Thypoch’s New Ksana 21mm f/3.5mm lens revisits the classic warmth and intimacy of rare and respected lenses in the 1970s, but brings them up to date, in an accessible modern format. Despite its ability to capture crisp detail all the way from portrait to landscape, and from wide angle to close focus, this lens is ultra-compact and lightweight.
Epoch Coating 73: The Retro Look
Thypoch starts a specialized project – Epoch Coating, which aims at exploring the aesthetic soul of different eras. Drawing from the deep heritage in cinema optics, Thypoch has successfully translated the magnificent flare of cinema lenses into the world of still photography.
As the first lens of the Ksana series, the 21mm f/3.5 blends classic aesthetics with vintage rendering. Epoch Coating. 73’ brings that 70’s cinematic aesthetic, golden bloom, and soft, delicate color rendering into modern photography. The Ksana 21mm blends classic optical craftsmanship with the artistic soul of vintage lens coatings, for exceptional sharpness and vibrant, saturated colors.
Ultra Compact, Pocket-size
The Ksana 21mm f/3.5 keeps things light and agile. The all-aluminum, featherweight Ksana Lens’ ultra-compact size – just 27mm high and weighing only 131g – guarantees effortless handheld shooting, all day. Highly portable and discreet, it’s made for inspirational street, travel, and documentary photography.
Modern Optics, Classic Performance
Despite its light weight and pocketable form, the Ksana 21mm’s outstanding optical structure delivers high resolution with great suppression of unwanted chromatic aberration. This is a result of a design that includes a compact eight-element, six-group optical design, featuring 1 ASPH (Aspherical), 2 ED (Extra-low Dispersion), and 3 HRI (High Refractive Index) elements. The nine-blade diaphragm provides apertures from f/3.5 to f/22 for rounded highlights, with especially crisp 18-point starbursts at f/4.
Wide Angle, Wide Perspective
The lens has a wide 21mm angle, but with a 0.5m minimum focusing distance. It offers an 80.2° horizontal field of view on full-frame cameras, with imperceptible distortion. Maintaining the classic Leica rangefinder charm, this lens ensures precision for film and digital photographers alike. A tactile reminder at 0.7m alerts you when the rangefinder uncouples, signaling a switch to EVF focusing.
Timeless Design, Signature Lens Body
The Ksana 21mm f/3.5 features a vintage-inspired body with a scalloped focus ring and crescent-shaped tab. Ergonomic contours align with your fingers for a comfortable grip and intuitive handling, ensuring stable, precise control even during fast focusing.
Beautiful inside and out, this lens evokes the best of vintage design, complementing any compatible camera, and is available in classic black or silver. Ergonomic contours align with creative fingers, for a comfortable grip and intuitive handling, ensuring stable, precise control even during fast focusing. Its smooth, well-crafted feel makes it an ideal match for Leica cameras, offering a retro look with contemporary reliability, perfect for artists seeking a balance of style and performance.
Pricing and Availability
MSRP: USD 549/EUR 479
Available in M mount, black and silver version
Standard package includes front and rear caps, and warranty card
Viltrox is pleased to announce the AF 85mm F2.0 EVO FE lens, launching the company’s new EVO lineup for creators seeking a perfect balance of performance, portability, and precision. Combining an entirely redesigned, enhanced optical layout with advanced autofocus technology, the lens brings exceptional sharpness, refined color rendering, and intuitive control to photographers and videomakers.
The new Viltrox EVO Series evolves the camera lens by perfecting every essential function, not by piling on complexity. The result is finely tuned control, exceptional image quality, and effortless portability for professional results. Every detail empowers creativity, enabling photographers to shoot with precision and ease, making this lens a powerful, friendly, and versatile starting point for everyone. EVO combines high-performance optics, intuitive physical controls, and compact, lightweight design, achieving a perfect harmony of performance and portability.
Precision optics for a pure, clean image
Engineered with 10 elements in 8 groups, the AF 85mm F2.0 EVO achieves edge-to-edge clarity even when shot wide open at F2.0. Its resolving power captures the finest details across the frame, maintaining exceptional sharpness and natural contrast from center to corner. Resolution peaks between F4 and F5.6, allowing users to achieve consistently clear results across a range of apertures, lighting conditions and creative styles.
Compact and lightweight, but professional
Weighing only 340 grams, this is Viltrox’s smallest and lightest full-frame 85mm lens. The compact design offers balanced handling and comfort, ideal for travel, street photography, and long portrait sessions. The 85mm focal length provides a classic portrait perspective, with natural compression and well-controlled distortion that flatters subjects while preserving true-to-life rendering. Despite its compact size, the lens retains a solid, well-crafted feel that supports confident shooting in diverse environments.
