Grading Every Camera Maker: 2025 Mid-Year Review (Feat. Gordon Laing) | The PetaPixel Podcast

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In what is quickly becoming a bi-annual tradition, the PetaPixel Podcast team welcomes Camera Labs’ Gordon Laing (‪@cameralabs‬) back onto the pod to play proctor! It’s time for the midterms: how is every camera maker doing so far in 2025? Well, that is, if they decided to show up and take the test.

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In This Episode:

00:00 - Intro
11:58 - Tamron has a new 16-30mm f/2.8 G2: petapixel.com/2025/06/30/tamron-completes-its-seco…
14:11- Tamron says it's the #1 third-party lens maker by total sales: petapixel.com/2025/06/27/tamron-claims-it-is-the-t…
15:38 - You can finally download that big Z8 firmware update: petapixel.com/2025/07/01/nikons-groundbreaking-3-0…
16:11- That Z8 update borked Tamron lenses: petapixel.com/2025/07/02/the-nikon-z8s-new-firmwar…
18:16 - Sadly no, Fujifilm isn't bringing back beloved old films: petapixel.com/2025/06/30/fujifilm-says-beloved-400…
19:51 - About that Leica film...
21:55 - The specific things Mint updated in the production Rollei35AF
24:42 - Midterm Review: Grading Every Camera Maker's 2025 Performance w/ Gordon Laing