What’s next on the lens front: Olympus f/1.2 lens, Fuji 23mm f/2.0 and Zeiss Batis 18mm

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So let’s sum up what we know about the next lens announcements:

1) Olympus is ready to announce a new line of f/1.2 fast primes. The first lens will ship this Summer.
2) Fujirumors reports the Fujinon XF23mmF2 will come this year (even before the 120mmF2.8)
3) Zeiss will launch a new Batis 18mm f/2.8 lens sometimes between March and April.

I will soon post a camera rumor roundup too!

Sigma SD Quattro can’t record video because “there is too much data”

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The Spanish site DSLRmagazine interviewed Mr. Yamaki the CEO from Sigma. And there are some additional new info:

  1. The SD Quattro cannot record video because the Foveon sensor has too much data to process.
  2. Yamaki said that you can record video with Foveon but you need “more resources” to make it work. And anyway video it’s not a priority yet for Sigma
  3. Autofocus us yet slow but it will be faster on the final production versions of the camera
  4. Also interesting: Sigma decided to make a SA mount mirrorless and not a SA mount DSLR because mirrorless has no micro-camera shaking.

Canon: “it would be a little unrealistic to say that we will suddenly start offering a professional mirrorless camera”

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Dpreview posted an interview they made with Canon Manager Tokura. I will quote the part regarding the mirrorless future:

There are some features, such as AF, which have not yet caught up with DSLRs, so given the current state of affairs it would be a little unrealistic to say that we will suddenly start offering a professional mirrorless camera. There’s still a performance gap that needs to be addressed.
This is just my personal opinion. In my view there are two key features that have to be addressed. The first is autofocus, particularly tracking of moving subjects. The other is the viewfinder. The electronic viewfinder would have to offer a certain standard. If those two functions were to match the performance of EOS DSLR camera performance, we might make the switch.

Well of course Tokura is probably just hiding his cards form the eyes of the competition…