This is a real leak and not an April fools joke: New Panasonic GX80!

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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.

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Hasselblad will surprise us with “one wholly new model in particular, photography fans will be over the moon”

Financial times interviewed CEO Perry Oosting and there are some important news.

  1. Perry Oosting: “Without breaking the news embargo, I can say confidently that, in the case of one wholly new model in particular, photography fans will be over the moon.“
  2. The.me also says: “Hasselblad will bring everything back to Götheborg and not rebrand or badge any Sony other other camera anymore, a clear reference to Hasselblad’s previous ruinous strategy Oosting is rather critical of. No more pimped up Lunars and Stellars.“

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“!

First NAB rumors: Canon will show first 8K mirrorless camcorder prototypes!

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NAB Show interviewed MR. Tim Smith, Senior Advisor, Film and TV Production at Canon. And he said:

We will be showing not only our existing product line, with a few surprises, but we will also be showing working 8K cameras and 8K displays that look into the future of production.

Not certainly THE mirrorless system camera we are waiting to get from Canon. this will be a camcorder and not a photo-centered device. But still exciting to hear Canon is now pushing to become innovative again!

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via CanonWatch.

 

Two new Micro Four Thirds cameras to be announced the next few weeks…

We already got the new PEN-F and GF8 this year. And now the MFT fellow will get two more new cameras within the next few weeks:

  1. Olympus E-PL8 with 16MP sensor
  2. Panasonic entry level camera (20MP sensor?)

The High End stuff is expected to be announced at Photokina in September. Probably a new GH5 and E-M1II will be shown at the show!

This is the new Olympus E-PL8!

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Olympus has one more PEN coming soon! Those are the first images of the entry-level E-PL8 camera. It will be announced soon along the first Olympus Action Camera. Specs are yet unknown but I guess it will use the same 16MP sensor used by the E-M10II.

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Images via Digicameinfo.

The next camera announcements: Fuji X-T2, Sony A5300, Panasonic entry level MFT and Olympus E-PL8 and Action camera.

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To recap what you can expect to be announced as next here is the list:

  1. Early April: New Panasonic entry level MFt camera (no G nor GH)
  2. Early-Mid April: New Olympus Action Camera compatible with all Go PRO accessories. New E-PL8.
  3. May-June: New Sony A5300 entry level E-mount camera
  4. June: Fuj X-T2

Both Canon and Nikon are expected to announce some more “advanced” mirrorless system camera during the second half of the year.