Next leak: This is the Sony A5100 which will be announced on August 19!

Sony is going to create quite a buzz at Photokina and therefore they decided to split the product announcements to make it easy for you and the press to learn more about the new stuff.

The first camera to be announced is the A5100 which is coming on August 19 already. These are the  images and specs are on courtesy of Digicameinfo:

– 24,3 MP APS-C sensor
– Full HD, XAVC-S, AVCHD and MP4 video recording
– Max bit rate is 50MPs in XAVC-S
– Hybrid AF (same as A6000) with 179 AF points (25 of them are contrast AF points)
– 3 inch and 920.000 dot Touch LCD. 180 degree tiltable
– 1/4000-30 sec shutter. 1/60 syncro. Electronic front curtain shutter
– ISO 10–25,600
– Built.in Flash
– Wifi NFC
– APP support
– 6fps
– SD card
– The battery is the NP-FW50. 400 shoots autonomy
– The size is 109.6mm x 62.8mm x35.7mm
– 224 g Weight (body only)

This is the new Olympus E-PL7!

Our Japanese friends from Digicameinfo managed to get this first image of the soon to be unveiled Olympus E-Pl7. And as it sounds this is the only new PEN Olympus will launch this year. And maybe the E-Pl line will be the only one staying alive with Olympus kicking out the “regular” E-P line and the mini E-PM series.

The E-Pl7 has the exact same sensor and features as the new E-M10 OMD camera but misses the EVF and will be a tiny bit cheaper than the latter.

Announcement is expected to be on August 30!

The firmware Photokina surprise: Olympus E-M1 with 4K recording and a “surprising” GH4 firmware update.

One of the major news at Photokina will not be a new camera or some kind of exciting new lens. It will be…firmware upgrades!

Trusted sources reported the Olympus E-M1 will get a massive firmware update which will also enable full 4K video recording! And they also said the Panasonic GH4 will get a many new features and improvements.

Both firmware will be released within the next couple of weeks!

Debunking a rumor: There is no medium format Canon camera coming now…

A recently published Canon teaser for a new FF DSLR. Still no decent mirrorless to come :(

Many sites reported about a possible Canon medium format camera. But unlike those I got notice that there is no such medium format camera coming from Canon.

I know for certain that Fuji-Nikon and Sony are considering to make such a camera but we will see such cameras in stores as early as 2015 only.

But Canon no, they are focusing on FF for the next couple of years. But I don’t know if they will make a FF mirrorless any time soon…

New Photokina “autoleaks” :) Olympus shows the PRO zoom roadmap. Sony shows the A5100

Well, sometimes companies help us out doing our rumor work by un(?)intentionally leak out information in unexpected places:

Olympus latest financial report discloses the release time of the next three pro zoom (see picture on top).

Sony is showing the A5100 picture on an official Honk Kong press site. The camera will be announced n August 19 and feature the same A6000 sensor.

The heavy Sony stuff (Full Frame RX and maybe E-mount) will be announced right before Photokina!