What’s up with Samsung, Canon and Nikon?

Sony, Olympus, Panasonic and Fuji are fully pushing their mirrorless system while big companies and Samsung, Canon and Nikon seem to not have a clear vision about their future strategy. This is the situation:

Samsung: They should announced the NX20 successor in January-February. In general Samsung will focus on new High End Camera and Lens products.

Nikon: The Nikon 1 system isn’t selling as expected and the future seems uncertain. With the new Nikon DF announcement they once again confirm that DSLR is their present and future strategy. There is no rumor about any APS-C or FF mirrorless camera release in 2014.

Canon: DPP (Digital Photo Professional) already had listed the EOS-M2 but it seems like Canon is delaying the camera release. Like Nikon also Canon sees the mirrorless camera industry as a “non-serious” market.

Of the three companies Samsung is the only company really investing and believing in mirrorless. But it looks like they still didn’t find the way to make their system successful.

 

New Olympus and Sony mirrorless cameras to be announced in late January and early February.

The last announcement of the year will be that Nikon DF DSLR camera (yep, it’s not a mirrorless!). The next bunch of mirrorless cameras will be announced in late January, early February 2014. And according to some trusted sources there will be certainly a new Olympus MFT camera (not a PEN!) and a couple of Sony cameras. This should include the long overdue NEX-7 successor.

P.S.: I still don’t know if that Nikon looks good, bad, weird or what :)

Mirrorless news roundup…

Samsung NX 60mm ƒ/2.8 Macro lens review at SeriousCompacts.
Fuji X-M1 review at ThePhoBlographer.
Fujifilm Fujinon XF 27mm f/2.8 (Admiringlight).
Using Manual Focus Lenses on Mirrorless Cameras (Admiringlight).
Pentax Q7 review at Trustedreviews.
First Impressions: Leica X Vario (ThePhoBlographer)
Fujifilm X-M1 review at Dpreview.
Samsung NX300 review at Sonyalphalab.
Carl Zeiss Touit 12 mm f/2.8 review at Lenstip.
Fuji X-A1 image samples at ePhotozine.
Fujifilm X20 review at CameraLabs.
Review: Pentax Q7 SR (ThePhoBlographer).
Samsung Galaxy NX review at ePhotozine.
Sony E-Mount Lenses Field Test (Riflessifotografici).
Leica C type test at Digitalversus.
Fuji X-E2 first look by Ron Mart.
Nikon 1 AW1 Review at ePhotozine.
Nikon 1 Nikkor 10-100 mm VR f4.0-5.6 lens review: Ultimate travel companion? (DxOmark).
Leica M type review at ThePhoBlographer.