F2.0 aperture: the perfect photographic tool
The F2.0 aperture delivers both aesthetic and practical advantages: smooth, natural bokeh with beautiful background separation, while maintaining excellent low-light performance, for both night portraits and cityscapes. The lens also boasts a minimum focus distance of 0.74 meters, allowing creative users to explore close-up compositions with refined texture and consistent detail.
Smooth, quiet, accurate autofocus
Driven by the high-precision STM stepping motor, autofocus performance is fast, quiet, and accurate, making it suitable for still photography as well as video applications that demand seamless, reliable focusing.
Intuitive, tactile control
Practical control features such as a Function (Fn) button, click switch, and auto/manual focus selector allow users to adapt quickly in dynamic shooting environments. Each control is designed for intuitive use, placing key functions within immediate reach.
Tough and always ready for action
Viltrox’s AF 85mm F2.0 EVO is built with reliability and durability in mind. A rubber-sealed lens mount provides resistance to light rain and dust, while a water and smudge-resistant front element coating keeps the lens ready for challenging outdoor conditions.
By combining sophisticated optical design, refined mechanical engineering, and everyday usability, the Viltrox AF 85mm F2.0 EVO offers creators an inspiring new tool for capturing portraits, detail shots, and fascinating scenes with exceptional clarity and character.
Viltrox, a global leader in optical imaging innovation, is proud to announce its first-ever aerial lens – the Viltrox AF 90mm F3.5 with a native DL (DJI-compatible) mount, designed exclusively for the DJI Inspire 3 drone. This milestone in lens development builds upon Viltrox’s renowned reputation in ground-based photography and cinematography systems – and further emphasizes Viltrox’s commitment to the aerial imaging field.
The AF 90mm F3.5 DL features a native DL mount, for seamless integration into DJI’s professional aerial ecosystem. As Viltrox’s first 90mm lens – and the first 90mm telephoto lens for aerial cinematography – it delivers a unique mid-telephoto view with strong spatial compression and smooth subject separation, expanding creative options for drone filmmakers.
“We see this lens not just as a product, but as a declaration: Viltrox is now in the air,” said Kahn Wang, Director of Marketing at Viltrox, “We’ve spent years empowering photographers on the ground – and now we’re excited to also support creators looking for altitude, reach, and new perspectives.”
Designed for Flight, Engineered for Precision
Purpose-built for aerial use, this 90mm F3.5 lens strikes a fine balance between optical performance, lightweight construction, and gimbal compatibility. The lightweight 170g design assists with gimbal balance and flight performance.
Designed to work flawlessly with the DJI Inspire 3’s gimbal, this lens delivers sharp, stabilized images, even in demanding flight conditions.
Key design priorities for the Viltrox AF 90mm F3.5 DL include an optimized lightweight build for perfect balance with DJI Inspire 3 gimbals, and a robust structure engineered to withstand aerial vibrations. The lens delivers smooth focus control and edge-to-edge sharpness, ensuring professional results in demanding flight conditions.
Enriching the DJI Inspire 3’s Lens Ecosystem
As the DJI Inspire 3 continues to redefine what’s possible with drone cinematography, Viltrox is alongside, expanding user options with an optical tool tailored for mid-telephoto lens storytelling. The new AF 90mm F3.5 extends the lens options available to aerial directors, DPs, and content creators who aim to push their visual narratives even further.
Viltrox’s Strategic Leap into Aerial Imaging
This new product only marks the beginning of Viltrox’s innovation in air-based optical systems. From mirrorless mounts, and now to cinematic drone setups, the company is committed to building a complete image-making ecosystem – one that knows no limits and bridges ground and sky seamlessly.
Empowering Creators Everywhere
The Viltrox AF 90mm F3.5 DL isn’t just a new lens – it’s a total new perspective. Now, Viltrox is inviting inspired creators to explore altitude, compression, and cinematic depth in ways that were never before possible with aerial cinematography systems.
The Desire 2 in-car suction holder is an ideal product for your vehicle be it a car truck bus or van this one comes with a nice matt finish and has a ball joint on the back giving you flexibility on movement.
There is also a quick release on the holder itself so you do not have to yank your phone out like on some models of phone holders, this one again stays away from your vent and vent phone holders can be annoying and damage your vent.
With the dual suction technology this secures really well to your window or dashboard on top giving you more flexibility on where you might want to place it.
There is also a rubber silicon back plate and grips to protect your phone from getting marked or damaged and overall an affordable piece of kit for your vehicle making life easier and keeping the phone out of your hand.
With holding your phone an offence this is an ideal piece of kit to have and looks good in your car and protects your phone from falling down between your seat or elsewhere as it does happen quite often and can damage your phone, check the video below for more.
Performance: Quick release button allowing for simple smartphone insertion and removal.
PROTECTION: Silicone rubber gives the device a safe and secure grip with security feet to allow easy charging while mounted.
NEW DUAL SUCTION TECHNOLOGY: Ensures the most secure attachment to both Dashboard or Windscreen. Simply rinse with warm water and air dry to restore original suction strength.
SUITABLE FOR ALL SMARTPHONES – In Car, Office, home, kitchen or outdoor
The KraftGeek – Phone/Camera/Tablet variety tripod is an additional ideal kit for those with bigger devices they use and of course maintains your standard devices like your mobile phone.
This can be used in several ways however and also be used as a selfie stick for those who love to take them which is many but not my scene at all being honest.
With a telescopic extension it can make life much easier for all tasks if you are indoors or on the go and this also has a robust build like all their models and will stand the test of time, \I use several of these here and when outdoors and they all still work perfectly today and none have broke. typically the phone grip breaks on many I have had in the past but not with KraftGeek models.
You can easily switch between selfies and tripod use with the one press action and with the adjustable height it is perfect for anyone requiring photos or videos, not forgetting the bluetooth remote this can allow you to get even more functionality out of this and also the cold shoe mounts for adding lights or mics and makes it a one stop shot for creators
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Features
Multifunctional Design: Easily switch between a selfie stick and tripod with a button press. Non-slip silicone pads ensure stability for videos and photos.
Adjustable Height: Lightweight aluminum pole extends from 12.6 to 60 inches, perfect for both outdoor and studio shoots.
Multi-Angle Flexibility: 360° ball head, 110° vertical adjustment, and 270° phone holder provide versatile shooting angles. Compatible with iPhone 15 Pro Max, Samsung Galaxy S24, and more.
Universal 1/4″ Screw: Supports cameras, lights, and mics up to 4.4 lbs, ideal for travel photography or video recording.
3 Cold Shoe Mounts: Attach external accessories like mics and lights for enhanced audio and visual quality, great for cooking videos and live streaming.
Wireless Remote Control: Capture photos and videos from up to 33 feet away using the detachable magnetic remote.
Car accessories are a great way to vamp up your car with something new and exciting. Whether its purpose is to make driving more entertaining or to improve safety within the cabin, a car can never have too many accessories.
So how do you pick which ones are the best for your car? Depending on your car’s age and model will determine what’s possible, however, a lot of these are accessories that should be suitable for any car or vehicle that you own.
Whether you use your car for personal reasons, for work, or for both, here are the top ten must-have accessories for your car.
1. Customize your car
First and foremost, be sure to customize your car. This is a good one because it can help your car stand out from the crowd, as well as add a bit of your own personality to the car itself. Much like everything within your home or personal life, your car is an extension of your personality, so it;’s something you want to curate into something unique.
With that being said, consider how you could customize your car. One example would be to get personalized DVLA number plates that add a unique touch to the car. Not only that but anyone seeing those number plates can appreciate the personalization that’s gone into it as they try to decipher what your number plate says or might mean.
Look at other ways of customizing the car like upgrading the car’s seat covers or adding new light features to the interior and exterior parts of the vehicle.
2. Tire inflator
A tire inflator is an important one and it’s a great safety accessory to have, should you find yourself in a situation where you can’t inflate your tires quickly.
When you’re on the road, your tires are part of your car’s lifeline. Should they begin to run flat, they will become a danger to you and your passengers. Driving may become a little riskier because underinflated tires can decrease their effectiveness while out on the road.
Therefore, it’s important to look at getting a tire inflator for the purpose of your car’s safety and satisfaction while driving. Be cautious and check your tires regularly to ensure they’re inflated to the level they need to be at according to the vehicle’s handbook.
3. Car seat organizer
A car seat organizer is a good addition to the car, especially if you to find that there’s rubbish or belongings everywhere.
Car seat organizers can be particularly helpful for those who have little ones. Often enough, your little ones will have a lot of belongings with them that they may otherwise fling around in the car’s cabin.
That can make for yet another area that you need to clean up after them. Therefore, it’s always good to have something in place that will keep your interior cabin as clean as it can be. You’ll also find it helpful to have everything in one place when it comes to loading up and unloading the car each time you go out.
4. Reversing camera
A reversing camera is a great safety feature for the car but not every car might be able to install such a feature.
