Archive 26. August 2010

Cosina joins Micro Four Thirds system: Digital Photography Review - I've been waiting for this for a while, for one of the independent optical manufacturers to jump on the Micro 4/3 bandwagon. The fact that it's Cosina makes me particularly happy - they have a whole range of optical delights in their lineup. And the Nokton 25/0.95 announced for October is one of them. A highly light-sensitive lens in this form could make the GF1 really fun. However, focusing will then be quite a gamble at full aperture: the lens has no autofocus.

[Cython] ANN: Cython 0.13 released!](http://www.mail-archive.com/cython-dev@codespeak.net/msg09503.html) - There's a new release for Cython (formerly PyRex). And the language for Python extensions is becoming increasingly complete. This makes it much easier to create performance-critical parts of the code because you can work in a very Python-like language.