Focus Numerique interviewed the Samyang managers at Photokina. There are two interesting points:

1. Samyang said doing MFT and X-mount autofocus lenses is possible. But the market for those kind of lenses is small so they still don’t know if they will do it
2. Samyang said they will start to make zoom lenses too. First for the XEEN cine lens line. And after that for the “normal” photography world.

I guess most companies will not announce any new product this year. But Sony may be an exception! They still have some E-mount stuff to come. SAR reports a 10mm f/2.8 STF FE lens could be announced in October. It’s still unclear if Sony will also announce a new E-mount camera. The A7m3, A5300 and the A9 are the hottest candidates…

At Photokina Nikon debunked the rumor posted by Dpreview. The Nikon 1 system will continue to be developed and this is a brand new patent of a 9-110mm f/2.8-5.6 lens.

The X100T got marked as “discontinued” by Digitalrev (Click here). And according to Fujirumors the new X100F will be announced in early 2017.

Just a FF Nikon camera concept

In an interview with CameraJabber Jordi Brinkman, Nikon’s European Product Group Manager revealed a couple of interesting things:

1. The Nikon 1 system isn’t dead! The lack of new products is only caused by the longer product life cycles than before
2. When asked about the possibility of a Nikon FF mirrorless he says: “I’m not saying we’re announcing a full-frame mirrorless camera, but it’s definitely something we’re analysing a lot, looking at the market very closely; it’s on our radar.”

Fujirumors leaked the first image! And if you plan to buy the camera join the Fujifilm GFX facebook group now.

Today at 18:30 Berlin time Olympus will announce their new flasgship MFT camera. And in very last minute the first E-M1II image got leaked at 43rumors.

And here is once again the busy schedule for today. Stay tune on MR!

12:30 Berlin time Panasonic (G80, FZ2000, LX10, GH5 pre announcement, new lenses)
14:00 Berlin time Canon (nothing new to announce, they will talk about the already announced cameras)
15:00 Berlin time Sony (probably nothing new to announce. If there is something new than maybe the A9?)
16:00 Berlin time Nikon (mirrorless surprise?)
17:00 Berlin time Fuji (New medium format camera)
18:30 Berlin time Olympus (E-PL8, 25mm f/1.2, 12-100mm f/4.0, 30mm macro, E-M1II pre-announcement)