On Monday/Tuesday Zeiss is going to announce a new series of lenses named “Loxia”. These are lenses designed for Sony E-mount Full Frame mirrorless system. The first two lenses will be the 35mm f/2.0 and 50mm f/2.0 lenses. Both manual focusing and both with physical aperture ring (and available electronic control).

As far as I heard these lenses are not bounded to the sole Sony FE system. If Fuji or someone else is going to launch a Full Frame mirrorless system camera Zeiss can offer those lenses in that mount too!

Image on top: Just an imaginary fixed lens FT sensor camera based on the design of older Panasonic cameras.

Panasonic will soon announce the new LX100 with Four Thirds sensor and fixed zoom lens. It will record 4K video too :)

Stay tuned!

The possible new Samsung game changer, the Samsung NX1 will be announced on September 15. I am working to get the 100% correct specs. But I have been told it has a lot of brand new amazing features. Top Image quality, top evf and top autofocus performance are expected to be delivered by the camera…

The logo you see on top is the official name of a new lens line registered by Zeiss (Source: trademarkia.com). The new lens line will be launched for Full Frame mirrorless system. Obviously it will come as E-mount only for now but can be extended to all other future full frame mirrorless system that could be unveiled in 2015 by Fuji for example.

Zeiss will announce the first E-mount FF Loxia lenses the coming days already!

This was still missing and now it has been leaked via Digicameinfo. The All Black Fuji X30!

Until now Samsung didn’t manage to grab any sensible share of the mirrorless system camera market. But from what we heard now Samsung is going to release a camera completely re-engeered from ground up. Innovative sensor, innovative autofocusing system and many other new features will be implemented in the new NX1 camera.

The camera should be announced within the next 10 days already. But I am still not 100% sure about the specs. All I got about the NX1 is from an anonymous source and I certainly hope these are right:

Body looks like Mamiya 6 (big rangefinder with grip).
New EVF with highest res on market and new technology.
Sensor with 28MP. No isocell, but improved dr. Best performance on the market at high iso.
New user interface based on newer tizen. Big touch screen but plenty of physical controls.
Continuous af up to 10fps with focus tracking enabled, second gen OSPDAF with more af points than a6000.
Presentation around sep 2014, availability nov 2014.
Splash + dust proof.
Price 1300$ body only.
Kit with 1650 zoom 2300$.

In summary: Best sensor, best EVF, best AF. Sounds like a possible game changer!

Just read the text Fuji posted on their Photokina presentation page (Click here).

Whatever Fuji means with “full size sensor” isn’t really clear. Knowing how marketing works they just mean their APS-C sensors. But on paper “full-size” usually should mean “full-frame” as this is how we intend 35mm sensors.

Strange…