It’s summertime in the northern hemisphere. And usually companies do not announce new cameras and lenses during that hot vacation time. Well, it seems like Panasonic Olympus and Sony have other plans!

Panasonic: They are rumored to announce one new MFT lens and probably also a new camera (GX8?) by end of July!

Olympus: They will announce the new E-M10II in August!

Sony: It looks like the delayed A7000 cameras is also due for an announcement in August already!

We hope to get specs or even leaked images of these new cameras soon!

Egami spotted a new Canon patent describing a new adapter for a yet non existing Canon Full Frame Mirrorless camera. Of course we never know if and when a “patent-camera” will become a real thing. But for sure Canon will launch such a mirrorless system camera one day.

The Dutch site Cameranu.nl leaked the new Samsung Mini 2 camera. It has a 20.5 MP sensor and records 4K. Some more specs:

stereo audio
4K-video
sensor seems the same one as in the current NX Mini
super amoled display instead of lcd (resolution of new screen unknown)
retractable flash in body (indirect flash seems possible)
external flash connector removed
DirectLink-button disappeared. On/off-button gone to the back, next to new flash-button
D-pad now with scrollwheel (!)
1820mAh-battery/400 shots (instead of 2330mAh/650 shots for NX Mini)
separate door for battery and connectors
metal rings on both sides for neck strap (instead of compactcamera style wrist strap provision)
marking for sensor plane on top
more ‘manly’ styling…
and last but not least … interchangeable front…

via Xarafan on Dpreview

Photorumors got word about the two next possible Samsung lenses:

1) 24mm f/1.4 S
2) either 70-400mm f/4-5.6 S or 100-400mm f/4-5.6 S

Canon will soon announce the G3X camera with an impressive 24-600mm lens. Those are the specs:

– 24-600mm F2.8-5.6 zoom lens
– 1.0-inch CMOS sensor
– Dust and water resistant
– Creative Mode
– Wi-Fi · NFC
– Video is full HD. Manual control possible
– Tilting LCD monitor

Images and specs via Digicameinfo.

The Ricoh GRII will be announced tomorrow (June 18) and Digicameinfo leaked some specs:

– 18.3mm f/2.8 lens
– GR ENGINE V
– Improved auto white balance
– Improved high sensitivity noise
– Wi-Fi and NFC
– smartphone sync function
– Limited special accessories premium kit available

SonyAlphaForum reports the A6000 1.21 firmware is coming soon (with AF bug fix).

Fujirumors reports:
X-T1 firmware 4.0 is coming on June 22
X-E2 firmware is coming in six months from now.

And Olympus will launch the E-M1 firmware update on June 16.