Tonight Sony announced the new Sony NEX-3n camera. You can read the press release at: Sony, ePhotozine, Dpreview, Whatdigitalcamera, Techradar, Lemondedelaphoto (french), Photographyblog, Photoscala. Some hands-on pics and previews are also available at: ePhotozine, Techradar, Photographyblog, Pocket-Lint.

While the specs aren’t impressive the size reduction is noticeable! It’s the smallest APS-C mirrorless camera on market and the build quality is on a good level with metal body and no use of cheap plastic only. Price is very low with $499 with the 16-50mm kit lens. Could be a nice camera to buy!

Here is the introduction video from Sony:

The shipment of the new Fuji X100s started today in Japan (see Amazon). And some Japanese resellers already ship them worldwide via eBay. The first European and American stocks of cameras are expected to ship in mid March.

And those of you interested in getting an X interchangeable camera know that CameraLand sells the kit for $200 less in and .

A collector from Alameda (California) just decided to sell his huge collection of film cameras that includes over 1,000 pieces! The full acution details can be seen on . And those are almost all fully working cameras from Canon, Nikon, Rollei, Yashica, Ricoh, Polaroids, Kodak, Fuji, Pentax, Petri, Pax, Mamiya, etc. Damn what a collection!

via PetaPixel.

Samsung NX 45mm F1.8 2D-3D lens First Look

Sigma Dp3 review at Imaging Resource.
Iridient Developer 2.0 just released (supports Sigma DP1/2M Cameras) at Outbackphoto.
Canon EOS-M review at ePhotozine.
X-pert corner article: Raw for JPEG shooter and JPEG for RAW shooters at Fujirumors.

And now look at this…it si the The Photographer’s Outlook on 2013 made by Photoshelter:

We usually have very detailed sales reports from the Japanese market but almost zero info about the rest of the world. But than to the latest report released by GfK Retail and Technology UK we now have some interesting details from the UK market. According to the report Mirrorless camera sales raised by 14% in 2012 while DSRL camera sales raised “only” 2%. And it is also interesting to know that bridge camera sales went up 5% and superzoom compacts surged 20%.

Would be nice to have some info about market shares too but those were not released yet.

via Amateur Photographer.

Need for speed? f/0.95 from Nokton or SLRmagic are not enough for you? Than look at that super fast new Ibelux 40mm f/0.85 lens displayed at the Cp+ show in Yokohama! It’s made by Kipon and the German company IBE. It will come in July in E, MFT, M, EOS-M and X mount! Price hasn’t been decided yet but it should be somewhere between 950 and 1200 Euro. This is the fastest lens ever released for a modern digital mirrorless system! If you have any doubt about the real final image quality than you should know that the German company IBE (Click here) has a long history of very high quality video lenses. So let’s hope the lens is somewhat decent at full aperture. But at f/0.85 aperture and 40mm aperture I can imagine myself expressing plenty of badwords before I can manage to focus on the right spot!

P.S.: Save this search on Slidoo to get notified when it’s available on eBay.

Dpreview posted an interview with Masaya Maeda Managing Director at Canon. And he just said two interesting things about the EOS-M system

1) The Canon EOS-M didn’t sell as expected, but has good market shares in Japan and South-East Asia
2) Nevertheless there will be new lenses for the EOS-M system within 2013.

And one more prediction comes from MR-Maeda: There will be “an increase in the number of full-frame models”. Sure about it Mr. Maeda??? Micro Four Thirds shows us how successful the exact other direction is.