Nikon patent discloses the specs for a new collapsible Full Frame lens
A newly published Nikon patent application (P2018-77520A) confirms Nikon is working on a collapsible Full Frame lens for their new FF mirrorless system camera.
Mixed news about Olympus/Panasonic/Canon/Fuji
We got a couple of financial news a rumor and an interview to report:
Panasonic full year financial report: Net sales and operating profit increased (43rumors)
Olympus financial report discloses Olympus will keep focusing on high end mirrorless (43rumors).
Canon to reframe the business, scared by further smartphone disruption, report suggests (CanonWatch).
Fujifilm X-T2 Bug Fix Firmware Coming (Fujirumors).
Sony interview at IR: “The 400mm f/2.8 GM will be light and easy to handle” (Imaging Resource).
As a reminder: Next week Fuji will announce a new XT100 camera. Sony should announce a new RX camera in June. Still no news from other companies.
New Nikon patent discloses 20mm f/2.0 Full Frame lens design for curved sensors
The image above shows the sketch as disclosed by JP 2018-72638 (P2018-72638A).
The Japanses blog hi-lows-note.blog.so-net.ne.jp spotted another patent for a Nikon curved sensor. It describes the design for a 20mm f/2.0 Full Frame lens. I doubt the future Nikon mirrorless sytem camera will have a curved sensor.
Nikon financial report shows they missed their imaging business forecast
Nikon’s big step into the Full Frame mirrorless camera has still to happen and they better hurry. According to their latest financial report published today things don’t look that good. They missed their forecast for the imaging business due to missed sales volumes in the compact camera segment.
Revenue and profit is expected to keep going down in their 2019 forecast:
via Nikoneye
Tamron releases official statement to say 28-75mm FE preorders were much higher than expected
Preorders: The Tamron lens is now available for preorder at Amazon, BHphoto, BuyDig and Adorama. In Europe at Amazon DE and WexUK.
This morning Tamron Japan issued a statement confirming that preorders on the new 28-75mm FE preorders where much higher than expected. They apologize because this means many will haveto wait much longer than expected to get their lens.
And a good news for Sony: Dpreview declared the Sony A7III as the bext camera you can get for under $2000.
Sony shows their new 400mm f/2.8 GM beast at the Kand trip
Sony organized a very big meeting Kando 2.0 with many Sony Artisans and experts. The event takes place in California an behind the glass they are again showing the new 400mm f/2.8 FE lens. But Sony wasn’t ready yet to unveil the proce which we suspect will be $10,000 :)