It’s finally here, Samsung’s new NX3000. It has the Samsung designed 20 megapixel sensor, a 3 inch flip up screen and obviously WiFi and NFC connection.

You can preorder the camera now at BHphoto in Black (Click here), Brown (Click here) or White (Click here).

This is the official press text:

Seoul, Korea – May08, 2014 – The new NX3000 is the latest edition to Samsung’s award winning NX series of compact system cameras. With state-of-the-art technical specifications housed in a retro design, the premium NX3000 is the perfect option for photography enthusiasts who want a stylish device that delivers crisp, high quality images, capturing life moments in stunning detail with ease and pleasure.

The NX3000 comes with a powerful 20.3MP APS-C CMOS Sensor,1/4000 shutter speed and 5fps continuous shooting, to capture beautiful photos in crisp clarity, at any time and from any location. [2 nx3000 black 3 Samsung SMART Camera NX3000 Blends Retro Design, Excellent Performance and Easy Connectivity] [3 nx3000 brown 1 Samsung SMART Camera NX3000 Blends Retro Design, Excellent Performance and Easy Connectivity] [4 nx3000 white 5 Samsung SMART Camera NX3000 Blends Retro Design, Excellent Performance and Easy Connectivity] With a focus on selfies, the Samsung NX3000 features a convenient 3.0-inch Flip-up DisplaywithWink Shot. By simply opening the screen, framing a face in the display and winking, users can turn on the device and capture the perfect selfie in one hassle-free motion. As is standard for all of Samsung’s recently released SMART cameras, the NX3000 features industry-leading Tag & Gointegration that allows for the seamless sharing of images via state of the art Wi-Fi and NFC connectivity. Tag & Go allows for the use of advanced connectivity features including; Photo Beam,Remote Viewfinder Pro and Mobile Link.  [5 nx3000 black 4 Samsung SMART Camera NX3000 Blends Retro Design, Excellent Performance and Easy Connectivity] The NX3000 will be available in White, Black and Brown, and will be bundled with Samsung’s new compact 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 Power Zoom ED OIS Lens. This powerful yet compact and lightweight lens allows for easy and convenient zoom-shooting, delivering stunning detail in every shot. Additionally, with the 16-50mm Power Zoom lens, users can control the camera’s zoom function on their mobile device via Remote Viewfinder Pro, allowing for even more creativity.

Image courtesy: Photoscala.

Sony announced the release of the new Zeiss 16-35mm FE lens for mid summer. There is no image of the lens nor pricing info yet. But we can expect it to cost about the same of the 24-70mm FE Zeiss (here at Amazon).

A Large Zeiss aperture prime lens and a Sony G macro will be announced at Photokina:

Now listen to us companies. If you want to create a true fellowship around your system just learn from Fuji. Today they announced the new X-E2 firmware (download here). In one strike this is what has been improved:

– Enhanced EVF including the world’s fastest* display lag-time of 0.005 seconds
– Selectable colors for outlines for Focus Peak Highlight
– Added functions that can be assigned to the Fn (Function) button
– Added “Suppressed Flash” option when selecting flash mode
– The phenomenon is fixed that in FILM SIMULATION Bracketing, third picture is recorded as “ASTIA” although the third picture is set as “PRO Neg. Hi”.

Basically X-E2 owners will now have an EVF which matches the X-T1 EVF performance.

And if you wnat the X-E2 well there is a up to $100 off at Amazon US (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here). What else do you need to buy one?

Samyang announced three new Cine lenses for mirrorless system cameras: The 7,5mm T/3.8 fisheye Cine lens which comes for Micro Four Thirds mount only. The other two, the 10mm and 12mm T/2.2 Cine lenses will be available for all mirrorless systems.

PRESS RELEASE:

Nearly a month after their market release, Samyang 10mm f/2.8 ED AS NCS CS and Samyang 12 mm f/2.0 NCS CS lenses are now available in their equivalent cine versions: Samyang 10mm T3.1 Cine and 12mm T2.2 Cine. Samyang VDSLR cine lenses feature aperture and focus rings with sprocket wheels controlling their work through Follow Focus systems. This allows for noiseless and smooth adjustment of the above parameters during filming.

Samyang 10mm T3.1 Cine and 12mm T2.2 Cine have nanocrystal anti-reflective layer (NCS) that ensures better light transmission, increased resistance to light reflections and higher contrast, which improves optical resolution of the lenses.

Samyang 12 mm in photo and cine versions fills the gap among lenses dedicated for mirrorless cameras with APS-C sensor, large angle of view and high brightness. The lens has been designed for cameras fitted with a high resolution sensor (above 24 mln pixels). Samyang Optics company is renowned among clients for great quality optics offered at affordable prices. And this is also the case with 10mm and 12 lenses which provide technical parameters and optical potential that can easily compete with the best wide-angle prime and zoom lenses available on the market.

And last, but not least, the offer also includes Samyang 7.5mm T3.8 Fish-eye Cine. This is a cine version of a meticulously designed manual fish-eye lens which provides diagonal field of vision equal to 180 degrees. Despite its small size, Samyang 7.5mm T3.8 Cine produces images with splendid parameters and exceptional vividness, and the minimal focusing distance amounts to only 0.09 meters.

You have nothing to do today? And plenty of $$$ to spend on a Leica T? Well you can watch a German Guy polishing your $1,850 worthy Leica T on that video above. Leica itself calls it the most boring AD ever made :)

Price and preorders: Silver Leica T at Bhphoto or Adorama. Black Leica T at Bhphoto or Adorama.

via PetaPixel.

Price and preorders: Silver Leica T at Bhphoto or Adorama. Black Leica T at Bhphoto or Adorama.

Hands-on: First Hands-on at Leica Camera Forum (with image samples). Solid metal: Creating the Leica T at Dpreview, Testing Taifun by Slack, Leica T test at Cameras.Reviewed, Test by Ming Thein,

Videos: The Leica T: an Introduction, Dr. Andreas Kaufmann: About the Essence, The new Leica T-System, The Most Boring Ad Ever Made?, Dr. Kaufmann: Precision and Beauty,

The brand new Sony A7s can now be preorders in Australia for 3499 AUSD (via DL). With current conversion this is around $3200 US dollars or 2350 Euro. A  competitive price (if correct).