Over at Amazon you save big today on the Rokinon 12mm f/2.0 lens (Click here). You get the discounted price on the MFT, EOS-M and Fuji X version.
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What a bummer! The Hasselblad X1D will now start to ship out on February 2017 only(!) according to BHphoto (Click here). The camera was originally supposed to start shipping out in late August. That’s a six month delay!!!
UPDATE: Small good news: At GetDPI Hasselblad officially stated this:
“Hi guys,
Our previous communication here is still very valid and we are fully committed to start fulfilling end-user orders this month. Unfortunately, we will not be able to fulfil all the backorders this year, but we are doing all we can to ship out as many X1Ds as possible.
We will communicate more firm dates and volumes shortly. We kindly ask you for your patience.
// The Hasselblad Team”
So it seem the new February date reported by BHphoto is for NEW orders only.
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We got some news to report about the two High End MFT cameras:
Olympus E-M1II:
Despite US stores like BHphoto, Amazon, GetOlympus and Adorama saying the E-m1II will ship next week Olympus Japan said shipment start is December 22.
Panasonic GH5
The GH5 is rumored to start shipping out in April 2017. And there are somew good news to report:
• GH5 has on sensor stabilization.
• 2 SD slots for the GH5.
• No more limit about the duration of recording. 29 minutes in Europe.
• The audio XLR microphone hotshoe mounted I/O interface will be compatible with the DMC-GH4.
• The main sizes are identical of the GH4. Advantage : You can use ANY same accessory like Cage, Etc. from your previous GH3 or GH4.
The 45 megapixel Foveon APS-H camera was announced in February ans since then we didn’t hear about it anymore. Today Sigma Japan finally dais it will start shipping the new SD Quattro H on December 20 for a price around 140,000 YEN. There is no word yet about the shipment start and price in other countries. So far BHphoto (Click here) has listed the camera with no preorder option.
The Sigma SD Quattro H specs:
Trusted sources at Fujirumors do report the next camera on Fuji’s roadmap will be the X100F. It will be announced in January and those are the specs we know for sure by now:
24MP X-TransIII sensor
same “old” 23mm f/2.0 lens :(
No tilt screen
integrated shutter/ISO dial
The crazy fast Chronos camera managed to get three times the requested financing goal to start the project. You can still give your few $$$ at Kickstarter.
The image above shows the new October worldwide system camera shipment data (DSLR+Mirrorless). If you are the kind of guy that like to see a glass as half full well the good news is that sales were almost as good as the previous year. Which after 5-6 years of continuous fall is not so bad.
But the glass is also half empty because 2016 will be again a year with worse sales than we had in 2015 (which was already very bad).
Source: Cipa