When it comes to a reversing camera, it provides a luxury that you’ll certainly benefit from. Being able to reverse with the more visual scope of the outside world around the car is helpful. There are blind spots around the car that can make it hard to see when navigating the car through various areas that might make reversing a particular challenge to do.
With a reversing camera attached to the back of the car, you’ll be able to tackle this with a lot more ease and hopefully with less stress of causing damage to pedestrians and other vehicles.
5. Phone mount
One of the distractions that come with a car, is your phone. Chances are, you’re using the phone to help navigate from one place to another. While many cars will have their own navigation system, the phone has become a more popular solution to helping drive and follow a route in the car.
It’s a good idea to look at purchasing a phone mount so that the phone remains out of your hands and in a place that’s easy to view.
Phone mounts are usually helpful to place on your windowscreen and ideally to the left or the right of your driving wheel. You want to be careful about where you place it for the purpose of any wires that you might have plugged into the phone. However, it’s a great way to keep yourself safe and to not cause as much distraction when driving on the road.
6. Portable jump starter
When your engine fails, there’s nothing worse than finding yourself stranded, especially when it’s somewhere you’re not familiar with or have never been before.
That’s where a portable jump starter can come in very handy. If you’re looking to help yourself in situations where you’re in desperate need of help, this accessory can be very useful to have.
A portable jump starter can get you back on the road for at least the duration you need to in order to get to a car engineer.
7. Car vacuum cleaner
Keeping your car’s interior clean is definitely important and it’s something that you should stay on top of as there’s often plenty of dirt and debris that’s trodden into the car’s interior floors and cabin in general.
A car vacuum is a much more versatile and useful cleaner to have, rather than having to shift a heavy vacuum cleaner from your home and out to the driveway every time you want to clean the car.
8. First Aid kit
To help keep you and your family happy and healthy while traveling, a first aid kit is always useful to have available. Whether you have the basics or a complex assortment of first aid necessities, it’s worth having one that’s available should you need it in the car.
Make sure to store it where it can be easily accessed and ensure it’s topped up with all of the much-needed contents before setting off for any journey.
9. Phone charger
A phone charger is part and parcel nowadays of any accessory for the car. It’s important that you have a phone charger, so should your phone need a boost of power, you can easily charge the phone via your car’s own battery.
Be sure to have one that’s easy enough to plug in. You can also get cars that have wireless phone chargers available and are worth having for the sake of ease of functionality.
Unfortunately, not all phones nowadays are capable of keeping up with our usage, so it’s good to have the phone charge as a backup.
10. Puncture repair kit
Finally, another great accessory to add to your car’s cabin, perhaps in the boot of the car is a puncture repair kit. You never know when you might get a puncture on one of your tires so this kit is a worthwhile solution to help get you from being stranded to having help.
A puncture repair kit is definitely helpful to have available and should be something that will help you should you ever find yourself in an unfortunate situation where you need to temporarily repair a tire.
These must-have accessories are just a small selection of what’s available currently on the market. Make sure you’re taking full advantage of these accessories and add them to your to-buy list this year.
The KraftGeek – JustTap Tap-To-Open Tripod is a handy new tripod on offer for those who want to keep things that bit easier and with this new product it does just that but keeping everything else within the companies ethos intact. If you want another selfie stick check out this one.
If you are familiar with their products which we are this is another new offering making one less slightly annoying thing to deal with and that is opening the tripod legs, no that they have this can they make one that closes just as simple?
Again the product is well built and looks good and is solid there is also a bluetooth remote on the leg so it makes for ease of use when out and about or you want to get that extra wide shot with everyone in it including yourself.
It again goes to a decent height too which makes it more useful in some scenarios and it is very light and will fit in any travel or tech bag which again is excellent. See the video below for more.
Patented Tap-to-Open Design: Simply tap the bottom of the tripod on the ground to automatically open it, allowing for quick, one-handed setup. A true hands-free solution for convenience.
Versatile Shooting Angles: The dual-axis 180° rotation enables a wide range of shooting angles, from overhead and low-angle to landscape and portrait, adapting to any scenario.
Safe and Secure: The center-open phone clamp eliminates the risk of pinched fingers, while the silicone padding safeguards your phone from scratches.
Higher & More Stable: With a maximum height of 1680mm, it’s ideal for panoramic and group shots. The widened tripod base, zinc-alloy legs, and silicone anti-slip pads ensure maximum stability, even outdoors.
