This news falls into the category “very unlikely rumors“. CanonRumors reports that Canon may announce a new 55mm f/1.3 lens in March which he speculates to be an EOS-M mount lens. The only thing I heard (and I reported it yesterday) is that new EOS-M mount lenses will be announced in Spring 2013. But i haven’t heard about a 55mm lens yet. Anyway, would be a welcome addition to the EOS-M range! Something similar is going to be announced by Panasonic, to be more precise it is the 42,5mm f/1.2 lens. This one is not a rumor. Panasonic said it will release it in 2013.

Photokina is over and it’s time to a mirrorless forecast. What’s coming next? I collected some rumors from my sources and external websites to write these possible roadmap:

Panasonic:
The first camera we expect is the new Panasonic GX2. Very likely coming in November if plan haven’t been changed lately. It features the same GH3 sensor and a likely a built.in electronic viewfinder. These is the rumor part. The official part came from Panasonic back in Spring when they said that they will better define the GX series during 2012. So they have to do something :)
A new MFT videocamera could be announced in January.

Olympus:
Olympus will have some major Camera and Lens announcement within the next 2-3 months. Some rumors said the announcement could be made in early January. All Cameras and Lenses are said to be made for the semi pro market.

Sony:
If you are waiting to see new Cameras and Lenses for the NEX system than wait until February-March. The NEX-7 successor may be announced around that time.

Canon:
Canon is set to introduce new lenses by February-March 2013. I have no info yet about possible new cameras.

Samsung:
Samsung completely restructured their Camera roadmap. Android powered NX cameras are likely to be announced in March-April 2013.

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I have no detailed info about Nikon, Fuji, Pentax or Ricoh. Drop me a message at mirrorlessrumors@gmail.com if you have some more rumor to share! I am particularly interested inreceiving some Full Frame rumors from Fuji and Sony :)

Zeiss now unveiled on their blog that the new lenses for the X and E mount mirrorless systems will be launched in Spring-Summer 2013. Sources via FujiRumors got the news that Zeiss exact target month is April 2013. These lenses have full electronic support (like aperture and autofocus) and will be priced at around 1000 Euro. There will be three of them: 12mm f/2.8, 32mm f/1.8 and 50mm f/2.8 lens.

Digicaminfo (translation here) posted the full Nikon V2 specs. The camera will be announced tomorrow:

• newly developed 14.25 million pixel Super high-speed AF CMOS sensor
• EXPEED 3A image processing engine
• 73 points AF
• 1.44 million dot EVF
• 3.0-inch 920 000 dot LCD monitor
• Media SD / SDHC / SDXC
• Full HD video
• shutter speed 1/4000-30 seconds
• 160-6400 ISO sensitivity
• Weight 337 g (with battery, including media)
• Body only, (18.5mm ,10-30mm VR) is available, double zoom kit (10-30mm VR ,10-100mm VR) is a standard zoom lens kit (10-30mm VR), double lens kit.
• Around ¥ 90000, expected price over-the-counter only standard body kit zoom around 100000 yen.
• Released in November 2012.

Image courtesy: Nikonrumors.

Nikonrumors reports that on October 24th not only the new V2 camera but also three new lenses will be announced:
1 Nikkor 32mm f/1.2
1 Nikkor 6.7-13mm f/3.5-5.6
1 Nikkor 10-100mm f/4-5.6

But the main question remains. Will that be enough to compete against the NEX-MFT-EOS-M and X systems? When Is Nikon going to launch a more advanced mirrorless system?

Egami (Translation here) spotted a new Tamron patent describing three new lens designs: 40mm, 35mm and 30mm all with f/2.0 aperture. The interesting thing is that they designed this lenses for a sensor as large as 1 inch which is exactly the one used by the Nikon 1 system.

One more news. According to Nikonrumors the new V2 will be unveiled on October 24th.

Nikonrumors reports that the new V2 mirrorless camera willa rrive before the end of this year. Meantime the Nikon 1 V1 with the 10-30 mm lens down to insane $399 (click here). And the Nikon 1 price drops are now pushing the camera on the top 10 of the most sold mirrorless cameras at Amazon (see here).