There are more and more indications of a second new Lumix full-frame, which is a ‘interesting’ camera!

In the last few days, three other sources have drawn my attention to another Lumix full-frame camera that is to be announced together with or after the S1rII. This camera is said to be an extremely interesting model and the sources seem to be very enthusiastic about it.

I am still trying to get solid information about this camera. If you happen to know more about this use this contact box or contact me via lrumorscameras@gmail.com. Thanks!

New Topaz Gigapixel 8.2 and Photo AI 3.5 released

Topaz announced the new Photo Ai 3.5 (Click here) and the new Gigapixel 8.2 (Click here) updates.

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We’re excited to announce another major update to Photo AI with a new take on our lighting enhancement, a new way to run Super Focus on any machine, crash recovery, and more!

  • We’re announcing a version 2 of Adjust Lighting which is vastly improved to deliver a more natural, vibrant, and reliable results across the board.
  • Now anyone can run Super Focus in the cloud at lightning speed on any device, even if you don’t have a good GPU.
  • And for those who can, Super Focus now runs 40% faster on Apple devices. This combines with our previous speed boosts – it is now faster than ever.
  • If you encounter a crash with Photo AI, your session and work is now saved with crash recovery so you can get back to creating beautiful images.

The Gigapixel v.8.2 update now has batch Cloud Rendering, faster speeds on Mac, improvements to the Redefine model, and more.

  • High creativity Redefine Cloud Rendering result improvements
  • Batch process multiple images at once with Cloud Rendering
  • Redefine is now 2x faster on Mac (latest MacOS 14 or 15 required for use)
  • Upscale images based on their longest side

Panasonic announces complete reorganization of the company

Panasonic issued the full year financial report (PDF available here) and a plan to restructure the company (PDF available here). The financial report contains no info about how the camera business is doing. But there is an important news:

Panasonic announced a major asset restructuring plan, abandoning the unprofitable, hopeless, and weakly competitive TV business, dissolving Panasonic Electric Company and reorganizing it into three independently operated companies according to categories, thereby activating the vitality of this century-old Japanese company. The home appliance sector was organized as the “Smart Life Company”, the air conditioning sector was organized as the “Air Quality Air Conditioning, Food Distribution Company”, and the lighting sector was organized as the “Electrical Engineering Company”.

The ‘Smart Life Company’ includes the camera business, and I think the only good news is that they only want to sell the TV business for now. For now I think the Lumix business is here to stay and the next two camera announcements might help Panasonic to make new strong sales!