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We shared some news on Freewell filters recently in a review format (First time I’ve tried them, tldr; they’re great) anyhoo – the team have brought out a new kit with Brandon Li and it’s well worth a look!

Take a look at the series here

Here’s what the team at Freewell have to say:

Freewell Introduces the Brandon Li Signature VND/CPL System – The World’s Slimmest Locking VND with a 100% Mechanism-Free Design

Hong Kong – May 2026 – Freewell, a global leader in premium camera accessories, announces the launch of the Brandon Li x Freewell VND/CPL System, a next-generation filter solution built for filmmakers who demand precision, speed, and reliability in real shooting environments.

Co-developed with filmmaker Brandon Li, this system redefines how variable ND filters are designed and used. After around 2 years of development and multiple prototype iterations, Freewell has engineered the world’s slimmest locking VND with a 100% mechanism-free design—removing traditional internal components that often cause failure, inconsistency, or bulk.

Unlike conventional VND systems that rely on complex internal mechanisms, this design delivers pure optical performance with zero mechanical dependency, resulting in a slimmer profile, improved reliability, and consistent results in demanding shooting conditions. Built as a complete modular system, the VND/CPL unit works seamlessly with an included ND32 filter to deliver a full 1–10 stop range, while maintaining control over reflections through the CPL. Optional diffusion filters such as Glow Mist further expand creative possibilities without disrupting the workflow.

The system is designed to reduce friction during production. Instead of carrying multiple filters and constantly swapping them, creators can rely on a single, compact setup that adapts instantly to changing light conditions.

Key Features:

· World’s Slimmest Locking VND – Ultra-thin profile without compromising performance?

· 100% Mechanism-Free Design – No internal mechanical parts, ensuring long-term reliability?

· Hybrid VND + CPL System – Control exposure and reflections simultaneously

? · Expandable 1–10 Stop Range – Combine with ND32 for extended light control

? · True Color Optics – Maintains accurate tones without unwanted color shift?

· Modular Workflow System – Add or remove filters without interrupting your setup?

· Multi-Size Compatibility – Works across lenses from 49mm to 95mm?

· Integrated Protection – Front and rear caps included with built-in grey card

“This system was built to remove the usual friction filmmakers deal with when traveling or shooting on location. You don’t have to think about swapping filters. It just works the way you need it to.”? — Brandon Li

“This product took around two years of development and multiple iterations to get right. The goal was simple but difficult to execute: remove all mechanical dependency and create the slimmest possible locking VND without compromising optical performance. What we ended up with is a system that’s more reliable, more compact, and built for real-world use.”? — Gary Lu, Product Designer, Freewell

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Aan de Mgr. Nolenslaan in Schiedam is zondagavond een melding binnengekomen over een schietpartij. De politie kwam daarom met meerdere auto's aan op de plek.

Op het Handbalpad in Schiedam zijn in de nacht van zondag op maandag meerdere jerrycans in brand gestoken. Er zat een onbekende vloeistof in die aan het lekken was.

Een 80-jarige man is in het bijzijn van zijn kleinkinderen mishandeld door een jongen op een fatbike. Dat gebeurde in Dordrecht nadat de fatbiker op hoge snelheid voorbij racete. Een omstander wilde helpen, maar werd ook mishandeld.

Aan de Westduëlstraat in Rotterdam-Charlois is maandagochtend vroeg een man neergestoken. Dat gebeurde waarschijnlijk in een auto of op straat, zegt een woordvoerder van de politie. De man liep vervolgens een woning in, waarna de politie en ambulance werden gebeld.

It’s not possible to operate a completely sovereign cloud outside of China or the USA, according to Douglas Toombs, a VP analyst at Gartner. Speaking at the analyst firm’s IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference in Sydney today, Toombs said only the US and China make all the tech needed for a sovereign cloud. Buyers elsewhere can’t avoid relationships with foreign providers. Toombs said that while US-based cloud vendors have created products they say can meet the needs of organizations that need a cloud that doesn’t have legal entanglements outside their chosen jurisdiction, the fact they’re ultimately owned by American corporations means it’s not possible to be certain a cloud provider can promise complete sovereignty. Even on-prem clouds like AWS Outposts, Azure Local, or Oracle’s Dedicated Cloud Regions, “need to phone home,” he said. The analyst doesn’t think attempts to create sovereign clouds will succeed. He mentioned past French attempts to create sovereign clouds named “Andromeda”, “Numergy,” and “Gaia-X”, which he says went nowhere - but did produce some nice white papers. He also cited the The Rule of Three and Four, a maxim developed by Boston Consulting Group that asserts “A stable competitive market never has more than three significant competitors, the largest of which has no more than four times the market share of the smallest,” and argued that it predicts the cloud market has settled around AWS, Google, and Microsoft. Toombs allowed that some smaller clouds could thrive and will make it feasible to create sovereign SaaS providers and products. But he thinks that even aggressive moves to go on-prem won’t free organizations from dependency on US-owned clouds, an assertion he backed with the example of a Dutch healthcare provider that tried to build its own infrastructure but then experienced an outage when a supplier’s services went down along with a major cloud provider. If sovereign clouds fail to develop, it may be problematic because some European organizations are worried US-based cloud operators might leave the continent, forcing them into hasty and risky migration projects, according to Adrian Wong, a Gartner Director Analyst who also spoke in Sydney today. Wong said “heightened geopolitical tensions” are causing customers of major clouds to rethink their strategies, a decision he welcomes because he sees very few organizations bother to develop a cloud exit strategy. “Exit plans are overlooked,” he said, and users are “very much locked in” – especially when they use cloud-native services or platform-as-a-service. “Exiting within a timeframe of anything less than two years takes significant planning and investment,” he warned. “Exit strategies and plans are largely swept under the rug.” Wong says he is now seeing “the pendulum swing.” Not developing a cloud exit strategy is one of the ten big mistakes Wong sees users make. Also on his list are starting use of clouds with mission-critical and complex applications like ERP, assuming the cloud is appropriate for all applications, and expecting to get all the benefits of the cloud with every application. He also said it’s folly to assume that going multi-cloud will improve availability – unless users first tackle the more complex and expensive task of making applications portable. Wong said organizations that use multiple clouds should do so to access specific features of each, not to improve resilience. ®

