Sony E-mount owners still lack the possibility to buy some f/2.8 zoom. Sony managers stated months ago that they acknowledge they have to “do something” in that regard. Well, there may be a chance that Sony goes to “wow” us with a crazy lens: The Japanese site Egami found a brand new Sony patent describing what would be the world’s fastest Full Frame zoom yet…a new 28-70mm f/2.0 FE zoom!

Of course this is only a patent yet and we may never see such a lens in a real store. But the fact they patented it means engineers seriously are considering to make it. Here are the patent details:

• Patent Publication No. 2016-14841
  • Published 2016.1.28
  • Filing date 2014.7.3
• Example 1
  • Focal length f = 28.84 45.32 66.50mm
  • Fno. 2.06
  • Half angle of view ? = 36.87 25.52 18.02 °

Damn would it be cool to have such a lens! But it probably would weight and cost a lot too :)

Well, not sure they are just making a joke or if this is real. But Sony official(!) Weibo account posted those two images above. On the left there is a new E-moutn camera (should be the A6100) and on the right a new E-mount lens range image.

There is no other detail unveiled. But announcement should be really close…

So folks it’s Olympus time! At 6am London time (Jan 27) Olympus will announce the new PEN-F. Everything about the camera got leaked (specs and images). So there will be not much to surprise you. But MFT folks will be happy to know that both Olympus and Panasonic will have new product announcements in exactly one month from now:

Panasonic will announce the GF8. And Olympus the new f/1.2 lenses.

And than we have the Sony A61000, maybe a new Canon mirrorless and maybe even a Nikon surprise. Plenty to look forward too!

Maurice from Fujirumors noticed the X-PRO2 has a 33mm frameline. And FR says that a 33mm f/1.0 lens could be announced at Photokina. This lens would certainly add a magic WOW factor to the Fuji X system. The question is how BIG will be the lens and how MANY are the $$$ you have to spend to get it?

2016 is likely going to be the year where both Canon and Nikon will announce their first “PRO” mirrorless system cameras. According to Canonrumors Canon will “surprise a lot of people” at CP+. While he has no detail about what the surprise could be he speculates this could be a Canon FF camera.

I have not received any hint about a Canon FF mirrorless yet. But I am sure it would be good news if Sony will finally get some competition.

via CanonWatch.

Next week on January 27 Olympus will announce the new PEN-F. Here are all the images of the real thing and as you can see its a real retro styled camera. And despite it’s rugged design the camera is not weather sealed. At 1500 Euro with kit lens this is probably not going to be a hotseller.

via 43rumors.

After a couple of delays the new A6100 is going to be announced in early February. On SonyAlphaRumors there is also a report about a second mirrorless camera but I got no reliable info about that one.

So far it’s rumored the A6100 will feature a new 36MP sensor. But this still has to be verified by trusted sources.

If you really want to hear a very wild (also unreliable rumor) than the second Sony mirrorless is a new Full Frame E-mount. But take that one with ease…