An official public Russian agency registered the name of soon to be announced Nikon and Fuji cameras:

Nikon will announce the J5 mirrorless system camera (and many other fixed lens cameras). Fuji will announce the FinePix XP80?S9800?S9900W, XP81?XP85?S9950W?S9850?S9750 fixed lens compact cameras.

All that stuff will be announced before the CP+ show that starts on February 12.

Thanks Digicameinfo for finding the news!

There is no single doubt that we will get these two new Micro Four Third camera in early February:

The Olympus E-M5II: has the same E-M5 sensor but new sensor shift mode to create up to 40MP images by combining 8 images. It also has All-Intra video at 50Mb/s.4K.

The Panasonic GF7: the name has been officially registered by Panasonic in Korea. Little is known about the camera specs but it will certainly not have 4K recording.

Note: The CP+ show starts on February 12.

Rokinon (aka Samyang) is showing us a new blurred image of their new tele prime lens. It’s rumored ot be a 135mm f/1.8(?) lens. And as usual it will come for almost all mounts including Sony E, Fuji X and MFT.

found via CanonWatch.

SonyAlpharumors reports about a new entry level (A5?) Full frame camera that could cost 799 Euro only. It’s not science fiction. There is also a Sony patent (image on top) showing the cam.

Leicarumors reports about a new Full Frame Monocrhome camera with 24MP CMOS sensor coming in February

For a very short moment Samsung itself leaked the NX500 specs. And Korean users at SLRclub didn’t miss the chance to take note of the shortly leaked specs:

Sensitivity: ISO 100 ~ 32000
Highest Sensitivity: manually ISO 32000, ISO 25600 Auto ISO limit
Top shutter speed: ISO 1/4000
Video: 4095×2160 (24p), 3840×2160 (25p / 30p), 1920×1080 (509 / 60p), 1920×1080 (259 / 30p)

Announcement now at CES or CP+??? Your call :)

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via Dicahub and Photorumors.

Panasonic, Samsung and Sony will have press conferences today at CES. But there should be no new mirrorless system photocamera yet. As far as we know Sony will announce three 4K camcorders (FDR-X1000V, FDR-AXP35 and FDR-AX30) and a new 4K action camera. Also Panasonic and Samsung will announce 4K stuff.

The Big photographic event is CP+ in mid February. And that’s when we will get plenty of new stuff!

One way to move away from the shrinking compact camera and fixed lens cameras is to “try” to offer a similar experience on smartphone cameras. That is exactly what Samsung is doing with the smartphone zoom series.

And now Samsung will introduce at least three new smartphones with zoom lenses: The C125, C600 and C805. We will see if those smartphone-camera hybrids will succeed on the market! Possible announcement could be CES (but this hasn’t been confirmed yet).

via Upleaks