Friday, August 7, 2026

Sony has warned of FX5 delivery delays in Japan as order volumes outpace anything the line has seen, with a non-binding offer to acquire Tamron sitting alongside it this week. Elsewhere, Japan's Patent Office invalidated one of Red's key compressed Raw video patents following a Panasonic challenge, and the photography world remembers Chris Smith, the Observer and Sunday Times sports photographer who died after four decades behind the lens.