Sony is likely going to announce the A6100 (and maybe something else) this week!

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Well it looks like those Sony China teaser where not just a joke! On Wednesday Sony is meeting journalists for a press meeting. There is yet no official word on the invitation about “new products”. but I guess the chances stay good on Wednesday (or after the event on Thursday) Sony will show us the new A6100. There is also word on SAR that there may be a second huge camera surprise…

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Sony plans to “WOW” E-mount lovers with the world’s fastest new 28-70mm f/2.0 lens?

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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 :)

Big Olympus PEN-F announcement soon.

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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!

Is Cp+ going to be the big event for Canon’s Full Frame mirrorless launch?

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.