Fuji updates 18-55mm lens. New Olympus, Panasonic, Sony and Fuji rumors.

Lot of news and rumors in these days and it’s time to sum them up:

Fuji:
Fuji is going to announce the new X200 and the new X20 in January. And yesterday they released the new firmware update for the 18-55mm lens (Source: FujiFilm).

Sony:
Sony is now shipping the new 35mm f/1.8 E-mount lens in Asia (). I don’t expect a new NEX product announcement for the CES show but there will be new stuff by end of January at the CP+ show. One new release is likely the 85mm f/1.8 lens.

Panasonic:
A new GF and G camera are scheduled for a release between February and April 2013. Compact cameras only is what will be announced soon right before the CES show (January 8th)

Olympus:
There is one new MFT camera and one new MFT lens that may be announced at the CP+ show in Japan (January 31).

Samsung and Polaroid:
Both companies will announce a mirrorless camera based on the Android OS. They may anticipate what sooner or later everyone will do?

 

Still no news form the Canon and Nikon front. But they can’t afford to remain that…”static”. Hurry on!

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!