Sony and TSMC Sign $4.7B Sensor Joint Venture, Production 2029
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Monday, August 17, 2026
Sony and TSMC formalise a $4.7B sensor venture, plus lens rumours and reviews
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Sony Semiconductor Solutions and TSMC have formalised a $4.7 billion joint venture to build a new sensor fab in Kumamoto, with volume production targeted for 2029. Elsewhere, LensRentals has published one of the first rigorous benchmarks of Sony's FE 50-150mm f/2 GM, a focal range with no real full-frame precedent at that aperture. Lens rumours, a prison photobook, and two editing-software updates round out the day.
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1 The joint venture entity, Advanced Vision Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, targets 2029 for volume production.
2 Sony FE 50-150mm f/2 GM Reviewed by LensRentals
Lens Review·2mo agovia Roger Cicala / LensRentals Substack (Optical Limits)Roger Cicala at LensRentals ran the bench-and-field tests himself.
3 Voigtländer Nokton 23mm and 35mm f/1.2 Now in Silver for Fujifilm X
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Software News·1mo agovia DP Review News5 Sigma Rumoured to Announce Up to Three New L-Mount Lenses Soon
Lens Rumour·1mo agovia L-Rumors6 Photoshop Gets a Blemish Tool That Preserves Skin Texture
Software News·1mo agovia Fstoppers7 Tamron 50-600mm Zoom Lens Rumoured for Sony E and Nikon Z
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8 Andy Aitchison's 20-Year Study of Britain's Victorian Prisons
Photo Essay News·2mo agovia The Guardian PhotographyThe resulting book, Incarcerated, covers Victorian-era prisons still in active use today.
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