Ep. 475: Insights From the Photo Industry – and more
Lens Shark Photography Podcast
Sharky James
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Episode 475 of the Lens Shark Photography Podcast
In This Episode
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The state of the photo industry report. (#)
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AstrHori's 6mm circular fisheye can bust the funk. (#)
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This company takes the top spot again. (#)
Sigma changes up this lens and how to get one. (#)
Nikon's pulls this for the time being. (#)
This company joins the L-Mount Alliance. (#)
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| 0:00.0 | helping you become a more informed photography consumer since 2014 as I want your cues. |
| 0:05.9 | You're listening to the Lenshark Photography Podcast with Sharky James. Enjoy. |
| 0:11.3 | This episode is brought to you by our friends at Used Photo Pro Kupo, Tenba and Fuji Film. |
| 0:17.1 | Further details and discount codes later in the show. |
| 0:21.0 | Welcome to the Lenshark Photography Podcast, episode 475, insights from the photo industry. |
| 0:32.2 | In this episode, the state of the photo industry is out. |
| 0:36.9 | This camera company took the top spot again. |
| 0:39.8 | Nikon puts a hold on this. Viltrox has a new portrait prime and joins an alliance. Sigma makes a key |
| 0:47.1 | change. Seven artisans has an affordable new wide prime. And this six is definitely a funk buster. all that and more in episode 475 of the lens shark |
| 0:58.8 | photography podcast i decided not to shoot football friday night you know are you ever just jazzed to |
| 1:09.8 | shoot something and then it comes |
| 1:11.8 | and you're like, nah, that's okay. I'm good. That was me Friday night. Also, I was a little bit |
| 1:16.7 | under the weather like I am now, so I passed. And I swear, that was not a football joke just then. |
| 1:22.4 | Sometimes an accidental dad joke just emerges. It happens. Anyhow, I get questions about my shoots in the Kupo Cave, so I had an idea. |
| 1:31.1 | What I'm going to do is I'm going to start answering them from the Kupo Cave on my |
| 1:35.6 | Lenshark Instagram channel since I get asked similar questions all the darn time. |
| 1:40.9 | So either message me there or email me at Lenshark at gmail.com, and I'm going to start |
| 1:46.9 | tackling those on a Kupo Cave Q&A in my stories, and then I'll add them to the highlight section. |
| 1:52.6 | So let's hear those questions. And I'd like to thank you all for joining us here in episode |
| 1:57.5 | 475 of the Lenshark Photography Podcast. We appreciate you all so much, |
| 2:02.8 | and thank you all for subscribing, rating, and reviewing us wherever you listen to your podcast |
| 2:07.2 | for over 10 years now. And as always, we appreciate you hitting that subscribe button. Do it now, |
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