I bet you didn’t see coming this: Fuji partnering with Sony to create a digital medium format mirrorless and fixed lens camera!

The Fuji branded and Sony sensor powered camera will be launched this Summer (likely in August). It could look close to the current to the Fuji GF670 film camera. It could also uses Fuji X-PRO 1 hybrid viewfinder tech. Quite a big news! Wondering if there is a market for such a camera…

via Fujirumors.

Fuji officially discontinued the X20 (see at BHphoto). And if you remember there were rumors months ago saying that Fuji would launch a 1 inch sensor X30 this summer. It would be the first real competitor of the unmatched Sony RX100 series.

The new RX100M3 will be announced within the next hours (exactly at 5am of May 16). And here are the worldwide first full size images of the new camera!

It has a unique pop-up viewfinder with 1,4 m dots. A new Zeiss 24-70mm f/1.8-2.8 lens. Playmemories APP support, “Selfie-capable” LCD screen, XAVC-S video recording and built-in ND filter. All that stuff is packed in a body that is just 2,5mm thicker than the previous RX100M2.

Really a unique camera!

More images here:

This time it’s Sony Store Canada leaking Sony info ahead of the announcement. They currently display the full RX100M3 specs. Unlike previous rumors the camera will not be announced today. There is a short delay and it will be announced tomorrow (May 16) at 5 am London time!

There are still plenty of announcements to come soon:

As I already told you before the new Sony RX100M3 compact camera will be announced on May 15. And now Nikonrumors reports the Nikon 1 S2 will be announced on the same day.

P.S.: Olympus E-PL7 should come by end of this month too.

The E-Pl7 will look like the E-PL5 (on right) and have the specs of the E-M10 (on left). Source: Camerasize.

Well, we are getting a new PEN camera soon and in term of specs it’s exactly the copy of the E-M10 (just without EVF). The new E-PL7 will have same sensor, same autoficusong system, same LCD screes. here are the full E-PL7 specs:

16 Megapixel sensor (same as the E-M10)
200-25,600 ISO
81 AF points
8 fps
1/4000 – 60 seconds
3 inch vari-angle LCD touch screen with 1,040k dots
Stereo mic
Flash sync speed: 1/250 seconds
Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n)
SD. SDHC, SDXC, Eye-Fi and UHS-I
Camera size is 119.1mm x 82.3mm x 45.9mm
Weight is 396g
Same E-Pl5/E-PL6 design.

Source: Photorumors.

As you know Olympus usually updated the full PEN range in one single announcement (always in late Spring). But according to latest rumors this is not going to happen this year. There will be “only” the new E-PL7 with same E-M10 sensor, 81 AF points and Vari Angle LCD.

There is no other info yet but this sounds more like a small update than a completely new camera.

via Photorumors.