More new pictures of the Pentax Q-S1 (not Q2)
Digicameinfo corrected yesterday’s rumor and the name of the new Pentax will be Q-S1 and not Q2. And he also posted some more images of the camera!
Fuji releases the updated X-mount lens roadmap. Includes the 16mm 1.4 and 90mm primes.
Fuji issued the new lens roadmap and includes the lenses that have been already “rumored” before. The 16mm f/1.4 and 90mm f/2.0.
The mentioned super telezoom will be a 120-400mm lens according to Fujirumors.
And here is the official Fuji press text about the new roadmap:
“FUJIFILM Corporation (President: Shigehiro Nakajima) is pleased to release an updated road map for X mount interchangeable lenses.
A large-diameter medium telephoto lens (the XF90mmF2 R) features for the first time on the development road map for end 2015. The next available lens will be the XF50-140mm F2.8 R LM OIS WR. Following on from the XF18-135mm lens, this will be Fujifilm’s second weather resistant lens designed to partner its X-T1 camera.
Other updates to the road map include the previously announced “Ultra-wide angle lens” being confirmed as the “XF16mmF1.4 R” with a guide launch date of mid 2015. And the planned launch of the XF16-55mmF2.8 R WR lens moving to Spring 2015 and the Super Tele-Photo Zoom lens to Winter 2015.
Highly regarded for their outstanding image quality, resolution and well-built bodies, the unique X mount lens range now includes super-wide angle to super-telephoto range lenses and a large-diameter lens with rich bokeh and high resolution.”
Camera market will shrink by 10% yearly by 2017 (says ICinsights).
Icinsights posted a forecast about the camera market till 2017. And the market is expected to shrink:
Worldwide DSC shipments are expected to fall by a CAGR of -10% between 2012 and 2017 compared to an annual average growth rate of just 1% in the 2007-2012 period and nearly 31% per year in the 2002-2007 timeframe.
But there are two positive news: The System Camera Market is expected to growth further. And that’s also the most profitable business for the camera producers. And the “non-conventional” camera market for Tablet-smartphones-medical-car-surveillance is expected to grow too!
Next superzoom announced: Pentax XG-1!
Like you know the superzoom compact camera market is still growing and that’s why we already have the next new superzoom announcement: Ricoh launched the new Pentax XG-1 (specs here at BH).
It doesn’t feature a large 1 inch sensor like the recently unveieled Panasonic FZ1000. But it costs also less than a half!
Indonesian ageny leaks the new Sony A5100 camera name!
That funny Indonesian agency keeps leaking the names of cameras weeks ahead of their official announcements! Here is the image of the newly listed Sony A5100 which is supposed to be announced very soon!
Courtesy of Digicameinfo.
Boring news of the day: 2 New Colors For The Canon EOS M2
I know this news will make your day! Canon launched two new color version of their EOS-M2 camera which is available in Asia only (here on eBay)! That was it :(
via CanonWatch.
World’s first image taken with the famous new Sony curved sensor!
That image doesn’t look exciting at all but it’s precious because it’s actually the first photo taken with a Sony curved sensor!
It has been shared by Sony to Nikkei.jp. NIkkei reports the sensor are production ready and while the sensor has plenty of advantages (no vignetting, allows faster and compact lens design and so on) it has also one huge issue. Sony said it’s very difficult to design zoom lenses for it.
Sony is rumored to launch such a sensor with the next RX1 fixed lens successor!