could be used by the GPU?  This seemed like a more cost effective way of getting a large pool of VRAM, and as a plus you could do so in a smaller size with less power and technical hurdles (like when trying to build a 4 GPU rig).

Nvidia surprised us by announcing an ARM based computer for $3000 that comes with 128gb of unified memory at a price about $1700 less than you would pay from Apple.

This computer is said to be able to handle models up to 200 billion parameters in size, which is simply great.

We hope this product won’t be in so high demand that it will be hard to get a hold of.

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New Camera Coming from DJI

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DJI Support has stated:

Hi there, thank you so much for your attention. Please stay tuned with us as our mysterious new product will be launched soon. For more details, you will find out on the launch date.

It’s funny to see a company refer to their own product as mysterious.  We truly hope this a full-frame camera as DJI likely has the freedom to be a bit more disruptive and innovative in what they release.  They’ve certainly made things interesting in regards to lower-end cine cameras.

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A Fixed Lens Medium Format Camera from Fujifilm (GFX100RF)

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The Fujifilm GFX100RF is reported to come with a 35mm F4 pancake lens and a 100 megapixel sensor.  It will be interesting to see just how small they can get this camera.  Multiplying 35mm by 0.79 gets us the full frame equivalent of 27.65 or, rounded up, 28mm.  This is a popular focal length for single lens cameras as we see in the Ricoh GR series which offer 28mm and 40mm options.

This camera won’t be cheap but it may just be the ultimate medium format travel camera.  If it has competent video features that would be quite interesting also but we’re not holding our breathe for that.

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Fujifilm GFX Eterna

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We’re very happy to see Fujifilm create a medium format cine camera.  What we know so far is that it features the same sensor as their medium format GFX 100 Mark II camera.

We were a bit surprised that there wasn’t better dynamic range on the GXF 100 Mark II compared to its full-frame counterparts (although you of course still benefit from the field of view that the sensor provides).  Also, the rolling shutter is not great on this camera.  Hopefully both of these factors can be corrected in the Eterna.

We look forward to the first footage which we will post here.  We have no further details at this time.

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New Camera and Lens Coming from OM Digital

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The CEO of OM Digital has stated:

We plan to add a new camera to our lineup and bright, compact single-focal-length lenses with splash & dust-proof performance. Additionally, we are continuing to work hard to bring to market the long-awaited mid-range telephoto zoom lens on our lens roadmap by the end of this year

OM Digital is the rebranding of Olympus Cameras that were bought up by another company.  Olympus did innovate with some of their micro-four-thirds cameras so we hoped OM Digital would carry on the flame.

This new camera hopefully has a 1-inch sensor and some set of features to set itself apart from other 1-inch sensor cameras.  Otherwise it won’t be exciting.

The mid-range telephoto sounds like a 50-200mm.  Maybe a pro 50-200mm F4? 50-250mm?

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New Yashica Fixed-Lens Compact Cameras

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It’s nice to see compact cameras being made again.  Smart phones obliterated this market, but there’s still some things that smart phones cannot do as well as a dedicated camera.  This market will never recover to its previous glory but hopefully a nice niche will develop here.

Here’s what we know about these cameras:

  • Called the Yashica City line
  • Yashica City 100 has a fixed-lens with 3X zoom
  • Yashica City 200 has a fixed-lens with 10X zoom
  • Both have the same 1/3.06-inch 13-megapixel Sony sensor
  • 4:3 photo aspect ratio
  • Offers 4K video
  • Autofocusing
  • Price starting at around $249 USD (not confirmed)

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New Panasonic L-Mount Camera Coming Soon

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Unfortunately we do not know which model.  Some early murmurings seem to point to a high megapixel model being released next but this has not been confirmed.  Stay tuned as we will post any information we can confirm about this camera as soon as we get it.  What a lot of people are hoping for is a Panasonic S1H II but this upcoming camera does not appear to be that.