Another film camera gets out of production. The Zeiss Ikon!

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The world of film cameras is getting smaller every year. A Japanese Zeiss retailer announced that the [shoplink4583 ebay]Zeiss Ikon ZM[/shoplink] now has been officially discontinued. This is (or was) a high quality M-mount camera.It filled the gap within the superbly made (and expensive) Leica M film cameras and the cheap (and not so well made) Voigtlaender cameras. A bad news (again) for the film lovers like me :(

You can still grab some new Zeiss Ikon ZM on [shoplink4583 ebay]eBay (Click to see the auctions)[/shoplink].

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via ZR and TP.

The Christmas Camera dreams from TheCameraStoreTV team.

Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake shared their Christmas Camera dreams. I particularly like the idea of a digital version of the Mamiya 7 medium format camera. There were rumors floating around about Hasselblad doing a camera like that but nothing happened. At that point it would be already a miracle to see a Leica M competitor in 2013 :)

The faked Fuji fullframe :)

Plenty of reader here are waiting the day someone will release a Full Frame mirrorless that doens’t cost like a car. The dream is growing that much that a Fuji X E-1 owner added some gimmicks on his camera to make it look like a Leica M camera. Found via Fujirumors!

Sony RX1 gets tested at Dpreview (and some complains by LLoyd Chambers).

DPreview (Click here)posted the full RX1 studio samples shots and the results are quite stunning. The differences are small but it looks like the RX1 has a small edge over the rest of the DSLR FF cameras. The real issue of the camera may be the total price as explained by Lloyd Chambers “The RX1 is a super premium camera, but it ought to be $2999 with all the accessories below except perhaps the EVF (which ought to be built-in)— upping profit margins by charging for all the stuff any serious shooter needs is a game I don’t like to see played, not to the tune of ~$1000.“

The only advice I can give to LLoyd is to buy the $7 cheap Chinese metal hood () instead of the original $170 Sony hood!

Anyway, imagine what kind of Big bang an interchangeable lens version of the RX would be! I would buy it and you?