At last also Nikon is coming: Full Frame lens patent for Mirrorless System camera spotted!
The image you see on top is a real Nikon patent for a Lens designed for a Full Frame mirrorless system! It’s a 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 VR lens and the question now is only…when is the new Nikon system camera going to be launched?
spotted by Egami.
Chart shows how digital cameras killed analog cameras and how the selfie culture (almost) killed digital cameras after that!
Heino Hilbig sent us that nice graph based on official CIPA data showing how the camera market changed during the last 80 years.
1) Analoge photography has been killed rapidly by the digital camera generation.
2) The Digital camera business got “almost” killed by the smartphone selfie generation :)
We don’t know yet when the digital camera market fall will stop. And it’s unclear what can save it…
PRESS TEXT from Heino:
The figures may invite for an “optimistic” view:
According to CIPA’s camera production statistics, the recession of the camera market has slowed down a little. It decreased just 32.9 % until October 2014 compared to the same period last year.
Questionably, nevertheless, is that the decline of the margin product SLR increased it’s momentum. 25% this segment shrinked in 2014 so far – without hope that this decrease could be recovered by the sales of mirror free compact systems.
What impact this development has on the total photo market, becomes even more clear if we look to the sales ratios of the German photo market: In 2013 the share of cameras and lenses counted for not less than 85% according to European market research company GfK (sales of photo finishing products excluded) – a relation that most probably is not substantially different in other countries.
Can’t this trend be stopped?
Even if manufacturers launch success stories over and over again (e. g. , light field cameras or action cameras)– such relatively small segments do not change the overall negative picture.
Simply the dominance of smart phones is far too big.
Is it? What if that would not be the case?
What would be, if the pure existence of the Smartphones is not the real cause for the recession of the photo market? What, if there are other causes too? Causes we could counter attack?
The figures, CIPA and GfK publish, give reason to hope that we don’t have to accept the ongoing decline of the market, if we find the right strategies for manufacturers, service suppliers and photo trade.
Let us discuss about it:
In two presentations at the PMA/CES in Las Vegas we will show that pointing to smartphones or market saturation as an explanation of the shrinking camera market falls too short and we will indicate ways the industry could take to change the situation:
Monday, 5th of January, 2015, 9:00 o’clock
Photography, the Most Emotional Business of the World – Why then the Market Collapses? How can manufacturers, trade and press react to this?
Tuesday, 6th of January, 2015, 13:00 o’clock
How to Tackle the Collapsing Camera Market?
So, will we see us in Las Vegas?
Heino Hilbig
Managing Director
Mayflower Concepts
Hamburg – Germany
www.mayflower-concepts.com
e-mail: contact@mayflower-concepts.com
Mirrorless news roundup….
New official NX1 commercial.
Olympus 40-150mm PRO lens review by Luminous Landscape.
Fujifilm XF 50-140mm F2.8 R LM OIS WR Review at Photographyblog.
Zeiss Loxia Biogon 35/2 Review at VeryBigLobo.
Samsung 16-50mm f/2-2.8 lens review at SLRgear.
Sigma DP2 Quattro full review at Mirrorlessleassons.
Ikelite Underwater Housing for the LX100 Released (Ikelite)
Samsung NX1 First Impressions (MirrorlessLeassons)
What Matters Most: NX1 plus Alex Webb (SamsungCameraRumors).
A 1000 fps C-mount camera on Kickstarter.
Samsung NX1 review at Luminous Landscape.
Lytro Illum Review at Photographyblog.
Samsung NX1 Review (Photographyblog).
Samsung NX1 review by Digitalcameraworld.
Samsung S 50-150mm f/2.8 ED OIS Review (Photographyblog).
Fuji next 16-55mm f/2.8 lens will have OIS.
Fujirumors spotted and interesting info inside the latest Fujifilmxmagazine issue. The 16-55mm f/2.8 zoom lens will arrive early 2015 and the lens will have OIS!
Sounds like X camera owners will get a perfect normal zoom!
Sony A7II now in Stock in USA. European Store to ship right before Christmas!
The brand new 5 axis stabilized Sony A7II is now in Stock in USA stores at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto and Sony US.
And it will ship next week in Sony Europe stores like Sony Germany, Sony UK, Jessops UK, Sony France, Sony Italy, Sony Spain, Sony Austria, Sony Switzerland, Sony Netherland, Sony Belgium, Sony Portugal, Sony Sweden, Sony Finland, Sony Norway.
There are many reviews out there about the camera and the interesting info are:
1) It uses a completely different tech from the Olympus E-m1 5 axis stabilization. This because the Olympus version cannot work with the much larger sensor. And it would be too noisy and overheated
2) Manual third party lenses with no electronic contacts only get access to the 3 axis stabilization. This because Sony doesn’t know where the exact focal point is.
3) The A7II start up time is much faster. And so is autofocusing (about 30% faster than on the A7).
TCSTV’s Best and Worst Cameras of 2014 (Sony rules, Canon not)
I am pretty sure soon Canon and Nikon will wake up from their conservative lethargy and strike back with their huge power. But for this year the title of best cameras on the market still goes to Sony and Panasonic mirrorless cameras. At least according to the yearly Chris&Jordan best cameras of the year list :)