High Quality Lenses are still rare to find in current mirrorless system. But soon this will change.

Sony:
Sony will launch four new Full Frame and one new APS-C E-mount lenses. Three FF lenses will be from Zeiss and one is a Sony G. The APS-C lens is the 16-70mm f/4.0 Zeiss that will be priced around $1,000. That lens will be announced along the NEX-5T on August 29 while the new Full Frame camera+lenses will be announced in late September (24?).

Olympus:
Olympus will also finally launch their brand new fast f/2.8 zoom. And it may be even a second zoom surprise but that has to be confirmed. The Olympus zoom is said to be of higher quality than the 12-35mm X lens from Panasonic.

Still no news from the Canon and Nikon front :(

What you see here are the two Sony DSC-QX10 and DSC-QX100 lenses. But these lenses are unique. They have a built-in sensor (just like the Ricoh GR modules) and stream wirelessly the images on your mobile device. You can use them separately or attached on your smartphone.

Sony will soon launch two “lens-cameras”:
1) One is the “Lens-camera” with RX100MII sensor and Zeiss lens ($600 here on Amazon). On the pictures it is the bigger lens. As you know the RX100 is the most praised high end compact camera and features a large 1 inch sensor which is the same used by the Nikon 1 system. Now you can have that kind of Image Quality on your iPhone or Android Smartphone!
2) The second model will feature a 10xzoom lens with 1/2,3 inch 18 megapixel CMOS sensor (the image with the f/3,3-5.9 lens). It’s basically the same sensor and lens of the Sony WX150 ($400 on Amazon).

Price is yet not known but the devices should be announced on September 4! Is this the real Mirrorless future? One device to rule them (cameras and smartphone) all?

Within this month Sony will announce a new NEX-5T and a new High Quality 16-70mm E-mount zoom lens. The NEX-5t will be only a slightly upgraded NEX-5r (same sensor and same EVF). The High Quality zoom lens will be “expensive”. It will cost a bit more than $1,000.

Regarding the NEX-FF. Rumors pointed out that Sony is preparing a very special event in late September for it. Everything is very secret…but we know it’s coming :)

As usual…take it with fun :)

The latest E-M1 specs leaked by photorumors suggests that the upcoming High End OMD may be a slightly updated E-M5 with PDAF sensor. It has the E-P5 specs, VF-4 viewfinder (integrated) and OMD design. The major news is the on sensor PDAF which will add 100% support on Four Thirds lenses. Will that be enough to compete in the $1500 market? Doubt it…

E-M1 specs

• New DSLR type grip
• 16MP sensor
• 81 AF target points
• 10 fps
• Built-in Wi-Fi
• Flash sync speed: 1/320s
• ISO range: 200-25600
• Shutter speed: 1/8000s-60s
• 3″ tiltable TFT LCD touch screen
• EVF with 2,360,000 pixels
• Micro Four Thirds mount only (not a hybrid mount)
• Weight: 430g | 0.9Ib
• Dimensions (WxHxD): 122mm × 68mm × 37mm | 4.8″ × 2.7″ × 1.5″

I cannot guarantee the info is correct. But if what I got from that anonymous sources is true than the NEX-7 successor certainly looks like a well done upgrade! Here are the specs:

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body
same with as nex7 but the lens Mount will be moved 3mm on the left
3mm taller
lens Mount 3mm deeper so lens will come out 3mm less
bigger grip. taller,deeper and wider, due to new battery and better grip feeling.increased volume by 2.9cubiccm
slimmer rear screen design.8.2cm diagonal 1,080dots.same movement as nex 7
magnesium alloy construction dust sealed. weight 23grams more
NP-FM500 battery
standard hotshoe
new popup flash unit with tilting capability
trinavi button layout, customizable rec button

evf
new unit
100% coverage
1,25x magnification
eyepoint 24mm
2560×1920 resolution + 2 stop dinamic range
consumption -12% due to new copper circuit

sensor
new aps-c unit 6000x4000px
cmos evf 15.1dr 25.1colordepht
phase detection chip 92% area 2.2 million split pixels
aa filter
iso range 100-25600. auto iso customizable 100-6400
improved iso performance by 1.24 stops over iso 3200
file size L-M-S and RAW-mRAW-sRAW
12-8-6-3 fps continuos shooting with autofocus
new for nex system 5axis steadyshot inside up to 4 stop shake reduction. bypass the oss in lens for battery saving. works with LA-EA2 and stabilizes a Mount lenses

more bits:
WIFI built in
no confirmation about the name
a bundle Zeiss lens for the launch. 16-80 f2.8-4. i don’t know much about the performance but the decision to move the lens Mount to the left is due to allow the fitting of larger but shorter lenses. i mounted personally a model of the 16-80 to the new body and i can tell you is 68mm wide x 62mm long when closed for 302gr without hood.

the first unit are now to be tested

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Sounds great!

The current K-o1 mirrorless and K-mount APS-C camera.

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The Chinese Fengniao editors interviewed the Ricoh head (source RiceHigh). And they once again confirmed that:

“Our development team is still working on it and the project is not aborted.”

Doens’t sound really promising when you say “is not aborted” :) That said a while ago an anonymous source told us this:

“Pentax’s new fullframe “might” be a mirrorless, using a newly developed hybrid mount that accepts current K-mount lenses and adds the ability to use newer short flange lenses as well.“

Now let’s see if something will happen. It’s about time after 5-6 years of Pentax FF rumors floating around the web :)