There is now a second Pentax lens patent that describes another zoom lens for an APS-C mirrorless camera. The lens is the 18-70mm f/3.5-7.1 and a variation of it (19-75mm f/3.5-7.1). I guess that system could be announced at Photokina although I don’t know why Ricoh will maintain two different APS-C mirrorless system (Ricoh GXR and the Pentax).

Source: Egami.

One thing Samsung proved to do very well is…lenses. And this is the rumored list of new lenses coming in 2012-2013:

• Samsung iFn 12-24mm f/4 OIS ED VCM
• Samsung iFn 55mm f/1.8 pancake
• Samsung iFn 30mm f/2 pancake (version II)
• Samsung iFn 16-50mm f/2.8 OIS SSA
• Samsung iFn 70-400mm f/4-5.6 OIS ED VCM

The premium prime NX lenses will be announced in 2013.

Via PR.

What you see here on top is a new patent from Pentax describing a zoom lens for a mirrorless APS-C camera. The interesting thing is that this doesn’t seem to be a lens for the K-01 but rather for a new (real) mirrorless system with short lens to sensor distance. This may confirm the long time rumor saying that a new APS-C mirrorless series will be announced this year by Pentax!

Source: Egami.

The same source sent Photorumors and me an update about the NX system. There will be new NX cameras and new EX-2 substitute (no surprise) but the pre announced 16-80mm has been cancelled and there will be another advanced zoom lens instead. In total at least two (and maybe three) lenses will be announced at Photokina.

Samsung remains a bit of a mystery for me. They keep saying they want to become the number one in the mirrorless system. But they really have to invent some kind of magical products in order to archive that. To be technologically on par with the others isn’t enough. Jusy a weird idea, they should buy Leica and create a Samsung-Leice mirrorless EVF system :)

Here it is the new Sony RX100 high end compact camera! It has been leaked at Digicaminfo. And the specs are very interesting:

• 13.2X8.8Mm Exmor CMOS sensor type 1.0 effective number of pixels 20.2 million pixels
• Monitors – LCD (4:3), 3.0-inch, 1,229,000 dots
• Lens Vario-Sonnar T * is
• The focal length is 30-108mm (4:3) equivalent 35mm, 29mm-105mm (16:9)
• The brightness of the lens is F1.8-4.9
• Minimum focusing distance is 5cm, wide-tele 55cm at the end
• The standard number of shots (conforming to CIPA) 330 sheets / min – 165
• 30-valve second shutter speed is 1/2000 in the manual
• ISO sensitivity (100 and 80 in the expansion), NR ISO125-6400 by Auto: Auto ISO125-25600 in the
• Second continuous shooting is 10 frames / second 2.5 frames / continuous shooting in priority mode in normal mode –
• Still images JPEG, RAW
• 1920×1080 60p AVCHD video 28M
• Size 58.1X101.6X35.9Mm
• The weight (including battery and Memory Stick Duo) 240 g
• Color: Black

The Nikon 1 is a huge hotseller in US (here is the ranking) and Sony is now ready to fight back! They will soon announce a High End Compact Camera that features a 1 inch sensor just like the size of the Nikon 1 sensor. But it will be more compact also because it has a fixed and retractable zoom lens!

The camera should be announced on June 6th (Wednesday). Let’s see if we can leak the camera specs and images before that date!

Canonrumors reports (with a low ranked rumor value) that Canon will announce a “well specced” mirrorless camera along a “couple” of lenses.  But you may would think this would be a higher end model but according to CR sources this is not a ““pro” level mirrorless. The pro mirrorless cameras would arrive later within the coming 12 months.

Canonwatch was the first to report about a mirrorless camera announcement in June. But specs still are relatively unknown. The only thing we heard is that it has a modern design similar to the Nikon 1 models.