If you click over at Adobe Belgium you can see the full video of the new HDR Merge feature. There are also yet non working links to other new features descriptions….but they may go online within the next few hours :)
And Amazon Japan now has the new LR6 already available for preorder!
Some Hong Kong seller already listed the new Sony FE lenses. I don’t know if it’s bogus or not but Digicameinfo heard the 24-240mm FE lens is definitely going to be announced next week on March 4. Here are the links to the eBay auctions of the new lenses:
Zeiss FE 35mm f/1.4 for $1,729 (Click here to see it).
Sony FE 24-240mm lens for $1,099 (Click here to see it).
Sony FE 28mm f/2.0 lens for $459 (Click here to see it).
Sony 16mm Fisheye Converter for $319 (Click here to see it).
Today only you can save $$$ on the three Samsung NX cameras sold by Amazon US (Click here).
And the E-M5II is now in Stock at BHphoto in both Black (Click here) and Silver (Click here) color.
The new US company Konost (Click here) is raising money to realize a new rangefinder M-mount camera line. They propose to launch different models as early as 2016.
There is already a working FF prototype model and some image samples can be seen on their website. And those are the camera(s) specs:
The German Photoindustrie Verband published and incredibly detailed report about the camera market sales in Germany. Here are some of their key findings:
1) The graph on tops shows how the system camera market is dropping. But the Mirrorless system cameras managed to growth(!) despite the fall of overall sales. The DSLR market is really falling rapidly.
2) Mirrorless system camera unit sales numbers did grow with 17,4% in 2014 compared to 2013. And overall revenue increased by 26,2%.
3) The surprising boom comes via Actioncameras:
4) In 2014 for the first time since many years also lens sales are dropping.
5) More charts show that Photo book sales are increasing while accessory sales are slowing down.
We are really on the verge of a big change in Germany. Wearables, smartphones and action cameras are the markets that are growing while the DSLR and compact camera market is falling. Mirrorless can hold the ground and even manages to have a growth. But still, system cameras will more and more become a niche product compared to the massive growth of the new kind of devices people are using to take pictures and videos.
A source just sent me this:
One of the incoming fw for nx1 will have a new algorithm for af tracking of moving subjects. They claim a 100% (or even more) improvement in accuracy with c-af and multi point focus. They told me the camera will easily beat any pro dslr on the market after the update.
Fujirumors reports the Fuji X-T10 camera will have a smaller EVF comapred to the big borther X-T1. And it also will not be weather sealed. No other info are given yet.
