Along Nikon (with the J3 and S1) and Samsung (with the NX300) also Fuji will announce some major new camera (but with fixed lens). The image you see on top shows the new Fuji X100s with 16 Megapixel X Trans sensor. And here on bottom you can see the new X20.
No new camera or lens from the mirrorless and intrechangeable lens X system will be announced for the CES show.
via Digicaminfo.
The NX300 preorders are now up at Bhphoto (Click here). This is the cameras that sets a new “restart” for Samsung. And the main new feature is the 2D-3D hybrid capability. Is that really going to work out? Samsung should focus on developing some real major unique photographic features. Some examples: 3 layer sensor (Sigma), Hybrid viewfinder tech (Fuji), high quality prime glass (Leica). If they would put all that together in one camera! That is the kind of thing they needs. Something really groundbreaking!
Samsung unveiled the NX300 MILC and the 45mm f/1.8 3D lens today, and Chris Gampat at The Phoblographer was already able to play around with it. The main caracteristics:
AMOLED touch screen
Chris’ first impression:
The NX300 felt awesome in my hands, though it was a bit bigger than I’d like. The lovely screen is very much a show stealer: and the company seems to be positioning itself for an even more aggressive push in the camera market. In the years passed, Samsung wasn’t always such a big hit. But maybe now they will be. This little camera surely deserves it from what I’ve seen so far.
[via The Phoblographer]
Olympus, Panasonic and Sony will avoid to make any major mirrorless announcement at the CES show. They will wait til late January instead (CP+ show in Yokohama). At least Fuji will make a more “important” announcement. According to Digicaminfo these are the camera they will announced soon:
As previously written on Fujirumors the X100s has the same 16 Megapixel X Trans sensor of the X-E1/X-PRO1.
DPreview published a series of Nikon 1 V2 (price & specs) sample pictures (click here). These are part of the preview, the review has yet to come.
Gariz just released a new Sony RX1 case you can right now find on . Don’t know if RX1 owners will find it useful!
via Slidoo.
The usually very accurate Japanese Impress magazine published Canon and Nikon camera predictions. Above the scanned page for the Canon gear, below the page for the Nikon gear. The pages showed up on the Chinese Xitek forum. The figures near the images are the probability percentage chance estimates.
Canon: a new mirrorless camera named EOS M2 will be released in 2013, 80% probability to be a real prediction
Nikon: The V3 will be released during 2013, 75% probability
The rest, not mirrorless related, for those who are interested:
