Canon, Panasonic and Sony confirm their presence at Photokina 2020

The Photokina organization issued a press release to confirm the presence of over 600 companies at the show start in May 2020. They also shared the following statements from Canon, Panasonic and Sony

Panasonic manager Yosuke Yamane said:

“For many years, photokina has been the ideal platform for us to present our product innovations. The Imaging industry is facing big changes and challenges these days. In 2020, we will also be coming to Cologne with big expectations in the new photokina format and are looking forward to contributing with great innovations.

Canon manager Go Tokura said:

“As the imaging industry is at a significant turning point, we expect photokina to be a leading show of the worldwide photo and imaging industry. Canon is eager to introduce new products and concept products at photokina, thereby contributing to the industry’s success.”

Sony manager Yosuke Aoki said:

“Sony is very glad to be part of Photokina again next year. Photokina 2020 gives us the opportunity to present our latest innovations and to maintain a direct dialog with all Digital Imaging Lovers. Sony is looking forward to seeing you all in Cologne.” 

As a reminder: Leica, Nikon and Olympus will NOT be there.

via PetaPixel

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