Tamron says they can easily do lenses for the future Canon and Nikon Full Frame mirrorless cameras

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.

Fuji interview at Dpreview. Says “80% of GFX users are non-professional”

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.