Let’s catch up with two Micro Four Thirds news:
1) Fujiyacamera shared the image of the new Kowa 90mm f/2.5 macro lens:
2) And Giulio Sciorio posted that Panasonic Leica 8-18mm hands-on video (UPDATE: Giulio removed the video!)
The Voigtländer MACRO APO-LANTHAR 65mm F2 Aspherical was announced at Photokina 2016 in Cologne, Germany, as a reference exhibit. Since then specifications and appearance have been improved.
The Red, Green, and Blue lines on the lens barrel proudly indicate its heritage from vintage APO-LANTHAR lens designs – High Performance.
At F2, this lens is one of the fastest macro lenses available for full frame format. SAR
Macro Ratio is 1:2. Minimum Object Distance is 31cm.
NOKTON 40mm F1.2 Aspherical is the fastest 40mm lens ever made for the Full Frame format sensor. This lens is compact enough but also can produce high resolution picture due to the lens construction design optimized for Full Frame E-mount sensor.
Minimum Object Distance is 40cm. Selective Aperture Control System is available.
We re-design the lens construction of M-mount version, which is now optimized for Full Frame E-mount sensor. As NOKTON Classic 35mm F1.4 has the “Classic” in its name, this lens produce beautiful Bokeh at wide open, and sharp image at stop down.
Today Fuji announced two great Cine lenses which will be available for E-mount and X-mount (full info on SAR). One of the lenses (18-55mm T/2.9 E-mount) can be preordered now at BHphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).
Fuji also released a new XF lens roadmap which shows three more lenses to come:
The XF80mm f/2.8 OIS WR will arrive sometimes in the middle of the year. By early 2018 we will get a new Ultra Wide Angle Zoom and by end 2018 a new Telephoto Prime Lens.
A couple of days ago a new Nikon financial report created quite a buzz on the web. Tony Northrup analyzed the full detailed report and actually think that the news isn’t as bad as we think. And at the end of the video he says that Canon is actually in an even worse shape…
One more thing: Personal View posted the updated camera shipment graphs.
Fotodiox announced five new adapters (Click here) for the Fuji GFX camera. One of the adapter allows you to use the great [shoplink 303751 ebay]Mamiya 645 lenses (here on eBay)[/shoplink]. The other four adapt FullFrame lenses and I wonder which one of these actually works fine on the GFX.
Anyway, there are even more adapters coming from Fotodiox as you can see from that image shared by Fujirumors:
The rumors written by other rumor sites that the Nikon DL would start shipping in march were plain wrong :(
Instead Nikon issue that note today:
Cancellation of release of the DL series of premium compact cameras
February 13, 2017
TOKYO – Nikon Corporation announced today that sales of the long-awaited DL series of premium compact camera, the DL18-50 f/1.8-2.8, DL24-85 f/1.8-2.8, and DL24-500 f/2.8-5.6, will be canceled.
A June, 2016 release was originally planned for the DL series. However, with the identification of issues with the integrated circuit for image processing, release of the three cameras was delayed indeterminately.
Since then, everyone involved has worked very hard to develop products with which our customers will be satisfied. However, it has been decided that sales of the DL series will be canceled due to concerns regarding their profitability considering the increase in development costs, and the drop in the number of expected sales due to the slow-down of the market.
We sincerely apologize to all those affected by this decision, especially those customers who waited so long for the cameras to be released, retailers and others whose business will be affected, for the inconvenience this decision may cause.
