What’s next from Sony, Olympus, Panasonic and so forth…

It’s summer time and there isn’t of course a lot of rumors now. But so far we know this is going to happen the upcoming months:

Olympus:
In July they will announce the new E-M10III with 20MP sensor and 4K video
By end of the year they will announce new lenses

Panasonic:
They will announce a new entry level MFT camera in autumn
New 50-200mm Leica lens will be announced in autumn too

Sony:
The A7III is coming around November
135mm FE and 400mm FE by late Summer

Zeiss:
Zeiss will announce new FE lenses by end 2017

Samyang:
Samyang will announce a new FE prime lens by end 2017

Nikon:
Nothing new from Nikon. They are likely going to make a new start in 2018 with a large sensor mirrorless system camera

Canon:
One more EOS-M camera should be announced by end 2017

Fuji:
they will finally make a pause on the X camera front :)  Some lenses will be released by end 2017 but we will probably have to wait til 2018 too see new X system cameras.

Nikkei reports that “Ricoh is facing its biggest crisis ever”

Nikkei reports:

Ricoh is staring at huge losses as the market for multifunctional printers, Ricoh’s cash cow, evaporates and its global sales network racks up high costs.

Ricoh will have to go through a cost reduction target of 100 billion yen ($912 million) for the three years through March 2020. And this means job cuts. It’s unclear how this will affect the camera business from Ricoh-Pentax.

Sony A9 overheating stress test (Spoiler: It does not overheat)

Imaging Resource made the ultimate A9 stress test and the conclusion is:

It is extremely challenging to overheat the A9. I say that as even though I was actually trying to make the camera overheat, I could not.

From what I read having slow cards is of course going to cause your camera to overheat a bit because the processor needs more time to clear the buffer. So please do use fast cards :)

Plenty of FE lenses to be announced this summer by Sony, Sigma, Samyang and maybe Zeiss

We knew that 2017 would have been the year of lenses for the Sony E-mount system. According to multiple sources plenty of new glass will be announced the coming months. This includes:

1) 135mm f/1.8 GM by Sony
2) 400mm f/2.8 GM by Sony
3) 35mm f/1.4 FE by Sigma
4) Another Sigma zoom FE by end 2017
5) New Zeiss Batis lenses by end Summer early Fall
6) New Samyang FE autofocus prime lens this Fall

And there should be more lenses by Sony along the A7III launch in October/November.