Lightweight & Durable: Crafted from lightweight yet durable aluminum, the extended pole offers strength and portability, backed by a 1-year warrantyOnline Store: https://bit.ly/3NF8Am2Discount Code: JIMAmazon US: https://amzn.to/3C3nGzm
Pivo Inc, leading AI technology developer that aids self-improvement by turning smart devices into a user’s personal camera crew, has launched their new premium offering: Pivo Max. Building on the success of their hero products Pivo Pod and Pivo Pod Lite, Max offers compatibility with tablets and cameras for the first time.
Pivo Max, named an Innovation Awards Honoree at CES® 2023, builds upon Pivo Pod’s existing capabilities. By simply attaching the smart mount to their tripod, users can capture stunning 360° footage with Pivo’s AI-powered technology. When synced with the Pivo+ and Pivo Play apps, Pivo’s Face and Body Auto-Tracking feature means users can move freely, never having to worry about leaving the frame.
The all-new Pivo Max has a wide range of uses – much like the Pivo Pod and Pivo Pod Lite models, it is ideal for fitness, coaching, equestrian and sports practice. With its larger, 2kg payload and tablet and camera compatibility, Pivo Max has a wider professional appeal, perfect for established creators, real estate agents and even those in education or business settings.
Like the Pivo Pod, Pivo Max maintains horse and dog [now out of beta] tracking capabilities, so users can capture training routines and coaches can join remotely.
Pivo Max comes equipped with six different rotation speeds: Slower, Slow, Normal, Fast, Frenzy, Turbo. Whether users are recording a presentation in-class or a dance tutorial at the studio, they can rest assured Pivo Max will keep up with them.
Pivo Max comes with an integrated LED status, so users can easily view power, pairing, connection, charge, capture and recording statuses. Also new is the Pivo Max Power Bank, available for purchase separately. The Power Bank allows users to simultaneously charge their Pod and personal device during use.
Ken Kim, CEO of Pivo says of the release, “Following the success of our other mounts – the Pivo Pod and Pivo Pod Lite, we wanted to offer a model that not only offers more premium features, but is also geared towards professionals in their field. Pivo Max is a game changer for markets like real estate and education, and we’re excited to see the technology that worked so well for our earlier models continue to reach new heights.”
Pivo Max, which comes with a remote control and is compatible with both Pivo apps, is available in the UK now from uk.pivo.ai with an RRP of £239.99. Between June 19th – 30th Pivo will be offering up to 30% off Pods as part of their Summer Flash Sale.
Car/vehicle mounts for your phone are a plenty these days and we have covered many here before this one however is slightly different and offers you the full use of your phone when parked up o setting up navigation before you head off on a trip and so on. So what is different you have the benefit or both sa suction cup and a magnet and what this means your device is ultra secure and will not fall off even when you go over a bad bump and it works as we have tried and tested it for some time to make this claim.
Not only that this sits in on your vent and locks into place and there is a ledge on the back of the mount that hooks around your vent so again it will not fall off making it secure here too and again your mount will not fall off nor your smartphone which makes it an ideal piece of kit for anyone vehicle and for me is the most solid one yet to date I have tested and you should check it out..
It also comes with magnets you can place on your device or under the cover so it is not just for iPhones it is for any phone that is totally flat on the back and again a bonus rather than targeting the iPhone like most do these days. Check the video below for what to expect. I tested this with my Google Pixel 7 and iPhone 14 pro and it just works really well.
Features
O-Mag Dual-Lock System] This unique car phone holder has a dual-mounting system with ring of powerful N52 magnets paired with an advanced vacuum suction cup. 3.6 times stronger than regular options! Phone stays securely in place while driving, no matter what.
[Quick Attach & Release] Mount your phone instantly thanks to DriveSafe’s snap-on design, while a simple press of a button releases it. All this can be done with one hand for maximum convenience and safety while driving.
[Quadruple Locking System] No more worrying about your phone falling off during a bumpy ride. Keeps the mount itself firmly attached to the vent, including a metal hook, silicone pad, rotatable support ring, and adjustment knob.
[Compatible With All Devices] The DriveSafe can be attached directly to iPhones 12 and above or to MagSafe cases. All other iOS and Android models become compatible simply by attaching a magnetic ring to the phone (ring included with O-Mag DriveSafe).
[Perfect driving setup] With a 360° ball mount, effortlessly adjust your device to the perfect angle for talking, navigating, charging, listening to music, and more. DriveSafe is also designed to fit most vertical and horizontal air vents, while allowing normal ventilation.
Meet the Revolutionary O-Mag Dual-Lock Mounting System Magnetic AND vacuum suction mounting for safer, faster, easier attachment.
