ON1 Photo RAW 2018 – Version 2018.5.2 (12.5.2.5686) Release Notes
ON1 Photo RAW 2018 includes the essential tools and features every photographer needs in their workflow. Our super fast, non-destructive, and state-of-the-art processing engine gives you an ultra smooth and efficient editing experience. ON1 Photo RAW is focused on allowing you to get the most out of every photo. Photographers now have a tool with fast photo management, hundreds of customizable photo effects, fast and beautiful HDR, panos, masking and selection tools, layers, and much more—in one app.
What’s New in 2018.5.2 (12.5.2.5686)
This is a free update to ON1 Photo RAW 2018. It contains the new Transform tools as well as performance improvements and bug fixes. It is recommended for all users.
Transform Tools — We have added the Keystone, Level and Move tools to the Transform pane in Develop. This makes it much easier to correct perspective and leveling.
Improved Performance — We identified several performance issues on macOS after releasing ON1 Photo RAW 2018.5. We have fixed the performance issues with brushing and sticky sliders.
Hot Pixel Removal for Fujifilm X-Trans sensors.
Added support for the Canon EOS Rebel T7/2000D
Improved Color Fringe Removal
Improved the performance of several filters (Dynamic Contrast, HDR Look, Sharpening)
Anyway, Nikon is confident, and promises “a leap into a new dimension that will last for the next 100 years“.
We know very little about the upcoming Nikon mirrorless camera. So let’s wait until August 23 before we discuss the camera more in-depth.
But what we can discuss now, is what Nikon’s and Canon’s move into the mirrorless world means for Fujifilm X and GFX lovers.
… FUJIFILM IS HAPPY…
Fujifilm managers said here that they welcome CaNikon Full Frame mirrorless cameras, because…
“[…] having those strong brands in the mirrorless marketplace increases general awareness of mirrorless, and that’s a good thing for the whole industry.”
Many people, who currently still think that DSLRs are the only real professional tool, might start to think differently, once they see that even Canon and Nikon start to cannibalize their own high-end DSLR market in favor of their new mirrorless offering.
And this is where Fujifilm (and other mirrorless manufacturers) have their opportunity.
If the message finally passes that “mirrorless is the future” (and it is the future), plenty of DSLR users (who are mainly APS-C shooters, as Fuji Guy Billy correctly said in his X-T100 first look here) will start to migrate to Mirrorless.
Maybe many will just go to CaNikon mirrorless, but at least Fujifilm has the chance to finally attract some of those mirroless-migrants to their X or GFX systems by offering already today:
28 APS-C Fujinon lenses
2 APS-C MK video lenses
3 APS-C flagships (X-T, X-Pro and X-H line)
Plenty of APS-C mid range and entry-level cameras
2 Medium Format Cameras (GFX 50s and very soon an affordable GFX 50R)
6 Medium Format Lenses (more to be announced soon)
It remains to see if the mirrorless-migrants will be patient and wait years for Canon and Nikon to build up a complete new system, or if, since they have to change system and change lenses anyway (unless they use adapters), they will directly switch to more established and experienced mirrorless brands like Fujifilm (APS-C or MF) or Sony (FF),
… AND X/GFX SHOOTERS ARE HAPPY TOO!
What would Fujifilm be today, without the pressure they got from Sony, Panasonic and Olympus? Probably a much worst system than it is today. So, competition is a good thing.
That’s why I hope that the Nikon mirrorless camera will be a top performing camera and very rich in features, a real flagship!
It will motivate Fujifilm (and other companies) to work even harder and to invest even more money into their camera system, and hence improve and expand the Fujifilm system even faster.
So thank you Nikon… thank you Canon… for finally joining seriously the mirrorless side of life… just please, let it be awesome mirrorless cameras ;) .
This will be a rather huge Fujifilm GFX 50S (and lenses) roundup… so let’s start.
Drew wrote me: “I was commissioned by the Daily Telegraph to shoot this Gigapixel image of Trooping the colour to celebrate the queens birthday. I thought It might be of interest. It was was shot on the Fujifilm GFX 50S with the 250mm lens. It is a truly amazing combination – perfectly suited to gigapixel imagery”. You can see the 2.3 gigapixel image made up of more than 100 50MP files at www.telegraph.co.uk
The Laowa 9mm F2.8 Zero-D seems to have sold like hot cakes, since it was hard to find in stock and it took Venus Optics from March to July only to fulfill all pre-orders.
But now the shortage seems to be over, and Venus Optics told me that they have a much more stable supply now.
Venus Optics gives priority to those customers, who order directly at their website. Hence, the Laowa 9mmF2.8 is still hard to find at other stores. Check out the list below.
