RED announces the Hydrogen One smartphone with holographic 5.7 inch screen
RED announced the development of the HYdrogen One. It’s a smartphone with holographic screen. This is the press text:
This is the shutter sounds of the soon to be announced Leica TL2
That sound will change your life!
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— Leica Camera AG (@leica_camera) July 5, 2017
Leica is teasing the launch of the new TL2 by posting the shutter sound…cool :)
May camera shipment report: Far better than the previous year!
According to the latest May CIPA report camera unit shipments from Japanese manufacturers where 34% higher than the previous year. This is good news although we are still far away from the 2015 results.
Still, system camera sales which do have a higher profit margin than most fixed lens cameras are not far off the 2015 results:
I think the market has stabilized but I bet we will never see a real growth on camera sales anymore.
Goerz about to announce a new 35mm pancake lens for Sony E, Fuji X, MFT, Leica M
This week the German company Goerz is rumored to launch this new 35mm pancake lens. It will be available in different mount version for Sony E, Fuji X, MFT, Leica M cameras.
There is yet no info about pricing and other specs.
via SonyAlphaRumors
GoPRO Hero 6 to be announced soon!
The GoPRO Hero 6 will be announced soon. Why do we know this? Because it just got registered on a public agency in China. This registration is needed for any device with WiFi before it officially hits the market.
But there are yet no specs unveiled on this registration..
via Nokishita
Chinese company “7Artisans” launches lenses for Sony E, MFT, Fuji X and Leica M mount cameras
All the lenses are now liosted on Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk, and [shoplink 304522 ebay]eBay[/shoplink].
Those are all manual focusing lenses. I am not sure but it looks liek those are maybe rebranded version of other existing lenses….