So, now we have the new J2 pics in Black red and White. As you see it has basically the exact same Nikon J1 design. CLick on the images below to open a new tab with the bigger image!

via Nikonrumors.

Digicaminfo posted the first picture of the 11-27.5mm lens. A nice tiny pancake zoom! And for those of you owning a NEX camera we have a good news for you too! Sony will launch a new compact 35mm f/1.8 E-mount lens in exactly one month!

Great news, now let’s see what’s coming from the other manufacturers!

Digicaminfo now posted the new Nikon stuff that is going to be announced in mid September! Here it is (via Google Translation).

• Nikon 1 J2
  – Launched in September
  – Estimated retail price is around 70,000 yen
• 1 NIKKOR 11-27.5mm f/3.5-5.6
  – That is smaller than the current 10-30mm
  – Launched in September
  – Price is 25,200 yen
• Waterproof Case
  – 40m depth of water pressure
  – Can be used for underwater flash of Sun Pack
  – Price is 77,700 yen

Let’s see if this will be enough to fight against the just announced Canon EOS-M!

Sony really can’t stop to release new NEX cameras :) The Indonesian agency postel.go.id listed two new Sony NEX cameras having Wi Fi support. The NEX-5R and NEX-6. The cameras should have the following features:

NEX-5R: 180 degree flip screen (like the NEX-F3) and 16 Megapixel sensor and Wi Fi support
NEX-6: Built in Electronic viewfinder (lower resolution compared tot he NEX-7 viewfinder). Wi Fi support and price between NEX-7 and NEX-5R.

The cameras will be announced along two pancake zooms (yes pancake!) and a fast prime lens…all coming in September!

Nikonrumors reports that Nikon will announce a new Nikon J1 successor in mid August (the J2). There will be also some new mirrorless accessories, including an underwater housing and a new slimmer standard zoom. The j2 should only bring some minor improvements over the J1.

But I don’t think that’s all. I also heard about a possible high-end Nikon 1 model coming at Photokina. Anyway, right now I would be curious to know if Nikon is happy with their Nikon 1 system. Now that Canon came out with a similar sized camera having a much larger sensor size (and better image quality).

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Canon EOS-M preorder links:
Full presentation page on Amazon (Click here).
EOS-M Black at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M White at BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M 22mm pancake at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M 15-55mm kit lens at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M adapter at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M Flash at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).

We have a new bunch of rumors about Sony and Olympus!

Sony first: There will be two new NEX cameras in September, a new NEX-5F and another completely new NEX camera that will be the first of it’s series. Sadly we are not talking about a Full Frame NEX. I write sadly because this is what I am looking for :) Anyway, there will be also three new NEX lenses, two pancake zooms, the 16-50 and 11-18mm lenses and a new fast prime.

And now Olympus: We already know two new PEN cameras are coming soon (E-PM2 and E-PL5). But there will be a new OMD and another mysterious m43 camera coming in winter-spring 2012-2013. No news yet about the possible new Oly lenses…

You like that coming stuff?

Apertus presented the Axiom concept video camera that could be launched in 2013. They hope to finance the project through Kickstarter: “We have actually been rather careful and secretive not to release too much information about the new camera on the Internet as we do not want to follow the unfortunately quite commmon practice of how other companies announce their products: they just promise you whatever you want to hear and a couple of years later they admit that this product is not ever going to see the light of the day. So we made sure that what we announce is solid and well thought through. But still a word of precaution: We will need your help to create Axiom, only if we manage to succeed with our kickstarter campaign we will be able to afford the development. Currently we are still working on preparing the material for the campaign, unfortunately its taking longer than we hoped it would – stay tuned.“

Looks nice! But what kind of mount will it use???