Pixii liquidated, EOS R8 Mark II ships at $1,899, Nikon Z5 starts bowing out

Canon EOS R8 Mark II — is now shipping with good stock after its 15 September 2026 announcement: 24.2MP full frame, 5-axis in-body stabilisation and 4K60p 10-bit internal with Canon Log 3, at $1,899. This is the body most weekend shooters will cross-shop as their full-frame entry point, and the pricing makes that awkward rather than obvious. The older EOS R6 Mark II currently sits only $100 above it and still gives you a mechanical shutter. Canon Rumors

TTartisan AF 50mm f/1.8 NEO — arrives in titanium and green versions for E, Z and L mounts, keeping the same $89 launch price, a stepping autofocus motor and an included hood. A nifty-fifty that costs less than a decent filter is the easy way to put a fast prime in the bag next to your kit zoom, colour choice aside. It weighs 156–167g depending on mount and focuses down to 0.48m; pre-orders are at B&H and TTartisan's own store. Photo Rumors

Flashback ONE75 — is a screenless point-and-shoot shooting 13MP vertical half-frame images, with aluminium top and bottom plates, brass buttons, a xenon flash, a top OLED settings display and double exposure, from $179 / £140. If the Fujifilm X Half look appeals but not its price, this is the cheap way to test whether you actually enjoy shooting without a rear screen. Its Film Camera Mode locks you to 27-shot rolls that only appear in the app 24 hours later; DNG raw needs a USB-C offload. Amateur Photographer

“I keep wondering if we’re going to hit saturation point on these things – surely there’s a finite number of people willing to buy them.”

Canon EOS R6 Mark III — gets a long-term verdict from wedding shooter James Reader, who rates its 32.5MP files as the crop-versus-size sweet spot and says underexposed raws clean up well up to ISO 6,400. It is the honest counterweight to launch-week reviews, and useful if you are weighing this against the pricier R5 Mark II. It is the first R6 with Canon Log 2 and internal 7K raw, but electronic shutter drops files to 12-bit and the EVF and screen are unchanged since the 2020 R6. Fstoppers

Panasonic Lumix S 40mm f/2 — was run by Christopher Frost on a 44MP Lumix S1RII: under 150g, metal mount with a sealing gasket, very sharp in the centre wide open but hazy corners at f/2 that clean up by f/4. At $400 it is one of the cheapest official autofocus primes for L-mount, so it is the obvious walk-around lens if you shoot Lumix or Sigma full frame. Close focus is 30cm, and no hood is supplied — there is no bayonet either, leaving only the 62mm filter thread. Fstoppers

Fujifilm X series — has gone almost a year without a new body since the X-T30 III, and Gavin Stoker argues the reason is money: roughly two-thirds of Fujifilm's camera sales are Instax instant cameras. If you were holding out for the next X-T or X-Pro, the argument says plan for longer gaps rather than an imminent launch. Four Instax cameras arrived this year — Mini Evo Cinema, Mini 13, Square 2 and Pal 2 — plus two phone printers. Digital Camera World