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 11-05-2026 07:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 9.4°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 8.1°C / Max 12.2°C | Kans op neerslag 42%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 8.1°C, Max 12.2°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 3.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 42%, 🧭 1007.5 hPa ↗️ +0.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 31.7 km/u (8.8 m/s), richting: ↘ 330°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 08:00: 9.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1006.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↓ 355°
• 09:00: 10.8°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, 🧭 1006.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↓ 340°
• 10:00: 11.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1006.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↘ 316°
• 11:00: 12.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1006.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ↘ 302°
• 12:00: 11.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 32%, 🧭 1006.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: → 286°
• 13:00: 9.1°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.7 mm, Kans op neerslag 76%, 🧭 1006.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 19.8 km/u (5.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 334°
• 14:00: 10.4°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 100%, 🧭 1006.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.3 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ↘ 323°
• 15:00: 11.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 85%, 🧭 1007.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 22.3 km/u (6.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 330°
• 16:00: 10.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 52%, 🧭 1007.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 23.0 km/u (6.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 327°
• 17:00: 11.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 29%, 🧭 1007.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 24.5 km/u (6.8 m/s), richting: ↘ 318°
• 18:00: 10.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 31%, 🧭 1007.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 25.2 km/u (7.0 m/s), richting: ↘ 316°
• 19:00: 10.0°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 44%, 🧭 1007.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 27.0 km/u (7.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 314°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• dinsdag 12 mei: Min 8.4°C, Max 13.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.7 mm, Kans op neerslag 23%, 🧭 1011.9 hPa ↗️ +4.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 26.6 km/u (7.4 m/s), richting: → 289°
• woensdag 13 mei: Min 7.9°C, Max 13.0°C (Matige regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 5.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 56%, 🧭 1002.8 hPa ↘️ -9.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 24.1 km/u (6.7 m/s), richting: → 249°
• donderdag 14 mei: Min 6.7°C, Max 11.8°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 55%, 🧭 1000.4 hPa ↘️ -2.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.9 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ↘ 315°
• vrijdag 15 mei: Min 6.2°C, Max 12.9°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 40%, 🧭 1005.2 hPa ↗️ +4.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.8 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: ↘ 334°
• zaterdag 16 mei: Min 6.7°C, Max 13.1°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 20%, 🧭 1013.8 hPa ↗️ +8.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 304°
• zondag 17 mei: Min 9.2°C, Max 17.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 12%, 🧭 1018.4 hPa ↗️ +4.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 191°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 07:15): 9.4°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 6.5°C (-2.9°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↓ 9°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 22.3 km/h (6.2 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 58%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1006.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 26.2 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.7
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:54 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:22

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 36 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 5.2 μg/m³
• PM10: 9.2 μg/m³

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Kawsar Ahmad, 53, also known as Abbas, and her daughter Zeinab Ahmad, 31, did not apply during brief hearing

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Two Australian women charged with slavery offences that allegedly occurred while they lived under Islamic State rule in Syria have faced a Melbourne court.

Kawsar Ahmad, 53, also known as Abbas, and her daughter, Zeinab Ahmad, 31, were arrested by officers from the Victorian joint counter-terrorism team at Melbourne airport on Thursday.

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GAZA-STAD (ANP) - Het Rode Kruis waarschuwt dat de gezondheidszorg in Gaza "onder de radar steeds verder afbrokkelt". De Palestijnse Rode Halve Maan kampt met een structureel tekort aan medicatie, medische apparatuur, voedsel en tenten. Volgens cijfers van de organisatie zijn nog 20 van de 240 medische posten en klinieken in de Gazastrook deels operationeel en van de 33 ziekenhuizen zijn er nog vijf die functioneren.

"De blik van de wereld is niet meer gericht op Gaza en ongezien balanceert de levensreddende zorg nu opnieuw aan de rand van de afgrond", schrijft het Rode Kruis. "Alle hulp die mondjesmaat binnenkomt, wordt direct uitgedeeld aan mensen in nood. Het is veel en veel te weinig", zegt Carla Jonkers, hoofd Internationale Noodhulp bij het Rode Kruis.

Sinds het begin van het jaar ontving de Palestijnse Rode Halve Maan volgens het Rode Kruis vijftien vrachtwagens met medicijnen en medische hulpmiddelen. Het Rode Kruis roept op om alle grensovergangen in Gaza te openen. "Hulpgoederen moeten onbelemmerd en structureel naar binnen", zegt Jonkers.