Canon is superbusy launching one RF lens after another. Five new lenses have been registered in Russsia. There are no details but I am sure that most of them are RF lenses and not EF.

via Nokishita

Above you can see the newly leaked images of the X-T4 (with the battery). The camera will cost $1,699 which I consider to be a very good price for the features it has. Those are the full specs shared by Fujirumors:

1. 26MP sensor of X-T3
2. dual SD-Card slot
3. new sub dials (see below)
4. flippy screen (see below)
5. deeper buffer
6. a bit thicker
7. no 6K
8. 2350 mAh battery
9. battery looks almost the same like the Nikon EN-EL15b
10. Fujifilm X-T4 looks almost identical to the Fujifilm X-T3
11. Fujifilm X-T4 has basically the same grip
12. Only real noticeable difference, is the flippy screen instead of tilt screen
13. Fujifilm X-T4 has still an exposure compensation dial. No top LCD like X-H2
14. there will be exactly the same amount of buttons of the X-T3, and in exactly the same position
15. however, the buttons will be marked differently (comparison below)
16. the sub-dials will have different markings, too, such as “Video”, “Still” and also “HDR”
17. af Assist Lamp moved a bit higher
18. the X-T4 is a bit bigger than X-T3. You gotta fit that huge battery and IBIS in the body ;)
19. No Pixel-shift yet.
20. USB PD protocol implemented, as it charged very quickly with a PD 30W USB-C charger. Not so fast with a normal QC charger.
21. IBIS can go up to 6.5 stops with some of the prime lenses.
22. Multiple Boost modes including normal / economy / boost AF / boost FPS / boost Res etc.
23. X-T4 rear screen 1.62m dots [X-T3 has 1.04m dots]
24. IBIS is great.
25. NP-W325 battery rated at 2200mAh 16Wh
26. Classic Negative and Bleach Bypass film simulation added.
27. CH mode has 15 fps, and the slots are faster at writing to cards. [X-T3 has 11 fps]
28. Not a touch shutter like X-H1. [the leaf spring shutter release button]
29. Priced at 1700 USD.

近日中に発表されるフォクトレンダーMレンズ「NOKTON 35mm F1.2 Aspherical III VM」の量販店価格は税込138,000円で発売予定日は2020年3月、フォクトレンダーマイクロフォーサーズレンズ「NOKTON 60mm F0.95」は税込148,000円で発売予定日は2020年4月らしい。#噂

— 軒下デジカメ情報局 (@nokishita_c) February 17, 2020

Also Voitlander will soon have an announcement. They got two new lenses:

1. NOKTON 35mm F1.2 Aspherical III VM ” will be released in March for 138,000 yen including tax
2. NOKTON 60mm F0.95 MFT’ will be released in April 2020 for 148,000 yen including tax

Dpreview had a nice chat with Panasonic manager Yamane. The key take aways are:

– New mid range L-mount camera is coming as next
– 8K camera is not coming any time soon
– No APS-C L-mount camera is on their roadmap because they plan to keep developing MFT

In more detail this is what he had to say:

Regarding S1-S1R sales:

we have gained roughly a 10% market share, globally. That was the result we were hoping for. Over the past eight months we’ve been able to penetrate that market and we are satisfied with the sales, so far.

About the S1H:

We believe that our video features are one or two steps ahead of our competitors, and we have an advantage there. For example, with the S1H which we released a few months ago, the sales performance is exceeding our original expectations. But the video performance of the S1H was designed to meet the needs of high-end videographers and cinematographers, so for amateur or hobby videographers, the S1H may be over-specced.

L-mount and MFT:

We will keep developing cameras for both categories – full-frame and Micro Four Thirds.

Why it’s important to stick with MFT:

Some manufacturers, as you know, are making very small lenses, compatible with full-frame, but we think that to do this, they needed to sacrifice lens quality to a certain extent. That’s how they are able to make them so small. That means that those lenses are not fully utilizing the benefits of the full-frame sensor. When it comes to Micro Four Thirds, we can fully utilize the benefits of the sensor, and we believe that as a combination, the overall quality of Micro Four Thirds can be very good.

APS-C L-mount

As of now, we have no plans to enter the APS-C market, because we know that Micro Four Thirds and full-frame can coexist without any cannibalization. If we moved into APS-C, there might be some overlap between Micro Four Thirds and APS-C, and between APS-C and full-frame, so I don’t think we’ll go in that direction.

Future L-mount cameras:

To prove the quality of our cameras. In the future, we’re going to introduce mid-class, and different ranges of cameras.

New members:

The number of members of the L-mount alliance may increase in the future

About 8K:

We will be ready for 8K soon, but we can’t tell you the timing. We need a little bit longer before we can introduce 8K cameras. It won’t be [in the very near future].

Fujirumors leaked these first images of the new X-T4! it has IBIS, 4k60p, fully articulating screen….what else do you want from a camera? Fuji nailed it!

1. 26 MP sensor of X-T3
2. dual SD-Card slot
3. new sub dials (see below)
4. flippy screen (see below)
5. deeper buffer
6. a bit thicker
7. no 6K
8. 2350 mAh battery
9. battery looks almost the same like the Nikon EN-EL15b
10. Fujifilm X-T4 looks almost identical to the Fujifilm X-T3
11. Fujifilm X-T4 has basically the same grip
12. Only real noticeable difference, is the flippy screen instead of tilt screen
13. Fujifilm X-T4 has still an exposure compensation dial. No top LCD like X-H2
14. there will be exactly the same amount of buttons of the X-T3, and in exactly the same position
15. however, the buttons will be marked differently (comparison below)
16. the sub-dials will have different markings, too, such as “Video”, “Still” and also “HDR”
17. af Assist Lamp moved a bit higher
18. the X-T4 is a bit bigger than X-T3. You gotta fit that huge battery and IBIS in the body ;)