Meike has announced their first autofocus lens, an 85mm f/1.8 for Canon.

The MK-85mm f/1.8 features 6 groups with 9 elements and a minimum focusing distance of 0.85m. This lens is for full frame cameras and the filter thread of the lens is 67mm.

No pricing or availability has been announced.

Update Provides New Resource Hub, Expanded Camera Support and Improved Workflow

COPENHAGEN, Apr. 19, 2018 – Phase One, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-end digital camera systems, today released Capture One 11.1, a feature release to the industry’s premier RAW conversion and image editing software. The release enhances the Capture One user experience, through a new support platform and functionality updates to ensure a faster, smoother workflow. Improved Styles and presets workflow, support for 11 new cameras, including Sony A7 Mk III and Fuji X-H1 and 10 new lenses, including Tamron lenses for both Nikon and Canon, and an all-new Resource Hub are among the latest updates.

“Capture One remains dedicated to the needs of ambitious photographers. These latest updates introduce an extension to camera and lens support, as well as an all-new Resource Hub. The Resource Hub is an in-app portal that allows users to easily access news, tutorials, updates and much more – all designed to inspire photographers and ensure the best workflow and user experience in Capture One,” said Jan Hyldebrandt-Larsen, VP Software Business at Phase One.

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It turns out last week’s report from DIYPhotography that Canon might be skipping Photokina 2018 in September isn’t the case.

Photokina has confirmed that Canon will be attending the biggest photography trade show in Cologne, Germany which begins on September 26, 2018.

We will be attending the show and we expect a couple of big announcements from Canon.

The latest report says that the long rumoured Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 DG HSM OS Sport series lens will finally make an appearance ahead of Photokina, which takes place in September of 2018.

At least one patent for a new 70-200mm f/2.8 optical formula from Sigma exists.

We’ve also been told in the past that the 70-200mm f/2.8 OS Sport could be announced alongside a 70-200mm f/4 OS contemporary lens.

More to come…

We’re told that Canon is actively developing two “prosumer” mirrorless cameras, both of which are full frame.

We’re told that we’ll see the flagship mirrorless camera announced first, and that a lower tier second camera would come 6 to 8 months after the flagship begins shipping.

The same source has also told us that Canon has a “a really nice solution for EF lenses on the full frame mirrorless body”, which doesn’t sound like a native EF mount is coming. That said, we’ve heard other people say a similar thing about EF lenses on the full frame mirrorless camera, but no one has come out and confirmed whether or not the body will be EF mount or something else.