Some lens rumors….

Slow day folks so let me catch up with some lens rumors/news:

LEAKED: This is the new Tokina ATX-M 85mm f/1.8 FE lens! (SonyAlphaRumors).
The Laowa 12mm f/1.8 MFT will likely NOT make it into production (43rumors).
Viltrox 33mm f/1.4 and 56mm f/1.4 launch Postponed to Next Year (Fujirumors).

Tamron will announce up to six E-mount lenses in 2020?

Tamron is fully committed to the E-mount system. And that’s certainly a good news for Alpha shooters and not so good news for the expensive Sony made lenses :)

Here are  two rumors:

1) SAR confirmed the Tamron 70-180mm FE lens will ship out in Spring.
2) Tamron will announce up to six more FE lenses in  2020. Most of them will be pancake f/2.8 lenses and zooms. All affordable but still high quality glass!

And I bet Sigma will release a large number of new E-mount lenses too..

And here comes the next Canon EOS-R high rez camera specs rumors…

Sooner or later that long rumored High Resolution EOS-R camera will be released. We still got no solid info but here is the next bunch of specs floating on the web today:

  • 75mp full-frame CMOS
  • Sensor “focused on the dynamic range”
  • Frames per second “… Sounded similar to the EOS R”
  • DIGIC 9
  • Dual Card Slots
  • Joystick the same as the EOS-1D X Mark III
  • Larger and higher resolution EVF than the EOS R
  • Fully articulating LCD screen
  • Fully weather-sealed
  • Similar ergonomics as the EOS R (No touch bar)

Source CR via CanonWatch

Olympus will announce a new MFT lens roadmap tomorrow and Sony will announce a new fast wide angle lens

A couple of lens rumors today!

1) Olympus will launch a new roadmap tomorrow at 14:00 London time. This includes the already known 150-400mm lens, a new 12-45mm f/4.0 lens and new tele lenses.
2) Sony will announce a new fast wide angle GM lens in very early 2020

No info yet about their new cameras. I am pretty sure tough that Sony will give us the A7sIII and A7IV in 2020 and Olympus the new E-M1III.

UPDATE: Announced today! this is the newly announced roadmap:

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