Thom Hogan bets Nikon will release their Full Frame mirrorless at CP+ in February

Little (or better said nothing) is known about the future Nikon Full Frame mirrorless system camera. All we know for sure is that Nikon promised to launch a new professional mirrorless system camera in 2018.

Thom Hogan best that this could happen in late February at the CP+ show:

“I expect Nikon to announce their new mirrorless system at CP+, which for 2018 begins with the month of March. I expect Nikon to have both DX and FX mirrorless options by the time Photokina rolls around next fall.”

But what should we expect? Thom writes:

The optimist says that Nikon will realize their failures and add DX lenses, fix the consumer DX DSLRs, add DX mirrorless, add FX mirrorless (as a Df replacement, with a nod to retro), announce lens roadmaps, update the D5/D500, replace the D750, and Holy Sensor Batman add a higher pixel count D5x and at least one pro-level compact! Yeah, that’s some optimist.

The problem is that the cynical me is likely more correct than the optimist. And the reason is management. In retrospect, management has been making wrong calls for some time. Really bad calls.

More rendered images of Nikon Full Frame mirrorless camera on Facebook and Instagram.

Imaginary A7 vs Nikon FF :

Sony A7 vs imaginary Nikon FF mirrorless. #nikonmirrorless #sony #sonyalpha

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The next press events: Panasonic, Sony, VenusOptics, Samyang, Fuji, Zeiss, Olympus,

Reliable info:
8 January: Panasonic will announce the GH5s
8 January: Sony has a press conference at the CES show but they might NOT announce anything Alpha related
14 January: Samyang has a major presentation in Dubai. They might announce the new lens they teased this week
Sometimes in January: VensuOptics should announce the new Laowa 9mm f/2.8
February: Olympus will announce the E-PL9 before the CP+ show start in late February
February 14: Fuji will announce the X-H1 and maybe some new lenses too
February-March: Zeiss will announce the 25mm f/2.4 Loxia FE

Unclear:
Nikon might announce the new FF mirrorless system cameras at CP+ (or they might just tease something)
Canon should announce some more serious mirrorless system camera later this year and not at CP+. At CP+ we might get a new entry level EOS-M

Samyang teases a new lens launch…maybe 135mm FE?

Samyang just released a new newsletter and it contains that teaser. The new lens should be announced within weeks. While I am not sure what this is there are rumors that this might be a new 135mm FE lens (f/2.8 of f/1.8?) or a new FE zoom.

Samyang’s next exhibition is in Dubai. Maybe that’s when we will see this new lens: