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.
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
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
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….
Matteo sent me this:
Dear Mirrorless rumor’s staff,
I ??am ??a? ?documentary photographer ??based in Rome, Italy?. I? read Mirrorless rumors to have anticipated news? regarding the tools I need for my work ?and I? think you may be interested to know that the majority of my publication ?(which includes Burn, CNN, Der Spiegel, D- La Repubblica, Il Corriere della Sera, I?CRC, Internazionale, International New York Times, Lens – The New York Times, L’Espresso, La Repubblica, La Stampa, MSNBC, National Geographic Italia, ?National Geographic Usa, ?Newsweek Japan, PDN, Rhythms of Taipei, TIME Lightbox) are done using Fujifilm cameras such as x100t and x pro2?; both of these ?have a place in my arsenal, along with my rangefinder film cameras Hasselblad xPan and Mamiya 6?.?I am writing you to share ?also this news: my long-term project “Green gold”? has been published as cover ?story ?of June’s issue of National Geographic Italy? and in National Geographic Photography Usa along with an interview: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/06/italy-cannabis-marijuana/
A?ttached you will find ?the 22 pages photographic essay I shot with my Fuji xpro2?, along with ?the cover ?of Natgeo Italy. I hope it can be of interest for yo?u. ?Kindly let me know if you wish to feature it on ?Mirrorless rumors? and keep up the good work!
All the best,
MatteoMatteo Bastianelli
?Photography & Films
The GFX currently lacks real fast primes. But if the rumor Fujirumors shared is correct Fuji will announce a new 80mm f/1.4 lens in 2018. For the record in FF equivalent terms this is a 63mm f/1.1 Nerd at this point will tell me I didn’t calculate the aspect ratio different. But that will make little difference and I didn’t know how to do it :)
Because a reader expressed concern on how to calculate an MF to FF equivalence feel free to use that online tool for yourself to check my math. Here is a screenshot of the result:
I repeat this does yet not take into account the frame ratio difference.
That said this will give you a real Bokeh-Orgasm and create some real nice medium format look….or maybe we just will imagine it will have that :)
