Well, we may finally getting some clue about what’s Canon plan with mirrorless. And as rumored by CanonWatch before it really seems like Canon will be veeeeery conservative and stick to EF mount on their mirrorless cameras too.

CanonRumors says the first Canon FF mirrorless will be announced at earliest at Photokina in September 2018. And it has the classic EF mount which I personally find disappointing. Of course it make sense from a cost point of view. But they will be stuck to a large flange distance and will not be able to make cameras as compact as the competition. More over you will not be able to use most of the existent third-party glas. The rumored details are:

• EF mount will be native
• New exclusive image sensor for the camera.
• New sensor technology required for the EF mount in a mirrorless application
• There will be no new “dedicated” lenses, but mirrorless will be “considered in all future EF lens design”
• 4K video is considered a necessary feature in all full frame cameras going forward
• One full frame mirrorless camera body to start
• There is testing at Canon of a more hybrid approach between DSLRs and Mirrorless cameras. What that looks like we don’t know.

Maybe all this isn’t true and Canon is just hiding their cards…

Seems like Olympus and Sony are the companies that still will give us some stuff the upcoming months. As I reported yesterday the new Olympus TG-5 (image on top) and the Sony 16-35mm FE lens will be announced within days or weeks.

But there seems to be more to come. We now got reports about possible announcement from both companies in June-July too…

P.S.: Still not A7rIII or A9r coming any time soon folks….

We got for sure one (if not two)! product announcement this week (or the week after that):

1. Olympus will launch the new TG-5 compact camera
2. Sony might announce two FE lenses too (16-35mm GM and a another lens)

Nothing to expect from Canon-Nikon-Fuji-Panasonic yet…

CanonWatch reports that Canon is likely to launch a new EF 200-600mm f/4.5-5.6 L in 2018. This might be interesting news for EOS-M owners or Sony E-mount camera owners too. Particularly if the new Canon will beat the IQ performance of the Tamron 150-600mm lens (picture on top).

Today we got new info about the next announcements:

1. Nokishita leaked that image of the new Olympus TG-5 compact camera. It will be announced within the next few days
2. Ricoh will announce the “WG-50” waterproof digital camera soon
3. Sony will announce a new 16-35mm GM and a new “unexpected” FE lens within the next 3-4 weeks (SAR)

Just for fun: faked EXIF data seen as seen on Flickr

We got few more info on the new Sony 135mm FE lens (via SAR):

1. We are pretty sure we will have to wait AT LEAST 3 months before the lens gets announced
   
2. no lens stabilization
3. weather sealed
4. 80% chance aperture is f/1.8

There is still no info about the new camera that Sony will announce in June. But my guess is that it’s a new RX camera

Yosuke Yamane from Panasonic had a chat with Dpreview. He gave many insights on the GH5 and future firmware updates. They confirmed their commitment to 8K for 2020. A Bold statement is that they also want to double the camera business in USA through the focus on High End Products.

And he confirmed there will be a LX100 successor but shared no details on that.