A newly released Nikon patent discloses their plans to make Nikon F lenses work on their future professional (Full Frame?) mirrorless system camera. A special adapter with pellicle and PDAF module could allow to use Nikon F system with the best possible focus system.

Basically this works like the current Sony LAEA4 adapter.That adapter has a semitransparent pellicle mirror that reflects a bit of light to the PDAF sensor. The downside is that you loose about 1/3 of a stop of light. But that’s negligible in most situation.

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via Hi-lows-note.blog.so-net.ne.jp

The new MS-Optical 40mm f/6.3 macro lens for Leica M is now listed on eBay (Click here).

Description via Japancamerahunter:

Miyazaki has been a very busy man lately. Not content with releasing a series of new regular lenses, he has also started working on the History Series of lenses.
And this is the fist in the series. The Prot 40mm 6.3, based on a classic design known as the Protaria lens formula which was designed by the legendary Rudolph Zeiss. I am still awaiting a full translation of the accompanying text about the lens.
This is a minute lens, weighing in at only 47 grams. it has a close focus of 60cm. 4 elements in 2 groups.
A fascinating little lens and something quite a bit different from what you usually see. A slower lens for a slower pace.

No camera could be complete without a lens – the glass technology that brings the world into focus. Dive into the history of the lens from it’s early beginning as a fire starting tool to the plethora of modern designs.

You can now check out the full size samples shot on the 16 camera. Pixel peepers en garde!

Found via hi-lows-note.blog.so-net.ne.jp

We can finally see more of the new RED Hydrogen system camera phone…I actually don’t know how to call it :)

Marques Brownlee just posted this exclusive first hands-on video:

This is how it compares with other phones:

And this the Hydrogen with a Triplet Lens module attached:

What Marques couldn’t show is the holographic feature. But RED promised to show a more finalized prototype in 1 month or so.

Overall this looks exciting and expensive!

CIPA released the June unit shipment report. There is good and bad news:

The Good news is that in June 2017 we sold far more cameras than in 2016. But to be fair 2016 was very bad also because of the Kumamoto earthquake aftermath.
The Bad news is that June 2017 still sold far less than in 2015.

To sum up, there is no more decline in the camera unit sales. But a real recovery is not to be expected.

Ricoh published their quarterly financial report (PDF file here). As a whole the profits went up 74% compared to last year. But the camera business seems to not do so well. Ricoh doesn’t share exact numbers but they write this note:

“decrease in income and profit in the camera business due to the decreasein amounts of sales of digital cameras.”

One more news: The next camera to be announced by Ricoh will be the new Theta V camera.