Nisis is a company known for it’s filters. And today they announced their first five Cine lenses:

Nisi F3 25mm Full Frame lens T2.1
Nisi F3 35mm Full Frame lens T2.0
Nisi F3 50mm Full Frame lens T2.0
Nisi F3 75mm Full Frame lens T2.0
Nisi F3 100mm Full Frame lens T2.0

Highlights
– Covers Full-Frame Format
– PL Mount/Canon EF Mount/Sony E Mount
– T2.0-T22 Clickless Aperture Range
– Ultra Low Dispersion
– High Resolution
– Retro Cinema Style
– 12-Blade Iris
– Same physical attributes across the lens line
– Geared Focus and Iris Control Rings
– Pure performance in film

You can preorder them for $999 at en.nisifilters.com/nisi-f3-prime-cinema-lens-pre-order

The Japanese agency CIPA released the official camera shipment numbers for February. And it’s again a horror news for the industry. We had a 27% decline of camera shipments compared to the previous year.

The only positive takeaway from those results is that this bad result is due the shrinking compact camera market. DSLR sales numbers up 4% while mirrorless sales went down 11%.

Editor’s note: For a couple of hours we made a mistake and switched the DSLR-Mirrorless numbers. Sorry for that!

Oh yes we need the Megapixel war to restart again. Those boring 40-50MP cameras from Sony-Canon-Nikon desperately need a decent upgrade :)

Today Canon published this video to showcase their new 120MP sensor:

via CanonWatch

Meyer Optik announced the third version of their Nocturnus III lens. Preorders here: info.meyer-optik-goerlitz.com/nocturnusiii_presale

Canon is clearly aiming this camera against the Sony Venice FF camcorder. It’s technically also the frist FF mirrorless system camera :)

The full specs and preorder prices can be found at BHphoto.

The folks over at Dpreview posted a nice interview with the Tamron managers. They talk a lot about their new Tamron 28-75mm FE lens. And they repeated multiple times that developing lenses for mirrorless system will be their main focus from now on. They also said something exciting for those who want to buy into the future Canon and Nikon FF mirrorless system:

Everybody is going to mirrorless. Canon and Nikon will launch full-frame mirrorless cameras, probably in the near future. When this happens, we can easily make Canon and Nikon versions of our [native] E-mount lenses. The same design could work for [multiple mirrorless mounts].

I guess Nikon and Canon should be happy to know that Tamron is ready to make lenses for their new system. The Sony FE lens system is quite large by now and they will need every help they can get!

via Nikoneye.

Dpreview interviewed three Fuji managers. There are many topics in this interview but I am going to highlight too

Fuji GFX:
– Overall, GFX sales have exceeded our predictions.
– 80% of users are non-professional, and 20% are professional. That was a surprise.

Fuji and video:
– Fuji wants to move more into the high-end video world

I am really surprised to hear 80% of the current GFX owners are amateurs. This is an expensive camera and I didn’t think so many non-professionals would buy that camera. And we know from previous rumors that they will launch two new GFX cameras within the next 12 months:

1) A new rangefinder styled GFX camera with he same 50MP sensor will be announced at Photokina. It should be priced just below $5,000
2) A new 100 megapixel GFX camera will be announced at Photokina in may 2019. This one should cost around $10,000.

Let’s see how those two new cameras will sell. That 100 megapixel camera sounds promising also because it has a BSI sensor and on sensor phase detection pixels.