The new Canon G1X mark II can be preordered at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
And here are some links to early tests and hands-on to learn more about the new camera:
Ziv Koren shared his G1X mark II impressions on a Youtube video. Hands-on at Pocket-Lint. First Look at WhatDigitalCamera. Spanish first look at DSLRmagazine. Preview at Imaging Resource. Preview at CameraLabs.
The Fuji X-Ti will be released on March 7 according to Amazon US. But in the meantime you can learn how to use your future camera by downloading the full manual here: http://www.fujifilm.com/support/digital_cameras/manuals/pdf/index/x/fujifilm_xt1_manual_en.pdf
via Fujirumors.
DC.watch (translation here) spotted that brand new Fuji X cap lens at the CP+ show in Yokohama. It is a 36mm f/8.0 lens with close focusing of 1m. The lens weight is 32g only. Price and release date have yet to be determined.
These are the specs in Japanese:
It’s a small surprise to see a company launch lenses that will be available in one year only! Olympus just unveiled the new M.Zuiko Digital ED 7-14 f/2.8 and M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm f/4.0 weather sealed lenses. But there is no info on price and exact availability (it only says 2015).
To bad because this lenses would be amazing on an E-M1! I am wondering why it will take so much time for Olympus to release them :(
The A6000 has been announced and it has one big selling point: Sony claims it’s the world fastest autofocusing camera!
Preorders:
Sony A6000 at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), SonyStore (Click here).
Sony A6000 with lens at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
Sony 70-200mm FE at Amazon (CLick here), BHphoto (Click here), SonyStore (Click here).
Previews, hands-on tests: First impression at Dpreview, First impressions at ThePhoBlographer, First look at Digitalcamerareview, Hands-on at ePhotozine, First look at Amateur Photographer, Hands-on at Photographyblog, Hands-on at Pocket-Lint, Hands-on at Gizmodo, Hands-on at Imaging Resource,
The GH4 is a hell of a hybrid camera but Panasonic “forgot” to mention the actual price of the camera. Well,after a couple of hours the first European Store unveiled the price: 1499 Euro for the body only (Source: DealsRunner).
Actually a very good price for the first 4K mirrorless and interchangeable lens camera of the world!
GH4 specs, price and preorder notifications: Panasonic GH4 body at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here). DMW-YAGH interface unti at Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Panasonic US (Click here). DMW-FL580L Flash at Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
Previews, tests and image samples: Hands-on at EosHD, Quick summary at Dpreview, Hands-on at Pocket Lint, First impressions at Trustedreviews, Hands-on pics at Cnet, First impression at ThePhoBlographer, First impressions at Quesabesde (Spanish), First impression at Cmaeras.Reviewed,
Videos: “Light of the Yucatan” in 4K by Bryan Harvey (youtube), Shooting Impression by Bryan Harvey (youtube), GH4 Shooting Impression by Bence Máté (youtube), GH4 Shooting Impression by Takehito Miyatake (youtube), Panasonic GH4 commercial (youtube), Shooting Impression by Daniel Berehulak (youtube), Gh4 at Videoaktiv (German),
Hot Notes: 1) Pricing will be announced in mid March only! (Camera will cost less than $2000 or 2000 Euro). 2) This is the world’s first mirrorless interchangeable lens mount camera recording 4K 3) The external XLR / HD-SDI add-on for this camera allows for uncompressed 10bit 4K output over 3G HD-SDI – the kind of spec Canon currently charges $25,000 fo (EosHD). 4) DFD (Depth-of-Defocus) autofocus works like this: During live view (before a half-press of the shutter button), the camera will occasionally make a tiny adjustment to focus, to check whether subjects in the frame are in front of or behind the current focus point. In addition to this information, the camera judges how far out-of-focus objects in the scene are, based on how blurred they are, assessed using a profile detailing the blur behavior of the lens at its current aperture. Although this combination of data itself doesn’t give the GH4 enough information to achieve precise focus, it does give it a clear idea of where it should start using conventional contrast detection AF process to achieve fine focus. (Dpreview). 5) Recording 4K will crop your image by an ulterior 1,25x factor (Quesabesde). 6) The new sensor seems to be able to get more detail out of the highlights than the sensor in the Olympus EM1 (ThePhoBlographer).
Press release: Dpreview, 43rumors, SystemKameraForum (German), Pocket Lint, Engadget, Photographyblog, Photoscala (German), DSLRmagazine (Spanish),
