CIPA's shaker table explained, AstrHori's $398 220° medium-format fisheye, Voigtländer 90mm f/4 ships

AstrHori MF 8mm F2.4 Fisheye — is now officially announced for Fujifilm GFX and Hasselblad XCD: a fully manual circular fisheye covering 220°, wide enough to pull in what sits behind the camera. Native medium-format fisheyes essentially don't exist, so this is the cheap route into that look instead of adapting full-frame glass that leaves the sensor dark at the edges. $398, with a $359 intro price until October 20, 2026; 517g, 10 elements in 8 groups, 0.1m minimum focus, no front filter thread. Photo Rumors

Voigtländer APO-Lanthar 90mm F4 Close Focus VM — has gone on sale after slipping from its August date — a compact apochromatic short telephoto for Leica M-mount, 54.8mm long and 235g. A 90mm that focuses to 0.5m rather than the usual 0.7m rangefinder limit is unusually handy if you put M glass on a mirrorless body, where the finder no longer caps how close you can work. $749/£599 in black or silver, eight elements in seven groups, six of anomalous partial dispersion glass, 0.28x maximum magnification. Digital Camera World

Godox TT350II Thinklite — is a second-generation compact TTL flash whose multi-contact hybrid shoe works on Nikon, Canon, Fujifilm, OM System and Panasonic bodies from a single unit. If you shoot two systems, or keep changing mounts, one small flash that still does TTL on both beats buying a dedicated unit per brand; it also joins Godox's radio setup as master or slave. $84.90, guide number 118 feet at ISO 100, an LED modeling lamp, 270° horizontal swivel, 32 radio channels and two AA batteries. Imaging Resource

Time's Best Inventions of 2026 — put three cameras among its honorees, and DPReview went back over its own hands-on time to say who each is actually for. A useful filter before any of them tempt you: the ZR won a Gold award as a vlogging camera, but DPReview steers stills photographers away from it entirely. The $700 GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS mounts Micro Four Thirds glass through a mount with no electronic contacts, so there is no autofocus and no electronic aperture control. DPReview

Fujifilm GFX100RF design story — PetaPixel's Chris and Jordan met the camera's designers, who described weighted mockups for testing grip, a taller silhouette drawn from the GA645 film camera, and an aspect-ratio dial added as a nod to Fujifilm's medium-format past. Worth keeping in view whenever you read launch coverage of a body you are considering buying. FujiRumors notes that Fujifilm invited and paid for the whole trip, which it argues left little room for unbiased reporting. FujiRumors

“the designers view the camera not just as a tool to capture images like a smartphone, but as an expressive musical instrument”

Sony A7S III shutter count — A Reddit user posted a shutter count screenshot showing more than one million images on an A7S III, piled up by shooting photo bursts and assembling them into short videos. The claim rests on that one screenshot and is unverified. A handy reality check on shutter life if you shop used and treat a high actuation count as a dealbreaker. Sony Alpha Rumors works it out as about 500 photos a day since the camera's July 28, 2020 announcement. Sony Alpha Rumors