The German company Meyer Optik Görlitz will announce a new mid-range lens on April 14. It will be available for Fuji X, Micro Four Thirds and Sony mirrorless cameras.
We have a couple of product announcements that week:
Zeiss will announce new lens(es?) on April 14 at 11am London time. Expect a new Batis 18mm f/2.8 lens!
Meyer Optik Görlitz will also announce a new lens on April 14
Sony will unveil new camcorders (maybe FF E-mount?) on April 17.
Hasselblad announced a new $32,995 H6Ds medium format camera. What’s more interesting for us is that CEO Perry Oosting clearly hinted that they are working on a new kind of “portable” medium format camera. He told at ePhotozine:
“The new H6Ds we are launching have the best in class ergonomics in terms of handling, but they aren’t the most portable.. Portability will be key – but how and which ways it will be portable is yet to be announced.”
Sounds likely that this will be Hasselblad first mirrorless medium format camera!
A Sony A9 rendering (not the real thing)
In just one week SAR got two rumors about a new Sony high end E-mount camera. This should become the new Sony A9. A bigger and more powerful FF camera. Probably the first camera that could play in the league with the very big Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras. Here are the two rumors:
Rumors One:
“The next generation flagship mirrorless camera from Sony will be a giant leap. It will drop a huge bomb in the imaging industry. It will not be A7III or A7RIII. It will be a new model above A7 series. I would say A9 (let’s name it as the new model). So the new A9 will have dual XQD card slot, no CFast version, only XQD. A9 can do UNLIMITED RAW burst, UNLIMITED. The camera wont pause for buffering.”
Rumor Two:
“a7Riii the new sensor will be between 70 – 80 Megapixels. They are working on improved IBIS as well. Although officially the new lenses per the 24-70 F2.8 GM and the others have been tested for QC at 60+ Megapixels and 6K+ Video they achieve even better results than that.“
Sounds great!
The japanese folks over at Digicameinfo do not make any April Fools Joke today! They leaked a real thing…the new Panasonic GX80!
SPECS:
– 16MP sensor
– About 10% improvement in resolving power by getting rid of the low pass filter
– New Venus engine
– 4K video, 4K Photo
– 5-axis camera shake correction (on sensor+lens)
– AF 0.07 seconds. DFD technology
– 4K post focus (focus Select)
– 2.764 million dot EVF. Magnification 1.39x (35mm equivalent 0.7-fold)
– 3.0 inches 1.04 million dot LCD monitor. Tilting. 80 degrees upward and 45 degrees tilt down
– Wi-Fi built-in
– Creative style. 22 types of filters. New Monochrome mode.
Financial times interviewed CEO Perry Oosting and there are some important news.
It’s just my guess but I see a high chance Hasselblad will use the new 101 MP Sony sensor to make a mirrorless system medium format camera. That would be a unique proposition and certainly something that could bring “ photography fans over the moon“!
We now got a total of three different Olympus Full Frame lens design patent. The latest one is the 24mm f/1.4 Zuiko FF lens. Now the question is: Will Olympus launch their own new FF mount system or join the Sny E-mount?
What would you prefer to happen?
