Insta360 will announce a new camera on August 28. And it records this amazing kind of videos…

Insta360 will announce a new camera on August 28. This is a camera you have to spin around yourself to take this kind of impressive videos:

360rumors reports:

It has a high-fps mode (at least 240fps or higher). When the camera is attached to a string and spun around with high fps video, you get the effect that you see here. It appears that this is a fully spherical high fps mode (not just a front lens mode).

Cool!

Fuji financial report confirms the GFX sold extremely well

Fuji published the full Q1 financial results. There are three key info:

1) Instax sales are very strong in Europe and US. And particularly well for the Instax SQ10.
2) Fuji reported “strong sales” of the GFX camera
3) Lens sales are steady

The good news for Fuji is that the Instax business has ZERO competition and increasingly popular. This is probably an area were near dead filmmaker companies like Kodak could actually create something similar…

Future Mirrorless Nikon camera may comes with an extra “pellicle” adapter for Nikon F lenses

A newly released Nikon patent discloses their plans to make Nikon F lenses work on their future professional (Full Frame?) mirrorless system camera. A special adapter with pellicle and PDAF module could allow to use Nikon F system with the best possible focus system.

Basically this works like the current Sony LAEA4 adapter.That adapter has a semitransparent pellicle mirror that reflects a bit of light to the PDAF sensor. The downside is that you loose about 1/3 of a stop of light. But that’s negligible in most situation.

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via Hi-lows-note.blog.so-net.ne.jp

New image of the upcoming Fuji X-E3

Fujirumors posted that image of the X-E3 and here are the specs:

  • more expensive than X-T20
  • 4K video
  • first leaked images
  • Combined Shutter/ISO dial
  • No tilt screen
  • Bluetooth
  • Maybe, besides Bluetooth, there could be also some more new technologies on the X-E3 that all other X-series cameras don’t have
  • Focus Jostick
  • smaller than X-E2
  • announcement this year, probably fall this year

Opteka will soon announce five new lenses for Sony E, Fuji X, Micro Four Thirds, Nikon CX and Canon EOS-M mount

 

Opteka announced that it’s going to launch five new lenses for mirrorless system cameras. This is their official press text:

Five new Opteka mirrorless lenses are currently in production. Each lens will be available in Sony E-mount, Fuji X-mount, Olympus and Panasonic Micro Four Thirds, Canon EOS-M mount, and Nikon CX mount. 43rumors
Further details will be provided after our final micron-level quality control checks have been completed.

Unlike current Opteka lenses (here on Amazon) these lenses are designed for mirrorless cameras only.