Mirrorless and Lensless is the future :)

At Caltech, engineers have developed a new camera design that replaces the lenses with an ultra-thin optical phased array (OPA). The OPA does computationally what lenses do using large pieces of glass: it manipulates incoming light to capture an image.

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.